Little Women & Good Wives Louisa May Alcott (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 288g ISBN13: 9781840227536 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-753-6 ISBN10: 1840227532 EAN: 9781840227536 x Description: Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve.
The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Lawrence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever.
Good Wives takes up the story of the March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emma Jane Austen (Author) Dr. Nicola Bradbury (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 259g ISBN13: 9781853260285 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-028-5 ISBN10: 1853260282 EAN: 9781853260285 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married.
Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective. Judgement and imagination are matched in games the reader too can enjoy, and the end is a triumph of understanding. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lady Susan and Other Works Jane Austen (Author) Nicholas Seager (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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07 May 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 260g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226966 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-696-6 ISBN10: 184022696X EAN: 9781840226966 x Description: With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager.
This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her fragmentary juvenilia show Austen developing her own sense of narrative form whilst parodying popular kinds of fiction of her day. Lady Susan is a wickedly funny epistolary novel about a captivating but unscrupulous widow seeking to snare husbands for her daughter and herself. The Watsons explores themes of family relationships, the marriage market, and attitudes to rank, which became the hallmarks of her major novels. In Sanditon, Austen exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of a newly fashionable seaside resort. These novels are here joined by shorter fictions that survive in Austen's manuscripts, including critically acclaimed works like Catharine, Love and Freindship [sic], and The History of England. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mansfield Park Jane Austen (Author) Ian Littlewood (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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31 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 250g ISBN13: 9781853260322 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-032-2 ISBN10: 1853260320 EAN: 9781853260322 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.
The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen (Author) David Blair (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853260438 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-043-8 ISBN10: 1853260436 EAN: 9781853260438 x Description: Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent.
Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there, and tracks her growing understanding of the world about her.
In this, her first full-length novel, Austen also fixes her sharp, ironic gaze on other kinds of contemporary novel, especially the Gothic school made famous by Ann Radcliffe. Catherine's reading becomes intertwined with her social and romantic adventures, adding to the uncertainties and embarrassments she must undergo before finding happiness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Persuasion Jane Austen (Author) Elaine Jordan (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Jun 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853260568 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-056-8 ISBN10: 1853260568 EAN: 9781853260568 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex.
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances.
A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (Author) Ian Littlewood (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 221g B Format ISBN13: 9781853260001 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-000-1 ISBN10: 1853260002 EAN: 9781853260001 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband.
With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen (Author) Professor Stephen Arkin (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 202g ISBN13: 9781853260162 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-016-2 ISBN10: 1853260169 EAN: 9781853260162 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University.
'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability.
Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.
This book, the first of Austen's novels to be published, remains as fresh a cautionary tale today as it ever was. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Glinda of Oz L. Frank Baum (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 192g ISBN13: 9781840227574 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-757-4 ISBN10: 1840227575 EAN: 9781840227574 This Product Replaces: 9781853261121 x Description: The Wonderful World of the Wizard of Oz, which the the Library of Congress named as `America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale', is one of the great works of children's literature. The story concerns Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas, who, with her little dog Toto, is caught up in a terrifying tornado, which whisks her far away to the magical land of Oz. Here she encounters the Munchkins, strange small creatures, who tell her that in order for her to return home she must follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and seek out the mysterious Wizard of Oz. On the journey she encounters the Tin Woodman, the brainless Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, each of whom wish to make a request of the Wizard. After several adventures, including an encounter with a deadly poppy field and being chased by winged monkeys, the travellers reach the Emerald City. The story rolls along at a tremendous pace in clear and engaging prose, which has helped the novel to become a perennial favourite with children. The appeal of the kaleidoscopic world of the land of Oz with all its incredible and fantastic elements and characters has great appeal to the unfettered mind of the young - and indeed those grown-ups who still retain a romantic imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume One E. F. Benson (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 640pp h198mm x w129mm x s32mm 394g ISBN13: 9781840226737 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-673-7 ISBN10: 1840226730 EAN: 9781840226737 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, `as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of `Riseholme' based on the Cotswold village of Broadway. Her long-suffering husband Pepino is `her prince-consort', the outrageously camp Georgie is her `gentleman-in-waiting', the village green is her `parliament', and her subjects, such as Daisy Quantock, are hapless would-be `Bolsheviks'. In Lucia in London, the prudish, manically ambitious Lucia launches herself into the louche world of London society. Her earnest determination to learn all about `modern movements' makes her the perfect comic vehicle for Benson's free-wheeling satire of salon society, and of the dominant fads and movements of the 1920s, including vegetarianism, yoga, palmistry, Freudianism, seances, Post-Impressionist art and Christian Science.
Meanwhile in Tilling, clearly modelled on Benson's home town of Rye, Miss Mapp consumed by `chronic rage and curiosity' sits at her window, armed with her light-opera glasses keeping baleful watch on her neighbours. `Anger and the gravest suspicions about everybody had kept her young and on the boil': and Benson transmutes her boiling into a series of small humiliations in his witty, malicious comedy.
In his insightful Introduction Keith Carabine shows that these books are excruciatingly funny because Benson, like Jane Austen, invites the reader to view the world through the self-deluded fabrications and day-dreams of Lucia and the self-deluded chronic anger and jaundiced suspicions of Elisabeth. Carabine also concentrates on the novels' disturbing, bitchy, `camp' humour whenever `that horrid thing which Freud calls sex' is raised.
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The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two E. F. Benson (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 672pp h198mm x w129mm x s34mm 413g ISBN13: 9781840226744 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-674-4 ISBN10: 1840226749 EAN: 9781840226744 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.
These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game of bridge, tea or dinner-party, church service, council meeting or art-exhibition are thrilling encounters that ensure Tilling is always on `a very agreeable rack of suspense'. Both Elisabeth and Lucia are gross hypocrites, snobs and bullies, the huge differences in temperament and style ensure the battle is usually unequal. Elisabeth is incurably mean-spirited and Lucia suffers from splendid delusions of grandeur and personal prestige. Driven by demons of revenge, Elisabeth always acts impulsively, and therefore every revelation of her meanness allows Lucia, the consummate actress, to kill her ally with a sickening kindness.
In his insightful Introduction Keith Carabine shows that these books are excruciatingly funny because Benson, like Jane Austen, invites the reader to view the world through the self-deluded chronic anger and jaundiced suspicions of Elisabeth and through the self-deluded fabrications and day-dreams of Lucia. Carabine also concentrates on the novels' disturbing, bitchy, `camp' humour whenever `that horrid thing which Freud calls sex is raised' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore (Author) Pamela Knights (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 384g ISBN13: 9781853260766 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-076-6 ISBN10: 1853260762 EAN: 9781853260766 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University.
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685).
It is also a moving love story told through the life of the young farmer John Ridd, as he grows to manhood determined to right the wrongs in his land, and to win the heart and hand of the beautiful Lorna Doone.
Continuously in print since its first publication in 1869, Lorna Doone has remained perennially popular with a wide readership ever since. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lady Audley's Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Author) Dr. Esther Saxey (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 250g ISBN13: 9781853267260 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-726-0 ISBN10: 1853267260 EAN: 9781853267260 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Esther Saxey
The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines.
Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life, Lady Audley's Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century and still exerts a powerful hold on readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Agnes Grey Anne Bronte (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Kathryn White (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853262166 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-216-6 ISBN10: 1853262161 EAN: 9781853262166 x Description: Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral evolution of English society during the last century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte (Author) Peter Merchant (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious `tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father's influence, and earns her own living as an artist. Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall, she encounters Gilbert Markham, who falls in love with her.
On its first publication in 1848, Anne Bronte's second novel was criticised for being `coarse' and `brutal'. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of women's rights in the face of psychological abuse from their husbands.
Anne Bronte's style is bold, naturalistic and passionate, and this novel, which her sister Charlotte considered `an entire mistake', has earned Anne a position in English literature in her own right, not just as the youngest member of the Bronte family.
This newly reset text is taken from a copy of the 1848 second edition in the Library of the Bronte Parsonage Museum and has been edited to correct known errors in that edition. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (Author) Dr. Sally Minogue (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 278g ISBN13: 9781853260209 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-020-9 ISBN10: 1853260207 EAN: 9781853260209 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College.
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage.
She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester.
However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors. Ultimately the grand passion of Jane and Rochester is called upon to survive cruel revelation, loss and reunion, only to be confronted with tragedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Professor Charlotte Bronte (Author) Dr. Sally Minogue (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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15 Jul 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 154g ISBN13: 9781853262081 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-208-1 ISBN10: 1853262080 EAN: 9781853262081
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The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of action, and as a writer Bronte is correspondingly liberated, exploring the relationship between power and sexual desire.
William's first person narration reveals his attraction to the dominating directress of the girls' school where he teaches, played out in the school's 'secret garden'. Balanced against this is his more temperate relationship with one of his pupils, Frances Henri, in which mastery and submission interplay. The Professor was published only after Charlotte Brontes death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shirley Charlotte Bronte (Author) Dr. Sally Minogue (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 327g ISBN13: 9781853260643 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-064-3 ISBN10: 1853260649 EAN: 9781853260643 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue
The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchisement, the drama of Luddite machine-breaking, and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars.
But Charlotte Brontes particular strength lies in exploring the hidden psychological drama of love, loss and the quest for identity. Personal and public agitation are brought together against the dramatic backdrop of her native Yorkshire. As always, Bronte challenges convention, exploring the limitations of social justice whilst telling not one but two love stories. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Villette Charlotte Bronte (Author) Dr. Sally Minogue (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 307g ISBN13: 9781853260728 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-072-8 ISBN10: 185326072X EAN: 9781853260728 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College.
Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.
Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid social order, it is also the story of a woman's right to love and be loved. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte (Author) John S. Whitley (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781853260018 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-001-8 ISBN10: 1853260010 EAN: 9781853260018 x Description: Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.
The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Richard Hannay Stories John Buchan (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 992pp h198mm x w129mm x s50mm 605g ISBN13: 9781840226553 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-655-3 ISBN10: 1840226552 EAN: 9781840226553 x Description: Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes. Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914, he manages to thwart the enemy's evil plan and solve the mystery of the 'thirty-nine steps'.
In Greenmantle, he undertakes a vital mission to prevent jihad in the Islamic Near East. Mr Standfast, set in the decisive months of 1917-18, is the novel in which Hannay, after a life lived 'wholly among men', finally falls in love; later, in The Three Hostages, he finds himself unravelling a kidnapping mystery with his wife's help. In the last adventure, The Island of Sheep, he is called upon to honour an old oath.
A shrewd judge of men, he never dehumanises his enemy, and despite sharing some of the racial prejudices of his day, Richard Hannay is a worthy prototype hero of espionage fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 86g ISBN13: 9781853260803 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-080-3 ISBN10: 1853260800 EAN: 9781853260803 x Description: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the ruthless conspirators.
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a seminal `chase' thriller, rapid and vivid. It has been widely influential and frequently dramatised: the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock became a screen classic. This engaging novel also provides insights into the inter-action of patriotism, fear and prejudice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781840227543 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-754-3 ISBN10: 1840227540 EAN: 9781840227543 x Description: Frances Burnett Hodgson's novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children's books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten year old girl, adrift in the world after both her mother and father die is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle whom she has never met, at his isolated house, Misselthwaite Manor. Initially Mary is seen as a rude, aggressive and selfish child. She dislikes her new home and the people living in it. But now the scene is set for her transformation and the introduction of the author's engaging theme of rejuvenation and renewal. In exploring the grounds Mary finds the key to the locked garden which is neglected and overrun with weeds. She sets her mind to bringing it back to life. In doing so, Mary finds a purpose and an excitement in her lonely existence. However, apart from the garden, there are other secrets to be revealed at Misselthwaite Manor such as the strange cries in the night and the identity of Colin, a disabled boy, whom she discovers in the hidden bedroom.
The popularity of this novel bears witness to its universal appeal and its timeless hold on the imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll (Author) Sir John Tenniel (Illustrated by) Michael Irwin (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 182g ISBN13: 9781853260025 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-002-5 ISBN10: 1853260029 EAN: 9781853260025 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury
This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were.
Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes (Author) P. A. Motteaux (Translated by) Stephen Boyd (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 800pp h198mm x w129mm x s40mm 490g ISBN13: 9781853260360 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-036-0 ISBN10: 1853260363 EAN: 9781853260360 x Description: Translated by P. A. Motteux
With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork
Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even computer games.
Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the day, the `books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. On his `heroic' journey Don Quixote meets characters of every class and condition, from the prostitute Maritornes, who is commended for her Christian charity, to the Knight of the Green Coat, who seems to embody some of the constraints of virtue.
Cervantes' greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to encompass the reader, and does not leave
the author outside its circle.
Peter Motteux's fine eighteenth-century translation, acknowledged as one of the best, brilliantly succeeds in communicating the spirit of the original Spanish. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Stories Anton Chekhov (Author) Joe Andrew (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 134g ISBN13: 9781853262883 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-288-3 ISBN10: 1853262889 EAN: 9781853262883 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University.
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination.
This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comic sketches, as well as examples of his great, mature works. Throughout, the doctor-turned-writer displays compassion for human suffering and misfortune, but is always able to see the comical, even farcical aspects of the human condition.
Chekhov sees and depicts life with unwavering honesty and truthfulness, although a clear moral sense can be detected beneath his apparent objectivity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Father Brown Stories G. K. Chesterton (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 800pp h198mm x w129mm x s40mm 490g ISBN13: 9781853260032 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-003-2 ISBN10: 1853260037 EAN: 9781853260032 x Description: With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.
This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Awakening and Selected Stories Kate Chopin (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Stefania Ciocia (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 350g B Format ISBN13: 9781840225846 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-584-6 ISBN10: 184022584X EAN: 9781840225846 x Description: This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and twelve uncollected tales.
The Awakening is a strikingly modern, evocative story of self-discovery and female emancipation, set in the sensuous environment of Southern Louisiana, where the young Edna Pontellier reclaims her own individuality, refusing to be defined by her roles of wife and mother. Chopin's stories are brilliantly observed, compassionate and often humorous, alert to the foibles, weaknesses and small triumphs of her characters. Overshadowed by the relatively recent fame of The Awakening, they contain some of the best work of this remarkably original author. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins (Author) David Blair (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 230g ISBN13: 9781853260445 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-044-5 ISBN10: 1853260444 EAN: 9781853260445 x Description: Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent.
The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself.
The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (Author) Gene M. Moore (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9781853262401 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-240-1 ISBN10: 1853262404 EAN: 9781853262401 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals.
The other two stories in this book - Youth and The End of the Tether - concern the sea and those who sail upon it, a genre in which Conrad reigns supreme. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lingard Trilogy Joseph Conrad (Author) Professor Robert Hampson, FEA FRSA (Notes by) Andrew Purssell (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 736pp h198mm x w129mm x s37mm 468g B Format ISBN13: 9781840225952 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-595-2 ISBN10: 1840225955 EAN: 9781840225952 x Description: Almayer's Folly was Conrad's outstanding debut novel: as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction, it showed immense sophistication in its handling of narrative, time-shifts and point of view. Hailed as `a writer of genius' by contemporary reviewers, Conrad returned to the same riverine settlement in Borneo in his second novel, An Outcast of the Islands. Set some 15 years earlier, this prequel to Almayer's Folly tells how Lingard lost his monopoly of trade in Sambir, and follows the dangerous rivalry of his proteges Willems and Almayer. In The Rescue, the narrative moves even further back in time and shows the young, idealistic Lingard torn between his loyalties to his Sulawesi allies and his unexpected attraction to Edith Travers, with explosive consequences. Throughout this sequence of novels, the fascinating figure of Captain Lingard comes steadily into the foreground. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad (Author) Susan Jones (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 147g ISBN13: 9781853260377 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-037-7 ISBN10: 1853260371 EAN: 9781853260377 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters.
Lord Jim explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit. In this novel, Conrad draws on his background as Polish emigre, as well as his first-hand experience as a seaman, to experiment radically with the presentation of human frailty and doubt in the modern world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nostromo Joseph Conrad (Author) Robert Hampson (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 259g ISBN13: 9781853261749 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-174-9 ISBN10: 1853261742 EAN: 9781853261749 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, University of London.
Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures?
Nostromo is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role. Conrad peoples his imaginary Latin American state with a multi-national cast of fully-rounded characters to achieve striking realism and create a novel that he called `my largest canvas'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad (Author) Hugh Epstein (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 163g ISBN13: 9781853260650 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-065-0 ISBN10: 1853260657 EAN: 9781853260650 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain.
'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.'
Conrad's `monstrous town' is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie, as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho. However, far from offering any sentimental picture, The Secret Agent is Conrad's funniest novel. Its savagely witty picture of human absurdity and misunderstanding is written in an ironic style that provokes laughter and unease at the same time, and that continues to provide one of the most disturbing visions of aspiration and futility in twentieth century literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Sea Stories Joseph Conrad (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 192g ISBN13: 9781853267437 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-743-7 ISBN10: 1853267430 EAN: 9781853267437 x Description: Editedand with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain.
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret stuff of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself'.
In Typhoon, Conrad's funniest story, Captain MacWhirr blunders into a hurricane that reveals the sea's treachery, violence and terror.
Falk is desperate to get married, but first he must tell of his terrible experiences as sole survivor of a stricken ship that once drifted into the ice-caps of Antarctica.
The Shadow-Line is a poignant and beautiful story. Written during the First World War and based on Conrad's fond evocation of his own first command, it expresses his solidarity with all who were obliged to cross in early youth the shadow-line of their war-torn generation. Includes a glossary of nautical terms.
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The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper (Author) David Blair (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 240g ISBN13: 9781853260490 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-049-0 ISBN10: 1853260495 EAN: 9781853260490 x Description: Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury.
It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the sinister 'Indian runner', they find help in the person of Hawkeye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe.
Cooper's novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through the character of Hawkeye, Cooper raises lasting questions about the practises of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories Stephen Crane (Author) Richard Jenseth (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853260841 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-084-1 ISBN10: 1853260843 EAN: 9781853260841 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
Also included are two short stories:
The Veteran * The Open Book The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. It evokes the chaos and the dull clatter of war: the acrid smoke, the incessant rumours of coming battles, the filth and cold, the numbing monotony, the unworldly wailing of the dying. Like an impressionist painter, Crane also captures the strange beauty of war: the brilliant red flags against a blue sky, steel bayonets flashing in the morning sun as soldiers step off into battle. In the midst of this chaotic outer world, he creates an intricate inner world as he takes us inside the head of Henry Fleming.
Stephen Crane is now recognised as one of a handful of daring innovators who helped shape modern American fiction.
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Shadows of Sherlock Holmes David Stuart Davies (Edited by) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 240g ISBN13: 9781853267444 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-744-4 ISBN10: 1853267449 EAN: 9781853267444 x Description: Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law, there are gentleman crooks Raffles and Simon Carn - the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: ''The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Stolen Cigar Case' by Bret Harte, 'The Swedish Match' by Anton Chekhov, 'Nine Points of the Law' by E.W. Hornung, 'The Ghost at Massingham Mansions' by Ernest Bramah and 'The Great Pearl Mystery' by Baroness Orczy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century David Stuart Davies (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9781840224078 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-407-8 ISBN10: 184022407X EAN: 9781840224078 x Description: Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.
Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from that bygone era while at the same time providing engaging entertainment and stimulation for the modern reader.
All emotions are catered for in the offerings by Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, H.G.Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Mrs Gaskell, O Henry, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Charlotte Perkins Gillman and Charles Lamb. Through their words the rich pageant of yesterday springs to vibrant life. Each story has its own introduction and there is a set of informative notes. This volume is ideal reading for the student as well as those who relish a good tale well told. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h1980mm x w1290mm x s150mm 260g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227314 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-731-4 ISBN10: 1840227311 EAN: 9781840227314 x Description: In this famous story of seduction, two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young married woman and a fifteen year old girl who has only just emerged from the convent. The letters these two conspirators exchange are remarkably frank in describing how they manage to achieve their ends and, at the same time, reveal nuances of character which make it impossible to dismiss either of them as simply evil. Those written by their victims are equally revelatory in a quite different and subtle way, while the manner in which Laclos handles the epistolary form in order to ensure that his two protagonists are finally defeated, not by outside forces, but the fissures in their own relationship, is a triumph of narrative skill. This novel poses shrewd questions about the relation between love and sex, and suggests that, in certain sections of eighteenth century French high society, idleness, boredom and wealth had created individuals whose misfortunes it would be hard to regret when, only seven years after Dangerous Liaisons was published, the Revolution broke out.
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Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe (Author) R. T. Jones, Honorary Fellow (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 192g ISBN13: 9781853260735 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-073-5 ISBN10: 1853260738 EAN: 9781853260735 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.
The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the New World.
Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social conditions prevailing in the London of the late 17th century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781853260452 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-045-2 ISBN10: 1853260452 EAN: 9781853260452 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe.
Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens (Author) Hablot K. Browne, (Phiz) (Illustrated by) George Cattermole (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 672pp h198mm x w129mm x s34mm 413g ISBN13: 9781853267390 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-739-0 ISBN10: 1853267392 EAN: 9781853267390 x Description: Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole, with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens' targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who exploit these for selfish ends.
His intense account of the riots is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long-unsolved murder and with a romance involving forbidden love, treachery and heroism. Barnaby Rudge abounds in memorably strange, comic and grotesque characters. Furthermore, recent historical events have renewed its political topicality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bleak House Charles Dickens (Author) Doreen Roberts (Introduction and notes by) Hablot K. Browne, (Phiz) (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 800pp h198mm x w129mm x s44mm 490g ISBN13: 9781853260827 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-082-7 ISBN10: 1853260827 EAN: 9781853260827 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay, draw upon the author's personal knowledge and experience.
But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Christmas Books Edward Landseer (Illustrated by) Charles Dickens (Author) Daniel Maclise (Illustrated by) Clarkson Stanfield (Illustrated by) Frank Stone (Illustrated by) Richard Doyle (Illustrated by) John Leech (Illustrated by) Sir John Tenniel (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Series:
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06 Sep 1995
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In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore.
