Classic fiction: literary and general
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Modern Chivalry
Book SynopsisRelating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O Regan, this novel covers the major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issues of the twenty-eight year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison.Trade Review"Modern Chivalry is a singularly rich and undeniably important American novel, and Ed White's magnificent new edition does it superb credit. It is at once a bold literary experiment and an incisive social document; its formal adventurousness is matched by its searching political commentary. White's meticulous editing and annotation, and his superb Introduction and interpretive apparatus, make this an edition that will be greatly useful in the classroom as well as magnificently informative and challenging for scholars. Most important, it returns to print in beautiful form a deeply fascinating and wonderfully confounding early American literary masterpiece, one of the truly great American books. Henry Adams aptly called it 'a satire on democracy written by a democrat,' celebrated its 'genuine and original qualities,' and said it was 'more thoroughly American than any book yet published.' Modern Chivalry's capacious humor, epic ambition, and trenchant political satire make it not only intellectually fascinating but also wickedly enjoyable." --Christopher Looby, Department of English, UCLAOne of the most compelling arguments for reading Modern Chivarly is that it brings a situational immediacy to historical figures, issues, and decisions for twenty-first-century students that they might not otherwise have available to them. This new print edition makes an important era of American history and literature available to the reading public. . . . [A] major addition to early American studies. --Janice McIntire-Strasburg, Department of English and Writing Program Director, Saint Louis University, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
£31.49
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Modern Chivalry
Book SynopsisRelating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O Regan, this novel covers the major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issues of the twenty-eight year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison.Trade Review"Modern Chivalry is a singularly rich and undeniably important American novel, and Ed White's magnificent new edition does it superb credit. It is at once a bold literary experiment and an incisive social document; its formal adventurousness is matched by its searching political commentary. White's meticulous editing and annotation, and his superb Introduction and interpretive apparatus, make this an edition that will be greatly useful in the classroom as well as magnificently informative and challenging for scholars. Most important, it returns to print in beautiful form a deeply fascinating and wonderfully confounding early American literary masterpiece, one of the truly great American books. Henry Adams aptly called it 'a satire on democracy written by a democrat,' celebrated its 'genuine and original qualities,' and said it was 'more thoroughly American than any book yet published.' Modern Chivalry's capacious humor, epic ambition, and trenchant political satire make it not only intellectually fascinating but also wickedly enjoyable." --Christopher Looby, Department of English, UCLAOne of the most compelling arguments for reading Modern Chivarly is that it brings a situational immediacy to historical figures, issues, and decisions for twenty-first-century students that they might not otherwise have available to them. This new print edition makes an important era of American history and literature available to the reading public. . . . [A] major addition to early American studies. --Janice McIntire-Strasburg, Department of English and Writing Program Director, Saint Louis University, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
£73.94
Cornell University Press Industrial Valley
Book SynopsisThis novel vividly portrays an industrial city crippled by the country's economic failures and also provides a stirring example of fiction predicated on social and political principlesTrade ReviewThis is reporting with a purpose; it is fact selected to provide illumination, not fact reported as a record of rainfall, and the result is brilliant history. * New Masses *Industrial Valley is perhaps the best American example of proletarian literature. Even though it is based completely on fact, I also offer it as one of our best collective novels. * New Republic *For sheer dramatic excitement, for effective organization as a story, there isn't one among all the strike novels to match this essentially true story. * New York Herald Tribune *Vividly portrays an industrial city crippled by the country's economic failures and also provides a stirring example of fiction predicated on social and political principles. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Daniel Nelson To Begin With Book One: JANUARY 1, 1932, TO JUNE 16, 1933 Book Two: JUNE 26, 1933, TO FEBRUARY 14, 1936 Book Three: FEBRUARY 14, 1936, TO MARCH 21, 1936 And Three Years After
£22.49
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Call of the Wild
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£9.49
Academy Chicago Publishers The Old Wives Tale
Book SynopsisA story which traces the fortunes of two sisters over three generations.Trade ReviewThreaded with wry and ironical observations on the Victorian age. -- NYTBR.
