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Freydis Moon Publishing Heart, Haunt, Havoc
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Aude Classics Lady Chatterley's Lover
£16.14
Faceless Syndicate Il grande Gatsby: Edizione in onice
£15.06
Bibliotech Press Through Russia
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Mint Editions The Counterfeiters
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The University of Chicago Press The Complete Tales
Book SynopsisThis new two-volume edition should do something for increasing Gogol's fame as the most original, imaginative, and exuberant of all Russian writers, as the greatest comedian and humorist among a rather solemn lot.--Rene Wellek, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsPreface About the Translation Table of Nineteenth-Century Russian Civil and Military Ranks Evenings on a Farm in Dikanka, I Preface The Fair at Sorochinstsy St. John's Eve A May Night, or the Drowned Maiden The Lost Letter Evenings on a Farm in Dikanka, II Preface Christmas Eve A Terrible Vengeance Ivan Fiodorovich Shponka and His Aunt A Bewitched Place Arabesques Nevsky Prospekt Diary of a Madman
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Ritter Gluck The Golden Pot The Sandman Councillor Krespel The Mines of Falun Mademoiselle de Scudéri The Doubles
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Tales of Ancient India
Book SynopsisThis admirably produced and well-translated volume of stories from the Sanskrit takes the Western reader into one of the Golden Ages of India. . . . The world in which the tales are set is one which placed a premium upon slickness and guile as aids to success. . . . Merchants, aristocrats, Brahmins, thieves and courtesans mingle with vampires, demi-gods and the hierarchy of heaven in a series of lively or passionate adventures. The sources of the individual stories are clearly indicated; the whole treatment is scholarly without being arid.The Times Literary Supplement Fourteen tales from India, newly translated with a terse and vibrant effectiveness. These tales will appeal to any reader who enjoys action, suspense, characterization, and suspension of disbelief in the supernatural.The Personalist
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Secret Leaves The Novels of Walter Scott Chicago
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Columbia University Press Light and Dark
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is Natsume Soseki's longest and most complex work, his most ambitious in terms of social description and psychological analysis, and his most intricately plotted. It is a book for the ages, a modernist masterpiece, masterfully translated. -- Alan Tansman, University of California, Berkeley With its dramatic expansion of the use of stream-of-consciousness narration, which Natsume Soseki had experimented with in previous novels, Light and Dark is a landmark in world literature. This new rendering by one of the very best translators of Japanese fiction reintroduces this modern masterpiece to a twenty-first-century audience. -- Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago Light and Dark is the greatest novel by modern Japan's greatest novelist. What Natsume Soseki achieved in this, his last, work is a pure miracle: no other word can do justice to the irony and precision of his character delineations and the gripping reality of his portrayal of a Japan in transition. Thanks to John Nathan's fine new translation, literature lovers everywhere can finally share in savoring this treasure, a detailed and unforgiving limning of love and marriage, faith and betrayal. -- Minae Mizumura, author of A True Novel and The Fall of the Japanese Language in the Age of English Natsume Soseki's Light and Dark is one of the most gripping novels in modern Japanese literature. It represents a historical turning point in the development of Japanese fiction. John Nathan, a distinguished translator, has produced a masterful rendition that captures the subtle nuances of the original. -- Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, author of Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons An enduring masterpiece. Times Literary Supplement Unusual, in several respects, Light and Dark is nevertheless an accomplished work of art and a fascinating example of Japanese fiction of its time. -- M.A. Orthofer Complete Review Light and Dark is a masterful novel, and Nathan's is a superior translation. For readers of Japanese literature it will be enlightening as it is one of the most important modern Japanese novels that inspired a rich literary tradition. Asian Review of Books A pitch-perfect new translation by John Nathan. Public CultureTable of ContentsIntroduction A Note on the Translation Light and Dark
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Columbia University Press Light and Dark
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is Natsume Soseki's longest and most complex work, his most ambitious in terms of social description and psychological analysis, and his most intricately plotted. It is a book for the ages, a modernist masterpiece, masterfully translated. -- Alan Tansman, University of California, Berkeley With its dramatic expansion of the use of stream-of-consciousness narration, which Natsume Soseki had experimented with in previous novels, Light and Dark is a landmark in world literature. This new rendering by one of the very best translators of Japanese fiction reintroduces this modern masterpiece to a twenty-first-century audience. -- Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago Light and Dark is the greatest novel by modern Japan's greatest novelist. What Natsume Soseki achieved in this, his last, work is a pure miracle: no other word can do justice to the irony and precision of his character delineations and the gripping reality of his portrayal of a Japan in transition. Thanks to John Nathan's fine new translation, literature lovers everywhere can finally share in savoring this treasure, a detailed and unforgiving limning of love and marriage, faith and betrayal. -- Minae Mizumura, author of A True Novel and The Fall of the Japanese Language in the Age of English Natsume Soseki's Light and Dark is one of the most gripping novels in modern Japanese literature. It represents a historical turning point in the development of Japanese fiction. John Nathan, a distinguished translator, has produced a masterful rendition that captures the subtle nuances of the original. -- Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, author of Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons An enduring masterpiece. Times Literary Supplement Unusual, in several respects, Light and Dark is nevertheless an accomplished work of art and a fascinating example of Japanese fiction of its time. -- M.A. Orthofer Complete Review Light and Dark is a masterful novel, and Nathan's is a superior translation. For readers of Japanese literature it will be enlightening as it is one of the most important modern Japanese novels that inspired a rich literary tradition. Asian Review of Books A pitch-perfect new translation by John Nathan. Public CultureTable of ContentsIntroduction A Note on the Translation Light and Dark