A Christmas Carol, the first of the selection, has become a touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, staged and filmed, this richly influential tale is powerfully vivid and moving.
The other stories, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man, blend whimsy, sentiment, comedy, satire, the
didactic and the fantastic, developing resourcefully the theme of individual and social regeneration. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (Author) Dr Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Professor Cedric Watts (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 67g ISBN13: 9781840227567 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-756-7 ISBN10: 1840227567 EAN: 9781840227567 x Description: A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, returns from the grave to haunt him on Christmas Eve. Scrooge is then visited in turn by three spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future, each one revealing the error of his ways and gradually melting the frozen heart of this old miser, leading him towards his redemption. On the journey we take with Scrooge we encounter a rich array of Dickensian characters including the poor Cratchit family with the ailing Tiny Tim and the generous and jolly Fezziwig. When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843 he fashioned an enduring gift to the world, capturing the essence of the love, kindness and generosity of the Christmas season. It is a timeless classic and the story's uplifting magic remains as potent today as when it was first published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Complete Ghost Stories Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen.
Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, precognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
David Copperfield Charles Dickens (Author) Dr. Adrienne Gavin (Introduction and notes by) Hablot K. Browne, (Phiz) (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Adrienne de Gavin (Author) Series:
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Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form.
Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's greatest stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family.
Few readers, arriving at the end of David Copperfield, will not wish to echo Thackeray's famous praise, having read the first monthly part - `Bravo Dickens'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens (Author) Karl Ashley Smith (Introduction and notes by) Hablot K. Browne, (Phiz) (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned. 'Girls' said Mr Dombey, 'have nothing to do with Dombey and Son'.
When Walter Gay, a young clerk in her father's office, rescues her from a bewildering experience in the streets of London, his unforgettable friends believe he is well on his way to receiving her hand in marriage and inheriting the company. It is to be a very different type of story.
Dombey and Son moved grown men to tears (Thackeray despaired of `writing against such power as this'), but its rich, comic characters and their joyful explosions of language draw laughter with equally unerring magic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Great Expectations Charles Dickens (Author) John Bowen (Introduction and notes by) Marcus Stone (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 278g ISBN13: 9781853260049 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-004-9 ISBN10: 1853260045 EAN: 9781853260049 x Description: Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hard Times Charles Dickens (Author) Dinny Thorold (Introduction and notes by) Fiona Walker (Illustrated by) Maurice Greiffenhagen (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen.
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby.
However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
Macaulay attacked Hard Times for its `sullen socialism', but 20th-century critics such as George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms, while readers the world over have found inspiration and enjoyment from what is both Dickens' shortest completed novel and also
one of his important statements on Victorian society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens (Author) Peter Preston (Introduction and notes by) Hablot K. Browne, (Phiz) (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical picture of the Circumlocution Office. The novel's range of characters - the honest, the crooked, the selfish and the self-denying - offers a portrait of society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts.
Little Dorrit is indisputably one of Dickens' finest works, written at the height of his powers. George Bernard Shaw called it `a masterpiece among masterpices', a vedict shared by the novel's many admirers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'.
Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfather's servant, Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time.
This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens' mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit, the old nurse Mrs Gamp, and the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels. Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickens' wonderful description of the London boarding-house - 'Todgers'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel's themes. At the centre of the plot lie the baffling disappearance of Edwin Drood and the many explanations of his whereabouts. A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens's usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story.
Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder and guilt and childhood romance. This unusual selection illustrates Dickens's immense creativity and versatility. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens (Author) Charles Dickens (Introduction and notes by) T. C. B. Cooke (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs and many more.
Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque and farce, the novel is eminently suited to dramatic adaptation. So great was the impact as it left Dickens' pen that many pirated versions appeared in print before the original was even finished.
Often neglected by critics, Nicholas Nickleby has never ceased to delight readers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-centure literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens (Author) Peter Preston (Introduction and notes by) Hablot K. Browne, (Phiz) (Illustrated by) George Cruickshank (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 608pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 375g ISBN13: 9781853262449 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-244-9 ISBN10: 1853262447 EAN: 9781853262449 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank.
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success.
Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate.
Dickens was conscious of the `many friends' the novel had won for him, and `the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow', and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens (Author) George Cruickshank (Illustrated by) Ella Westland (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Illustrations by George Cruickshank.
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.
Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the
diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'.
For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens (Author) Marcus Stone (Illustrated by) Deborah Wynne (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes.
The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father's heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance.
The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents - the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens (Author) David Ellis (Introduction and notes by) R. T. Seymour (Illustrated by) R. W. Buss (Illustrated by) Hablot K. Browne, (Phiz) (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 784pp h198mm x w129mm x s39mm 481g ISBN13: 9781853260520 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-052-0 ISBN10: 1853260525 EAN: 9781853260520 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final part.
In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular.
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A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens (Author) Hablot K. Browne, (Phiz) (Illustrated by) Peter Merchant (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 221g ISBN13: 9781853260391 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-039-1 ISBN10: 1853260398 EAN: 9781853260391 x Description: A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle's great work - The French Revolution.
`The best story I have written' was Dickens' own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author's unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Crime and Punishment: With selected excerpts from the Notebooks for Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author) Constance Garnett (Translated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.
From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime.
The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Devils Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author) A. D. P. Briggs (Introduction by) Constance Garnett (Translated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the time.
The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and destruction, might seem exaggerated - until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since. The key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics. Nikolay Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime - in a chapter long suppressed by the censor.
This prophetic account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-odd characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some critics as Dostoevsky's masterpiece. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author) Constance Garnett (Translated by) Agnes Cardinal (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Notes From Underground & Other Stories Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Constance Garnett (Translated by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 720pp h198mm x w129mm x s36mm 462g B Format ISBN13: 9781840225778 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-577-8 ISBN10: 1840225777 EAN: 9781840225778 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife's suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The House of the Dead / The Gambler Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author) Constance Garnett (Translated by) A. D. P. Briggs (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out.
The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison. An educated upper-class man is condemned to live among criminals and brutal guards, with arbitrary punishments, lousy food, disgusting living conditions, hard toil and many floggings. Somehow he avoids bitterness and recrimination; faith in humanity survives. With its breadth of characterisation, acute sense of detail and strong narrative interest, this work can still shock, entertain and inspire.
In The Gambler we see the Russian community in a German spa town. Drawn to the casino, Alexey becomes obsessed with roulette. In a gripping story, full of psychological interest, his growing mania eclipses even his interest in Polina, a heroine of demonic and vibrant sexuality. Dostoevsky himself was rescued from a similar gambling obsession by the young stenographer who took down this work at his dictation and married him soon afterwards. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Karamazov Brothers Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author) Constance Garnett (Translated by) A. D. P. Briggs (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one dysfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social, psychological and philosophical relationships.
At the same time he shows - from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a personal appearance by an eccentric Devil - that his dramatic skills have lost nothing of their edge. The Karamazov Brothers, completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881, remains for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of the modern malaise.
It cast a long shadow over D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century European literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Julian Wolfreys (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 327g ISBN13: 9781853260339 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-033-9 ISBN10: 1853260339 EAN: 9781853260339 x Description: 'My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know'.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine. The runaway success of this series prompted a second set of stories, The Memoirs.
In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned. In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unravel. There is, for example, the man who is frightened for his life because of the arrival of an envelope containing five orange pips; there is the terrified woman who is aware that her life is in danger and cannot explain the strange whistling sounds she hears in the night; and there is the riddle of the missing butler and the theft of an ancient treasure. In the last story, there is the climatic battle between Holmes and his arch enemy, 'the Napoleon
of Crime' Professor Moriarty. Holmes, with trusty Watson by his side, is equal to these and the other challenges in this splendid collection. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Best of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) David Stuart Davies (Selected by) David Stuart Davies (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 298g ISBN13: 9781853267482 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-748-2 ISBN10: 1853267481 EAN: 9781853267482 x Description: Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.
The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's `Baker Street Dozen', creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective.
Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion, Doctor John H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers and intrigues. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 274g ISBN13: 9781853260704 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-070-4 ISBN10: 1853260703 EAN: 9781853260704 x Description: With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
`Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.'
In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories, along with atmospheric touches of the gothic, involving a bloodsucking vampire, crypts at midnight and strange bones in a furnace.
The collection His Last Bow features some of Sherlock Holmes' most dramatic cases, including the vicious revenge intrigue connected with `The Red Circle' and the insidious murders in `The Devil's Foot'. The title story recounts how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the government foil a German plot on the eve of the First World War.
These two fascinating sets of stories make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all and his erstwhile companion, Dr Watson. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 211g ISBN13: 9781840224009 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-400-9 ISBN10: 1840224002 EAN: 9781840224009 x Description: With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor. Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry, the new master of the Baskerville estate. Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve this devilish affair.
The Valley of Fear is a dark, powerful tale, which provides the great detective with a most perplexing case and opens with a vile murder:
"Lying across his chest was a most curious weapon, a shotgun with the barrel sawn off in front of the triggers. It was clear that it had been fired at close range, and that he had received the whole charge in the face, blowing his head almost to pieces".
Sherlock Holmes' arch enemy, the criminal genius Professor Moriarty, is back! But the solution to the riddle, found after many surprising twists and high dramas, lies far away, half across the world in a location known as 'The Valley of Fear'. This is Conan Doyle's last Holmes novel and in the opinion of many of his fans, it is the best! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lost World and Other Stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 298g ISBN13: 9781853262456 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-245-6 ISBN10: 1853262455 EAN: 9781853262456 x Description: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger. The Lost World (forebear of Jurassic Park) vividly depicts a perilous region in which the explorers confront creatures from the prehistoric era. The Poison Belt presents an eerie doomsday scenario, while The
Disintegration Machine satirically comments on scientific cynicism.
In When the World Screamed, the planet responds violently to an experimental incursion. The strangest item is The Land of Mist, which seeks to reconcile science with spiritualism. This memorable collection provides imaginative entertainment, entrancing escapism and bold provocation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) John S. Whitley (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 202g ISBN13: 9781853260582 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-058-2 ISBN10: 1853260584 EAN: 9781853260582 x Description: With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.
After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House.
The stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, from which our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive.
This is the second of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes newly typeset from the original copies of The Strand Magazine The three books present all the Holmes stories in order of first publication. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781840224115 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-411-5 ISBN10: 1840224118 EAN: 9781840224115 x Description: With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah.
The Sign of the Four, the second Holmes novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges. The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder.
With these two classic novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, you have the brilliant foundation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Reading pleasure rarely comes any finer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 928pp h198mm x w129mm x s46mm 567g ISBN13: 9781853267338 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-733-8 ISBN10: 1853267333 EAN: 9781853267338 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury.
The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate.
The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions.
Our edition is based on the most popular and enduring translation first published by Chapman and Hall in 1846. The name of the translator was never revealed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 656pp h198mm x w129mm x s33mm 403g ISBN13: 9781840224351 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-435-1 ISBN10: 1840224355 EAN: 9781840224351 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury.
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the French monarchy.
In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark, Dumas pitches us straight into the action. What is the secret shared by Aramis and Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? And what is the nature of the threat he poses?
Dumas, the master storyteller, keeps us reading until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria, a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers.
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The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas (Author) Keith Wren (Introduction and notes by) William Barrow (Translated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 592pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 365g ISBN13: 9781853260407 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-040-7 ISBN10: 1853260401 EAN: 9781853260407 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury.
One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background.
But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Alexandre Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion.
Our edition uses the William Barrow translation first published by Bruce and Wylde (London,1846) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 704pp h198mm x w129mm x s35mm 432g ISBN13: 9781840221633 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-163-3 ISBN10: 1840221631 EAN: 9781840221633 x Description: With an Introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury.
A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers,/em>, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty Years After the much beloved D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidable foe; now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt, as well as countering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin.
Their adventures also take them to England, where Cromwell is about to topple Charles I. Meanwhile, they must overcome the obstacles which the passing of time has placed between them. Rediscovering strength in unity, they fight for Queen and country. The Musketeer novels were a huge success in Dumas' own lifetime, and have lost none of their original appeal. Translated into many languages and adapted for cinema and television, they have helped to make Dumas arguably the most successful exporter of French culture to the wider world.
Our edition is based on the William Robson translation first published by Routledge in 1856. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Adam Bede George Eliot (Author) Doreen Robertson (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 327g ISBN13: 9781853261923 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-192-3 ISBN10: 1853261920 EAN: 9781853261923 x Description: With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury
'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost. The movement of the narration between social realism and reflection on its own processes, the exploration of motives, and the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Daniel Deronda George Eliot (Author) Carole Jones (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 752pp h198mm x w129mm x s37mm 461g ISBN13: 9781853261763 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-176-3 ISBN10: 1853261769 EAN: 9781853261763 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher.
George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship.
Set largely in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism, the oppression of women, and racial and religious prejudice. Gwendolen's attempts to escape a sadistic relationship and atone for past actions catalyse her friendship with Deronda, while his search for origins leads him, via Judaism, to a quest for moral growth.
Eliot's radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now, as when it first appeared. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Middlemarch George Eliot (Author) Doreen Roberts (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 736pp h198mm x w129mm x s37mm 451g ISBN13: 9781853262371 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-237-1 ISBN10: 1853262374 EAN: 9781853262371 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.
Henry James described Middlemarch as a `treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as `one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot (Author) R. T. Jones, Honorary Fellow (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 307g ISBN13: 9781853260742 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-074-2 ISBN10: 1853260746 EAN: 9781853260742 x Description: Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.
This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.
As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Silas Marner George Eliot (Author) R. T. Jones, Honorary Fellow (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 116g ISBN13: 9781853262210 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-221-0 ISBN10: 1853262218 EAN: 9781853262210 x Description: Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.
Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie.
Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader's attention until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tom Jones Henry Fielding (Author) Doreen Roberts (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 768pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 471g ISBN13: 9781853260216 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-021-6 ISBN10: 1853260215 EAN: 9781853260216 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women.
Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential goodheartedness.
This `comic, epic poem in prose' will make the modern reader laugh as much as it did his forbears. Its biting satire finds an echo in today's society, for as Doris Lessing recently remarked `This country becomes every day more like the eighteenth century, full of thieves and adventurers, rogues and a robust, unhypocritical savagery side-by-side with people lecturing others on morality'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Stuart Hutchinson (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9781853262128 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-212-8 ISBN10: 1853262129 EAN: 9781853262128 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury.
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Guy Reynolds (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 96g ISBN13: 9781853260414 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-041-4 ISBN10: 185326041X EAN: 9781853260414 x Description: Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Henry Claridge (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the `Roaring Twenties'. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers' troubled marriage, and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal experiences on which the novel is based.
Six years separate Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon, the novel Fitzgerald left unfinished at his death in December 1940. Fitzgerald lived in Hollywood more or less continuously from July 1937 until his death, and a novel about the film industry at the height of 'the studio system' centred on the working life of a top producer was begun in 1939. Even in its incomplete state The Last Tycoon remains the greatest American novel about Hollywood and contains some of Fitzgerald's most brilliant writing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Lionel Kelly (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 608pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 375g ISBN13: 9781840226621 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-662-1 ISBN10: 1840226625 EAN: 9781840226621 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his academic failure. A sequence of love affairs with beautiful young women are fatally damaged by the collapse of his family's fortune, and the novel ends with him poised to face the challenge of making his own way in the world. Composed in an unconventional narrative mode, the novel is a rich fusion of satiric and romance idioms, and found a captivated audience on its publication in 1920. It made Fitzgerald rich and famous overnight.
The Beautiful and Damned is a bleaker version of the corrosive power of wealth and its privileges, one of Fitzgerald's abiding subjects. Anthony Patch, is heir to a huge fortune, whose marriage to the beautiful and indolent Gloria is increasingly shadowed by Anthony's fall into alcoholism. Though he wins a lawsuit to gain his inheritance of millions of dollars, it is a pyrrhic victory, for he is now a physically and morally broken man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert (Author) Eleanor Marx Aveling (Translated by) Roger Clark (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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x Description: With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction.
Flaubert's protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic, flawed wife and mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society, simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration and the butt of his irony - Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional creations.
Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of fiction, his portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks of modern fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford (Author) Sara Haslam (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe.
They are 'playing the game', in style. That game has begun to unravel, however, and with compelling attention to the comic, as well as the tragic, results the American narrator reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its facade. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Series:
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The Forsyte Saga is Galsworthy's enduringly popular masterpiece. Initially, the plot centres on Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor living in London with his
beautiful wife, Irene. A pillar of the late-Victorian upper middle class, wealthy and well-connected, he seems to lead an enviable life. But beneath the respectable exterior lie acute tensions and frustrations. The marriage of Soames and Irene culminates in sexual violence and recriminations. The consequent feud within the family will be long-lasting, with ironic and dramatic outcomes. In The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy analyses the achievements, confusions and hypocrisies of an era. This renowned chronicle of a divided dynasty, repeatedly filmed and televised, has engrossed audiences internationally. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cranford & Selected Short Stories Elizabeth Gaskell (Author) John Chapple (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art. As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrison's Confessions, to atmospheric horror in far north-west Wales with The Doom of the Griffiths.
The story of Cousin Phillis, her masterly tale of love and loss, is a subtle, complex and perceptive analysis of changes in English national life during an industrial age, while the gripping Lois the Witch recreates the terrors of the Salem witchcraft trials in seventeenth-century New England, as Gaskell shrewdly shows the numerous roots of this furious outbreak of delusion. Whimsically modified fairy tales are set in a French chateau, while an engaging love story poetically evokes peasant life in wine-growing Germany. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell (Author) Dr. Sally Minogue (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 278g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226898 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-689-8 ISBN10: 1840226897 EAN: 9781840226898 x Description: Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the process. His daughter Mary is caught between two lovers, from opposing classes - worker and manufacturer. And at the heart of the narrative lies a murder which implicates them all.
Mary Barton was published in 1848, at a time of great social ferment in Europe, and it reflects its revolutionary moment through an English lens. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her first novel about the world in which she lived - Manchester at the height of the industrial revolution. As the wife of a Unitarian minister she was solidly middle-class; but she also had close contact with the working classes around her, sympathised with them, and represented their extreme distresses in her fiction. She is radical in taking on their dialect, imagining the realities of their lives, and placing a working woman at the centre of her fiction. If to our eyes her vision remains limited, it was an honest vision, for which she was much criticised in her own time, by her own class. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell (Author) Dr. Patsy Stoneham (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society.
This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the market. Readers in the twentyfirst century will find themselves absorbed as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems and possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years later: the complex relationships, public and private, between men and women of different classes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Gaskell (Author) Dinny Thorold (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter - all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue.
Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one of comedy. Gaskell vividly portrays the world of the late 1820s and the forces of change within it, and her vision is always humane and progressive.
The story is full of acute observation and sympathetic character-study: the feudal squire clinging to old values, his naturalist son welcoming the new
world of science, the local doctor and his scheming second wife, the two girls brought together by their parent's marriage... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Robin Hood Henry Gilbert (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 182g ISBN13: 9781840227581 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-758-1 ISBN10: 1840227583 EAN: 9781840227581 x Description: Robin Hood is perhaps the greatest of all British folk heroes. Henry Gilbert's book assembles all the disparate elements of the legend into an elegiac and detailed version of Robin's life and adventures. The book re-conceives all the familiar set-pieces of the story that gives to the whole the grandeur of an epic. Robin Hood is a dashing romantic hero, an enemy of injustice and a friend to the downtrodden and he emerges from the text as a vivid and fully rounded individual. All the regular characters are here, too, including Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and Maid Marian. And of course the villainous Guy of Gisborne and the Sherriff of Nottingham play their usual dastardly roles in the drama.
Gilbert's tale begins with an account of why Robin becomes an outlaw and then how he assembles a group of supporters, a band of dispossessed men, sick to death of oppression by the ruling class, who choose a life under Robin Hood in preference to their brutal former existences. While the tale is essentially a merry romp, it also paints a vivid picture of the times, the cruelty, the poverty and the fragility of human life. The novel is a wonderful, engaging realisation of the saga of Robin Hood. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol (Author) Isabel Florence Hapgood (Translated by) Anthony Briggs (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity?
There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Government Inspector and Other Works Nikolai Gogol (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Constance Garnett (Translated by) David Rampton (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Notes and Introductions by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottawa
Gogol's works constitute one of Russian literature's supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. The Government Inspector, a perennial favourite on stage and screen, is considered a national institution in Russia, and Gogol's stories present us with one of the most marvellous worlds a writer has ever created. His quirky characters - the lowly official who imagines himself to be the King of Spain, the man committed to chase his nose around St. Petersburg, a whole village paralyzed at the prospect of being visited by an authority from the capital - are immortal. Although Gogol's fiction was commandeered by Russia's progressive critics as the work of an important social commentator, he was in many ways an arch-conservative, and there is a madcap strain in it that makes him a precursor of Kafka and absurdist drama. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame (Author) Arthur Rackham (Illustrated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 126g ISBN13: 9781853260179 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-017-9 ISBN10: 1853260177 EAN: 9781853260179 x Description: Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.
Grahame's book was later dramatised by A. A. Milne, and became a perennial Christmas favourite, as Toad of Toad Hall. It continues to enchant and, above all perhaps, inspire great affection. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith (Author) Weedon Grossmith (Illustrated by) Michael Irwin (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and values has remained in print, a source of delight to generations of readers, and a major literary influence, much imitated but never equalled.
If you don't recognise yourself at some point in The Diary you are probably less than human. If you can read it without laughing aloud you have no sense of humour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall (Author) Dr. Esther Saxey (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel. It has influenced how love between women is understood, for the twentieth century and beyond. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy (Author) Michael Irwin (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit.
Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some brilliant passage of description or metaphor may burst out like a firework. Desperate Remedies can be relished both for what it is and for what it promises. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
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Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.
