Classic fiction: literary and general

Book SynopsisA powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s masterpiece of youthful rebellion—with a foreword and cover art by James FrancoA Penguin ClassicA young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco’s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse’s widely influential coming-of-age novel.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With

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Book SynopsisThe stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector.Trade Review‘Full of rich historical detail and intriguing characters… A delight from start to end’ Hazel Gaynor, author of The Girl Who Came Home ‘A delicious novel… Kathleen Tessaro creates unforgettable worlds and, within them, compelling characters who stay with the reader long after she reaches the end’ Adriana Trigiani ‘Excellent… Tessaro has the skill to transport the reader to another time and place. She put me on the streets of Boston's North End. But her description of places and sensations throughout the book are wonderful.’ Charles Belfoure, New York Times bestselling author of House of Thieves and The Paris Architect

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Book SynopsisIt’s the book beaches were made for.Trade ReviewPraise for Tasmina Perry:‘The hottest holiday accessory this season. Slick, glossy and gloriously bitchy’ Elle ‘The perfect beach read’ Marie Claire ‘Guilty Pleasures is an intelligent and stylish 21st-century take on the Jackie Collins genre’ Red ‘Celebrates the genre of the great big beach read with no holds barred’ Good Housekeeping ‘A sumptuously sexy book’ Elle ‘There’s no shortage of drama and double-dealing in this glitzy blockbuster’ Sainsbury’s Magazine ‘Original Sin is heading straight for the bestseller lists. We loved it’ Heat ‘Is your holiday incomplete without a glamorous, suspend-disbelief read? Then grab this . . . The spirit of The OC bottled in a book’ Cosmopolitan

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Book SynopsisTake a perfick trip to France in the second book of this much-loved series, inspiration for the ITV drama THE LARKINS starring Bradley Walsh''I should like to go to France,'' said Ma.''God Almighty,'' Pop said. ''What for?''''For a holiday of course,'' Ma said. ''I think it would do us all good to get some sun.''And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins - all ten of them, including little Oscar, the family''s new addition - bundle into the old Rolls and cross the Channel to escape the hostile elements.But far from being the balmy, sunny and perfick spot Ma Larkin hoped for, France proves less than welcoming to an eccentric English family. The tea''s weak, the furniture breakable and the hotel manager is almost as hostile as the wind and the rain they''ve brought with them!And when the manager learns that Ma and Pop are unmarried yet sharing a room underTrade ReviewThey are absolute comfort books . . . All five titles are being rereleased just in time for summer * The Lady *Pop Larkin, Ma and their progeny ... are essentially English of the rich and ribald England of Chaucer and Shakespeare. A superb and timeless comedy -- - * Scotsman *As funny as Evelyn Waugh and as enchanting as Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie. Don't miss it -- - * Herald *Pop is as sexy, genial, generous, and boozy as ever. Ma is a worthy match for him in all these qualities -- - * The Times *A pulsing comedy of country manners. Just about perfick -- - * Time *Hilarious -- - * New York Times *Very racy, earthy. Rabelaisian -- - * Spectator *

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Book SynopsisA fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture, written by France's first professional woman of lettersThe pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine de Pizan has a dreamlike vision where three virtues—Reason, Rectitude and Justice—appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. The Book of the City of Ladies provides positi

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Book SynopsisThis erotic novel won the Prix Goncourt award. Set in 1930s Saigon, this is the portrayal of an incandescent relationship between a young French girl and the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart.