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Indiana University Press Lucian Satirical Sketches
Book SynopsisThough Lucian's tendency to debunk everything might well have made him depressing reading, his light-hearted fantasy and wit have always had the opposite effect. These sketches present him primarily as a humorous writer.Trade Review" ... welcome and timely. It is written in crisp, idiomatic, conversational English, not hobbled by slavish imitation of Lucians Greek syntax." The Key ReporterTable of ContentsIntroductionTalksThe DreamZeuxisSketchesConversations in Low SocietyMother Knows BestThe Language of True LoveThe Results of Shooting a LineConversations in High SocietyThe New Sleeping PartnerZeus is IndisposedThe Reluctant ParentA Beauty CompetitionConversations in the UnderworldNo Baggage AllowanceMenippus Gets Away With ItA Slight Change of SexHow To Enjoy Life After SeventyCharon Sees LifeMenippus Goes to HellIcaromenippusAn Interview with HesiodSome Awkward Questions for ZeusPhilosophies Going CheapFishing for PhoniesThe Pathological LiarStoriesAlexanderThe True HistoryNotesGlossary
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University of Notre Dame Press Adams Curse
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WW Norton & Co Sindbad And Other Stories From the Arabian Nights
Book SynopsisNow as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories.Trade Review"Haddawy's translation is easily the clearest, most fluent and readable I have met." A.S. Byatt, The Sunday Times "The resourceful Shahrazad... has never been more entertaining than in this fresh and vigorous version of this immortal book." Doris Lessing, Favourite Books of the Year, The Independent"
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WW Norton & Co Heart of Darkness
Book Synopsis“[A] triumph of graphic art [and] a compelling work of literary interpretation.”—Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University, from the ForewordTrade Review"Peter Kuper’s art style is a force to be reckoned with. His sense of expression sears itself into your eyes, with his characters appearing as if caught in a psychedelic nightmare. His style remains intact with his latest work—Heart of Darkness." -- Starburst
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WW Norton & Co Emma
Book SynopsisFamously described by the author as a heroine whom no one but myself will much like, Emma Woodhouse is wealthy and charming, and she delights in interfering with the romantic relationships within her communitythough she herself has no desire to marry. As her meddling begins to bear consequences, however, Emma must come to terms with her responsibility and decide on her place in the world. With inimitable wit and incisive social commentary, Austen evokes a complex prism of relational connection and a richness of ordinary life that unfolds from the small world of her most extraordinary heroine.
£9.67
WW Norton & Co The House of the Seven Gables
Book Synopsis“The notes and the annotations in this and other Norton volumes most influence my decision in choosing this text. I thought the volume excellent. My students commented that it was very helpful.” —Margaret Murray, Western Connecticut State University
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WW Norton & Co Wuthering Heights
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Heavenly Twins
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Princeton University Press Eugene Onegin
Book SynopsisThe description for this book, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"Nabokov's translation and commentary, taken together, can best be considered as a sui generis work of art--perhaps his ultimate masterpiece."--J. Thomas Shaw, Slavic and East European Journal
£46.75
Princeton University Press A Preface to Chaucer
Book SynopsisWhat were the medieval stylistic, aesthetic, and literary conventions that Chancer drew upon and knew that his audience would understand? In this rich study Mr. Robertson has included 118 illustrations-of medieval sculpture, cathedral interiors, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, ornamental devices and decorations-to show how these conventions affTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*Illustrations, pg. xiii*I. Introduction: Medieval and Modern Art, pg. 1*II. Some Principles of Medieval Aesthetics, pg. 52*III. Late Medieval Style, pg. 138*IV. Allegory, Humanism, and Literary Theory, pg. 286*V. Some Medieval Doctrines of Love, pg. 391*Index, pg. 505*Plates, pg. 523
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Voltaire Foundation Candide Les Oeuvres Compltes de Voltaire Vol 48
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 20B Mahomet Oeuvres
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 57B Contes de
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University of Nebraska Press A Lost Lady
Book SynopsisDescribes the origin, writing, and reception of the novel, "The Lost Lady". This essay features photographs that illuminate the connection between the novel and the people and places from the author's formative years in Nebraska.Trade Review"This 1923 novel is among the best examples of Cather's experiment with minimalism and one of her finest works overall. As such, it deserves an edition produced to the highest standards of textual scholarship. It has found one here."-Choice Choice
£14.24
Stanford University Press Epic of Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisSince the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia, following him through adventures and encounters with men and gods alike. Yet the central concerns of the Epic lie deeper than the lively and exotic storyline: they revolve around a man''s eternal struggle with the limitations of human nature, and encompass the basic human feelings of loneliness, friendship, love, loss, revenge, and the fear of the oblivion of death. These themes are developed in a distinctly Mesopotamian idiom, to be sure, but with a sensitivity and intensity that touch the modern reader across the chasm of three thousand years. This translation presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative. Table of ContentsA note to the reader; A note on the translation; Introduction; The epic of Gilgamesh; Appendixes.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Desert and Its Seed