It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was `...the past was yesterday; never, the day after', and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with `...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba.
The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
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05 Aug 1995
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Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.
Hardy's portrait of Jude, the idealist and dreamer who is a prisoner of his own physical nature, is one of the most haunting and desperate of his creations. Jude the Obscure is a dark yet compassionate account of the insurmountable frustrations of human existence which reflect Hardy's yearning for the spiritual values of the past and his despair at their decline. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
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The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding sense of wonder at the essential mystery of life.
The tales which make up Life's Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. They share the many concerns of Hardy's last great novels, such as the failure of modern marriage and the insidious effects of social ambition on the family and community life. Ranging widely in length and complexity, they are unified by Hardy's quintessential irony, which embraces both the farcical and the tragic aspects of human existence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
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05 Apr 1994
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None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'.
The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the author's most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
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06 Sep 1995
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A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic.
With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma Gifford, who became Thomas Hardy's first wife. Elfride's vivacious nature attracts several lovers, but she is beset by sexual prejudice, and the ensuing ironies reveal the constraints of her times.
A Pair of Blue Eyes provides an engaging and moving experience for today's readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
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05 Feb 1995
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The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath - reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who dwell on it. The central figure is Clym Yeobright, the returning `native' and the story tells of his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.
As the narrative unfolds and character after character is driven to self-destruction the presence of the Heath becomes all-embracing, while Clym becomes a travelling preacher in an attempt to assuage his guilt. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
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05 May 1992
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Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.
It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and the hypocrisy of the age.
In addressing the double standards of the time, Hardy's masterly evocation of a world which we have lost, provides one of the most compelling stories in the canon of English literature, whose appeal today defies the judgement of Hardy's contemporary critics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy (Author) Charles P. C. Pettit (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Apr 1995
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Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical events on the immemorial local way of life - the glamour of the coming of George III and his soldiery, fears of the press-gang and invasion, and the effect of distant but momentous events like the Battle of Trafalgar.
He interweaves a compelling, bitter-sweet romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland, played out against the loves of a lively gallery of other characters. While there are elements of sadness and even tragedy, The Trumpet-Major shows Hardy's skills of story-telling, characterisation and description in a novel of vitality, comedy and warmth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Under the Greenwood Tree Thomas Hardy (Author) Claire Seymour (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Nov 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853262272 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-227-2 ISBN10: 1853262277 EAN: 9781853262272 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer.
However, the novel is not merely a charming rural idyll. The double-plot, in which the love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy Day is inter-related with a tragic chapter in the history of Mellstock Choir, hints at the poignant disappearance of a long-lived and highly-valued traditional way of life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Well-Beloved with The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved Thomas Hardy (Author) Jane Thomas (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Jul 1999
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The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh.
Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location, the Isle of Slingers, or Portland as we know it. Overt exploration of the relationship between erotic fascination and creativity makes this novel a nineteenthcentury landmark in the persistent debate about art, aesthetics and gender.
This volume breaks new ground by including in full the1892 serialised version of the novel - The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy (Author) Michael Irwin (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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New edition
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06 Sep 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853262692 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-269-2 ISBN10: 1853262692 EAN: 9781853262692 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy.
In insisting on the unusual nature of any story worth the telling, and with his gift for irony and compassion, Hardy achieves more in the genre of the short story than any English novelist before him. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
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23 Oct 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 211g ISBN13: 9781853262937 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-293-7 ISBN10: 1853262935 EAN: 9781853262937 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews.
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony, Hardy eschews a happy ending.
With characteristic derision, he exposes the cruel indifference of the archaic legal system off his day, and shows the tragic consequences of untimely adherence to futile social and religious proprieties _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author) Henry Claridge (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853260292 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-029-2 ISBN10: 1853260290 EAN: 9781853260292 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.
However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
100 Selected Stories O. Henry (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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New edition
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05 May 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 768pp h198mm x w129mm x s37mm 471g ISBN13: 9781853262418 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-241-8 ISBN10: 1853262412 EAN: 9781853262418 x Description: With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas. These stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail': repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry's cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso's command of language and allusion. This great collection offers delights for the mind, imagination and emotions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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New edition
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04 Mar 1996
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853261886 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-188-6 ISBN10: 1853261882 EAN: 9781853261886 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury
James Hogg's most ambitious prose work, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, is now widely acclaimed as his masterpiece. In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre and hideous crimes. A century later his memoirs reveal the extraordinary, macabre truth. The tale is chilling for its astute psychological accuracy as it illustrates, with power and economy, the dire effect of self-righteous bigotry on a fanatical character.
In the first half of his new introduction David Blair provides a detailed explanation of the historical and religious contexts of Hogg's novel. In the second half he probes the book's brilliant, complex engagement with issues of identity, history and narrative itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Iliad Homer (Author) Adam Roberts (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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New edition
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05 Mar 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s3mm 278g ISBN13: 9781853262425 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-242-5 ISBN10: 1853262420 EAN: 9781853262425 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London.
The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.
Chapman regarded the translation of this epic, and of Homer's Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his life's work, and dedicated himself to capturing the 'soul' of the poem.
Swinburne praised the resulting translation for its `romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur, its freshness, strength, and inexhaustible fire', qualities that reflect the grandeur, fire and brutality of the original poem. This new edition includes a critical introduction and extensive notes, rendering Chapman's extraordinary poetic masterpiece accessible to modern readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Odyssey Homer (Author) George Chapman (Translated by) Adam C. Roberts (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 317g ISBN13: 9781853260254 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-025-4 ISBN10: 1853260258 EAN: 9781853260254 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did in Archaic Greece, 2800 years ago.
This poem has been translated many times over the years, but Chapman's sinewy, gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its own. Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself, and matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own. John Keats expressed his admiration for the resulting work in the famous sonnet, 'On first looking into Chapman's Homer': 'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold...'
This new Wordsworth edition of Chapman's Homer contains accessible annotation, and a detailed introduction that places his masterpiece in the context of his own day, and discusses its influences on later poets.
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo (Author) Keith Wren (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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New edition
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05 Sep 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 298g ISBN13: 9781853260681 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-068-1 ISBN10: 1853260681 EAN: 9781853260681 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by James Carroll Beckwirth (1899).
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of `imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age.
In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters - amongst them, Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda, the satanic priest Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, king of the beggars, and Louis X1, King of France. Over the entire novel, both literally and symbolically, broods the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
Vivid characters and memorable set-piece action scenes combine to bring the past to life in this story of love, lust, betrayal, doom and redemption. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Les Miserables Volume One Victor Hugo (Author) Roger Clark (Introduction and notes by) Charles E. Wilbour (Translated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics Volume I
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05 Jan 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 327g ISBN13: 9781853260858 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-085-8 ISBN10: 1853260851 EAN: 9781853260858 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862).
One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.
Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae.
The reader is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean's flight through the Paris sewers.
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Les Miserables Volume Two Victor Hugo (Author) Roger Clark (Introduction and notes by) Charles E. Wilbour (Translated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics Volume 2
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05 Jan 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 317g ISBN13: 9781853260506 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-050-6 ISBN10: 1853260509 EAN: 9781853260506 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862).
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.
Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae.
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The Portrait of a Lady Henry James (Author) Series:
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01 Mar 1996
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 327g ISBN13: 9781853261770 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-177-0 ISBN10: 1853261777 EAN: 9781853261770 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading.
Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James' inimitable poise, is of the widest relevance.
`The phase when his (Henry James') genius functioned with the freest and fullest vitality is represented by The Portrait of a Lady'. (F.R. LEAVIS) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers Henry James (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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6625th ed.
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05 Sep 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853260698 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-069-8 ISBN10: 185326069X EAN: 9781853260698 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury.
The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre.
The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured and accomplished. The author cleverly evokes the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Washington Square Henry James (Author) Series:
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05 Aug 2001
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 115g ISBN13: 9781840224276 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-427-6 ISBN10: 1840224274 EAN: 9781840224276 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele.
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion.
Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel Jerome K. Jerome (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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05 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 212g ISBN13: 9781853260513 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-051-3 ISBN10: 1853260517 EAN: 9781853260513 x Description: Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised and imitated. The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog, Montmorency, provide rich humour, shrewd observations, lyrical reflections, and, predominantly, genially ironic perceptions of human fallibility.
The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, reunites the three friends for their `Bummel' (`roaming or wandering') through Germany. The results vary from the seductively titillating to the outrageously farcical; and subsequent history has laden the narrative with ironies. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dubliners James Joyce (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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New edition
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Pub Date:
31 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853260483 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-048-3 ISBN10: 1853260487 EAN: 9781853260483 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by.
In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Finnegans Wake James Joyce (Author) Len Platt (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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UK ed.
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07 Jan 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 656pp h198mm x w129mm x s33mm 403g ISBN13: 9781840226614 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-661-4 ISBN10: 1840226617 EAN: 9781840226614 x Description: Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape.
This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning. Announcing a 'revolution of the word', this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a unique kind of miscommunication which, far from stabilizing the world in meaning, constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild diversity of possibilities and potentials. It also remains the most hilarious, 'obscene', book of innuendos ever to be imagined. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce (Author) Jacqueline Belanger (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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05 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781853260063 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-006-3 ISBN10: 1853260061 EAN: 9781853260063 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work.
This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19th century Ireland.
Written with a light touch, this is perhaps the most accessible of Joyce's works.
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Ulysses James Joyce (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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04 Jan 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 736pp h198mm x w129mm x s37mm 451g ISBN13: 9781840226355 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-635-5 ISBN10: 1840226358 EAN: 9781840226355 x Description: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery.
Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway.
Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Essential Kafka: The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories Franz Kafka (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) John R. Williams (Translated by) John R. Williams (Introduction by) Series:
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UK ed.
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07 Sep 2014
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 640pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 412g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227260 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-726-0 ISBN10: 1840227265 EAN: 9781840227260 x Description: Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature. Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyam (Author) Edward FitzGerald (Translated by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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04 Mar 1996
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 77g ISBN13: 9781853261879 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-187-9 ISBN10: 1853261874 EAN: 9781853261879 x Description: In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts.
Here is Edward FitzGerald's original translation of the Rubaiyat, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyam. FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859), with its oriental imagery and sensual warmth, made an exotic appeal to the Victorian imagination. Its scepticism fitted a time of increasing religious doubt; its romantic melancholy resonated with the writings of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy; and its epicureanism heralded the Aesthetic Movement.
It has inspired composers, rock groups, artists and film-makers. As rendered by FitzGerald, the Rubaiyat remains a seductively subversive poem. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Best Short Stories Rudyard Kipling (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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04 Mar 1996
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 145g ISBN13: 9781853261794 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-179-4 ISBN10: 1853261793 EAN: 9781853261794 x Description: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social range. He gained immense popularity, becoming (as these stories indicate) the knowledgeable spokesman for a wide public.
Later, although Kipling's right-wing views increasingly incurred hostility, his creativity remained formidable. In this rich collection, we encounter bold realism, poignant nostalgia, dark comedy, the vividly horrific, the exuberantly fanciful and the disturbingly uncanny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling (Author) Series:
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07 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 250g ISBN13: 9781840227550 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-755-0 ISBN10: 1840227559 EAN: 9781840227550 x Description: The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.
The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kim Rudyard Kipling (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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New edition
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07 Apr 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 173g ISBN13: 9781853260995 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-099-5 ISBN10: 1853260991 EAN: 9781853260995 x Description: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption from the `Wheel of Life'. Kim becomes involved in the `Great Game':, undertaking espionage for the British rulers.
This engrossing and moving novel, with its diversity of memorable characters, offers many insights into political, religious and social tensions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories Rudyard Kipling (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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05 Jul 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 154g ISBN13: 9781853262098 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-209-8 ISBN10: 1853262099 EAN: 9781853262098 x Description: With an Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master. The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster.
The other tales include the ironic, horrific, poignant and haunting. Here Kipling displays his descriptive panache and realistic boldness. Shrewd, audacious, abrasive and challenging, he remains absorbingly readable. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence (Author) David Ellis (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Aug 2005
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 192g ISBN13: 9781840224887 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-488-7 ISBN10: 1840224886 EAN: 9781840224887 x Description: Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury.
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition. The famous 'Lady Chatterley trial' heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery.
Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, and of the tender love which then develops between her and her husband's gamekeeper, is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations.
This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrence's bitter indictment of modern industrial society, and to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love and sex. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence (Author) Lionel Kelly (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 May 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 279g ISBN13: 9781853262500 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-250-0 ISBN10: 1853262501 EAN: 9781853262500 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century.
The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence's essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the 'rainbow' of the title is his unifying motif.
His primary focus is on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in Women in Love, is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy of the confining structures of English social life and the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the human psyche. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence (Author) Howard J. Booth (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 250g ISBN13: 9781853260476 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-047-6 ISBN10: 1853260479 EAN: 9781853260476 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury.
`When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life'. Richard Aldington This novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers.
Lawrence's novels are perhaps the most powerful exploration in the genre in English of family, class, sexuality and relationships in youth and early adulthood. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Women in Love D. H. Lawrence (Author) Jeff Wallace (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 288g ISBN13: 9781853260070 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-007-0 ISBN10: 185326007X EAN: 9781853260070 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Dr Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan.
Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War.
What, then, did it mean to call ourselves 'human'? On what grounds could we place ourselves above and beyond the animal world? What are the definitive forms of our relationships - love, marriage, family, friendship - really worth? And how might they be otherwise? Without directly referring to the war, Women in Love explores these questions with restless energy. As a sequel to The Rainbow, the novel develops experimental techniques which made Lawrence one of the most important writers of the Modernist movement. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Call of the Wild & White Fang Jack London (Author) Series:
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05 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 163g ISBN13: 9781853260261 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-026-1 ISBN10: 1853260266 EAN: 9781853260261 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the 'decivilisation' of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild', an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds.
In contrast, White Fang relates the tale of a wolf born and bred in the wild which is civilised by the master he comes to trust and love. The brutal world of the Klondike miners and their dogs is brilliantly evoked and Jack London's rendering of the sentient life of Buck and White Fang as they confront their destiny is enthralling and convincing. The deeper resonance of these stories derives from the author's use of the myth of the hero who survives by strength and courage, a powerful myth that still appeals to our collective unconscious. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sea-Wolf Jack London (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Lionel Kelly (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Pub Date:
10 May 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 172g B Format ISBN13: 9781840225808 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-580-8 ISBN10: 1840225807 EAN: 9781840225808 x Description: The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life, as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840), Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851).
The dominant subject is an intellectual conflict between a ship-wrecked literary figure, Humphrey Van Weyden, and the brutal captain of a seal-hunting schooner, Wolf Larsen, who rescues Van Weyden and puts him to menial work on the schooner. The central chapters focus on the gory details of sealhunting, and the final section shows how far Van Weyden has learned seamanship as he restores The Ghost to sailing health and returns to port with the only woman passenger, another shipwrecked figure, to plight their troth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield (Author) Series:
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05 Jun 2006
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 688pp h198mm x w129mm x s34mm 423g ISBN13: 9781840222654 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-265-4 ISBN10: 1840222654 EAN: 9781840222654 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.
Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The Collected Stories brings together all of the stories that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923.
With an introduction and head-notes, this volume allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, deeply felt stories of her last years. Admired by Virginia Woolf in her lifetime and by many writers since her death, Katherine Mansfield is one of the great literary artists of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Best Short Stories Guy de Maupassant (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Edition:
New edition
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Pub Date:
04 Mar 1996
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 164g ISBN13: 9781853261893 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-189-3 ISBN10: 1853261890 EAN: 9781853261893 x Description: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies and vanities at different levels of society. Prostitution is frankly described, while the harshness of war is deftly exposed.
His tales have been televised and have influenced films, operas and rock music. Unillusioned but humane, Maupassant remains our contemporary. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moby Dick Herman Melville (Author) David Herd (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 544pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 336g ISBN13: 9781853260087 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-008-7 ISBN10: 1853260088 EAN: 9781853260087 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of `Poetry Review'.
Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that `reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.
But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each.
Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education:
in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his `mighty theme' - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery, OBE (Author) Series:
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07 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 327g ISBN13: 9781840227598 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-759-8 ISBN10: 1840227591 EAN: 9781840227598 x Description: Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story. The sequel, Anne of Avonlea, follows her progress as a teacher as she seeks to put into practice the lessons she has learnt, helping at the same time to keep Green Gables going, pursuing her enduring friendships, and finding first love where she least expects it.
Both books conjure an enchanting landscape of wild blossom, lakes and brooks, woods and ocean, seen through Anne's `beauty-loving eyes', whose vision of the world she brings us to share. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Short Stories of Saki Hector Hugh Munro (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
05 Sep 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 319g ISBN13: 9781853260711 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-071-1 ISBN10: 1853260711 EAN: 9781853260711 x Description: `All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'.
Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes Sredni Vastor and The Unrest Cure.
`We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author) Irene Testot-Ferry (Translated by) Series:
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07 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 77g ISBN13: 9781840227604 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-760-4 ISBN10: 1840227605 EAN: 9781840227604 x Description: The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike. In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert, and the little prince, who has dropped there through time and space from his tiny asteroid, comes an intersection of two worlds, the one governed by the laws of nature, and the other determined only by the limits of imagination. The world of the imagination wins hands down, with the concerns of the adult world often shown to be lamentably silly as seen through the eyes of the little prince. While adult readers can find deep meanings in his various encounters, they can also be charmed back to childhood by this wise but innocent infant.
This popular translation contains the author's own delightful illustrations, bringing to visual life the small being at the tale's heart, and a world of fantasy far removed from any quotidian reality. It is also a sort of love story, in which two frail beings, the downed pilot and the wandering infant-prince who has left behind all he knows, share their short time together isolated from humanity and finding sustenance in each other. This is a book which creates a unique relationship with each reader, whether child or adult. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott (Author) David Blair (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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New edition
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Pub Date:
05 Feb 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 288g ISBN13: 9781853262029 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-202-9 ISBN10: 1853262021 EAN: 9781853262029 x Description: Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his beautiful, spirited daughter Rebecca; Wamba and Gurth, jester and swineherd respectively.
Scott explores the conflicts between the Crown and the powerful Barons, between the Norman overlords and the conquered Saxons, and between Richard and his scheming brother, Prince John. At the same time he brings into the novel the legendary Robin Hood and his band, and creates a brilliant, colourful account of the age of chivalry with all its elaborate rituals and costumes and its values of honour and personal glory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott (Author) David Blair (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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06 Sep 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 250g ISBN13: 9781853262531 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-253-1 ISBN10: 1853262536 EAN: 9781853262531 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair.
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorised, unprincipled predator to others.
Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, through the adventures of his fictional hero, Frank Osbaldistone, amid the political turmoil of England and Scotland in 1715. With characteristic care Scott reconstructs the period and settings so as to place Rob Roy and the Scotland he inhabits amid conflicting moral, economic and historical forces.
This edition features, besides a new critical introduction and extensive explanatory notes, an essay outlining clearly the novel's historical context and a glossary of Scottish words and phrases used by Scott's colourful, vernacular characters. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Beauty Anna Sewell (Author) Series:
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07 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 134g ISBN13: 9781840227611 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-761-1 ISBN10: 1840227613 EAN: 9781840227611 x Description: Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that a horse is recounting the exploits in the narrative. The gentle thoroughbred, Black Beauty, is raised with care and is treated well until a vicious groom injures him. The damaged horse is then sold to various masters at whose hands he experiences cruelty and neglect. After many unpleasant episodes, including one where he becomes a painfully overworked cab horse in London, Black Beauty finally canters towards a happy ending. Although Anna Sewell's classic is set firmly in the Victorian period, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness. There have been many film and television adaptations of the story, but it is only the novel that captures the authentic voice of the central character. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Edition:
New edition
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05 Oct 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 106g ISBN13: 9781853260759 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-075-9 ISBN10: 1853260754 EAN: 9781853260759 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shakespeare's most complex depiction of a woman:
`Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.' Unsurpassed in sumptous eloquence and powerful characterisation, Anthony and Cleopatra deservedly retains its popularity in the theatre. Its insights into the corruptions of power and the ambiguities of desire remain timely.
This volume is part of the Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, in which each volume has been edited by Cedric Watts.
Readers wishing to know more of Cedric Watts' work should buy his `Shakespeare Puzzles', published by PublishNation (ISBN 978-1-291-66410-2), available from Amazon (both in printed and Kindle editions) and through all good bookshops. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
As You Like It William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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05 Jun 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 87g ISBN13: 9781853260599 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-059-9 ISBN10: 1853260592 EAN: 9781853260599 x Description: This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its boldly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, sceptical philosophising, and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre. A recent production was deemed `fresh, funny, sexy and, when it matters, deeply touching'. As You Like It is part of the Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, used in the workshops of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Every volume in the series has been newly edited by Cedric Watts, described by Edward Said as `a man for whom the enjoyment and enrichment of friends and students is the main consideration in what he does'.
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Hamlet William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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05 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853260094 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-009-4 ISBN10: 1853260096 EAN: 9781853260094 x Description: Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature.
First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with humour, and its subtlety with spectacle. The Prince, Hamlet himself, is depicted as a complex, divided, introspective character. His reflections on death, morality and the very status of human beings make him `the first modern man'.
Countless stage productions and numerous adaptations for the cinema and television have demonstrated the continuing cultural relevance of this vivid, enigmatic, profound and engrossing drama. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Jun 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227215 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-721-5 ISBN10: 1840227214 EAN: 9781840227215 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by the charismatic Harry Hotspur. The King's son, Prince Hal, seems to be more concerned with the pleasures of the tavern world and the company of the fat rogue, Falstaff, than with concerns of state. Eventually, however, Hal proves a courageous foe of the rebels.
This history play is lively in its interplay of political intrigue and boisterous comedy, subtle in the connections between high statecraft and low craftiness,
exuberant in its range of vivid characters, and memorable in its thematic concern with honour, loyalty and the quest for power.