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Book SynopsisArguably the first work of science fiction in English, Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone was published in 1638, pseudonymously and posthumously. The novel, which tells the story of Domingo Gonsales, a Spaniard who flies to the moon by geese power and encounters an advanced lunar civilization, had an enormous impact on the European imagination for centuries after its initial publication. With its discussion of advanced ideas about astronomy and cosmology, the novel is an important example of both popular fiction and scientific speculation.This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that places the text in its scientific and historical contexts. The rich selection of appendices includes related writings by Godwin and his predecessors and contemporaries on magnetism, human flight, voyages to real and unreal lands, and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life.Trade Review“A remarkable tale of lunar travel and utopian vision, The Man in the Moone was written by an English bishop sometime around 1630. Drawing on the latest news of travel and warfare from the Atlantic to China and on the latest theories in magnetism, astronomy, and navigation, the story offers an unparalleled window onto its intellectual and cultural world. It also had an impressive afterlife, inspiring celebrated works on imaginative travel and comic satire, earning a mention on some lunar maps, and inspiring writers such as Verne and Wells. This splendid edition by William Poole offers newly authoritative commentary with indispensable annotations on the novel’s sources and significance. Poole’s cleverly chosen appendices add rich materials from contemporary and subsequent texts.” — Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge“William Poole’s edition of The Man in the Moone offers a scholarly, accessible, and thoroughly contextualized presentation of this under-appreciated science fiction classic. First published in 1638 and influential for more than a century, The Man in the Moone absorbed a variety of literary, historical, religious, and scientific traditions. It playfully blends the new cosmological lore of the scientific revolution and the new geographical knowledge of the age of discovery with the artful fancy of an inventive imagination. This authoritative edition, with well chosen notes and appendices, presents the Bishop of Hereford’s fancy as the founding text of English science fiction.” — David Cressy, The Ohio State University“Poole’s footnotes throughout are detailed and insightful, pointing the reader to Godwin’s source material and to appropriate scholarship. The introduction, footnotes, and bibliography engage the history of science, politics, literature, and many other fields. As such, this scholarly edition lends itself to use in courses and to scholarly work in a number of arenas. For scholars of [science fiction], this book will help further the ongoing investigation of [science fiction]’s colonial origins and narrative structures. It will also stir the old debate about when [science fiction] began and what textual elements qualify a text to be labeled as [science fiction].” — Patrick B. Sharp, Science Fiction Studies (July 2011)Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrancis Godwin and his Contemporaries: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Man in the MooneTextual NotesAppendix A: Francis Godwin, Nuncius Inanimatus (1629)Appendix B: From Lucian of Samosata, The True HistoryAppendix C: From William of Newburgh, “On the Green Children” (1196-98)Appendix D: Arguments about Aliens (Philip Melanchthon, Tommaso Campanella, John Wilkins)Appendix E: From Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Discours of Voyages into the Easte and West Indies (1596)Appendix F: From Mark Ridley, A Short Treatise of Magneticall Bodies and Motions (1613)Appendix G: From Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621, 1628)Appendix H: From John Wilkins, Mathematicall Magick (1648)Bibliography and Works Cited

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Book Synopsis"Tom Simone''s translation is simply superb. Of all the translations with which I am familiar, this is the one that is the most faithful to what''s there in the Italian: no frills, no poetic sallies, no choosing a word because it brings the line closer to iambic pentameterjust unadulterated Dante with good old Anglo-Saxon words and in highly readable prose." Peter Kalkavage,St. John''s University