Book SynopsisAn undiscovered modern Argentinian classic, based on the tragic lives of the renowned Raúl Barón Biza (a wealthy politician and notorious writer) and his wife Rosa Clotilde SabattiniTrade Review"A marvel." -- Will Noah - 4Columns"A provocative, meticulous novel that’s both utterly repulsive and morbidly fascinating." -- Booklist"Elegant prose." -- Publisher Weekly"The Desert and Its Seed chronicles the aftermath of an attack identical to the one that Baron Biza's father perpetrated against his mother. Baron Biza maintains [a] mixture of unflinching scrutiny and cool lyricism through the novel. It feels strikingly of the moment, as a resurgent feminist movement draws attention to the wide scope of misogyny." -- Alejandro Chacoff - The New Yorker"An emotionally (and physically) harrowing account of isolation, violence, and hypocrisy." -- Tobias Carroll - Words Without Borders"A cult masterpiece. The author has been compared to Joyce and Proust." -- Enrique Vila-Matas"Grips and perturbs the reader simultaneously." -- Les Monde des Livres"A great novel." -- Alejandro Zambra"A sublime explosion that results from an unpredictable art." -- El Pais"An Argentinian masterpiece." -- La Stampa
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Book SynopsisLaurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is narrated by the title character in a series of digressions and interruptions that purportedly show the ""life and opinions"" – part of the novel's full title – of Tristram.
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
Book SynopsisFilled with thought-provoking ideas and marked by an open, conversational writing style, Tristram Shandy: A Book for Free Spirits is an adroit guide to understanding the aims and achievements of Sterne's masterpiece and to fully appreciating its lessons for contemporary times.
£48.60
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Gentle
Book SynopsisAs its title suggests, this book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his life story. But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale, to the extent that Tristram's own birth is not even reached until Volume III.
£43.22
University of Hawai'i Press Youth and Other Stories SHAPS Library of
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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
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University of Minnesota Press Graziella: A Novel
Book SynopsisIn its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman’s erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period In 1812 Alphonse de Lamartine, a young man of means, traveled through southern Italy, where, during a sojourn in Naples, he fell in love with a young woman who worked in a cigar factory—and whose death after he returned to France would haunt him throughout his writing life. Graziella, Lamartine called this lost girl in his poetry and memoirs—and also in Graziella, a novel that closely follows the story of his own romance.“When I was eighteen,” the narrator begins, as if penning his memoir, “my family entrusted me to the care of a relative whose business affairs called her to Tuscany.” The tale that unfolds, of the young man’s amorous experiences amid the natural grandeur and subtle splendors of the Italian countryside, is one of the finest works of fiction in the French Romantic tradition, a bildungsroman that is also a melancholy portrait of the artist as a young man discovering the muse who would both inspire and elude him.Remarkable for its contemplative prose, its dreamy passions and seductive drawing of the Italian landscape, and its place in the Romantic canon, Graziella is a timeless portrait of love, chronicling the remorse and the misguided ideals of youth that find their expression, if not their amends, in art.Trade Review"In a new translation and with contextual notes and an introduction by MacKenzie, Lamartine's story comes to us afresh." —Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsTranslator’s IntroductionRaymond N. MackenzieGraziellaChronologyAppendix from Lamartine’s Mémoires inédits, 1790–1815Translator’s Notes
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University of Minnesota Press Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence
Book SynopsisThe second volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century As Norway moves into the fourteenth century, the kingdom continues to be racked by political turmoil and bloody family vendettas that serve as the backdrop for Sigrid Undset’s masterful story about Olav Audunssøn and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter. Betrothed as children and raised as foster siblings, their unbridled love for each other sets in motion a series of dire events—with a legacy of betrayal, murder, and disgrace that will echo for generations. In Providence, the second of Olav Audunssøn’s four volumes, Olav settles in at his ancestral estate of Hestviken and soon brings Ingunn home as his wife. Both hope to put their troubles behind them as they start a new life together, but the crimes and shameful secrets of the past have a long reach and a tenacious hold. The consequences of sin, suspicion, and familial obligations may prove a greater threat to the pair’s happiness than even their long years of separation.Set in a time when royalty and religion vie for power, and bloodlines and loyalties are effectively law, Providence summons a powerful picture of Northern life in the medieval era, as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding Undset the Nobel Prize. Conveying both the intimate drama of Olav and Ingunn’s marriage and the epic sweep of their story, it is at once a moving and vivid recreation of a vanished world tainted by bloodshed and haunted by sin and retribution. As with her classic Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset immersed herself in legal, religious, and historical writings to create in Olav Audunssøn an astoundingly authentic and compelling portrait of Norwegian life in the Middle Ages. And as in her translation of Kristin Lavransdatter, Tiina Nunnally does full justice to Undset’s fluid prose. Undset’s writing style is by turns straightforward and delicately lyrical, conveying the natural world, the complex culture, and the fraught emotional territory against which Olav’s story inexorably unfolds.Table of ContentsContentsTranslator’s NoteMap of Olav and Ingunn’s NorwayGenealogy and KinshipOlav Audunssøn’s HappinessHoly Days and Canonical HoursNotes