In Henry IV, Part 2, the King is ailing, Falstaff is ageing, and the kingdom itself, where rebellion is still rife, seems diseased or debilitated. The comedy has a melancholy undertone, and the politics verge on the Machiavellian. Eventually, the resourceful Hal, inheriting the crown as Henry V, must prove that he can uphold justice in the realm. Here Shakespeare demonstrates a mastery of thematic complexity and subtlety, and shows the price in human terms that may be exacted by political success. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Henry V William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Jun 2000
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 106g ISBN13: 9781840224214 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-421-4 ISBN10: 1840224215 EAN: 9781840224214 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing endeavours to take account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his `band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be `this star of England'. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branagh's film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism? Is Henry's achievement beset by irony? Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama? Henry V demonstrates Shakespeare's acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the harsh, the sustaining and the challenging. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
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05 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 96g ISBN13: 9781853260223 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-022-3 ISBN10: 1853260223 EAN: 9781853260223 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked.
The cry `Peace, freedom and liberty!' is used to exculpate brutal realities, while personal ambitions taint public actions. Rich in characterisation and replete with eloquent rhetoric, Julius Caesar remains engrossing and topical: a play for today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
King Lear William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Mar 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 116g ISBN13: 9781853260957 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-095-7 ISBN10: 1853260959 EAN: 9781853260957 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare's most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heartrending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthral.
This Wordsworth edition of King Lear provides a comprehensive, integrated text of the play. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Macbeth William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 86g ISBN13: 9781853260353 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-035-3 ISBN10: 1853260355 EAN: 9781853260353 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the appalling emotional and psychological effects on both Lady Macbeth and himself. The cruel ironies of their destiny are conveyed in poetry of unsurpassed power. In the theatre, this tragedy remains perennially engrossing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Measure for Measure William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 96g ISBN13: 9781853262517 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-251-7 ISBN10: 185326251X EAN: 9781853262517 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The drama shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy, between sexual repression and decadence, and between political vigilance and social manipulation. These problems remain topical, and, in Measure for Measure, they are given immediacy by vivid character-conflicts and memorably intense poetry. This is one of Shakespeare's most probing and powerful works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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28 Sep 2000
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 86g ISBN13: 9781840224313 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-431-3 ISBN10: 1840224312 EAN: 9781840224313 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial.
The text may seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often triumphs in the theatre. In his intensity he can dominate the play, challenging abrasively its romantic and lyrical affirmations. What results is a bitter-sweet drama. Though The Merchant of Venice offers some of the traditional pleasures of romantic comedy, it also exposes
the operations of prejudice. Thus Shakespeare remains our contemporary. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Series edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 86g ISBN13: 9781853260308 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-030-8 ISBN10: 1853260304 EAN: 9781853260308 x Description: Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. `Lord, what fools these mortals be!', jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced by the voluptuously amorous Titania.
Recent stage-productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream have emphasised the enchanting, spectacular, ambiguous and erotically joyous aspects of this magical drama which culminates in a multiple celebration of marriage. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 96g ISBN13: 9781853262548 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-254-8 ISBN10: 1853262544 EAN: 9781853262548 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively sinister and the lyrically romantic, giving the whole a complex and sometimes problematic character. Numerous revivals, in the theatre and on screen, have displayed the lively variety and interpretative openness of this engaging comedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Othello William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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31 May 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 115g ISBN13: 9781853260186 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-018-6 ISBN10: 1853260185 EAN: 9781853260186 x Description: Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugral volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist. Productions on stage and screen regularly renew its power to engross, impress and trouble the imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Richard II William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England's national identity. Today, to some of us, Richard II may appear conservative; but, in Shakespeare's day, it could appear subversive: `I am Richard II', declared an indignant Queen Elizabeth.
Numerous recent revivals in the theatre and on screen have demonstrated the enduring power and poignancy of this drama of the downfall of an egoistic but pitiable monarch.
Richard II is the seventeenth volume in the Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, in which each volume has been freshly edited by Cedric Watts. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Richard III William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Keith Carrabine (Series edited by) Series:
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07 Aug 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 128g B Format ISBN13: 9781840225907 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-590-7 ISBN10: 1840225904 EAN: 9781840225907 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare's historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III remains perennially topical. Numerous revivals on stage and screen have demonstrated the enduring cogency of this drama about the lethally corrupting quest for power.
Richard III is the twenty-first play in the Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series. The Times Literary Supplement says: `Many students and ordinary readers will be grateful to Watts and his publishers for making such useful editions available at such low cost.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 106g ISBN13: 9781840224337 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-433-7 ISBN10: 1840224339 EAN: 9781840224337 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths.
This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden violence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 96g ISBN13: 9781853260797 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-079-7 ISBN10: 1853260797 EAN: 9781853260797 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously `tames' a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate's apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere. Feminists have been divided in their responses. The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitted by numerous adaptations for stage and screen, notably the film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the Cole Porter musical, Kiss Me, Kate. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Tempest William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 86g ISBN13: 9781853262036 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-203-6 ISBN10: 185326203X EAN: 9781853262036 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his `art', and prepares to return to the mainland. The Tempest has often been regarded as Shakespeare's `farewell to the stage' before his retirement.
In the past, critics emphasised the romantically beautiful features of The Tempest, seeing it as an imaginative fantasia. In recent decades, however, The Tempest has also been treated as a potently political drama which offers controversial insights into colonialism and racism. Frequently staged and diversely filmed, the play has influenced numerous poets and novelists. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 86g ISBN13: 9781853260100 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-010-0 ISBN10: 185326010X EAN: 9781853260100 x Description: Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Variously melancholy, lyrical, joyous and farcical, Twelfth Night has long been a popular comedy with Shakespearian audiences. The main plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love. Both Olivia and Orsino are attracted to Viola, who is disguised as a young man; and Viola's brother, Sebastian, finds that he is loved not only by Antonio but also by Olivia.
Meanwhile, in the comic sub-plot, Sir Toby Belch and his companions outwit the vain Malvolio, who is ludicrously humiliated. While offering broad comedy, Twelfth Night teasingly probes gender-roles and sexual ambiguities. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Edited by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 106g ISBN13: 9781853262357 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-235-7 ISBN10: 1853262358 EAN: 9781853262357 x Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical lovespeeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the contrasts between age and youth, corruption and innocence, decline and regeneration. Both Leontes' murderous jealousy and Perdita's loverelationship with Florizel are eloquently intense. In the theatre, The Winter's Tale often proves to be diversely entertaining and deeply moving. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Frankenstein Mary Shelley (Author) Dr. Siv Jansson (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 134g ISBN13: 9781853260230 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-023-0 ISBN10: 1853260231 EAN: 9781853260230 x Description: Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would `curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.' The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller. Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains. Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity, it turns on its maker and the novel darkens into tragedy. The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multi-layered themes in the novel. Although first published in 1818, Shelley's masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination and has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies, television and stage adaptations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Man Mary Shelley (Author) Pamela Bickley (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 269g ISBN13: 9781840224030 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-403-0 ISBN10: 1840224037 EAN: 9781840224030 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London.
The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814. In the summer of 1816 she began her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein. Three of her children died in early infancy and in 1822 her husband was drowned. Mary returned to England with her surviving son and wrote novels, short stories and accounts of her travels; she was the first editor of P.B.Shelley's poetry and verse. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Red & The Black Stendhal (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Moya Longstaffe (Introduction and notes by) C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (Translated by) Moya Longstaffe (Translated by) Series:
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The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great `realist' novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820s, the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration. Stendhal himself claimed that no-one before him had ventured to portray with such verisimilitude the `moral and morose' France of 1830. However `moral and morose' his novel is definitely not. Ironic, fast-moving, entertaining and incisive in its social criticism, it is a novel of ambition and passion, of indignation and tenderness, of polemic and poetry, which speaks to us today, as clearly as it did to the author's contemporaries, of the heights, depths and idiocies of which our human nature is capable or culpable. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 288g ISBN13: 9781853262913 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-291-3 ISBN10: 1853262919 EAN: 9781853262913 x Description: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography.
This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all time'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Tim Middleton (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 163g ISBN13: 9781853260612 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-061-2 ISBN10: 1853260614 EAN: 9781853260612 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York.
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson's reputation as a writer.
Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables.
The Merry Men is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; Markheim, the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; Thrawn Janet, a spinechilling tale of demonic possession; Olalla, a study of degeneration and incipient vampirism in the Spanish mountains; Will O' the Mill, a thoughtprovoking fable about a mountain inn-keeper; and The Treasure of Franchard, a study of French bourgeois life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) H.M. Brock (Illustrated by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781840227635 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-763-5 ISBN10: 184022763X EAN: 9781840227635 x Description: Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors whom he fears but, despite all precautions, the old man is served with the black spot which means death. Among the dead man's belongings Jim discovers a map showing the location of the buried treasure of the notorious pirate Captain Flint. It is not long before he, along with Doctor Livesey and Squire Trelawney, sets sail to find the treasure. However, amongst the hired hands is the one-legged Long John Silver who has designs on the treasure for himself. The continuing fascination with this tale of high drama, buried treasure and treachery bears out what Stevenson wrote about the book to his friend W. E. Henley: 'if this don't fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.' The book not only continues to 'fetch the kids' but the grown-ups too in fact all those with the spirit of adventure in their hearts. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dracula Bram Stoker (Author) Dr. David Rogers (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Apr 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 221g ISBN13: 9781853260865 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-086-5 ISBN10: 185326086X EAN: 9781853260865 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University.
'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.'
Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative, describes the demonic subject of his chilling masterpiece Dracula, a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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07 May 1999
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 298g ISBN13: 9781840224023 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-402-3 ISBN10: 1840224029 EAN: 9781840224023 x Description: Editedand with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only `repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent the onset of `the wrath of Almighty God!'.
The novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that President Lincoln half-jokingly greeted Stowe as`the little lady' who started the great Civil War. As Keith Carabine argues in his lively and provocative Introduction, the novel immediately provoked a storm of competing and contradictory responses among Northern and Southern readers, moderate and radical abolitionist groups, blacks and women, with regard to issues of form, genre, politics, religion, race and gender, that are still of great interest because they anticipate the concerns that vex and divide modern readers and critical constituencies. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift (Author) Doreen Roberts (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 182g ISBN13: 9781853260278 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-027-8 ISBN10: 1853260274 EAN: 9781853260278 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal).
As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in our own times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray (Author) Owen Knowles (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 720pp h198mm x w129mm x s36mm 442g ISBN13: 9781853260193 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-019-3 ISBN10: 1853260193 EAN: 9781853260193 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull.
Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.
Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.
When Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Bronte commented: `The more I read Thackeray'sworks the more certain I am that he stands alone - alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his feeling... Thackeray is a Titan.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy (Author) Aylmer Maude (Translated by) Louise Maude (Translated by) E. B. Greenwood (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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06 Sep 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 848pp h198mm x w129mm x s42mm 519g ISBN13: 9781853262715 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-271-5 ISBN10: 1853262714 EAN: 9781853262715 x Description: Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent.
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density.
Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories Leo Tolstoy (Author) Dr. T. C. B. Brooks (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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24 Aug 2004
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 182g ISBN13: 9781840224535 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-453-5 ISBN10: 1840224533 EAN: 9781840224535 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time.
In the early story Family Happiness, Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In The Kreutzer Sonata he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown, in The Devil a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation, and, in perhaps the finest of all, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality.
This volume also includes an Introduction and Notes written specially for this Wordsworth edition by Dr Tim Cook, formely lecturer in literature at the Universities of Kingston and Ulster. Previous work contributed by Dr Cook for Wordsworth includes an introduction and notes to Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Anthony Briggs (Introduction by) Louise Maude (Translated by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 346g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227284 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-728-4 ISBN10: 1840227281 EAN: 9781840227284 x Description: This powerful novel, Tolstoy's third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman whom he once seduced, propelling her into prostitution. She is found guilty on a technicality, and he determines to overturn the verdict. This pitches him into a hellish labyrinth of Russian courts, prisons and bureaucracy, in which the author loses no opportunity for satire and bitter criticism of a state system (not confined to that country) of cruelty and injustice. This is Dickens for grown-ups, involving a hundred characters, Crime and Punishment brought forward half a century. With unforgettable set-pieces of sexual passion, conflict and social injustice, Resurrection proceeds from brothel to court-room, stinking cells to offices of state, luxury apartments to filthy life in Siberia. The ultimate crisis of moral responsibility embroils not only the famous author and his hero, but also you and me. Can we help resolve the eternal issues of law and imprisonment? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy (Author) Henry Claridge (Introduction and notes by) Olga Claridge (Introduction and notes by) Louise Maude (Translated by) Aylmer Maude (Translated by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 1024pp h198mm x w129mm x s52mm 624g ISBN13: 9781853260629 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-062-9 ISBN10: 1853260622 EAN: 9781853260629 x Description: War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.
Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy's approval. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell (Author) Lionel Kelly (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Tony Benn (Foreword by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 384g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226829 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-682-9 ISBN10: 184022682X EAN: 9781840226829 x Description: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities. Epic in scale, the novel charts the ruinous effects of the laissez-faire mercantilist ethics on the men, women, and children of the working classes, and through its emblematic characters, argues for a socialist politics as the only hope for a civilized and humane life for all. This Wordsworth edition includes an exclusive foreword by the late Tony Benn. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope (Author) Peter Merchant (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 800pp h198mm x w129mm x s40mm 490g ISBN13: 9781853262555 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-255-5 ISBN10: 1853262552 EAN: 9781853262555 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College.
The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Melmotte. Melmotte is one of the Victorian novel's greatest and strangest creations, and is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time.
Trollope's 'Now' might, in the twenty-first century, look like some distant disenchanted 'Then', but this is still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make proper sense of our today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fathers and Sons Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (Author) Lionel Kelly (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) C. J. Hogarth (Translated by) Series:
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23 Oct 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9781853262869 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-286-9 ISBN10: 1853262862 EAN: 9781853262869 x Description: With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
Translated by C.J. Hogarth.
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state.
At its centre is Evgeny Bazorov, a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist and believes in the need to overthrow all the institutions of the state. As the novel develops Bazarov's political ambitions become fatally meshed with emotional and private concerns, and his end is a tragic failure. The novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862, and this, a year later, drove Turgenev from Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain (Author) Petr Barta (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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08 May 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 259g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226836 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-683-6 ISBN10: 1840226838 EAN: 9781840226836 x Description: An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of `the great Father of Waters'. Part memoir, part travelogue, it expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality, and remains the most vivid, boisterous and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from `the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War.
This new edition of Life on the Mississippi contains a comprehensive introduction, extensive annotations and a guide to further reading designed to appeal to both the student and the general reader. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain (Author) Stuart Hutchinson (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 278g ISBN13: 9781840226362 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-636-2 ISBN10: 1840226366 EAN: 9781840226362 x Description: 'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?'
So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World - to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings and sculptures of the 'Old Masters'. He responded with wonder and amazement, but also with exasperation, irritation, disbelief. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour, more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Author) Stuart Hutchinson (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 259g ISBN13: 9781853260117 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-011-7 ISBN10: 1853260118 EAN: 9781853260117 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treasure that Joe had buried.
Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken and brutal father, and meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay and intellectual impoverishment.
Sharing so much in background and character, these two stories, the best of Twain, indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century and the institution of slavery. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Around the World in 80 Days / Five Weeks in a Balloon Jules Verne (Author) Roger Cardinal (University of Kent) (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Feb 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 241g ISBN13: 9781853260902 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-090-2 ISBN10: 1853260908 EAN: 9781853260902 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury.
Translationsare by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon).
JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his reader's allegiance and trust. This volume contains two of his best-loved yarns, chosen from among the sixty-four titles of Les Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne's pioneering contribution to the canon of modern science fiction.
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time.
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon Jules Verne (Author) Alex Dolby (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Aug 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 278g ISBN13: 9781840226706 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-670-6 ISBN10: 1840226706 EAN: 9781840226706 x Description: Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on `extraordinary voyages.' His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led directly to modern science fiction. In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility an engineering dream for the industrial age. Directly inspired by Verne's story, enthusiasts worked successfully at overcoming the practical difficulties, and within a century, human beings did indeed fly to the Moon. Curiously, however, Verne is unlikely to have thought it possible that a manned projectile could actually be fired out of a giant cannon, rising higher than the Moon, swinging around it, and then landing safely back on Earth. He had used the science of the day to construct a literary conjuring trick, a hoax, one of the most successful in all history. By skilful misdirection he drew the attention of readers away from weaknesses in the project. Read the book and you, too, will be fooled into accepting the realistic possibility in Verne's time of that dream of flying to the Moon. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) Series:
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13 Sep 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853262876 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-287-6 ISBN10: 1853262870 EAN: 9781853262876 x Description: The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland on a journey which will lead them to the centre of the earth. Along the way they encounter various hazards and witness many incredible sights such as the underground forest, illuminated by electricity, the Great Geyser, the battle between prehistoric monsters, the strange whispering gallery, giant insects and the vast subterranean sea with its ferocious whirlpool.
Although published in the nineteenth century, Journey to the Centre of the Earth has lost none of its power and potency to excite and engage the modern reader. The novel has been filmed many times, but nothing can compare with the thrills and excitement generated by the written narrative. It is supreme escapist entertainment for all ages. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mysterious Island Jules Verne (Author) Alex Dolby (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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05 Mar 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 327g ISBN13: 9781840226249 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-624-9 ISBN10: 1840226242 EAN: 9781840226249 x Description: With an Introduction by Alex Dolby.
Translation by W.H.G. Kingston. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his 'extraordinary voyages' was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction.
In The Mysterious Island a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island. In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, the men apply their scientific knowledge and technical skill to exploit the island's bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. The book is also an intriguing mystery story, for the island has a secret. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 163g ISBN13: 9781853260315 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-031-5 ISBN10: 1853260312 EAN: 9781853260315 x Description: With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies.
Translation by Louis Mercier.
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive.
So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Aeneid Virgil (Author) Series:
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05 Aug 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 157g ISBN13: 9781853262630 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-263-0 ISBN10: 1853262633 EAN: 9781853262630 x Description: The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at the price that must be paid in human suffering to secure Rome's future greatness. The tension between the public voice of celebration and the tragic private voice is given full expression both in the doomed love of Dido and Aeneas, and in the fateful clash between the Trojan leader and the Italian hero, Turnus.
Hailed by T.S. Eliot as 'the classic of all Europe', Virgil's Aeneid has enjoyed a unique and enduring influence on European literature, art and politics for the past two thousand years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Candide and Other Works Voltaire (Author) Series:
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14 Jun 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h1980mm x w1290mm x s150mm 260g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227307 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-730-7 ISBN10: 1840227303 EAN: 9781840227307 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent
Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit and biting humour, Voltaire hits several targets with fierce and comic satire: organised religion, the overweening pride of aristocrats, merchants' greed, colonial ambition and the hopeless complacency of Leibnizian philosophy that believes 'all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds'. Through this rites of passage story, with his central character, Candide, a naive and impressionable young man, Voltaire attacks the social ills of his day, which remarkably remain as pertinent now as ever.
Zadig is a tale of love and detection. Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by this story when he created C. Auguste Dupin in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', a story which established the modern detective fiction genre. The Ingenu recounts how a young man raised by Huron Indians discover the ways of Europe. Nanine is a sharp three act comedy concerned with marital dilemmas. In all these works Voltaire manages to combine humour with trenchant satire in a highly entertaining fashion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ben Hur Lewis Wallace (Author) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Pub Date:
09 Oct 1995
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Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy that brings every action-packed scene to life and illuminates the geography, ethnology and customs of the ancient world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Time Machine and Other Works H. G. Wells (Author) Laurence Davies (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 222g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227383 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-738-3 ISBN10: 1840227389 EAN: 9781840227383 x Description: In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual elites, and brutalised industrial slaves. Arriving in the year 802,701, the Time-Traveller finds that humanity has evolved into two drastically different species; going farther still, he witnesses the ultimate fate of the solar system. The Chronic Argonauts, the original version of The Time Machine, pits a scientist with daring views of time and space against superstitious villagers. In all three works Wells laces vivid adventure stories with the latest ideas in biology and physics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Crystal Egg and Other Stories H. G. Wells (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 299g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227390 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-739-0 ISBN10: 1840227397 EAN: 9781840227390 x Description: This volume contains a generous selection of the tales of H. G. Wells, some of them famous, some forgotten. They demonstrate his immense imaginative energy, his originality, his prophetic genius, and his mastery of a range embracing Gothic horror, social satire, lyrical reverie and Utopian fantasy.
Here Wells predicts the use of the tank, the aeroplane, the parachute and the bathysphere; he depicts the arrival of monsters from the deep, and envisages the destruction of life on our planet. Nevertheless, in social comedy, Wells anticipates E. M. Forster. We also see why Wells proved to be a provocation and inspiration not only to numerous science-fiction writers but also to such eminent authors as Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and William Golding.
Entertaining, disturbing, astonishing and thought-provoking, these tales constitute a Wellsian cornucopia. Enjoy! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories H. G. Wells (Author) Emily Alder (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' declares Doctor Moreau to hapless narrator Edward Prendick.
Moreau's highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the religious, moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells later called The Island of Doctor Moreau 'a youthful exercise in blasphemy'. Today his vivid depictions of the Beast People still strike modern readers with an uncanny glimpse of the animal in the human, while the behaviour of humans leave us wondering who is the most monstrous after all.