£18.86
The New York Review of Books, Inc Mary Olivier
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£13.46
The Library of America James Fenimore Cooper Sea Tales LOA 54 The Pilot
Book SynopsisIn The Pilot (1824) and The Red Rover (1828), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Collected here in a single Library of America volume, they are among his finest works. Bold, vigorous, original, each is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty and power of the seafaring life. Cooper drew on his direct knowledge of ships and sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea than had ever before achieved in literature. As a boy of seventeen he had sailed before the mast on a merchantman bound from New York to London and then to Spain. On board he experienced the life of a common seaman, learned the craft of sailing, encountered terrifying storms, was chased by pirates, and watched the impressment of crew members by a British man-of-war. He later served as an officer in the United States Navy.The Pilot is loosely based upon stories of John Paul Jones’s daring hit-
£27.89
Black Dot Publishing Ltd Sleep Tight
£10.66
£14.20
Noumena Press The Human Comedy Vol I At the Sign of The Cat Racket and Other Works Noumena Classics 1
£17.59
£17.59
Noumena-Press Obermann Noumena Classics
£17.59
£17.59
Whitlock Publishing Dene Hollow
£18.52
Whitlock Publishing Danesbury House
£16.56
Valancourt Books The Magic Ring Valancourt Classics
£20.54
Valancourt Books The Impenetrable Secret Find It Out Gothic Classics
£18.57
Urdu Project Hoshruba The Land and the Tilism
£999.99
Valancourt Books Round the Red Lamp and Other Medical Writings
£19.56
Valancourt Books The Magic Goblet A Swedish Tale Valancourt Classics
£21.53
Press 53 Carolina Classics Editions Move Over Mountain 50th Anniversary Edition
£15.95
Murine Communications The Picture of Dorian Grey
£13.59
Thoughts Alive LLC The Jackrabbit Factor Why You Can
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£999.99
Ancient Wisdom Publications Siddhartha An Indian Tale
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£17.58
Contra Mundum Press Marginalia on Casanova St Orpheus Breviary I
£16.42
Skomlin Royal Highness
£14.00
Skomlin One Mans Initiation 1917
£12.40
Skomlin Pty Ltd Pierre and Luce
£12.40
Skomlin Hell
£14.12
Michael Walmer Loves Shadow
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£14.20
Michael Walmer Inclinations
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£11.74
Michael Walmer Squire Hellman
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£10.95
Michael Walmer Reginald in Russia
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£9.95
Michael Walmer Kings in Exile
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£19.76
Michael Walmer The Limit
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£14.20
Legare Street Press I Promessi Sposi
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£28.45
Pan Macmillan The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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£13.49
Random House USA Inc Paris Stories
Book SynopsisParis Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores, and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eyewitness account of the horrors and glories of the French Revolution. Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the growing metropolis’s teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle its glittering literary circles; and Huysmans describes a memorable evening at the Folies Bergère. Colette recounts the sensual adventures of a young girl in the decadent Paris of the early twentieth century, while F. Scott Fitzgerald revels in its urban glamour. Jean Rhys’s lost heroines wander from café to café, James Baldwin celebrates the city’s sexual freedoms, and Raym
£14.40
Random House USA Inc Giovannis Room
Book SynopsisSet among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction (The Atlantic). • Presented here in stunning hardcover and with an Introduction by Colm Tóibín, New York Times bestselling author of The Master.David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella’s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night—“the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.” With sharp, probing insight, Giovanni's Room tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
£22.80
Random House USA Inc Wedding Stories Everymans Library Pocket Classics
Book SynopsisA bouquet of great wedding stories--by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet, and romantic--by famous writers from across the past two centuries. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Lorrie Moore, and from Stephen Crane to Edwidge Danticat. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS.The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, O. Henry's The Marry Month of May, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Bridal Party, Joy Williams's The Wedding, and Lorrie Moore's Thank You For Having Me--encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both heartwarming and heartbreaking. There are glamorous weddings in Paris and New York, and more eccentric ones in the Wild West and on a remote island beach. There are nervous brides, forgetful grooms, meddling guests, interrupted nuptials, second thoughts, and second chances. Above all, there are all kinds of people--young and old, rich and poor, divorced and widowed
£12.33
Random House USA Inc Selected Stories Everymans Library Pocket
Book SynopsisA beautifully jacketed hardcover selection of 53 darkly witty, whimsical, and macabre short stories by an acknowledged master of the form.Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived plots and surprise endings, his stories gleefully skewer the pompous hypocrisies of upper class Edwardian society. But they go beyond mere satire, raising dark humor to extremes of entertaining outrageousness that have rarely since been matched. Saki's elegantly mischievous young heroes sow chaos in their wake without breaking a sweat, and are occasionally joined by werewolves, tigers, eavesdropping house pets, and casually murderous children. This selection includes such famous stories as Tobermory, The Open Window, Sredni Vashtar, Mrs. Packletide's Tiger, The Schartz-Metterklume Method, and many more.