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Nolten the Painter: A Novella in Two Parts
Book SynopsisFirst English translation of Mörike's strikingly modern artist-novel of 1832. When one thinks of German artist-novels and Bildungsromane, works long available in translation come to mind--by Goethe, Novalis, Hoffmann, Stifter, Keller, or more recently by Mann, Kafka, Musil, or Grass. Yet Eduard Mörike's provocatively subtitled Maler Nolten: Novelle in zwei Teilen (Nolten the Painter: A Novella in Two Parts, 1832) has remained neglected and misunderstood, and until now has never been translated into English, despite itsobvious ties to other artist-novels and its striking modernity in playing with conventions of narrative authority and heroic identity. Witness the subtle irony of the opening sequence, in which the narrator is subverted by hintsat his own clumsiness and intimations about the dire truths that lurk behind the protagonist Nolten's relationships to his male friends and to the seductive yet somehow frightening women in his life. Or the interplay between the narrator's attempts to make sense of Nolten's complex inner motivations in his loves and art and the ludicrously pompous pathos with which Nolten persists in speaking and thinking, as he concocts a heroic persona caught up in passion, intrigue, and tragedy. Fascinating too is the mysterious trail of the "Grenzgänger," or border-line characters, with their hints at the dimension of "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" that seems to threaten and at the same time tofoster the complex unfolding of the realities of life and art that defy Nolten's all-too-artful "mastery." Raleigh Whitinger is Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of Alberta.Table of ContentsIntroduction Notes on the Translation Part One Part Two Notes
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University of South Carolina Press Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang: Originally
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WW Norton & Co Aladdin: A New Translation
Book SynopsisLong defined by film adaptations that have portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagination—and occasionally dark themes—now comes to vibrant new life. “In the capital of one of China’s vast and wealthy kingdoms”, begins Shahrazad, there lived Aladdin, a rebellious fifteen-year-old who falls prey to a double-crossing sorcerer and is ultimately saved by a princess. One of the best-loved folktales of all time, Aladdin has been capturing the imagination of readers, illustrators and filmmakers since an eighteenth-century French publication first added the tale to The Arabian Nights. Here is an elegant, eminently readable rendition of Aladdin in what is destined to be a classic for decades to come.Trade Review"It’s not every day you come across a new translation of The Arabian Nights, but the French Syrian writer, Yasmine Seale, has rendered afresh the 18th-century version of Aladdin by Antoine Galland, and has done a cracking job..." -- Family favourites: children’s books for Christmas reviewed - The Spectator"... an elegant new version of Aladdin..." -- Times Literary Supplement"... a charming rendition of Aladdin..." -- The National
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WW Norton & Co Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel
Book Synopsis"I passed away at two o’clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas—at the end of the narrator’s life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis’ definitive work—a fact his narrator anticipated, bidding "good riddance" to the critic looking for a "run-of-the-mill-novel". Yet in this coruscating new translation, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado’s career, as his flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Brás Cubas describes his Rio de Janeiro childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his bachelor years of torrid affairs and his final days obsessing over nonsensical poultices. A novel that helped launch modernist fiction, Brás Cubas shines a direct light to Ulysses and Love in the Time of Cholera.Trade Review"One of the wittiest, most playful, and therefore most alive and ageless books ever written." -- Dave Eggers"An offbeat, invigorating classic is perfect reading for a morbid summer." -- The Economist
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Anneliese's House
Book SynopsisThe first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers. Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became famous for fiction and criticism that engaged provocatively with "the woman question." In recent years, the author's literary treatment of the challenges facing women in a patriarchal society has awakened renewed interest. Anneliese's House is the first English translation of her last and most masterful work of fiction, the 1921 Das Haus: Familiengeschichte vom Ende vorigen Jahrhunderts (The House: A Family Story from the End of the Nineteenth Century). Anneliese Branhardt, the book's protagonist, long ago renounced a career as a pianist to raise a family with her physician husband, Frank. She worries about her son Balduin - an aspiring poet modeled on Rilke - and about her equally free-spirited daughter Gitta. She is haunted by memories of a daughter who died in childhood and anxious about a risky, late pregnancy. With her domestic harmony threatened by her own stirrings of autonomy and her children's growing independence, Anneliese finds the future both frightening and promising. The edition is fully annotated, with a critical introduction and bibliography.Trade ReviewThis translation makes Andreas-Salomé's last novel accessible to English speakers and offers an important addition to the growing body of critical work on the author. [...] With Anneliese's House, Beck and Whitinger pave the way for broadening insight into the emancipatory significance of her fiction. * FEMINIST GERMAN STUDIES *This intricate psychological novel . . . is about the house of happiness we can build for ourselves and how that deeply human vision sits with nature. [It is] surely the best of her fiction and deserves to be read widely. -- Lesley Chamberlain * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Frank Beck and Raleigh Whitinger deserve praise both for rendering precise, intricate