This volume unites four of Wells' liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings. The Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet chillingly plausible short stories of human-animal encounters. The Empire of the Ants is a darkly humorous account of intelligent Amazonian ants threatening to displace humans as 'the lords of the future and masters of the earth'. In The Sea Raiders, the south coast of England is terrorized by an unwelcome visit from deep-sea predator Haploteuthis ferox, while AEpyornis Island provides a marooned egg collector with an unusual companion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Invisible Man and The Food of the Gods H. G. Wells (Author) Linda Dryden (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 222g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227413 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-741-3 ISBN10: 1840227419 EAN: 9781840227413 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University and the author of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene.At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives in the Sussex countryside and mayhem ensues; in the sleepy county of Kent a miracle food brings biological chaos that engulfs and threatens the entire planet. H. G. Wells's fertile and mercurial imagination never brought us more bizarre and unsettling stories than those revealed in The Invisible Man (1897) and The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (1904). These are stories of extraordinary physical transformations and are at once extremely funny and richly imaginative. At the same time, Wells poses some very probing questions about the ethical dimensions to science and the human capacity for both pity
and cruelty. Brought together for the first time in this new Wordsworth edition, The Invisible Man and The Food of the Gods are two of Wells's most entertaining and thought-provoking works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The War of the Worlds and The War in the Air H. G. Wells (Author) Andrew Frayn (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 270g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227420 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-742-0 ISBN10: 1840227427 EAN: 9781840227420 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University.In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a metallic cylinder landing from Mars. Six million people begin to flee London in panic as tentacled invaders emerge and overpower the city. With their heat-ray, killing machines, black gas, and a taste for fresh human blood, is there anything that can be done to stop the Martians? In The War in the Air, naive but resourceful Bert Smallways is thrilled by speed and fascinated by the new flying machines. His curiosity sweeps him away by accident into a German plan to conquer America, beginning with the destruction of New York. The ease of movement in aerial warfare means that nothing and nobody is safe as Total War erupts, civilisation crumbles, and Bert's hopes of getting back to London to marry his love seem impossibly distant. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kipps and The History of Mr Polly H. G. Wells (Author) Jonathan Wild (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 308g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227437 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-743-7 ISBN10: 1840227435 EAN: 9781840227437 x Description: These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited education, dull work, and sterile relationships. In Wells' hands they break out of the cages that society has constructed for them, learning after bitter experience the truth that 'if the world does not please you, you can change it'. This message, a revolutionary one in its day for the growing army of Edwardian clerks and drapers, is handled with a rich comedy and freshness that belies its deadly seriousness. Wells is at his very best here in exposing and satirising the unequal nature of British society while preparing the ground for its reformation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton (Author) Stuart Hutchinson (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 163g ISBN13: 9781853262104 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-210-4 ISBN10: 1853262102 EAN: 9781853262104 x Description: Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched and meticulous evocation of the manners and style of the period, has delighted readers since the novel's first publication in 1920.
In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction - it won the Pulitzer Prize and it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton (Author) Pamela Knights (Introduction by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 86g ISBN13: 9781840224085 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-408-5 ISBN10: 1840224088 EAN: 9781840224085 x Description: With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University.
With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out `to draw life as it really was' in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield, readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land. Piecing together the story of monosyllabic Ethan Frome, his grim wife, Zeena, and Mattie Silver, her charming cousin, Wharton explores psychological dead-lock:frustration, longing, resentment, passion.
First published in 1911, the novella stunned its public with its consummate handling of the unfolding drama, and has remained for many readers the most compelling and subtle of all Wharton's fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton (Author) Janet Beer (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 202g ISBN13: 9781840224191 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-419-1 ISBN10: 1840224193 EAN: 9781840224191 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University.
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long.
Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.
The House of Mirth was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton's most accomplished and compelling social satires. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Others Oscar Wilde (Author) Anne Varty (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 202g ISBN13: 9781840224016 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-401-6 ISBN10: 1840224010 EAN: 9781840224016 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898.
This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde (Author) John M. L. Drew (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853260155 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-015-5 ISBN10: 1853260150 EAN: 9781853260155 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.
Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design.
Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the 'note of doom' which runs like 'a purple thread' through its carefully crafted prose. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Plays of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde (Author) Anne Varty (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 298g ISBN13: 9781840224184 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-418-4 ISBN10: 1840224185 EAN: 9781840224184 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.
This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy. The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention. Wilde's plays have never failed to delight audiences and are a lasting testimony to their author's supreme wit and theatrical genius. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Room of One's Own & The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf (Author) Dr. Sally Minogue (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 298g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226799 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-679-9 ISBN10: 184022679X EAN: 9781840226799 x Description: A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society.
The essay lays bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence assumed by men. Woolf's prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man's, she must have an independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly resonant and relevant in the 21st century.
The novel explores these issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman whose `voyage out' to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. As she begins to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of love, but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final undertow of the novel is tragic as, in some of her finest writing, she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf (Author) Merry M. Pawlowski (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 115g ISBN13: 9781853261916 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-191-6 ISBN10: 1853261912 EAN: 9781853261916 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield.
Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.
Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith, whose madness escalates as his life draws toward inevitable suicide. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night and Day / Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf (Author) Dorinda Guest (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 355g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226805 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-680-5 ISBN10: 1840226803 EAN: 9781840226805 x Description: Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society, the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where the representatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way, for `... life has to be faced: to be rejected; then accepted on new terms with rapture'. Woolf begins to experiment with the novel form while demonstrating her affection for the literature of the past. Jacob's Room (1922), Woolf's third novel, marks the bold affirmation of her own voice and search for a new form to express her view that `the human soul ... orientates itself afresh every now & then. It is doing so now. No one can see it whole therefore.' Jacob's life is presented in subtle, delicate and tantalising glimpses, the novel's gaps and silences are as replete with meaning as the wicker armchair creaking in the empty room. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Orlando Virginia Woolf (Author) Merry M. Pawlowski (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 134g ISBN13: 9781853262395 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-239-5 ISBN10: 1853262390 EAN: 9781853262395 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield.
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost.
At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries.
As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Waves Virginia Woolf (Author) Deborah Parsons (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781840224108 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-410-8 ISBN10: 184022410X EAN: 9781840224108 x Description: Introduction and Notes by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham.
'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore.
The subsequent continuity of these six main characters, as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions, is interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature. In pure stream-of-consciousness style, Woolf presents a cross-section of multiple yet parallel lives, each marked by the disintegrating force of a mutual tragedy.
The Waves is her searching exploration of individual and collective identity, and the observations and emotions of life, from the simplicity and surging optimism of youth to the vacancy and despair of middle-age. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Years / Between the Acts Virginia Woolf (Author) Linden Peach (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 278g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226812 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-681-2 ISBN10: 1840226811 EAN: 9781840226812 x Description: This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middleclass family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweaves comedy, satire and disturbing observation.
Rewriting the traditional family saga and the pageant, these unsettling novels provide extraordinary critiques of Englishness and English identity while pursuing compelling existentialist and psychological themes such as the nature of time, memory, personal relationships and sexual desire. Their tightly constructed narratives enable the reader to experience the fragmented lives of their characters and the difficulties that they have in communicating with each other and even understanding themselves. Read together, these novels illuminate each other in ways that will engage both the student and the general reader. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf (Author) Dr. Nicola Bradbury (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 115g ISBN13: 9781853260919 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-091-9 ISBN10: 1853260916 EAN: 9781853260919 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.
This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions.
To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fables Aesop (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 134g ISBN13: 9781853261282 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-128-2 ISBN10: 1853261289 EAN: 9781853261282 x Description: Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the manger, the wolf in sheep's clothing and many others - have entered the languages and idioms of most European tongues.
This edition is beautifully illustrated in black and white by the great Arthur Rackham, and has an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Men & Jo's Boys Louisa May Alcott (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 317g ISBN13: 9781840221763 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-176-3 ISBN10: 1840221763 EAN: 9781840221763 x Description: The two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo's Boys, are worthy sequels to Little Women, one of the bestloved children's stories of all time, and its continuation, Good Wives. In Little Men, Louisa May Alcott takes up the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty but easy-going boys at Plumfield, now a boarding-school run by Professor Bhaer and his lovable madcap wife Jo, the most fiery and free-spirited of the four March sisters. Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that 'wilderness of boys' ten years later when they are making their ways in the world with varying degrees of triumph and disaster. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Women & Good Wives Louisa May Alcott (Author) Series:
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01 Aug 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 288g ISBN13: 9781853261169 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-116-9 ISBN10: 1853261165 EAN: 9781853261169 x Description: Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve.
The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Lawrence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever.
Good Wives takes up the story of the March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen (Author) Charles Robinson (Illustrated by) Thomas Heath Robinson (Illustrated by) W. Heath Robinson (Illustrated by) Series:
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01 Jan 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 250g ISBN13: 9781853261008 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-100-8 ISBN10: 1853261009 EAN: 9781853261008 x Description: Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales.
This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more.
It is delightfully illustrated in black-and white by those remarkable brothers, Charles, Thomas and William Heath Robinson _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Peter Pan & Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Sir J. M. Barrie (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
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Pub Date:
01 Oct 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781853261206 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-120-6 ISBN10: 1853261203 EAN: 9781853261206 x Description: The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me'. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is the magical tale that first introduces Peter Pan, the little boy who never grows any older. He escapes his human form and flies to Kensington Gardens, where all his happy memories are, and meets the fairies, the thrushes, and Old Caw the crow. The fairies think he is too human to be allowed to stay in after Lock-out time, so he flies off to an island which divides the Gardens from the more grown-up Hyde Park Peter's adventures, and how he eventually meets Mamie and the goat, are delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Glinda of Oz L. Frank Baum (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
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Pub Date:
06 Jul 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 192g ISBN13: 9781840226942 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-694-2 ISBN10: 1840226943 EAN: 9781840226942 This Product Replaces: 9781853261121 x Description: In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will grant any wish. On the way, she meets the brainless Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. The four friends set off to seek their heart's desires, and in a series of action packed adventures they encounter a deadly poppy field, fierce animals, flying monkeys, a wicked witch, a good witch, and the Mighty Oz himself.
In Glinda of Oz, the last of the original `Oz' books, Dorothy and Princess Ozma seek the help of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, when they find themselves in peril on the Magic Isle of the Skeezers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853261046 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-104-6 ISBN10: 1853261041 EAN: 9781853261046 x Description: Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life.
She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them.
The Secret Garden is one of the best-loved stories of all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
05 Jun 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853261367 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-136-7 ISBN10: 185326136X EAN: 9781853261367 x Description: Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became `show pupil' - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her new-found poverty and the scorn of her fellows. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll (Author) Sir John Tenniel (Illustrated by) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
01 Sep 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781853261183 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-118-3 ISBN10: 1853261181 EAN: 9781853261183 x Description: This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are Carroll's delightful verses such as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, 'The Jabberwocky'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pinocchio Carlo Collodi (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
05 May 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853261602 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-160-2 ISBN10: 1853261602 EAN: 9781853261602
x Description: Translated by Mary Alice Murray.
The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children's tales of all time.
Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away to join a puppet show, he teams up with a rascally fox and wily cat, and plays truant from school which has dreadful consequences. Eventually the conscience of a talking cricket and Pinocchio's guardian fairy restore him to good behaviour, obedience and care for others. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What Katy Did Susan Coolidge (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
05 Mar 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 115g ISBN13: 9781853261312 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-131-2 ISBN10: 1853261319 EAN: 9781853261312 x Description: Katy Carr is untidy, tall and gangling and lives with her brothers and sisters planning for the day when she will be "beautiful and beloved, and amiable as an angel".
An accidental fall from a swing seems to threaten her hopes for the future, but Katy struggles to overcome her difficulties with pluck, vitality and good humour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next Susan Coolidge (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
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Pub Date:
05 Oct 2001
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 221g ISBN13: 9781840224375 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-437-5 ISBN10: 1840224371 EAN: 9781840224375 x Description: What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in What Katy Did.
What Katy Did at School is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the New England girls' boarding school which Katy attends. Her trials and adventures are all interwoven with a sense of fun and gently ironic good humour.
What Katy Did Next describes a tour by Katy of Europe, as she evolves from the child of earlier books into a spirited young woman, and brings to a satisfying close this delightful trilogy.
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A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Pub Date:
05 Oct 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 67g ISBN13: 9781853261213 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-121-3 ISBN10: 1853261211 EAN: 9781853261213 x Description: Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children.
But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham's superb line drawings. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moonfleet J. Meade Falkner (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
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Pub Date:
05 Feb 2009
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9781840221695 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-169-5 ISBN10: 1840221690 EAN: 9781840221695 x Description: When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unofficially adopted by Block, John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night, of 'Blackbeard' Mohune's lost treasure and Elzevir Block's secret.
This dashing tale of eighteenth-century Dorset smugglers will be enjoyed by all who love stories of derring-do written in the tradition of Treasure Island. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Robin Hood Henry Gilbert (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
05 Jan 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 182g ISBN13: 9781853261275 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-127-5 ISBN10: 1853261270 EAN: 9781853261275 x Description: Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time.
In this edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Alana-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robin's deadly enemies Guy of Gisborne and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Pub Date:
05 Mar 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853261220 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-122-0 ISBN10: 185326122X EAN: 9781853261220 x Description: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation.
Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad, have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twas The Night Before Christmas and Other Christmas Stories Rosemary Gray (Edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 220g ISBN13: 9781840226515 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-651-5 ISBN10: 184022651X EAN: 9781840226515 x Description: Editedby Rosemary Gray
Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season. The title poem, familiar to children and adults the world over, introduces a collection of stories and verse with a Christmas theme, guaranteed to engage and amuse readers young and old.
Likely to provoke laughter and sometimes to bring a sentimental tear to the driest eye, this festive treasure trove is ideal for reading aloud or curling up with in a comfy corner. Scrooge himself would have found it difficult to resist distributing copies on Christmas morning! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob Grimm (Author) Wilhelm Grimm (Author) Lucy Crane (Selected by) Lucy Crane (Translated by) Walter Crane (Illustrated by) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781853261015 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-101-5 ISBN10: 1853261017 EAN: 9781853261015 x Description: The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds.
This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy Johnny Gruelle (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h1980mm x w1290mm x s150mm 262g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227253 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-725-3 ISBN10: 1840227257 EAN: 9781840227253 x Description: `Hello, I'm Raggedy Ann. Welcome to my world. I'm going to tell you about myself and this book. Some grown-ups think I'm just another rag doll with floppy arms and legs who has been nibbled by the mice but they are wrong. When the other toys and I are left alone we get up to all sorts of games and adventures. Once I nearly got boiled to bits in the washing machine. Then I had fun with the kittens and the puppy. But best of all, one day Marcella's daddy brought home a package with another rag doll in it. They called him Raggedy Andy. What jolly times we have! What funny games we play! He is now my "best friend". I'm sure you will enjoy reading this book full of stories about us.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
King Solomon's Mines & Allan Quatermain H. Rider Haggard (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
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Pub Date:
05 Feb 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 307g ISBN13: 9781840226287 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-628-7 ISBN10: 1840226285 EAN: 9781840226287 x Description: In King Solomon's Mines, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry's brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while searching for the legendary treasure trove of a lost kingdom. Quatermain agrees to lead the expedition, though he has little hope they will return alive. After suffering unimaginable hardships, they find the treasure hidden deep within a mountain, but while they are admiring the hoard the vast stone door closes. Their store of food and water rapidly runs out and the trapped men prepare to die, but in the nick of time they find a way of escape. On their return trek to civilisation they succeed in the purpose of their expedition when they miraculously come upon George Curtis, alive and well. They return to England with enough of the treasure to live in style, but Allan Quatermain lures them back for more African adventures.
In Allan Quatermain, the trio undertake the search for the kingdom of a warlike 'white' race, another expedition fraught with danger. A hazardous canoe journey along an underground river leads them to Zu-Vendi, a land ruled by two beautiful queens. Both queens fall in love with Sir Henry and this explosive situation leads to civil war, several battles, many funerals and a wedding. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tom Brown's Schooldays & Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Apr 1993
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 752pp h198mm x w129mm x s37mm 461g ISBN13: 9781853261084 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-108-4 ISBN10: 1853261084 EAN: 9781853261084 x Description: Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) and Alec Waugh (in The Loom of Youth).
The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a confident young man. This classic tale of a boy's schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication in 1857.
In its less well-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford, we follow our hero to St Ambrose's College, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Irish Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs (Author) John D. Batten (Illustrated by) Jennifer Chandler (The Folklore Society) (Selected by) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 May 2001
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9781840224344 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-434-4 ISBN10: 1840224347 EAN: 9781840224344 x Description: Illustrated by John D. Batten. Stories selected by Jennifer Chandler, The Folklore Society.
The captivating Irish stories collected in this new edition include both comic tales such as Paddy O'Kelly and the Weasel, and tales of heroes from ancient literature such as How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery.
By turns funny, fantastical and mysterious, the stories are matched in liveliness by the original illustrations of John D. Batten. It would be hard to find a better introduction for children to the special magic of Celtic storytelling.
The stories in this book are taken from Joseph Jacob's classic two-volume collection Celtic Fairy Tales (1891-2) and More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Water Babies Charles Kingsley, Jr. (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Dec 1994
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853261480 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-148-0 ISBN10: 1853261483 EAN: 9781853261480 x Description: Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls asleep, and becomes a Water Baby.
In his new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden's Isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonebyeasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby. After a long and arduous quest to the Otherend-of-Nowhere young Tom achieves his heart's desire. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Sep 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 250g ISBN13: 9781853261190 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-119-0 ISBN10: 185326119X EAN: 9781853261190 x Description: The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.
The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 96g ISBN13: 9781853261022 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-102-2 ISBN10: 1853261025 EAN: 9781853261022 x Description: These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are.
Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos.
Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales from Shakespeare Charles Lamb (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Aug 1994
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 182g ISBN13: 9781853261404 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-140-4 ISBN10: 1853261408 EAN: 9781853261404 x Description: Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb was written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style, and their literary quality has made them popular and sought-after ever since their first publication in 1807.
This edition contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of Arthur Rackham. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales from the Arabian Nights Andrew Lang (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jul 1993
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 221g ISBN13: 9781853261145 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-114-5 ISBN10: 1853261149 EAN: 9781853261145 x Description: The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night.
This is the background to the Arabian Nights. In this selection made by that master of folklore and fairy-tale Andrew Lang, the reader meets Aladdin with his wonderful lamp, the Enchanted Horse, the Princess Badoura, Sinbad the Sailor, and the great Caliph of Bagdad, Haroun-al-Raschid.
The stories are beautifully illustrated by H.J. Ford. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Troy and Greece Andrew Lang (Edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 163g ISBN13: 9781853261725 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-172-5 ISBN10: 1853261726 EAN: 9781853261725 x Description: Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told.
Also included in this book are the adventures of Theseus and his dramatic battle with the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, and the quest of Jason for the Golden Fleece with the help of the Princess Medea. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales from King Arthur Andrew Lang (Edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 96g ISBN13: 9781853261152 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-115-2 ISBN10: 1853261157 EAN: 9781853261152 x Description: In this selection of tales by the master folklorist Andrew Lang, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round Table and their courageous and chivalrous deeds, fair maidens, castles steeped in history, the quest for the Holy Grail, and the tragic love of King Arthur and Sir Lancelot for Guinevere, and Tristan for Iseult.
The Arthurian legends are the most potent of the thrilling and mist-enshrouded tales of adventure to be passed down from pre-recorded history, and they have as much appeal today as they did in the age of the troubadours. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Complete Nonsense Edward Lear (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Oct 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781853261442 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-144-2 ISBN10: 1853261440 EAN: 9781853261442 x Description: The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years.
This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Nonsense Stories, Nonsense Alphabets and Nonsense Cookery. It has a biographical Preface by Lear himself, and concludes with some delightful 'heraldic' sketches of his cat, Foss. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Princess and the Goblin & The Princess and Curdie George MacDonald (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
UK ed.
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
05 Mar 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 220g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227185 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-718-5 ISBN10: 1840227184 EAN: 9781840227185 x Description: When Princess Irene and her nursemaid stay out too late one night and are chased home by goblins, a young miner boy called Curdie comes to their rescue. So begins a fantastic adventure in which Irene and Curdie must try to stop a goblin invasion, helped by Irene's mysterious great-great-grandmother. This much-loved tale was a personal favourite of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. This edition includes the sequel, The Princess and Curdie. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Children of the New Forest Captain Frederick Marryat (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 192g ISBN13: 9781853261107 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-110-7 ISBN10: 1853261106 EAN: 9781853261107 x Description: Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation and eventual forgiveness. This is the first enduring historical novel for children, which conjures up as much magic today as it did on first publication. The freedom from adult constraint allied with the necessary disciplines to survive in a hostile world make for a gripping read. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea Lucy Montgomery (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 327g ISBN13: 9781853261398 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-139-8 ISBN10: 1853261394 EAN: 9781853261398
x Description: When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps off the train. Anne, red-headed, pugnacious and incurably romantic, causes chaos at Green Gables and in the village, but her wit and good nature delight the fictional community of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and ensure that Anne of Green Gables continues to be a firm favourite with readers worldwide.
Anne of Avonlea continues Anne's story. Now half-past sixteen but as strong-headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher at her old school and dreams of its improvement. But her responsible position and mature ambitions do not prevent her entanglement in the scrapes that still seem to beset her in spite of her best intentions.
Thoroughly charming and amusing, with a supporting cast of colourful and endearing characters, both books will enchant and entertain readers, guaranteeing that Anne's adventures capture their affections as well as their imaginations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
05 Feb 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9781853261299 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-129-9 ISBN10: 1853261297 EAN: 9781853261299 x Description: When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin to happen. Amongst a horde of jewels they discover a ring that grants wishes.
But wishes granted are not always wishes wanted, so the children find themselves grappling with invisibility, dinosaurs, a ghost and the fearsome UgliWuglies before it is all resolved.
This edition of The Enchanted Castle has forty-seven evocative illustrations by H.R. Millar. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Five Children and It Edith Nesbit (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
01 Dec 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853261244 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-124-4 ISBN10: 1853261246 EAN: 9781853261244 x Description: Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes... it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur... and it had hands and feet like a monkey's.