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Book SynopsisHere in one convenient volume are the two earliest examples of the ancient Greek novel.Trade ReviewSince these texts first found their way into the mainstream of Classics instruction twenty years ago, the need for new translations has become obvious, not only because of the textual and theoretical advances made in the interim, but because of demand for examining them in broader contexts. For both surveys of Greek and Roman literature and courses on the history of prose fiction, that demand has now been elegantly met. Trzaskoma's translation, based on greatly improved Greek texts, shows a sophisticated appreciation of the range in vocabulary and tone within Chariton, and similarities and differences in style between Chariton and Xenophon become easily apparent. Chariton may be a naïve romance by some classifications, but the text's intertextual dimensions, described in a helpful introduction that avoids prescribing how to interpret these texts, are now made much clearer. The copious annotations not only provide topical references but also mark the wide range of literary allusions and parallels. From every angle these texts have received a detailed rethinking. The Chariton and Xenophon I thought I knew have become much richer and more compelling texts. Any student of the ancient novel, and any teacher wanting to create more students of the ancient novel, needs to read this book. --Joel C. Relihan, Professor of Classics, Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.)I enjoyed this edition very much--the translations are readable while maintaining a strong sense of the originals. The introduction materials are informative and accessible making this text suitable for undergraduate teaching. I also appreciate the formatting—with cultural information and allusions to other authors in footnote and more technical information on the manuscript in endnote. A helpful bibliography is also included. --Kristen Day, Augustana CollegeAccurate and fresh translations of the two earliest Greek novels. . . . A keen textual critic himself, Trzaskoma has published a number of contributions on the novels, offering improvements to the text and identifying additional allusions to classical authors. He includes endnotes to both translations detailing his own conjectures and differences with Reardon and Sullivan, all of which bespeaks a complete reexamination of the texts in preparation for his translations. Although . . . designed for undergraduate courses where these novels will be read by Greekless students, every effort has been made to provide as much information about difficulties in the texts as possible, so these translations will be useful to those interested in the Greek text as well. An unpretentious introduction that will be very appropriate and useful to students reading ancient novels for the first time covers judiciously the major issues relevant to getting started with these stories. . . . It is valuable to read [these two novels] together, and this new text will make that easy and inexpensive to do. --Stephen A. Nimis, Miami University, in The Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Book SynopsisThe first English language translation of Bedier's classic work in nearly seventy years, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary materials to help the reader understand the history of the legend and Bedier's method in creating his classic retelling.Trade ReviewThis edition stands out because it is not a reworking of Belloc's version but a translation of Bedier's actual text. Gone are archaic spellings (The Little Fakry Bell becomes "The Enchanted Bell") and abstruse terms (the Tintagel Minster now reads as the church at Tintagel). Gallagher provides a brief, informative introduction, useful glossaries of proper names and specialized terms, and five well-selected texts about the Tristan legend, including a haunting scene Bedier composed but chose not to use. Beautifully written, this modern English translation proves once again that the love of Tristan and Iseut endures beyond all limits of time and space. Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. --C. B. Kerr, Vassar College, in CHOICEA labor of love, like all of his work, Edward J. Gallagher's engaging new translation of Joseph Bedier's celebrated romance is the sparkling centerpiece of a volume that features an enlightening and erudite introduction, a selective bibliography, Bedier's prefatory note, and two glossaries. A most welcome appendix includes English translations of Gaston Paris' original preface, two articles by Bedier, Adolph Brisson's early review of the romance, and—as a final surprise—Bedier's previously unpublished Hall of Images scene. Gallagher generously offers in one handy volume an inestimable boon to scholars, teachers, and students, who now have at their fingertips the resources to appreciate fully Bedier's signal accomplishment. --Joan Tasker Grimbert, Ordinary Professor of French and Medieval Studies, Catholic University of America[This] slim paperback introduces non-specialists to the medieval French Tristan and Iseut stories in clear, modern prose. The lucid and engaging translation, with its helpful introduction and appended articles, is an excellent introduction to the beloved romance as well as a welcome tool for teaching it to undergraduates. --Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, in H-France Review

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Book SynopsisLittle treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. David Copperfield is the story of a hard life endured is ultimately rewarded because of perseverance, kindness and common sense. Copperfield loses his father as a child, his mother then marries Murdstone, a cruel man who oppresses her and sends the boy away from home to a hostel. His mother dies, then Copperfield is sent to a factory, before running away to his Aunt Betsey Trotwood who protects him and whose relationship he maintains throughout his life. Further suffering follows though when Copperfield's first wife dies in childbirth, but by the end of the novel he too marries once more, finally to live towards a happy end, with Agnes and their three children. Throughout, Dickens highlights the systemic abuse of the weak, the ill, and, often, the female, eager to show that society is at fault for poverty, not the individual, so the poor should be helped, not victimised.

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Book SynopsisFitzgerald''s masterpiece--the quintessential Jazz Age novel--now in a hardcover Everyman''s Library Contemporary Classics editionFor generations of enthralled readers, F. Scott Fitzgerald''s mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. Gatsby emerges as if from nowhere, evading questions about his past and throwing dazzling parties sparkling with champagne and jazz at his luxurious Long Island mansion. Nick Carraway, a young man who has moved in next door, is fascinated by his oddly detached neighbor, and by his discovery that Gatsby is motivated by a single-minded quest to regain his long-lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Nick finds something both appalling and appealing about the intensity of Gatsby''s ambition to reinvent himself. But Daisy and her wealthy husband are cynical and careless people, and as Gatsby''s dream collides with reality, Nick is witness to the violence and tragedy that result. The Great