sentences from German into English, and for deciding that this novel deserves attention. -- Declan O'Driscoll * IRISH TIMES *Unfolding largely within the titular house, Lou Andreas-Salomé's last novel delicately probes a German bourgeois family on the cusp of a new era. As it renders the inner turmoil of parents and young adult children who sometimes remain opaque even to themselves, the text gently insists on the sustaining goodwill of love in the face of inevitable social change, disappointment, passing time, and mortality. As a subtly complex response to modern times, Anneliese's House-in this finely worded translation-proves the capacities, nuance, and significance of literary evocations of marriage and family. * Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis *Anneliese's House gives invaluable insight into Lou Salomé's thoughts on the complicated process of relationship between the sexes. This makes it an important book in considering her own relationships with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud. It is translated with subtlety and sensitivity. * Sue Prideaux, author of I am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche *A wonderfully lucid and elegant translation and a must-read not only for literary scholars but also for social historians for its evocative treatment of the "woman question" and family relationships in the early twentieth century. * Erika Rummel, Professor Emerita of History, Wilfrid Laurier University *A Nietzschean ode to love, marriage, and motherhood, Lou Andreas-Salomé's last novel is finally available in English. Accompanied by an informative introduction and extensive notes, this well-wrought translation captures the psychological nuance and exuberance of the original's bourgeois critique of turn-of-the-century German patriarchy and its incipient anti-Semitism. * Susan Ingram, York University *Salomé's final novel is shot through with a critical eye for the fractured realities of the time and can be read alongside her famously insightful work on Ibsen or Freud. The sharp dialogue, brilliant characterisation and architectural acuity are lovingly translated by Beck and Whitinger to make this essential reading for those interested in twentieth-century German literature and the vital recovery of major women writers. * Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature, New College, Oxford *This first translation into English should reach a wide, international readership. [It] is readable, thoroughly considered and researched, and could serve as a model for those interested in translation studies. Beck and Whitinger's erudite introduction presents their translation philosophy, which includes bringing their readers to the foreign text by preserving elements of German language and culture (lviii-lix). Their extensive endnotes contribute an impressive amount of context and clarification to Salomé's narrative. -- Susan C. Anderson * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Biographical Sketch The Critical Fortunes of Andreas-Salomé and Das Haus Grasping the Novel: Interpretive Trends and Points to Ponder Works Cited Translators' Note and Acknowledgments Anneliese's House Part One Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Part Two Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Marylin: A Novel of Passing
Book SynopsisOffers a European view of racial attitudes in the US during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow, with relevance to today's Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. Marylin, a novel by the Austrian writer Arthur Rundt about a mixed-race woman passing as white, moves from Chicago to New York City and concludes tragically on a Caribbean island. First published in 1928 and now translated into English, it offers a European view of racial attitudes in the US during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow. Rundt's short but powerful novel touches several vital issues in society today, engaging each in a way that prompts further examination and cross-fertilization. First, it sheds historical light on what has become painfully obvious in the Black Lives Matter era (if it wasn't before): the continued injustice experienced by Blacks in America as an effect of structural racism. Second, it confronts issues of migration and hybrid identities. Third, it has relevance for Women's Studies through the title character's interaction with the patriarchy. Through these connections, it responds to a growing current in German Studies concerned with diversity and inclusion and integrating the discipline into the broader humanities. An introduction and an afterword, both of them extensive and scholarly, contextualize the novel in its time and as it relates to ours.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction - Peter Hoeyng and Chauncey J. Mellor Marylin Afterword - Priscilla D. Layne
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Anneliese's House
Book SynopsisThe first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers. Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became famous for fiction and criticism that engaged provocatively with "the woman question." In recent years, the author's literary treatment of the challenges facing women in a patriarchal society has awakened renewed interest. Anneliese's House is the first English translation of her last and most masterful work of fiction, the 1921 Das Haus: Familiengeschichte vom Ende vorigen Jahrhunderts (The House: A Family Story from the End of the Nineteenth Century). Anneliese Branhardt, the book's protagonist, long ago renounced a career as a pianist to raise a family with her physician husband, Frank. She worries about her son Balduin - an aspiring poet modeled on Rilke - and about her equally free-spirited daughter Gitta. She is haunted by memories of a daughter who died in childhood and anxious about a risky, late pregnancy. With her domestic harmony threatened by her own stirrings of autonomy and her children's growing independence, Anneliese finds the future both frightening and promising. The edition is fully annotated, with a critical introduction and bibliography.Trade ReviewThis translation makes Andreas-Salomé's last novel accessible to English speakers and offers an important addition to the growing body of critical work on the author. [...] With Anneliese's House, Beck and Whitinger pave the way for broadening insight into the emancipatory significance of her fiction. * FEMINIST GERMAN STUDIES *This intricate psychological novel . . . is about the house of happiness we can build for ourselves and how that deeply human vision