`It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When the five children befriend him they find that each
wish granted often has a sting in its tail. Golden guineas are too difficult to spend, wings let them down in a most inconvenient way, and when they wish for Red Indians, the children forget that they can sometimes be a little warlike.
Generations of children have come to love the fantasy and the whimsy of the stories in the classic book from the author of The Railway Children. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Phoenix and the Carpet E. Nesbit (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Mar 1995
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 145g ISBN13: 9781853261558 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-155-8 ISBN10: 1853261556 EAN: 9781853261558 x Description: The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit's second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It.
From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril's new nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched in the fire to reveal a benevolent, resourceful and ingenious Phoenix who explains that the carpet is possessed of magic qualities.
And so begins a series of fantastic and bizarre adventures as the carpet transports the children and the Phoenix to places as diverse as a chilling French castle, a desert island and even the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company's offices, which the Phoenix believes to be a shrine for his followers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Railway Children E. Nesbit (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 1993
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 134g ISBN13: 9781853261077 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-107-7 ISBN10: 1853261076 EAN: 9781853261077 x Description: When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet.
However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn railway lore and much else.
They have many adventures, and when they save a train from disaster, they are helped by the Old Gentleman to solve the mystery of their father's disappearance, and the family is happily reunited. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pollyanna & Pollyanna Grows Up Eleanor H. Porter (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
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Pub Date:
08 Mar 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 240g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226751 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-675-1 ISBN10: 1840226757 EAN: 9781840226751 x Description: When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sourtempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues.
However, Pollyanna's sunny nature and good humour prove to have an astonishing effect on all around her, and this wonderful tale of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has remained one of the world's most popular children's books since its first publication in 1913. In Pollyanna Grows Up, the only sequel written by Porter herself, Pollyanna finds that that, despite being cured of her health problems, adulthood brings fresh challenges to be overcome. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beatrix Potter Collection Volume One Beatrix Potter (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
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Pub Date:
14 Mar 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 274g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227239 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-723-9 ISBN10: 1840227230 EAN: 9781840227239 x Description: All your favourite Beatrix Potter stories in two volumes:
The books in Volume One:
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies The Tale of Ginger & Pickles The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
The Tale of Mr Tod The Tale of Pigling Bland The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes The Tale of Little Pig Robinson _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beatrix Potter Collection Volume Two Beatrix Potter (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
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Pub Date:
14 Mar 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 284g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227246 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-724-6 ISBN10: 1840227249 EAN: 9781840227246 x Description: All your favourite Beatrix Potter stories in two volumes:
The books in Volume Two:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tailor of Gloucester The Tale of Benjamin Bunny The Tale of Two Bad Mice The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit The Story of Miss Moppet The Tale of Tom Kitten The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
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Mother Goose Arthur Rackham (Illustrated by) Arthur Rackham (Selected by) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Nov 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 87g ISBN13: 9781853261466 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-146-6 ISBN10: 1853261467 EAN: 9781853261466 x Description: Traditional rhymes and stories have been collected under the wing of Mother Goose for centuries and this collection of favourite nursery rhymes has been put together by the famous illustrator Arthur Rackham.
It is a wonderful collection of old favourites from Jack and Jill, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and Who Killed Cock Robin? to comic alphabets and the fearful fate of Anthony Rowley.
It is illustrated with Rackham's beautiful pen and ink drawings, and is one of his finest books. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
05 Jun 1995
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 77g ISBN13: 9781853261589 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-158-9 ISBN10: 1853261580 EAN: 9781853261589 x Description: Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry.
The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition.
First published in 1943, the year before the author's death in action, this translation contains Saint-Exupery's delightful illustrations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Beauty Anna Sewell (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Apr 1993
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 134g ISBN13: 9781853261091 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-109-1 ISBN10: 1853261092 EAN: 9781853261091 x Description: Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies.
Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the hardship and cruelty he suffers subsequently, before finding security and happiness in a new home.
Black Beauty is one of the most popular children's books ever written. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heidi Johanna Spyri (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Dec 1993
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9781853261251 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-125-1 ISBN10: 1853261254 EAN: 9781853261251 x Description: Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It has been filmed and televised several times.
It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi should return to the mountains. Together she and her friend Peter, the goat-herd, achieve wondrous changes in the community in which they live. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
English Fairy Tales Various (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
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Publisher:
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Pub Date:
05 Apr 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 163g ISBN13: 9781853261336 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-133-6 ISBN10: 1853261335 EAN: 9781853261336 x Description: This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kidnapped & Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Aug 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 307g ISBN13: 9781853261176 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-117-6 ISBN10: 1853261173 EAN: 9781853261176 x Description: Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped remains one of the most exciting stories ever written. Young David Balfour, orphaned then betrayed by his Uncle Ebenezer, his so-called guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause. Shipwreck, murder and dramatic escape through the Highlands are just a few of the ingredients of this highly charged tale of intrigue, action and adventure.
Catriona, the lesser-known sequel, immediately continues David's story. Back in Edinburgh, he is caught up in the aftermath of the Appin murder; certain of the accused man's innocence, David's determination to testify on his behalf is impeded by a series of adventures, not least of which is hid passionate but problematic romance with Catriona, granddaughter of Rob Roy MacGregor. Alan Breck features again, becoming involved in the thrilling attempt to reunite the lovers. One of his own favourites, Stevenson said of Catriona that he would `never do a better book'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) H. M. Brock (Illustrated by) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1993
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853261039 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-103-9 ISBN10: 1853261033 EAN: 9781853261039 x Description: `Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written.
When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr Livesey, the sinister Long John Silver and a frightening crew to Treasure Island. There, mutiny, murder and mayhem lead to a thrilling climax. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Happy Prince & Other Stories Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 1993
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 80pp h198mm x w129mm x s4mm 58g ISBN13: 9781853261237 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-123-7 ISBN10: 1853261238 EAN: 9781853261237 x Description: In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps people in distress.
As well as The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocket, this collection contains The Selfish Giant, a remarkable story of the redemptive power of love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Velveteen Rabbit & Other Animal Adventures Margery Williams Bianco (Author) Claire Ruddock (Illustrated by) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
10 Mar 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 80g B Format ISBN13: 9781840225785 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-578-5 ISBN10: 1840225785 EAN: 9781840225785 x Description: This endearing edition proudly includes the original telling of the beloved tale, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. Together, we travel alongside the Velveteen Rabbit on his magical journey towards becoming real and discover how he and other toys are brought to life once they are truly loved by their little owners.
Also in this edition are modern, infant-friendly retellings of: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Little Pigs, The Frog Prince and The Tale of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse.
All stories are beautifully illustrated with exclusive line drawings which truly bring these charming tales to life...just like your favourite toys. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swiss Family Robinson Johann Rudolf Wyss (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Children's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 1993
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853261114 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-111-4 ISBN10: 1853261114 EAN: 9781853261114 x Description: The Swiss Family Robinson is a story of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked on a desert island, who remain united through all the adversities they encounter.
Inspired by Robinson Crusoe, this joyful narrative by a Swiss pastor remains a classic tale to be enjoyed by all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson E. F. Benson (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
08 Jun 2012
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 720pp h198mm x w129mm x s36mm 442g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226850 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-685-0 ISBN10: 1840226854 EAN: 9781840226850 x Description: `His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping step go down the passage outside.'
E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection. The range and variety of these spooky narratives is far broader and more adventurous than those of any other writer of supernatural fiction. Within the covers of this volume you will encounter revengeful spectres, vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous spectral worms and slugs and other entities of nameless dread. This is a classic collection that cannot fail to charm and chill. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gothic Short Stories David Blair (Edited by) David Blair (Selected by) David Blair (Introduction and notes by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
Edition:
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Nov 2000
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781840224252 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-425-2 ISBN10: 1840224258 EAN: 9781840224252 x Description: Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write `Gothic' stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the `Age of Reason'.
This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story. Work by writers such as Poe, Dickens, Hawthorne, Gaskell and M. R. James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America. Some of these stories, like the haunting `The Lame Priest' are `lost masterpieces' and several have never been anthologised before. Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling - tales of madness and violence, of shape-shifters and spectres, that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind - insanity, sexuality, death and the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present.
In a lively, authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights and a detailed commentary on the stories' place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British and American literature.
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The King in Yellow Robert W. Chambers (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
Edition:
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 May 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781840226447 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-644-7 ISBN10: 1840226447 EAN: 9781840226447 x Description: With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.
With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it?
This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories Rex Collings (Selected by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
Edition:
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2008
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 193g ISBN13: 9781840220667 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-066-7 ISBN10: 184022066X EAN: 9781840220667 x Description: This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories Wilkie Collins (Author) David Stuart Davies (Edited by) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
Edition:
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2006
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 212g ISBN13: 9781840225334 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-533-4 ISBN10: 1840225335 EAN: 9781840225334 x Description: Editedand with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
`Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?'
This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo coverted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secret. The supernatural horror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed countess characterise and distinguish this powerful tale.
The other stories present equally disturbing scenarios, which include ghosts, corpses that move, family curses and perhaps the most unusual of all, the Devil's spectacles, which bring a clarity of vision that can lead to madness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins (Author) Scott Brewster (Introduction and notes by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
Edition:
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Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress.
The intricate plot is peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie to the corpulent villain Count Fosco and the enigmatic woman herself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Drug and Other Stories: Second Edition Aleister Crowley (Author) William Breeze (Introduction by) William Breeze (Edited by) David Tibet (Foreword by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 672pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 384g ISBN13: 9781840227345 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-734-5 ISBN10: 1840227346 EAN: 9781840227345 This Product Replaces: 9781840226386 x Description: This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time.
Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922. Like their author, his stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places in which he had lived, and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the First World War.
The title story The Drug stands as one of the first accounts - if not the first - of a psychedelic experience. His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy that can stand with Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written. This second edition adds several additional stories, including the Qabalistic allegory Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum, featuring the author's previously unpublished annotations.
Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Unease Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Selected by) Series:
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This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein.
We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by The Ring of Thoth to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in The Captain of the Polestar, we encounter a monstrous creature in The Terror of Blue John Cap and the beings that live above our heads in The Brazilian Cat and The Leather Funnel; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in Lot 249.
Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Mystery & the Macabre Elizabeth Gaskell (Author) Series:
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'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'.
Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but she also wrote some fascinating tales of the supernatural and the macabre, which are collected here in this volume. The real charm of this dark anthology is its variety. Unlike so many writers of this kind of material, Gaskell allows the story to fit the style rather than the other way around and as result there is a charming freshness to each tale.
This remarkable author uses different voices, tones and topics to engage her readers and as you turn from one story to the next you cannot be quite sure what to expect. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Casebook of Carnacki The Ghost-Finder W. H. Hodgson (Author) David Stuart Davies (Edited by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 183g ISBN13: 9781840225297 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-529-7 ISBN10: 1840225297 EAN: 9781840225297 x Description: Edited with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'I saw something terrible rising up through the middle of the 'defence'. It rose with a steady movement. I saw it pale and huge through the whirling funnel of cloud - a monstrous pallid snout rising out of that unknowable abyss. It rose higher and higher. Through a thinning of the cloud I saw one small eye... a pig's eye with a sort of vile understanding shining at the back of it'. Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder, an Edwardian psychic detective, investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures. Encountering such spine-chilling phenomena as 'The Whistling Room', the life-threatening dangers of the phantom steed in 'The Horse of the Invisible' and the demons from the outside world in 'The Hog', Carnacki is constantly challenged by spiritual forces beyond our knowledge. To complicate matters, he encounters human skullduggery also. Armed with a camera, his Electric Pentacle and various ancient tomes on magic, Carnacki faces the various dangers his supernatural investigations present with great courage. These exciting and frightening stories have long been out of print. Now rewaders can thrill to them again in this new Wordsworth series.
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Ghost Stories of Henry James Henry James (Author) Martin Schofield (Introduction and notes by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition includes all ten of his ghost stories, and as such is the fullest collection currently available.
The stories range widely in tone and type. They include 'The Jolly Corner', a compelling story of psychological doubling; 'Owen Wingrave', which is also a subtle parable of military tradition; 'The Friends of the Friends', a strange story of uncanny love; and 'The Private Life', which finds a shrewd, high comedy in its ghostly theme.
The volume also includes James's great novella The Turn of the Screw, perhaps the most ambiguous and disturbing ghost story ever written. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collected Ghost Stories M. R. James (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 230g ISBN13: 9781840225518 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-551-8 ISBN10: 1840225513 EAN: 9781840225518 x Description: M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror.
As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, `Stories I Have Tried To Write', which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are `Casting the Runes', `Oh, Whistle and I'll come to you, My Lad', `The Tractate Middoth', `The Ash Tree' and `Canon Alberic's Scrapbook'.
`There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M.R. James is one of these'. Ruth Rendell _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Arsene Lupin Omnibus Maurice Leblanc (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 752pp h198mm x w129mm x s37mm 461g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226874 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-687-4 ISBN10: 1840226870 EAN: 9781840226874 x Description: Enter Arsene Lupin, Gentleman - Cambrioleur, the `Prince of Thieves', one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond necklace from under the noses of the authorities. Young and handsome, laughing his way through difficulties and danger, Lupin is also the master of disguise and languages. His sense of humour and conceit make life difficult for the police who attribute most of the major crimes in France to Lupin and his gang of ruffians and urchins.
Maurice Leblanc's stories are lively and witty, occasionally taking on the air of burlesque, especially when Lupin pits his wits against the English detective named variously `Holmlock Shears' and `Herlock Sholmes' These are significant tales in the history of crime fiction but, more importantly, they are great fun. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In A Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most celebrated volumes, purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius, a pioneer psychologist.
These five tales represent some of Le Fanu's most accomplished work, which rises above the staid conventions of the age. Although drawing on Gothic conventions - the book features both ghosts and vampires - Le Fanu redefined the parameters of supernatural fiction. He had little interest in the crude depiction of other worldly phenomena in order to provide the reader with a pleasurable frisson of fear. Le Fanu concern rather lay in the examination of the results of supernatural experience on the psyche of his protagonist, in this he paved the way for the work of Henry James and M. R. James.
This volume is an indispensable cornerstone of modern horror and remains one of the finest collections of unsettling fiction in the language.
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Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories Sheridan Le Fanu (Author) M. R. James (Edited by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader. The great M.R. James, who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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`... the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death's-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan...'
Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured creature has made his home in the labyrinthine cellars of this opulent building where he can indulge in his great passion for music, which is a substitute for the love and emotion denied him because of his ghastly appearance.
It is in the Opera House that he encounters Christine Daae whom he trains in secret to become a great singer. Erik's passionate obsession with a beautiful woman beyond his reach is doomed and leads to the dramatic tragic finale.
Gaston Leroux's novel is a marvellous blend of detective story, romance and spine-tingling terror which has fascinated readers ever since the work was first published.
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The Monk Matthew Lewis (Author) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Kathryn White (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 211g ISBN13: 9781840221855 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-185-5 ISBN10: 1840221852 EAN: 9781840221855 x Description: With an Introduction by Kathryn White.
Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, the holier-than-thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter corruption of the soul. Meanwhile, two sets of young lovers are thwarted and the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits and is chilled by the spectre of nuns imprisoned in vermin-ridden and skeleton-crowded vaults.
Late Eighteenth Century audiences were polarised in opinion as to the novel's merits. Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade were impressed by Lewis's daring, while Coleridge warned parents against The Monk's suitability for their sons or daughters, describing the novel as 'poison for youth. If you want a novel that still terrifies, over two hundred years after it was written, there is none finer than The Monk. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume Three H. P. Lovecraft (Author) M. J. Elliott (Selected by) M. J. Elliott (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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`They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.' From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century. Here are some of Lovecraft's weirdest flesh-creeping masterpieces, including Pickman's Model, The Shunned House, his famous serial Herbert West - Reanimator, and several classic tales from the Cthulhu Mythos, in which mankind is subjected to the unimaginable terrors known only to those who have read from the forbidden Necronomicon. Also included in this compelling collection are the complete Randolph Carter stories, chronicling his adventures in this world and the realm of his dreams, where he faces perils beyond comprehension. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Horror in the Museum: Collected Short Stories Volume Two H. P. Lovecraft (Author) M. J. Elliott (Selected by) M. J. Elliott (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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`My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exhaustion...' A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane... A businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method of capital punishment... A doctor plans a horrible revenge, using as his murder weapon an insect believed capable of consuming the human soul... Within these pages, some of H P Lovecraft's more obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found, including several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos. No true Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lurking Fear: Collected Short Stories Volume Four Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Author) M. J. Elliot (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 176g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227000 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-700-0 ISBN10: 1840227001 EAN: 9781840227000 x Description: `The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity.' Only the expansive imagination of H.P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within the pages of this unique collection. In addition to such classics as The Picture in the House, The Music of Erich Zann and The Rats in the Walls, this volume contains some fascinating rarities: examples of Lovecraft's earliest weird fiction and material unpublished during his lifetime.
H.P. Lovecraft's creation of the Cthulhu Mythos has influenced many modern authors, and still remains at the forefront of supernatural literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume One H. P. Lovecraft (Author) M. J. Elliot (Selected by) M. J. Elliot (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 240g ISBN13: 9781840226089 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-608-9 ISBN10: 1840226080 EAN: 9781840226089 x Description: Selected and Introduced by M.J. Elliott.
That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last.
The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along with the classics 'The Call of Cthulhu', 'The Dunwich Horror' and 'At the Mountains of Madness'. Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred's fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all, save H.P. Lovecraft. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer Terry Lynch (Author) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 241g ISBN13: 9781840220773 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-077-3 ISBN10: 1840220775 EAN: 9781840220773 x Description: Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him, and to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. But he did leave clues to his identity, and numerous theories have been entertained throughout the one hundred and twenty years since he held London's East End in his grip of terror.
This book looks at the evidence left by the murderer and the reports and investigative papers which recorded the atrocities that the Ripper performed. It takes time to analyse the existing information and evaluate the letters sent to the police. It is the strongest and most powerful book ever written on the murders. It dispels a lot of myths attached to the Ripper, and eliminates a lot of the previously conjectured perpetrators, leaving only those who realistically could have been...Jack the Ripper. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe (Author) John S. Whitley (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart', all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included.
These are the first modern detective stories and include 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Italian Ann Radcliffe (Author) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Kathryn White (Introduction by) Series:
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`He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes ... turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho, is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages, with an undercurrent of seething sexuality and presents us with a cunning villain in the sinister monk Schedoni. A contemporary review commented on, `Radcliffe's uncommon talent for exhibiting, with picturesque touches of genius, the vague and horrid shapes which imagination bodies forth...'
Radcliffe's work was hugely influential and H.P. Lovecraft, early twentieth century master of the uncanny, was impressed by the, `eerie touch of setting and action contributing artistically to the impression of illimitable frightfulness which she wished to convey.' The novel remains a fascinating, engrossing and unnerving masterpiece of gothic fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls James Malcolm Rymer (Author) Dick Collins (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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The exploits of Sweeney Todd, `The Demon Barber of Fleet Street', have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the character largely were forgotten for many years. The String of Pearls - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror - was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the Penny Dreadfuls. One of the earliest detective stories, it became an important source for Bram Stoker's Dracula, but it was after over 150 years of obscurity that it appeared first in book form in the Wordsworth edition published in 2005.
The one great mystery that has surrounded the book is who the author was - or was it possibly the work of more than one man? In his new introduction to this fully revised second edition, Dick Collins, by means of detailed research of contemporary records, has established finally the identity of the creator of this legendary figure.
So here is the original story of the terrifying owner of that famous London barber-shop, and the secret recipe for Mrs Lovett's delicious pies... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dracula & Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker (Author) Dr. David Rogers (Introduction and notes by) David Stuart Davies (Edited by) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.'
Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative, describes the demonic subject of his chilling masterpiece Dracula, a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism.
Dracula's Guest & Other Stories: Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.
The above is followed with a rich collection of Stoker's macabre tales including Dracula's Guest (which was omitted from the final version of Dracula); a devilishly dangerous haunted room in The Judge's House; a fatalistic tragedy in The Burial of the Rats; a terror of revenge from beyond the grave in The Secret of Growing Gold, and a surprising twist in the tail in The Gypsy's Prophecy. Other strange and frightening episodes provide a feast of terror for those readers who like to be unnerved as well as entertained. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lair of the White Worm & The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
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`The worst parts were the great masses of flesh of the monstrous Worm, in all its red and sickening aspect... The sight was horrible enough, but, with the awful smell added, was simply unbearable. The Worm's hole appeared to breathe forth death in its most repulsive forms.'
Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, together in one volume for the first time. It is a double treat for lovers of blood-curdling fantasy fiction.
The Lady of the Shroud, published here in its full and unabridged form, is a fascinating and engrossing concoction of a vampire tale, Ruritanian adventure story and science fiction romance. The novel fully demonstrates the breadth and ingenuity of Stoker's imagination.
The spine-chilling The Lair of the White Worm features a monstrous worm secreted for thousands of years in a bottomless well and able to metamorphose into a seductive woman of a reptilian beauty who survives on her victim's life blood. The novel contains some of Stoker's most graphic and grisly moments of horror. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (Author) David Stuart Davies (Selected by) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
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Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. While claiming not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess that she was frightened of them. Wharton imbues this potent irrational and imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect.
In this unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story genre. Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a woman's reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters from his dead wife; and the frightening power of a doppelganger which foreshadows a terrible tragedy.
Compelling, rich and strange, the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, like vintage wine, have matured and grown more potent with the passing years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Holy Qur'an Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Translated by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 355g ISBN13: 9781853267826 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-782-6 ISBN10: 1853267821 EAN: 9781853267826 x Description: Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so it was committed to memory by his companions, though written copies were also made by literate believers during the lifetime of the Prophet.
The first full compilation was by Abu Bakar, the first Caliph, and it was then recompiled in the original dialect by the third Caliph Uthman, after the best reciters had fallen in battle. Muslims believe that the truths of The Holy Qur'an are fully and authentically revealed only in the original classical Arabic. However, as the influence of Islam grows and spreads to the modern world, it is recognised that translation is an important element in introducing and explaining Islam to a wider audience.