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Book SynopsisIn The Egoist, his comic masterpiece, George Meredith takes the traditional marriage plot of English domestic fiction and turns it on its head. The novel describes the repeated and disastrous courtships of Sir Willoughby Patterne, the egoist of the title. Three women become engaged to Sir Willoughby, but, despite his aristocratic arrogance and the manipulative power of his wealth, each is finally able to see him more clearly than he sees himself.The introduction to this edition provides context for the novel from Meredith’s own life, his theory of comedy, and his understanding of Darwinian thought. The appendices include reviews, other writing on comedy, and historical documents on women, sexual politics, and the theory of evolution.Trade Review“Richard C. Stevenson is our finest critic of George Meredith. His superb edition of The Egoist makes Meredith’s most poised and brilliant achievement fully accessible to contemporary readers. Illuminating the novel’s contexts in the theory of comedy, the ‘woman question,’ and Darwinian biology, as well as in its author’s life and career, Stevenson restores the radical force of Meredith’s intervention in mid-Victorian sexual politics.” — Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley“This is a fine edition of The Egoist. The treatment accorded this often-neglected novel by Richard C. Stevenson is predictably first rate, considering his earlier work on George Meredith. Following Meredith’s revised text is a plus here, offering, as it does, the author’s final intent. Stevenson’s apparatus also furnishes a useful guide to works relevant not just to The Egoist but to Meredith’s aims and techniques overall. Seldom have I encountered such a project, in which everything is in its proper place. This will be the indispensable edition of The Egoist for years to come.” — Benjamin Franklin Fisher, University of MississippiTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGeorge Meredith: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Egoist: A Comedy in NarrativeAppendix A: Comedy From Anonymous [Molière?], “Letter on The Imposter” (1667) From George Meredith, “On the Idea of Comedy” (1877; 1898) Appendix B: From George Meredith, Modern Love (1862)Appendix C: The Egoist in Meredith’s Letters (1879–1907)Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews From William Ernest Henley, Athenaeum (1 November 1879) From Unsigned, Examiner (1 November 1879) From James Thomson, Cope’s Tobacco Plant (January 1880) From Unsigned, New Quarterly Magazine (January 1880) Appendix E: Feminine Conduct and Women’s Education From Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England (1842) From Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Wives of England (1843) From Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Principles of Education (1865; 1866) Appendix F: Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill on Women’s Liberties From Harriet Taylor Mill, Enfranchisement of Women (July 1851) From John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869) Appendix G: Appendix G: From Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne (1861; 1862)Appendix H: From Edward J. Thompson, Suttee, A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Hindu Rite of Widow-Burning (1928)Appendix I: Charles Darwin From On the Origin of Species (1859) From The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871; 1877) Appendix J: From Virginia Woolf, “The Novels of George Meredith” (1932)Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Monk is the most sensational of Gothic novels. The main plot concerns Ambrosio, an abbot of irreproachable holiness, who is seduced by a woman (or perhaps a demon) disguised as a novice, and who goes on to sell his soul to the Devil. An extravagant blend of sex, death, politics, Satanism, and poetry, the work greatly appealed to the Marquis de Sade.The Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and appendices of historical materials that address the novel's literary sources (in English, German, and Greek literature), historical contexts (the French Revolution, slavery and abolition debates, sexuality), critical reception, and influence.Trade ReviewThis is an essential edition. Its ample coverage of critical reception, cultural responses and historical context does full justice to the profound intertextuality of The Monk." - Angela Wright, University of Sheffield"This is a superb edition of a still stunning novel. It's hard to imagine how the informative, witty introduction could be bettered, and the very helpful appendices will send readers in all the right directions." - Ian Balfour, York University, TorontoTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMatthew Gregory Lewis: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe MonkVol.1Vol.2Vol.3Appendix A: Literary Sources Richard Steele, The Guardian, 31 August 1713 Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, 1747-48 Lovelace’s Dream Clarissa’s Dream Johann Karl August Musäus, “The Elopement” Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, “The Eternal Tew” Matthew Gregory Lewis, “Imitation of Anacreon” Appendix B: Historical Contexts The French Revolution Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 Matthew Gregory Lewis, “France and England in 1793” Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794-95 Colonialism and Slavery Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Castle Spectre, 1797 Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor,1815-18 Georgian Homophobia The Trying and Pilloring of the Vere Street Club, 1810 Appendix C: Critical Reception [Mary Wollstonecraft?], Analytical Review, October 1796 European Magazine, February 1797 [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], Critical Review, February1797 “An Apology for the Monk,” Monthly Mirror, April 1797 Matthew Gregory Lewis, letter to his father, 23 February 1798 Matthew Gregory Lewis, Preface to Adelmorn, the