sits with nature. [It is] surely the best of her fiction and deserves to be read widely. -- Lesley Chamberlain * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Frank Beck and Raleigh Whitinger deserve praise both for rendering precise, intricate sentences from German into English, and for deciding that this novel deserves attention. -- Declan O'Driscoll * IRISH TIMES *Unfolding largely within the titular house, Lou Andreas-Salomé's last novel delicately probes a German bourgeois family on the cusp of a new era. As it renders the inner turmoil of parents and young adult children who sometimes remain opaque even to themselves, the text gently insists on the sustaining goodwill of love in the face of inevitable social change, disappointment, passing time, and mortality. As a subtly complex response to modern times, Anneliese's House-in this finely worded translation-proves the capacities, nuance, and significance of literary evocations of marriage and family. * Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis *Anneliese's House gives invaluable insight into Lou Salomé's thoughts on the complicated process of relationship between the sexes. This makes it an important book in considering her own relationships with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud. It is translated with subtlety and sensitivity. * Sue Prideaux, author of I am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche *A wonderfully lucid and elegant translation and a must-read not only for literary scholars but also for social historians for its evocative treatment of the "woman question" and family relationships in the early twentieth century. * Erika Rummel, Professor Emerita of History, Wilfrid Laurier University *A Nietzschean ode to love, marriage, and motherhood, Lou Andreas-Salomé's last novel is finally available in English. Accompanied by an informative introduction and extensive notes, this well-wrought translation captures the psychological nuance and exuberance of the original's bourgeois critique of turn-of-the-century German patriarchy and its incipient anti-Semitism. * Susan Ingram, York University *Salomé's final novel is shot through with a critical eye for the fractured realities of the time and can be read alongside her famously insightful work on Ibsen or Freud. The sharp dialogue, brilliant characterisation and architectural acuity are lovingly translated by Beck and Whitinger to make this essential reading for those interested in twentieth-century German literature and the vital recovery of major women writers. * Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature, New College, Oxford *This first translation into English should reach a wide, international readership. [It] is readable, thoroughly considered and researched, and could serve as a model for those interested in translation studies. Beck and Whitinger's erudite introduction presents their translation philosophy, which includes bringing their readers to the foreign text by preserving elements of German language and culture (lviii-lix). Their extensive endnotes contribute an impressive amount of context and clarification to Salomé's narrative. -- Susan C. Anderson * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Biographical Sketch The Critical Fortunes of Andreas-Salomé and Das Haus Grasping the Novel: Interpretive Trends and Points to Ponder Works Cited Translators' Note and Acknowledgments Anneliese's House Part One Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Part Two Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX
£23.74
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Mathilde Möhring
Book SynopsisThe first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still resonate today. Theodor Fontane hesitated to publish his late novel Mathilde Möhring because he believed it was too subtle and spare for the popular taste of the day. Published posthumously in 1906, its themes - corrosive economic precarity, the ambivalence of marriage for women, and the burden of work expectations for men - resonate uncannily with readers today. The heroine Mathilde and her mother cling to the underside of the lower middle class by renting out a room in their small Berlin apartment. Their new tenant seems to offer a path to middle-class security, so although marriage is not her first choice, Mathilde applies her shrewd understanding of class mores to pursue it - with results both triumphant and catastrophic. The last among Fontane's powerfully drawn female protagonists, Mathilde is unlike any previous heroine of a German novel: intelligent and energetic but plain and deeply pragmatic. We follow the fearless but flawed Mathilde from the bustling metropolis of Berlin to Woldenstein, a sleepy backwater town she single-handedly transforms, and back. Unknown in the English-speaking world, this compact work has the humor and pathos familiar to readers of Fontane, and is powerfully evocative of the politics of class, gender, and religion in late 19th-century Germany. An introduction, afterword, and extensive endnotes richly contextualize the work for both general readers and students of literature, history, gender studies, and German studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction - Rachael Huener Mathilde Möhring Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Notes Afterword - Helen Chambers
£55.80
Bucknell University Press,U.S. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of
Book SynopsisRobinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe revitalizes a classic text published three centuries ago. The scholarship displayed here--more than a decade in the making--provides full, expert annotation and an exhaustive textual collation. This is clearly the definitive edition, one that specialists and libraries alike will want to acquire." -- Anthony W. Lee * editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"Edited by a trio of distinguished Defoe scholars, the Stoke Newington edition of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a welcome addition to the field. With its learned and wide-ranging introduction, its dense contextual and interpretive annotations, and its extensive bibliographical and textual apparatus, the volume will serve as the basis for scholarship and criticism for decades to come." -- Benjamin Pauley * Eastern Connecticut State University *" This book does all that you could ask of a thoroughly scholarly work, but won’t deter any enquirer; its introduction is thorough, judicious and wise, its bibliographical apparatus refrains from crowding the story and authentic illustrations are expertly annotated. Crisp footnotes, on the right page, are thorough, responsible and concise." * Times Literary Supplement *"Bucknell Press is to be commended for reviving this excellent project....A fine edition that scholars will want to acquire." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe revitalizes a classic text published three centuries ago. The scholarship displayed here--more than a decade in the making--provides full, expert annotation and an exhaustive textual collation. This is clearly the definitive edition, one that specialists and libraries alike will want to acquire." -- Anthony W. Lee * editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"Edited by a trio of distinguished Defoe scholars, the Stoke Newington edition of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a welcome addition to the field. With its learned and wide-ranging introduction, its dense contextual and interpretive annotations, and its extensive bibliographical and textual apparatus, the volume will serve as the basis for scholarship and criticism for decades to come." -- Benjamin Pauley * Eastern Connecticut State University *" This book does all that you could ask of a thoroughly scholarly work, but won’t deter any enquirer; its introduction is thorough, judicious and wise, its bibliographical apparatus refrains from crowding the story and authentic illustrations are expertly annotated. Crisp footnotes, on the right page, are thorough, responsible and concise." * Times Literary Supplement *"Bucknell Press is to be commended for reviving this excellent project....A fine edition that scholars will want to acquire." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Headnote Introduction Critical Reputation Source in Defoe’s Writing and Other Authors Contemporary Influences on the Novel The Novel as Historical Fiction Philosophical and Social Themes Religion as a Formal Structure and Practice Colonial and Post-Colonial Themes Language, Style, and Fiction Selected Bibliography Works Consulted Before 1731 Works Consulted After 1731 Notes to HeadnoteThe Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Preface The Journal Bibliographic Descriptions Variants Introduction to the List of Variants List of Variants List of Works Consulted Line Notes About the Editors
£107.20
Bucknell University Press,U.S. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of
Book SynopsisRobinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe revitalizes a classic text published three centuries ago. The scholarship displayed here--more than a decade in the making--provides full, expert annotation and an exhaustive textual collation. This is clearly the definitive edition, one that specialists and libraries alike will want to acquire." -- Anthony W. Lee * editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"Edited by a trio of distinguished Defoe scholars, the Stoke Newington edition of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a welcome addition to the field. With its learned and wide-ranging introduction, its dense contextual and interpretive annotations, and its extensive bibliographical and textual apparatus, the volume will serve as the basis for scholarship and criticism for decades to come." -- Benjamin Pauley * Eastern Connecticut State University *" This book does all that you could ask of a thoroughly scholarly work, but won’t deter any enquirer; its introduction is thorough, judicious and wise, its bibliographical apparatus refrains from crowding the story and authentic illustrations are expertly annotated. Crisp footnotes, on the right page, are thorough, responsible and concise." * Times Literary Supplement *"Bucknell Press is to be commended for reviving this excellent project....A fine edition that scholars will want to acquire." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Headnote Introduction Critical Reputation Source in Defoe’s Writing and Other Authors Contemporary Influences on the Novel The Novel as Historical Fiction Philosophical and Social Themes Religion as a Formal Structure and Practice Colonial and Post-Colonial Themes Language, Style, and Fiction Selected Bibliography Works Consulted Before 1731 Works Consulted After 1731 Notes to HeadnoteThe Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Preface The Journal Bibliographic Descriptions Variants Introduction to the List of Variants List of Variants List of Works Consulted Line Notes About the Editors
£41.60
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Faust: A Tragedy, Part I
Book SynopsisGoethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such as Dante’s Inferno and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This is the first new translation into English since David Constantine’s 2005 version. Why another translation when there are several currently in print? To invoke Goethe’s own authority when speaking of his favorite author, Shakespeare, Goethe asserts that so much has already been said about the poet-dramatist “that it would seem there’s nothing left to say,” but adds, “yet it is the peculiar attribute of the spirit that it constantly motivates the spirit.” Goethe’s great dramatic poem continues to speak to us in new ways as we and our world continually change, and thus a new or updated translation is always necessary to bring to light Faust’s almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power. Eugene Stelzig’s new translation renders the text of the play in clear and crisp English for a contemporary undergraduate audience while at the same time maintaining its leading poetic features, including the use of rhyme. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade ReviewStelzig's translation is an excellent and unusually accessible introduction to Goethe's text for college students. Its dramatic prose with occasional rhyme catches the basic tone of Goethe's play and loosely follows the lineation of the original. Accurate and clear enough to stand on its own with minimal annotation, lively enough to keep students reading and to read aloud in class, it is a superb choice for world literature courses or for departmental courses in translation. -- Jane K. Brown * University of Washington *This exciting new translation of Goethe’s Faust brings the text to life for a contemporary audience. Stelzig’s 'flexible' approach to poetic translation is eminently successful: the complexity of the text is allowed to emerge without completely sacrificing its poetry. I highly recommend it--especially for the classroom and first-time English readers of Faust. -- Astrida Tantillo * University of Illinois at Chicago *"The renewing potential of translation—indeed, of any act of cultural transmission—lies at the heart of so many of Goethe’s works, and Stelzig has succeeded in crafting a vibrant English version of this masterpiece." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"This translation successfully captures the power of the text and maintains, as best as possible, fidelity to the original, even as the author has made many choices to produce a readable and quite modern Faust." * The Wordsworth Circle *"Stelzig’s translation succeeds in establishing this desired rapport between Goethe’s German text and English-speaking readers of the twenty-first century. By using contemporary but not overly colloquial language, by conveying some of the range of Goethe’s explicit and implicit meaning, and by creating a text with sonorous, poetic qualities, Stelzig has produced a translation that will make Goethe’s work accessible to a range of readers. It would certainly be appropriate for undergraduate literature courses; the scholarly apparatus (introduction and notes) is informative without being pedantic. The translation would, I think, also lend itself to use in theatrical performances." * European Romantic Review *"Stelzig has provided a solid, readable text of Faust I that should remain enjoyable and useful for a long while." * Goethe Yearbook *Stelzig's translation is an excellent and unusually accessible introduction to Goethe's text for college students. Its dramatic prose with occasional rhyme catches the basic tone of Goethe's play and loosely follows the lineation of the original. Accurate and clear enough to stand on its own with minimal annotation, lively enough to keep students reading and to read aloud in class, it is a superb choice for world literature courses or for departmental courses in translation. -- Jane K. Brown * University of Washington *This exciting new translation of Goethe’s Faust brings the text to life for a contemporary audience. Stelzig’s 'flexible' approach to poetic translation is eminently successful: the complexity of the text is allowed to emerge without completely sacrificing its poetry. I highly recommend it--especially for the classroom and first-time English readers of Faust. -- Astrida Tantillo * University of Illinois at Chicago *"The renewing potential of translation—indeed, of any act of cultural transmission—lies at the heart of so many of Goethe’s works, and Stelzig has succeeded in crafting a vibrant English version of this masterpiece." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"This translation successfully captures the power of the text and maintains, as best as possible, fidelity to the original, even as the author has made many choices to produce a readable and quite modern Faust." * The Wordsworth Circle *"Stelzig’s translation succeeds in establishing this desired rapport between Goethe’s German text and English-speaking readers of the twenty-first century. By using contemporary but not overly colloquial language, by conveying some of the range of Goethe’s explicit and implicit meaning, and by creating a text with sonorous, poetic qualities, Stelzig has produced a translation that will make Goethe’s work accessible to a range of readers. It would certainly be appropriate for undergraduate literature courses; the scholarly apparatus (introduction and notes) is informative without being pedantic. The translation would, I think, also lend itself to use in theatrical performances." * European Romantic Review *"Stelzig has provided a solid, readable text of Faust I that should remain enjoyable and useful for a long while." * Goethe Yearbook *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note IntroductionFAUST, PART I Further Reading Contemporary English Translations of Faust, Part I Acknowledgements Authorial Note
£34.20
Bucknell University Press,U.S. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: The
Book SynopsisDefoe’s The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was almost always published together with The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Only after 1950 was the first volume printed alone—a shorter work for some classes. But in addition to fulfilling the promise of the first volume, The Farther Adventures is an exciting adventure novel by itself. Crusoe returns to his island to learn about his colony, and then travels to Madagascar, India, and China before returning to England after some exciting encounters. Complete with an introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes, this is an edition like no other. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"With its informative introduction and annotations by Novak, Rothman, and Schonhorn, this new edition is a welcome attempt to restore The Farther Adventures’ status as an essential part of the Crusoe story. Continuing its hero’s exploration of global religious and cultural differences, Farther Adventures takes Crusoe from Europe to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Russia. The urgent questions Defoe explores will fascinate anyone interested in early eighteenth-century ideas about the nature of humanity and English understandings of the wider world. An exemplary instance of literary and bibliographical scholarship, the Stoke-Newington edition of The Farther Adventures is also a great adventure story with the power to enthrall readers." -- Nicholas Seager * coeditor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"With its informative introduction and annotations by Novak, Rothman, and Schonhorn, this new edition is a welcome attempt to restore The Farther Adventures’ status as an essential part of the Crusoe story. Continuing its hero’s exploration of global religious and cultural differences, Farther Adventures takes Crusoe from Europe to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Russia. The urgent questions Defoe explores will fascinate anyone interested in early eighteenth-century ideas about the nature of humanity and English understandings of the wider world. An exemplary instance of literary and bibliographical scholarship, the Stoke-Newington edition of The Farther Adventures is also a great adventure story with the power to enthrall readers." -- Nicholas Seager * coeditor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of ContentsContributors List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Note on the TextThe Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Notifications of Books Printed and Sold Textual Notes Bibliographic Descriptions Variants Selected Bibliography About the Editors Index
£107.20
Kales Press Master of Souls
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£18.99