This translation, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, is considered to be the most faithful rendering available in English. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle (Author) Stephen Watt (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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Description: Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of those who know'.
The Ethics contains his views on what makes a good human life. While the work continues to stimulate and challenge modern philosophers, the general course of the argument is easily accessible to the non-specialist. Both as a key influence in the history of ideas and as a work containing unique insights into the human condition, this is a book that simply demands to be read. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio (Author) John Payne (Translated by) Cormac O Cuilleanain (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce.
Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago. His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past - the Crusades, the Angevins, the courts of France, the legendary East - and the colourful squalor of contemporary life, where wives deceive husbands, friars and monks pursue fleshly ends, and natural instincts fight for satisfaction.
Here are love and jealousy, passion and pride - and a shrewd calculation of profit and loss which heralds the rise of a dynamic merchant class. These stories show us early capitalism during a moment of crisis and revelation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan (Author) Professor Stuart Sim (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero Christian - from the City of Destruction via the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty, the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Vanity Fair over the River of the Water of Life and into the Celestial City.
The Pilgrim's Progress has been translated into 108 languages, was a favourite of Dr Johnson and was praised by Coleridge as one of the few books which might be read repeatedly and each time with a new and different pleasure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On War Carl von Clausewitz (Author) Louise Wilmot (Introduction by) Colonel F. N. Maude (Revised by) Louise Willmot (Abridged by) Colonel J. J. Graham (Translated by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies which swept across Europe between 1792 and 1815. His response was to write a comprehensive text covering every aspect of warfare.
On War is both a philosophical and practical work in which Clausewitz defines the essential nature of war, debates the qualities of the great commander, assesses the relative strengths of defensive and offensive warfare, and - in highly controversial passages - considers the relationship between war and politics. His arguments are illustrated with vivid examples drawn from the campaigns of Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte.
For the student of society as well as the military historian, On War remains a compelling and indispensable source. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Inferno Dante (Author) Series:
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine'
was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and allencompassing work.
The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. In the Inferno, Dante's protagonist - and his reader - is presented with a graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin, and encounters an all-too-human array of noble, grotesque, beguiling, ridiculous and horrific characters. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Divine Comedy Dante (Author) Series:
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and allencompassing work.
The Comedy tells of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman through the three realms of the Christian afterlife: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. He presents a vision of the afterlife which is strikingly original in its conception, with a complex architecture and a coherent structure. On this journey Dante's protagonist - and his reader - meet characters who are variously noble, grotesque, beguiling, fearful, ridiculous, admirable, horrific and tender, and through them he is shown the consequences of sin, repentance and virtue, as he learns to avoid Hell and, through cleansing in Purgatory, to taste the joys of Heaven. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Origin of Species Charles Darwin (Author) Jeff Wallace (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'.
Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task.
Yet The Origin of Species (1859) is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological interrelatedness, revealing the complex mutual interdependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment, and - by implication - within the human world.
Written for the general reader, in a style which combines the rigour of science with the subtlety of literature, The Origin of Species remains one of the founding documents of the modern age. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Descent of Man Charles Darwin (Author) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Janet Browne (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 450g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226980 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-698-0 ISBN10: 1840226986 EAN: 9781840226980 x Description: In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called the 'races' of mankind by means of what he calls sexual selection. This book presents a full explanation of Darwin's ideas about sexual selection, including his belief that many important characteristics of human beings and animals have emerged in response to competition for mates. This was a controversial work. Yet Darwin tried hard to avoid being branded as a radical revolutionary. He is steeped in Victorian sensibilities regarding gender and cultural differences: he sees human civilization as a move from barbarous savagery to modern gentlefolk, and women as more emotional and less intellectual than men, thus providing a biological basis for the social assumptions and prejudices of the day. The Descent of Man played a major role in the emergence of social Darwinism. This complete version of the first edition gives the modern reader an unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with Darwin's proposals, launched in the midst of continuing controversy over On the Origin of Species. Janet Browne is the author of the prize-winning biography, Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin (Author) David Amigoni (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind experiences'.
Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to South Sea Islands, Darwin's descriptive powers are
constantly challenged, but never once overcome. In addition, The Voyage of the Beagle displays Darwin's powerful, speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville (Author) Patrick Renshaw (Abridged by) Patrick Renshaw (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.
De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures. His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people, but he also predicts that slavery will bring about the 'most horrible of civil wars', foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Key Philosophical Writings Descartes (Author) Series:
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 269g ISBN13: 9781853264702 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-470-2 ISBN10: 1853264709 EAN: 9781853264702 x Description: Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo.
Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the `father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Breaking with the conventions of his own time and suffering persecution by the Church as a consequence, Descartes in his writings - most of which are philosophical classics - attempted to answer the central questions surrounding the self, God, free-will and knowledge, using the science of thought as opposed to received wisdom based on the tenets of faith.
This edition, the most comprehensive one-volume selection of Descartes' works available in English, includes his great essay, Discourse on Method. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud (Author) A. A. Brill (Translated by) Stephen Wilson (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900.
Freud is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis, the key to unlocking the human mind, a task which has become essential to man's survival in the twentieth century, as science and technology have rushed ahead of our ability to cope with their consequences.
Freud saw that man is at war with himself and often unable to tolerate too much reality. He propounded the theory that dreams are the contraband representations of the beast within man, smuggled into awareness during sleep. In Freudian interpretation, the analysis of dreams is the key to unlocking the secrets of the unconscious mind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (Author) Stephen Wilson (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 259g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226867 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-686-7 ISBN10: 1840226862 EAN: 9781840226867 x Description: Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The `Freudian slip', the `Oedipus complex', `childhood sexuality', `libido', `narcissism' `penis envy', the `castration complex', the `id', the `ego' and the `superego', `denial', `repression', `identification', `projection', `acting out', the `pleasure principle', the `reality principle', `defence-mechanism' - are all taken for granted in our everyday vocabulary.
Psychoanalysis was never just a method of treatment, rather a vision of the human condition which has continued to fascinate and provoke long after the death of its originator. Its central hypothesis, that we live in conflict with ourselves and seek to resolve matters by turning away from reality, did not emerge from experimental science but from self-examination and the unique opportunities for observation presented by the psychoanalytic technique - in particular, from the confessions produced by `free-association' in Freud's consulting room. Written during the turmoil of the First World War, A General Introduction to
Psychoanalysis was distilled from a series of lectures given at Vienna University, but had to wait for the war to end before being made available to the English speaking world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon (Author) Antony Lentin (Abridged by) Antony Lentin (Introduction by) Brian Norman (Abridged by) Brian Norman (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1088pp h198mm x w129mm x s55mm 663g ISBN13: 9781853264993 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-499-3 ISBN10: 1853264997 EAN: 9781853264993 x Description: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twentyeight appear in full in this edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 an enthralling account by 'the greatest of the historians of the Enlightenment'.
This edition includes Gibbon's footnotes and quotations, here translated for the first time, together with brief explanatory comments, a precis of the chapters not included, 16 maps, a glossary, and a list of emperors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran (Author) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 80pp h198mm x w129mm x s4mm 58g ISBN13: 9781853264856 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-485-6 ISBN10: 1853264857 EAN: 9781853264856 x Description: The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon.
His language has a breath-taking beauty. Before returning to his birthplace, Almustafa, the 'prophet', is asked for guidance by the people of Orphalese. His words, redolent with love and understanding, call for universal unity, and affirm Gibran's certainty of the correlated nature of all existence, and of reincarnation. The Prophet has never lost its immediate appeal and has become a ubiquitous touchstone of spiritual literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Faust: A Tragedy In Two Parts with The Urfaust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author) John R. Williams (Translated by) John R. Williams (Introduction and notes by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual and his struggle against the nihilism of his diabolical companion Mephistopheles.
Part One presents Faust's pact with the Devil and the harrowing tragedy of his love affair with the young Gretchen. Part Two shows Faust's experience in the world of public affairs, including his encounter with Helen of Troy, the emblem of classical beauty and culture. The whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition and on modern European history and civilisation.
This new translation of both parts of Faust preserves the poetic character of the original, its tragic pathos and hilarious comedy. In addition, John Williams has translated the Urfaust, a fascinating glimpse into the young Goethe's imagination, and a selection from the draft scenarios for the Walpurgis Night witches' sabbath - material so ribald and blasphemous that Goethe did not dare publish it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Histories Herodotus (Author) George Rawlinson (Translated by) George Rawlinson (Notes by) Tom Griffith (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Translated From: Greek, Modern (1453-) Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 768pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 471g ISBN13: 9781853264665 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-466-5 ISBN10: 1853264660 EAN: 9781853264665 x Description: Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining.
Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair? Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of Aphrodite until a man
threw a coin into her lap, and how long was she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile?
This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating insights into the Ancient World. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes (Author) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 592pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 402g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227338 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-733-8 ISBN10: 1840227338 EAN: 9781840227338 x Description: With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare of the mid-seventeenth century, it proposes a political theory that combines an unequivocal commitment to natural human liberty with the conviction that the sovereign power of government must be exercised absolutely. Leviathan begins from some shockingly naturalistic starting-points: an analysis of human nature as being motivated by vain-glory and pride, and a vision of religion as simply the fear of invisible powers made up by the mind. Yet from these deliberately unpromising elements, Hobbes constructs with unparalleled forcefulness an elaborate, systematic, and comprehensive account of how political society ought to be: ordered, law-bound, peaceful. In Leviathan, Hobbes presents us with a portrait of politics which depicts how a state that is made up of the unified body of all its citizens will be powerful, fruitful, protective of each of its members, and - above all - free from internal violence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Iliad and the Odyssey Homer (Author) George Chapman (Translated by) Jan Parker (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity that Homer's heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia.
Chapman's Iliad and Odyssey are great English epic poems, but they are also two of the liveliest and readable translations of Homer. Chapman's freshness makes the everyday world of nature and the craftsman as vivid as the battlefield and Mount Olympus. His poetry is driven by the excitement of the Renaissance discovery of classical civilisation as at once vital and distant, and is enriched by the perspectives of humanist thought. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Essential Philosophical Works David Hume (Author) Charlotte R. Brown (Introduction by) William Edward Morris (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties, consists of three books on the understanding, the passions, and morals. It applies the experimental method of reasoning to human nature in a revolution that was intended to make Hume the Newton of the moral sciences. Disappointed with the Treatise's failure to bring about such a revolution, Hume later recast Book I as An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1751), and Book III as An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, which he regarded as `incomparably the best' of all his works. Both Enquiries went through several editions in his lifetime.
Hume's works, controversial in his day, remain deeply and widely influential in ours, especially for his contributions to our understanding of the nature of morality, political and economic theory, philosophy of religion, and philosophical naturalism.
This volume also includes Hume's anonymous Abstract of Books I and II of the Treatise, and the short autobiographical essay, `My Own Life', which he wrote just before his death. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: with The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes (Author) Mark G. Spencer (Introduction and notes by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was first published in 1936. But its ideas had been forming for decades as a student at Cambridge, Keynes had written to a friend of his love for 'Free Trade and free thought'. Keynes's limpid style, concise prose, and
vivid descriptions have helped to keep his ideas alive - as have the novelty and clarity, at times even the ambiguity, of his macroeconomic vision. He was troubled, above all, by high unemployment rates and large disparities in wealth and income. Only by curbing both, he thought, could individualism, `the most powerful instrument to better the future', be safeguarded. The twenty-first century may yet prove him right.
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Keynes elegantly and acutely exposes the folly of imposing austerity on a defeated and struggling nation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu (Author) Arthur Waley (Translated by) Arthur Waley (Notes by) Robert Wilkinson (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Translated From: Chinese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 77g ISBN13: 9781853264719 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-471-9 ISBN10: 1853264717 EAN: 9781853264719 x Description: Translated with Notes by Arthur Waley. With an Introduction by Robert Wilkinson.
Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical insight into the nature of things forms the basis for a humane morality and vision of political utopia.
The ideas in this work constitute one of the main shaping forces behind Chinese spirituality, art and science, so much so that no understanding of Chinese civilisation is possible without a grasp of Taoism. This edition presents the authoritative translation by Arthur Waley, with a new Introduction reflecting recent developments in the interpretation of the work. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence (Author) Angus Calder (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the
First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting 'hospital' in Damascus.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of Yeats, Eliot and Joyce. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Goverment John Locke (Author) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Mark G. Spencer (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth century, and Locke's works are often rightly presented as foundations of the Age of Enlightenment. Both the Essay and the Second Treatise (by far the more influential of the Two Treatises) were widely read by Locke's contemporaries and near contemporaries. His eighteenth-century readers included philosophers, historians and political theorists, but also community and political leaders, engaged laypersons, and others eager to participate in the expanding print culture of the era. His epistemological message that the mind at birth was a blank slate, waiting to be filled, complemented his political message that human beings were free and equal and had the right to create and direct the governments under which they lived. Today, Locke continues to be an accessible author. He provides food for thought to university professors and their students, but has no less to offer the general reader who is eager to enjoy the classics of world literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli (Author) C. E. Detmold (Translated by) Lucille Margaret Kekewich (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 116g ISBN13: 9781853267758 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-775-8 ISBN10: 1853267759 EAN: 9781853267758 x Description: Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich. Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted in the Press and in academic publications, The Prince has direct relevance to the issues of business and corporate governance confronting global corporations as they enter a new millennium.
Much of what Machiavelli wrote has become the common currency of realpolitik, yet still his ideas retain the power to shock and annoy. In the words of Norman Stone, The Prince is 'a manual of man-management that would suit a great many parts of the modern world'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Le Morte Darthur Sir Thomas Malory (Author) Helen Moore (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories in world literature. Its themes - love, war, religion, treachery and family loyalty - are timeless, as are the reputations of its major characters, Arthur, Merlin, Guenever and Launcelot.
Malory's Le Morte Darthur is a story of noble knights, colourful tournaments and fateful love, set in a courtly society which is outwardly secure and successful, but in reality torn by dissent and, ultimately, treachery. Originally published in 1485, Malory's Le Morte Darthur is here presented in modern spelling and is accompanied by an Introduction and helpful Glossary. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Capital: Volumes One and Two Karl Marx (Author) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Mark G. Spencer (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom 16 Paperback / softbacks B-format paperback 1168pp h198mm x w129mm x s55mm 726g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226997 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-699-7 ISBN10: 1840226994 EAN: 9781840226997 x Description: Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation. Of central importance then and later was his book Das Kapital, or, as it is known to English readers, simply Capital. Volume One of Capital was published in Paris in 1867. This was the only volume published during Marx's lifetime and the only to have come directly from his pen. Volume Two, published in 1884, was based on notes Marx left, but written by his friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). Readers from the nineteenth century to the present have been captivated by the unmistakable power and urgency of this classic of world literature. Marx's critique of the capitalist system is rife with big themes: his theory of 'surplus value', his discussion of the exploitation of the working class, and his forecast of class conflict on a grand scale. Marx wrote with purpose. As he famously put it, 'Philosophers have previously tried to explain the world, our task is to change it.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Communist Manifesto: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Karl Marx (Author) Friedrich Engels (Author) Dr. Laurence Marlow (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled if he had witnessed them. But his analysis of the evils and dangers of raw capitalism is as correct now as when it was written, and some of his suggestions (progressive income tax, abolition of child labour, free education for all children) are now accepted with little question. In a world where capitalism is no longer held in check by fear of a communist alternative, The Communist Manifesto (with Socialism Utopian and Scientific, Engels's brief and clear exposition of Marxist thought) is essential reading.
The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 is Engels's first, and probably best-known, book. With Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, it was and is the outstanding study of the working class in Victorian England. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
London Labour and the London Poor Henry Mayhew (Author) Rosemary O'Day (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.
In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist's eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three.
No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. 'To pass from one to the other', writes one authority,' is to cross sides of the same street'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Utopia Saint Thomas More (Author) Mishtooni Bose (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to
Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of Plato, St Augustine and Aristotle, Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn, giving rise to the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. At once a critique of the social consequences of greed and a meditation on the personal cost of entering public service, Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the competing claims of idealism and pragmatism, and continues to invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate concerning the best state of a commonwealth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche (Author) Ray Furness (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 720pp h198mm x w129mm x s36mm 443g B Format ISBN13: 9781840225914 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-591-4 ISBN10: 1840225912 EAN: 9781840225914 x Description: Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewildering series of aphorisms which contain the seeds of his later philosophy (e.g. the will to power, the need to transcend conventional Christian morality). The result is one of the cornerstones of his life's work. It well deserves its subtitle `A Book for Free Spirits', and its original dedication to Voltaire, whose project of radical enlightenment here finds a new champion.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is a scathing and powerful critique of philosophy, religion and science. Here Nietzsche presents us with problems and challenges that are as troubling as they are inspiring, while at the same time outlining the virtues, ideas, and practices which will characterise the philosophy of the future. Relentless, energetic, tirelessly probing, he both determines that philosophy's agenda and is himself the embodiment of the type of thought he wants to foster. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche (Author) Anthony Common (Translated by) Nicholas Davey Nietzsche (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. `God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the UEbermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prosepoetry of indefinable beauty.
Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed, the book also had a profound influence on early twentieth-century writers such as Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and Sartre. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twilight of the Idols with The Antichrist and Ecce Homo Friedrich Nietzsche (Author) Antony M. Ludovici (Translated by) Ray Furness (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the UEbermensch) are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate, forcing the reader to face unpalatable insights and to rethink every commonly accepted 'truth'. Thinking with Nietzsche, in Jaspers' words, means holding one's own against him, and we are indeed refreshed and challenged by the vortex of his thoughts, by concepts which test and probe.
In The Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo Nietzsche writes at breakneck speed of his provenance, his adversaries and his hopes for mankind; the books are largely epigrammatic and aphoristic, allowing this poet-philosopher to bewilder and fascinate us with their strangeness and their daring. He who fights with monsters, Nietzsche once told us, should look to it that he himself does not become one, and when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Reader, beware.
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Rights of Man Thomas Paine (Author) Derek Matravers (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from that great work in every relevant respect. Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes, Paine writes with the vigour of a self-taught mast-maker and exciseman. With passionate and rapier wit, Paine challenges Burke's assertion that society cannot be judged by rational standards and found wanting.
Rights of Man contains a fully-costed budget, advocating measures such as free education, old age pensions, welfare benefits and child allowance over 100 years before these things were introduced in Britain. It remains a compelling manifesto for social change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Republic Plato (Author) John Llewelyn Davies (Translated by) David James Vaughan (Translated by) Stephen Watt (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato's work. Beyond philosophy, he has exerted a major influence on the development of Western literature, politics and theology.
The Republic deals with the great range of Plato's thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument and myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by desires and appetites. Regarded by some as the foundation document of totalitarianism, by others as a call to develop the full potential of humanity, the Republic remains a challenging and intensely exciting work. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Symposium and The Death of Socrates Plato (Author) Jane O'Grady (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Translated by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre. Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death. Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology is Socrates' speech in his own defence, Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment, and Phaedo gives an account of Socrates' last day.
These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. Tom Griffith's Symposium has been described as 'possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue'. All the other translations are new. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Social Contract Jean-Jaques Rousseau (Author) Derek Matravers (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will.
Some have seen in this the promise of a free and equal relationship between society and the individual, while others have seen it as nothing less than a blueprint for totalitarianism. The Social Contract is not only one of the great defences of civil society, it is also unflinching in its study of the darker side of political systems. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (Author) Mark G. Spencer (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Mark G. Spencer (Abridged by) Series:
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It is the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. But it is much more than that. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, Smith mixed plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and much else. Few texts remind us so clearly that the Enlightenment was very much a lived experience, a concern with improving the human condition in practical ways for real people. A masterpiece by any measure, Wealth of Nations remains a classic of world literature to be usefully enjoyed by readers today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ethics Benedict de Spinoza (Author) Don Garrett (Introduction by) A. K. Stirling (Translated by) W. H. White (Translated by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first banned by the Christian authorities as atheistic, then hailed by humanists as the gospel of Pantheism.
His Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order shows us the reality behind this enigmatic figure. First published by his friends after his premature death at the age of forty-four, the Ethics uses the methods of Euclid to describe a single entity, properly called both 'God' and 'Nature', of which mind and matter are two manifestations. From this follow, in ways that are strikingly modern, the identity of mind and body, the necessary causation of events and actions, and the illusory nature of free will. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang Tzu Sun (Author) Shang Yang (Author) Robert Wilkinson (Introduction by) Yuan Shibing (Translated by) J. J. L. Duyvendak (Translated by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years.
The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured.
The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Walden & Civil Obedience Henry David Thoreau (Author) Tom Griffith (Edited by) Henry Claridge (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 260g ISBN13: 9781840225976 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-597-6 ISBN10: 1840225971 EAN: 9781840225976 x Description: No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature of much of what we call `progress', the proper symbiotic relationship between man and the natural environment, the limitations of government, especially where it seeks to intrude on the personal, the moral and political case for non-violence, the dubious pleasures of material comforts, our intoxication with excess, our unrelenting search for the `rules' by which we might live our lives - these, and many other matters are as real to us now as they were to Thoreau in 1845 when he began his experiment in self-sufficiency. Walden is his autobiographical record of his life of relative isolation at Walden Pond, some twenty miles west of the city of Boston, but it is also a work of detailed natural history and the expression of a philosophy of life by a deeply poetic sensibility. His essay (originally a lecture), `Civil Disobedience', has over the 150 or so years since its publication exerted an enormous influence, animating thinkers such as Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi as well as political movements such as the British Labour Party, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, and various forms of oppositional activism across the globe.