Outlaw,1801 Le Décade philosophique, 9 May 1797 Spectateur du nord, April-June 1798 Marquis de Sade, “Reflections on the Novel,” 1800 Ann Radcliffe, “On the Supernatural in Poetry,” 1826 Appendix D: Cultural Responses Charles Farley, Raymond and Agnes, 1797 “The Bleeding Nun,” 1801 Almagro & Claude; or Monastic Murder, 1810 Appendix E: VariantsWorks Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisUnjustly overlooked in its own time, Frank J. Webb’s novel of pre-Civil War Philadelphia weaves together action, humor, and social commentary. The Garies and Their Friends tells the story of two families struggling for di¦ erent sorts of respectability: the Garies, a well-to-do interracial couple who relocate to Philadelphia from the plantation South in order to legalize their marriage, and their friends the Ellises, free black Philadelphians hoping to make the move from the working class into the bourgeoisie. Along the way the families confront racialized violence, melodramatic villainy, and sentimental reversals. Entertaining and fastmoving, the novel has a Dickensian mix of uncanny coincidence and interwoven personal experiences.The historical documents accompanying this Broadview Edition provide reviews of the novel along with extensive materials on slavery, the color line, and contemporary Philadelphia.Trade Review“This is an outstanding edition of Webb’s powerful (and still relatively neglected) novel about the struggles of the free black community in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. The editors make the bold decision to use as their source text the ‘Cheap Series’ paperback edition widely circulating in London, where The Garies and Their Friends was published in 1857. They provide reviews, new information about Webb, and compelling contextual materials that help us to better understand the novel in relation to key legal and social contexts. Webb has been wonderfully served by Howell and Walsh. I couldn’t imagine teaching any other edition, and the excellence of this edition should help to bring new readers to Garies.” — Robert S. Levine, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, and author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass“The Garies and Their Friends is one of the most interesting American novels of the mid-nineteenth century; the new Broadview edition finally gives it the editorial treatment it deserves. William Huntting Howell and Megan Walsh share supplemental documents essential to reading or teaching the novel, and they frame this work in a rich set of transatlantic contexts.” — Eric Gardner, author of Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture“Frank Webb’s stunning novel comes alive in this accessible and informative edition edited by Howell and Walsh. The annotations are well crafted and will introduce readers to the broad racial, social, and literary contexts of Garies. The appendices are likewise well formulated to illuminate both the novel’s reception and its key geographic and legal coordinates. This wonderful edition is a boon for new readers and also for those who are already familiar with Webb’s novel.” — Jeffory Clymer, University of Kentucky, author of Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth CenturyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrank J. Webb: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Garies and Their FriendsAppendix A: Contemporary Responses From The Observer (London) (20 September 1857) From the Literary Gazette (London) (26 September 1857) From The Morning Post (London) (6 October 1857) The Standard (London) (7 October 1857) From The Daily News (London) (9 October 1857) From the Athenaeum (London) (24 October 1857) Appendix B: Law, Culture, and the Color Line From William Goodell, The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (1853) From George M. Stroud, A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery (1827) From John F. Denny, An Enquiry into the Political Grade of the Free Colored Population (1834) From Benjamin C. Howard, Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford (1857) From Frederick Douglass, “The Dred Scott Decision,” delivered before the American Anti-Slavery Society, NY (14 May 1857) Edward Williams Clay, Life in Philadelphia, Plate IV (1829) Appendix C: Black Philadelphia in the Antebellum Era Map of Philadelphia (1848) From A Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the People of Colour, of the City and Districts of Philadelphia (1842) From Robert Purvis, Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disenfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania (1838) From Joseph Willson, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia (1841) Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Lady Hatherton (24 May 1856) Appendix D: Racism in Philadelphia From “The Philadelphia Riots,” the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette (2 August 1842) From History of Pennsylvania Hall (1838) John Sartain, The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall (1838) Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOne of the great novels of the nineteenth century, Emily Brontë's haunting tale of passion and greed remains unsurpassed in its depiction of destructive love. Her tragically short life is brilliantly imagined in the major new movie, Emily, starring Emma Mackey in the title role.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of Wuthering Heights features an afterword by David Pinching.One wild, snowy night on the Yorkshire moors, a gentleman asks about Wuthering Heights, the remote farmhouse inhabited by his mysterious landlord. He is told about the tragic romance of the beautiful, headstrong Cathy and the orphan Heathcliff, who – although desperately in love with her – is rejected in favour of a rich suitor. But Cathy cannot forget him, and he develops a lust for revenge that will take over his life as he attempts to win her back, and to destroy everyone, and everything, he considers responsible for his loss.