£20.00
Random House USA Inc Venice Stories
Book SynopsisA gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers.The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's haunting Don't Look Now, Anthony Trollope's wartime romance The Last Austrian Who Left Venice, Vernon Lee's spine-chilling A Wicked Voice, and a scene from The Wings of the Dove, Henry James's tale of passion and betrayal in a Gothic palazzo on the Grand Canal. The famed Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova weighs in with escapades from his notorious Memoirs, alongside enthralling selections by Baron Corvo, Marcel Proust, Camillo Boito, and Jeanette Winterson. In its multifaceted portrait of La Serenissima, Venice Stories showcases a lineup of literary classics worthy of the magnificent city they celebrate.
£17.69
Random House USA Inc Collected Stories Everymans Library Contemporary
Book SynopsisA beautiful hardcover edition of the collected short stories of one of the best short story writers who ever lived (Newsweek)—with an introduction by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.Widely known for her extraordinary novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of twentieth-century writers equally through her short fiction. This collection includes seventy-nine magnificent stories written over the course of four decades, including such beloved classics as “Mysterious Kôr,” “The Demon Lover,” “Summer Night,” “Ivy Gripped the Steps,” and “The Happy Autumn Fields.” Whether placing her reader in a remote Irish castle or a seaside Italian villa or bomb-scarred London during the Blitz, Bowen was famous for scene setting of almost hallucinatory vividness, but
£25.50
Random House USA Inc The Best of Tagore
Book SynopsisA generous one-volume selection of the best and most important works—poems, songs, stories, essays, novellas, and novels—by the prolific Bard of Bengal, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.Rabindranath Tagore published his first volume of poetry as a teenager and went on to become a towering figure of Bengali and world literature, celebrated for his innovations in poetry, prose, drama, and music.Tagore was remarkably productive over his long life; his complete works fill many volumes and include sixty collections of verse and more than two thousand songs, two of which have become the national anthems of India and of Bangladesh. His themes were as varied as his forms, including love, politics, humor, appreciation for the beauty of nature, and a profound sympathy for the perspectives of women, children, and the poor. The Best of Tagore offers a representative overview of his work, including his best-known novel, The Hom
£999.99
Random House USA Inc The House on Mango Street
Book Synopsis A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK NATIONAL BESTSELLER? A 40th anniversary hardcover edition of Sandra Cisneros?s beloved coming-of-age novel about a young girl growing up in Chicago, with a new introduction by John Phillip Santos?Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world?from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.?Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.??The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. ?In English my name means hope,? she says. ?In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting.Told in a series of vignettes?sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous?Cisneros?s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis?s Main Street or Toni Morrison?s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one?s story and of being proud of where you''re from.Everyman?s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author?s life and times.
£20.80
Random House USA Inc Mrs. Osmond
Book SynopsisThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady—in this masterful novel of betrayal, corruption, and moral ambiguity. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, penniless, and—as Isabel finds out too late—cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond. Here Banville imagines Isabel’s second chapter telling the story of a woman reawakened by grief and the knowledge that she has been grievously wronged, and determined to resume her quest for freedom and independence.
£15.26
Cambridge University Press Nostromo
Book SynopsisThe newest addition to the widely-acclaimed Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, this edition offers scholars for the first time an authoritative text of Nostromo, free from the interference of typists, compositors and editors, and features a thorough introduction and informative textual essay.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.
£94.99
Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin The Hope Chest
Book SynopsisA graceful, moving, emotionally impactful read. Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in The RainSaugatuck, MI, springs to life in this nostalgic, gentle story of lifelong love along with the emotional support and care that families and friends can provide. Library JournalThe discovery of one woman's heirloom hope chest unveils precious memories and helps three people who have each lost a part of themselves find joy once again.Ever since she was diagnosed with ALS, fiercely independent Mattie doesn't feel like herself. She can't navigate her beloved home, she can't go for a boat ride, and she can barely even feed herself. Her devoted husband, Don, doesn't want to imagine life without his wife of nearly fifty years, but Mattie isn't likely to make it past their anniversary. But when Rose, Mattie's new caretaker, and her young daughter, Jeri, enter the couple's life, happiness and the possibilit
£15.19