Walden and `Civil Disobedience' are reprinted here in a new edition alongside three of Thoreau's seminal essays, `Slavery in Massachusetts', `A Plea for Captain John Brown', and `Life Without Principle'. Henry Claridge's introduction illuminates the extent to which Thoreau's writings and his thinking
were a response to the dramatic changes wrought by the physical expansion of the United States and the migration of European peoples across the American sub-continent in the first half of the nineteenth-century. The edition also comes with a bibliography and extensive explanatory notes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Njal's Saga Lee Milton Hollander (Translated by) Thorsteinn Gylfason (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
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The saga is remarkable not only for the details of everyday life - the farming, the feasting and the charcoal-burning - but also for the social structure of the society in which that life took place - the Althing or Parliament, the lawmaking and the lawgiving. The grandeur of the narrative and the beauty and distinction of the characters mark Njal's Saga as an essential text for all who love adventure and great literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Upanishads Traditional (Author) Series:
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The name Upanishad is derived from the face-to-face mode of imparting knowledge - in the utmost sanctity and secrecy, to prevent its trivialisation or perversion. Composed in Sanskrit between 900 and 600 BC, the Upanishads presented here are by far the oldest and most important of those that exist. Twelve were first translated more than a hundred years ago, and have been extensively revised and edited. The thirteenth is an entirely new translation by Suren Navlakha. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Selected Poems of William Blake William Blake (Author) Paul Wright (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, W.B.Yeats, and more recently beat poet Allen Ginsberg and the 'flower power' generation. He is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies and subvert 'the mind-forged manacles' of restriction.
This volume contains many of his writings, including: 'Songs of Innocence', 'Songs of Experience', 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell', and a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including 'Milton' and 'Jerusalem'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Poems of Robert Browning Robert Browning (Author) Series:
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Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson. His poetry demonstrates how a poet must be a sharp perceptive observer of the complexity of the human condition.
Perhaps his most moving poetry was written to express his feelings for his wife, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which he deals in a very 'modern' way with the uncomfortable fact that we can never quite bridge the gap between ourselves and the people we love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collected Poems of Robert Burns Robert Burns (Author) Dr. Tim Burke (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s34mm 385g ISBN13: 9781853264153 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-415-3 ISBN10: 1853264156 EAN: 9781853264153 x Description: With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature.
In June 1786 his first collection of verse, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which included 'To a Mouse' and 'The Cotter's Saturday Night', was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society. His later poems and ballads include 'Auld Lang Syne', the beautiful song 'My Love is like a Red Red Rose', 'Highland Mary', 'Scots Wha Hae' and his masterpiece, 'Tam o'Shanter'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Poems of Lord Byron: Including Don Juan and Other Poems Lord Byron (Author) Dr. Paul Wright (Introduction by) Series:
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'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be'. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which Byron knew so well, touching on the major political, cultural and social concerns of the day.
This selection includes all of that poem, and selections from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the satirical poems 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' and 'A Vision of Judgement'. Paul Wright's detailed introductions place Byron's colourful life and work within their broader social and political contexts, and demonstrate that Byron both fostered and critiqued the notorious 'Byronic myth' of heroic adventure, political action and sexual scandal. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer (Author) Dr. Lesley A. Coote (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 768pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 471g B Format ISBN13: 9781840226928 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-692-8 ISBN10: 1840226927 EAN: 9781840226928 x Description: During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now mainly known as a poet and `the father of English literature', a postion to which he was raised by other writers in the generation after his death. It was Boccaccio's Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames opposite the city of London, and travel together to visit the then famous shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. The tavern host, who accompanies them, suggests that they amuse one another along the way by telling stories, with the best storyteller awarded a meal in the tavern (paid for by all the others) on their return. The stories told by the pilgrims range from bawdy comedies through saints' lives and moral tracts to courtly romances, always delivered with a generous helping of Chaucer's own sly wit and ironic humour. Although basing his characters on the stereotypes of `estates satire', Chaucer succeeds in his aim of producing an overview of his times and their culture, for posterity, in the manner of Italian, proto-Renaissance, writers.This transcription and edition is taken from British Library MS Harley 7334, produced within ten years of Chaucer's death. The on-page notes and glosses aim to enable readers with little or no previous experience of medieva _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson (Author) Emma Hartnoll (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853264191 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-419-1 ISBN10: 1853264199 EAN: 9781853264191 x Description: With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll. Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and eternity.
Originally branded an eccentric, Emily Dickinson is now recognised as a major poet of great depth, startling originality and courage for as she wrote: `Assent and you are sane; /Demure you're straightaway dangerous / And handled with a chain'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (Author) Michael Irwin (Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Cambridge) (Introduction by) Series:
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Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime.
He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Poems of John Keats John Keats (Author) Paul Wright (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the 'Odes' and the two versions of the uncompleted epic 'Hyperion', and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse.
It all demonstrates the extent to which he tested his own dictum throughout his short creative life. That life spanned one of the most remarkable periods in English history in the aftermath of the French Revolution and this collection, with its detailed introductions and notes, aims to place the poems very much in their context. The collection is ample proof that Keats deservedly achieved his wish to 'be among the English Poets after my death' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling (Author) R. T. Jones (Introduction and notes by) George Orwell (Introduction by) Series:
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This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues and extended ballads.
He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism, and the British Empire, but an attentive reading of the poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwell's hard-hitting account of Kipling's poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence (Author) David Ellis (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents of the two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he died in 1930.
It therefore allows the reader to trace the development of Lawrence as a poet and appreciate the remarkable originality and distinctiveness of his achievement. Not all the poems reprinted here are masterpieces but there is more than enough quality to confirm Lawrence's status as one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Poems of Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen (Author) Owen Knowles (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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In his draft Preface, Wilfred Owen includes his well-known statement 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity'. All of his important poems were written in just over a year, and 'Dulce et Decorum Est', 'S.I.W.', 'Futility' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' still have an astonishing power to move the reader. Owen pointed out that 'All a poet can do today is to warn. That is why all true Poets must be truthful'. His warning was based on his acute observation of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western Front, and his poems reflect the horror and the waste of the First World War.
This volume contains all Owen's best-known poems, only four of which were published in his lifetime. He was killed a week before the Armistice in November 1918. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti Christina G. Rossetti (Author) Katharine McGowran (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 192g ISBN13: 9781853264290 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-429-0 ISBN10: 1853264296 EAN: 9781853264290 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran. Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rosetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable hope.
Her divine poems have a freshness and toughness of thought, while many of her love poems are erotic, and as often express love for women as for men. The varied threads of Rossetti's concerns are drawn together in what is perhaps her greatest poem, the strange and ambiguous 'Goblin Market'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (Author) Tim Cook (Introduction by) Series:
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Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious 'Dark Lady'.
In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare's two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, The Rape of Lucrece which looks forward to the dark imagery of Macbeth, and Venus and Adonis which mixes ribaldry and tragedy in unique Shakespearean manner. The Phoenix and the Turtle is a beautiful metaphysical and allegorical short elegy, and takes its place with Shakespeare's better-known poetry. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author) Dr. Bruce Woodcock (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition of his day, a fiery political visionary committed to social change and progress.
The generous selection in this volume represents the wide range of his writing, both poetry and prose. Arranged chronologically, the accompanying introductory essays set Shelley's works in their historical, social and political context. They provide a vivid insight into the life and times of this volcanic spirit whose inspiring voice called on the people of England to:
`Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number; Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you. Ye are many, they are few.' (The Mask of Anarchy) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Lord Alfred Tennyson (Author) Karen Hodder (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behaviour, all are guaranteed to capture the imagination, stir the emotions, linger in the memory and whet the reader's appetite for more. In this book, Wordsworth Editions presents the modern reader with a rich variety of short stories by a host of towering literary figures ranging from Arnold Bennett to Virginia Woolf. This disparate and distinguished company of writers has rarely - if ever - met within the pages of one volume: the result is a positive feast. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (Author) Stephen Matterson (Introduction and notes by) Dr. David Rogers (Introduction by) Series:
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Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the time as shocking.
Whitman's poems are organic and free flowing, fit into no previously defined genre and skilfully combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes with lyrical sensuality. His verse is a fitting celebration of a new breed of American and includes 'Song of Myself', 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry', the celebratory 'Passage to India', and his fine elegy for the assassinated President Lincoln, 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde (Author) Anne Varty (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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WILDE, GLAMOROUS AND NOTORIUS, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece.
He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion.
This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (Author) Antonia Till (Introduction by) Series:
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William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art.
Wordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy and his wife Mary, by whom he had four children. His remarkable autobiographical poem 'The Prelude' was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth's poetry. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats W. B. Yeats (Author) Prof. Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. (Introduction by) Series:
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W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats's work is essential.
This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times. Paradoxical, proud and passionate, Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The English Poems of John Milton John Milton (Author) Laurence Lerner (Introduction and notes by) Series:
Wordsworth Poetry Library
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jan 1994
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 385g ISBN13: 9781853264108 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-410-8 ISBN10: 1853264105 EAN: 9781853264108 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Laurence Lerner, formerly Professor of English at the University of Sussex.
John Milton (1608-74) has a strong claim to be considered the greatest English poet after Skakespeare. His early poems, collected and published in 1645, include the much loved pair L'Allegro and Il Penseroso ('the cheerful man and the thoughtful man'), Lycidas (his great elegy on a fellow poet) and Comus (the one masque which is still read today). When the Civil War began Milton abandoned poetry for politics and wrote a series of pamphlets in defence of the Parliamentary party, then in defence of the execution of Charles I: these include his great defence of the freedom of the press, Areopagitica. In the course of this work he lost his sight, and was blind for the last twenty years of his life.
During this time he wrote his two great epics, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, and his retelling of the story of Samson as a Greek tragedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman A. E. Housman (Author) Michael Irwin (Introduction and notes by) Series:
Wordsworth Poetry Library
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 May 1994
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781853264115 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-411-5 ISBN10: 1853264113 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of it mannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smooth texts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive man wrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen (Author) Series:
Special Editions
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Oct 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 1184pp h232mm x w150mm x s44mm 968g ISBN13: 9781853268991 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-899-1 ISBN10: 1853268992 EAN: 9781853268991 x Description: Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children. Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever. Here are all of Andersen's 154 tales, and among the favourites are The Red Shoes, The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Tinder Box and of course The Ugly Duckling. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Special Editions
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Oct 2004
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1440pp h232mm x w150mm x s54mm 1174g ISBN13: 9781840220551 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-055-1 ISBN10: 1840220554 EAN: 9781840220551 x Description: Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published.
Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator.
Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Sidney Paget (Illustrated by) etc. (Illustrated by) Series:
Special Editions
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Apr 1996
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1408pp h232mm x w150mm x s53mm 1148g ISBN13: 9781853268960 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-896-0 ISBN10: 1853268968 EAN: 9781853268960 x Description: It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson.
The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Illustrated Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm (Author) Wilhelm Grimm (Author) Arthur Rackham (Illustrated by) Series:
Special Editions
Edition:
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Oct 1997
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 1008pp h232mm x w150mm x s32mm 699g ISBN13: 9781853268984 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-898-4 ISBN10: 1853268984 EAN: 9781853268984 x Description: Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of Rapunzel, The Goose-Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White, there are the darker tales such as Death's Messengers which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (Author) Series:
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2004
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1040pp h232mm x w150mm x s30mm 660g ISBN13: 9781840220520 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-052-0 ISBN10: 184022052X EAN: 9781840220520 x Description: Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune.
In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40.
He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters - a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (Author) Howard Staunton (Edited by) Series:
Special Editions
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Aug 1996
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1280pp h232mm x w150mm x s48mm 1052g ISBN13: 9781853268953 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-895-3 ISBN10: 185326895X EAN: 9781853268953 x Description: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness.
This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
Special Editions
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Feb 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1104pp h232mm x w150mm x s41mm 904g ISBN13: 9781853263972 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-397-2 ISBN10: 1853263974 EAN: 9781853263972 x Description: Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.
His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen (Author) Series:
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Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2009
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive No warning 1184pp h240mm x w156mm x s56mm 1246g ISBN13: 9781840221732 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-173-2 ISBN10: 1840221739 EAN: 9781840221732 x Description: Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children. Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever. Here are all of Andersen's 154 tales, and among the favourites are The Red Shoes, The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Tinder Box and of course The Ugly Duckling. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Library Collection
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1440pp h240mm x w156mm x s66mm 1493g ISBN13: 9781840225563 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-556-3 ISBN10: 1840225564 EAN: 9781840225563
x Description: Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published.
Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator.
Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Library Collection
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1408pp h240mm x w156mm x s65mm 1463g ISBN13: 9781840220766 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-076-6 ISBN10: 1840220767 EAN: 9781840220766 x Description: It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson.
The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Fairy Tales Jacob Grimm (Author) Wilhelm Grimm (Author) Arthur Rackham (Illustrated by) Series:
Wordsworth Library Collection
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive No warning 1008pp h240mm x w156mm x s41mm 935g ISBN13: 9781840221749 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-174-9 ISBN10: 1840221747 EAN: 9781840221749 x Description: Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White, there are the darker tales such as Death's Messengers which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Library Collection
Edition:
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1008pp h240mm x w156mm x s39mm 890g ISBN13: 9781840221725 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-172-5 ISBN10: 1840221720 EAN: 9781840221725 x Description: Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune.
In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40.
He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters - a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Library Collection
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1280pp h240mm x w156mm x s59mm 1344g ISBN13: 9781840225570 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-557-0 ISBN10: 1840225572 EAN: 9781840225570 x Description: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness.
This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Library Collection
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1104pp h240mm x w156mm x s52mm 1180g ISBN13: 9781840225501 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-550-1 ISBN10: 1840225505 EAN: 9781840225501 x Description: Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.
His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ultimate Children's Classic Collection Lewis Carroll (Author) Kenneth Grahame (Author) Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author) Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Anna Sewell (Author) Rudyard Kipling (Author) Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author) James Matthew Barrie (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Box Sets
Edition:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Sep 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Multiple copy pack 1904pp h200mm x w110mm x s128mm 1363g ISBN13: 9781840225990 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-599-0 ISBN10: 1840225998 EAN: 9781840225990 x Description: The perfect gift for any book-lover, this box set contains eight of the best children's classics ever written
Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork, this would make an ideal Christmas present
Includes:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9781853261183 The Wind in the Willows 9781853261220 The Little Prince 9781853261589 Treasure Island 9781853261039 Black Beauty 9781853261091 The Jungle Book 9781853261190 The Secret Garden 9781853261046 Peter Pan 9781853261206 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Library Collection
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
08 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Multiple copy pack 2336pp h199mm x w129mm x s126mm ISBN13: 9781840227482 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-748-2 ISBN10: 1840227486 EAN: 9781840227482
x Description: The perfect gift for any Jane Austen lover for only GBP19.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of Austen's best and much-loved works. Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork. Includes: 9781853260285 - Emma 9781840226966 - Lady Susan and Other Works 9781853260322 - Mansfield Park 9781853260438 - Northanger Abbey 9781853260568 - Persuasion 9781853260001 - Pride and Prejudice 9781853260162 - Sense and Sensibility _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Bronte Collection Anne Bronte (Author) Charlotte Bronte (Author) Emily Bronte (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Box Sets
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Multiple copy pack 2608pp h200mm x w140mm x s130mm 1832g ISBN13: 9781840227901 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-790-1 ISBN10: 1840227907 EAN: 9781840227901 x Description: The perfect gift for any Bronte Sisters lover for only GBP19.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Bronte Sisters' best and much-loved works. Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork. Includes: 9781853262166 - Agnes Grey 9781853264887 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 9781853260209 - Jane Eyre 9781853262081 - The Professor 9781853260643 - Shirley 9781853260728 - Villette 9781853260018 - Wuthering Heights _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) David Stuart Davies (Selected by) Series:
Wordsworth Box Sets
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Imprint:
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Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
08 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Multiple copy pack 2608pp h199mm x w129mm x s149mm ISBN13: 9781840227499 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-749-9 ISBN10: 1840227494 EAN: 9781840227499 x Description: The perfect gift for any Sherlock Holmes fan for only GBP19.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the notorious detective's best cases and adventures. Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork. Includes:
9781853260339 - Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 9781853267482 - Best of Sherlock Holmes 9781853260704 - Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow 9781840224009 - Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear 9781853260582 - Return of Sherlock Holmes 9781853267444 - Shadows of Sherlock Holmes 9781840224115 - Study in Scarlet & Sign of the Four _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Women Louisa May Alcott (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Collector's Editions
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp h178mm x w129mm x s33mm 395g ISBN13: 9781840227789 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-778-9 ISBN10: 1840227788 EAN: 9781840227789 x Description: Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Laurence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Peter Pan Sir James Matthew Barrie (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Collector's Editions
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Pub Date:
07 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 240pp h178mm x w129mm x s22mm 278g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227895 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-789-5 ISBN10: 1840227893 EAN: 9781840227895 x Description: The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, Wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates.
The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me'. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Garden Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
07 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp h178mm x w129mm x s30mm 367g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227796 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-779-6 ISBN10: 1840227796 EAN: 9781840227796 x Description: Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it.
But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them.
The Secret Garden is one of the best-loved stories of all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Collector's Editions
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Pub Date:
07 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h178mm x w129mm x s17mm 211g B Format ISBN13: 9781840227802 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-780-2 ISBN10: 184022780X EAN: 9781840227802 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 144pp h178mm x w129mm x s15mm 196g ISBN13: 9781840227819 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-781-9 ISBN10: 1840227818 EAN: 9781840227819 x Description: A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, returns from the grave to haunt him on Christmas Eve. Scrooge is then visited in turn by three spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future, each one revealing the error of his ways and gradually melting the frozen heart of this old miser, leading him towards his redemption. On the journey we take with Scrooge we encounter a rich array of Dickensian characters including the poor Cratchit family with the ailing Tiny Tim and the generous and jolly Fezziwig.
When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843 he fashioned an enduring gift to the world, capturing the essence of the love, kindness and generosity of the Christmas season. It is a timeless classic and the story's uplifting magic remains as potent today as when it was first published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h178mm x w129mm x s24mm 302g ISBN13: 9781840227826 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-782-6 ISBN10: 1840227826 EAN: 9781840227826 x Description: Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall. Grahame's book was later dramatised by A. A. Milne, and became a perennial Christmas favourite, as Toad of Toad Hall. It continues to enchant and, above all perhaps, inspire great affection. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h178mm x w129mm x s24mm 290g ISBN13: 9781840227833 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-783-3 ISBN10: 1840227834 EAN: 9781840227833 x Description: The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery, OBE (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 448pp h178mm x w129mm x s38mm 447g ISBN13: 9781840227840 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-784-0 ISBN10: 1840227842 EAN: 9781840227840 x Description: Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Railway Children Edith Nesbit (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h178mm x w129mm x s27mm 329g ISBN13: 9781840227857 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-785-7 ISBN10: 1840227850 EAN: 9781840227857 x Description: When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn railway lore and much else. They have many adventures, and when they save a train from disaster, they are helped by the Old Gentleman to solve the mystery of their father's
disappearance, and the family is happily reunited. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author) Irene Testot-Ferry (Translated by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 144pp h178mm x w129mm x s15mm 197g ISBN13: 9781840227864 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-786-4 ISBN10: 1840227869 EAN: 9781840227864 x Description: The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike. In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert, and the little prince, who has dropped there through time and space from his tiny asteroid, comes an intersection of two worlds, the one governed by the laws of nature, and the other determined only by the limits of imagination. The world of the imagination wins hands down, with the concerns of the adult world often shown to be lamentably silly as seen through the eyes of the little prince. While adult readers can find deep meanings in his various encounters, they can also be charmed back to childhood by this wise but innocent infant.
This popular translation contains the author's own delightful illustrations, bringing to visual life the small being at the tale's heart, and a world of fantasy far removed from any quotidian reality. It is also a sort of love story, in which two frail beings, the downed pilot and the wandering infant-prince who has left behind all he knows, share their short time together isolated from humanity and finding sustenance in each other. This is a book which creates a unique relationship with each reader, whether child or adult. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Beauty Anna Sewell (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h178mm x w129mm x s26mm 315g ISBN13: 9781840227871 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-787-1 ISBN10: 1840227877 EAN: 9781840227871 x Description: Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that a horse is recounting the exploits in the narrative.
The gentle thoroughbred, Black Beauty, is raised with care and is treated well until a vicious groom injures him. The damaged horse is then sold to various masters at whose hands he experiences cruelty and neglect. After many unpleasant episodes, including one where he becomes a painfully overworked cab horse in London, Black Beauty finally canters towards a happy ending. Although Anna Sewell's classic is set firmly in the Victorian period, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
There have been many film and television adaptations of the story, but it is only the novel that captures the authentic voice of the central character.
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Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h178mm x w129mm x s28mm 354g ISBN13: 9781840227888 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-788-8 ISBN10: 1840227885 EAN: 9781840227888 x Description: Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors whom he fears but, despite all precautions, the old man is served with the black spot which means death. Among the dead man's belongings Jim discovers a map showing the location of the buried treasure of the notorious pirate Captain Flint. It is not long before he, along with Doctor Livesey and Squire Trelawney, sets sail to find the treasure. However, amongst the hired hands is the one-legged Long John Silver who has designs on the treasure for himself. The continuing fascination with this tale of high drama, buried treasure and treachery bears out what Stevenson wrote about the book to his friend W. E. Henley: 'if this don't fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.' The book not only continues to 'fetch the kids' but the grown-ups too in fact all those with the spirit of adventure in their hearts. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1pp h178mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781840227925 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-792-5 ISBN10: 1840227923 EAN: 9781840227925 x Description: Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester. However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors. Ultimately the grand passion of Jane and Rochester is called upon to survive cruel revelation, loss and reunion, only to be confronted with tragedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1pp ISBN13: 9781840227932 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-793-2 ISBN10: 1840227931 x Description: Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1pp h178mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781840227949 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-794-9 ISBN10: 184022794X EAN: 9781840227949 x Description: Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1pp h178mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781840227956 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-795-6 ISBN10: 1840227958 EAN: 9781840227956 x Description: Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the `Jazz Age'. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.
The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________