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Book SynopsisOne of the most celebrated works of classic literature for children, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame remains a timeless tale of camaraderie, loyalty and bravery more than a hundred years after its first publication. Mole and Rat have a pleasant life by the river, where they talk, boat and wile away the days. The wise and private Mr Badger lives sedately in the Wild Woods, content in his solitude. Then there's Mr Toad - wealthy, impulsive and utterly obsessed with motor cars, he's always getting into scrapes and can't survive without the help of his friends.With sixteen gorgeous colour illustrations by the celebrated Arthur Rackham, and an afterword by author David Stuart Davies.

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Book SynopsisOne of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. The story builds in excitement as two young men on a sailing holiday discover a German plot to invade England. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context.Trade ReviewI thoroughly enjoyed watching Carruthers' development from fashionable young man-about-town to patriotic amateur spy ... This one undoubtedly deserves its status as a classic of espionage fiction. * Leah Galbraith, FictionFan *

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Book SynopsisThe Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dreamA Penguin Classic   Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater. Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. This Penguin Classics edition features aTrade ReviewWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaWinner of the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters"By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time

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Book SynopsisA page-turning thriller of love and betrayal from the bestselling Master of Suspense and author of If Tomorrow Comes and The Other Side of Midnight.Trade ReviewSheldon is an author working at the height of his power * New York Times *Fast-moving… engrossing… Sidney Sheldon is a master at giving the public what it wants * LA Times *Compulsively readable * New York Times Book Review *

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Book SynopsisComposed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastoral lifestyle.Trade Review“An amazing epic—as revenge-driven as the Greeks, with fight scenes rivaling today’s superhero action films.” ―Rita Dove, The New York Times Book Review“The [translation is] generally excellent; accurate and readable. . . . Sure to become the standard.” —The Times Literary Supplement

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Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes a story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crêpe socks bring back memories of his attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer. Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov’s characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisMany of these stores are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of Saki, and this volume does not disappoint. He began his literary career by writing about his own experiences in the RAF during World War II but soon developed this talent in a series of short-story collections. He is perhaps even more celebrated as an author of children's books, but the best of his short stories represent a claim for him to be numbered among the most remarkable story writers of the 20th century.The present volume includes for the first time all the stories in chronological order as established by Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation with the Dahl estate.

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Book SynopsisF. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage, anticipated the master stroke—The Great Gatsby—that would follow, and marks a key moment in the writer’s career. Would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch embody the corrupt high society of 1920s New York: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As presumptive heirs to a large fortune, they begin their married life by living well beyond their means. Their days are marked by endless drinking, dancing, luxury, and play. But when the expected inheritance is withheld, their lives become consumed with the pursuit of wealth, and their alliance begins to fall apart. Inspired in part by Fitzgerald's own tumultuous union with his wife Zelda, hauntingly rendered and keenly observed, these characters evoke a vivid portrait of a lost world: a city steeped in vice, a society without direction, and the rootless and decadent generation that in

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Book SynopsisThis is the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph over tyranny. This is the story of Mahatma Gandhi, a man who owned nothing-and gained everything.

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Book SynopsisFrederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war. Ernest Hemingway spares nothing in his denunciation of the horrors of combat, yet vividly depicts the courage shown by so many. In writing A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway was inspired by his own wartime experience as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. First published in 1929, the novel made his name and remains one of his finest works. This stunning edition features an afterword by Ned Halley.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

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Book SynopsisWit and intelligence are the hallmarks of this probing portrait of the English character. And in this story of extreme contrasts—in values, social class, and cultural perspectives—an unconventional romantic relationship leads to conventional happiness in a delightful social comedy. While touring Italy with her overbearing cousin, well-bred Lucy Honeychurch falls in love with the handsome but entirely unsuitable George Emerson, only to become engaged to the haughty Cecil Vyse. But Lucy is lured away from the conventions of upper-middle-class Edwardian society by her yearnings for the clerk she left behind. A Room with a View satirizes the English notion of respectability—and remains Forster’s most beloved novel and a twentieth-century classic.

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Book SynopsisWritten 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...This 75th Anniversary Edition includes:• A New Introduction by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Take My Hand, winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Fiction • A New Afterword by Sandra Newman, author of Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think

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