From Austen to Zola, from medieval to the modern day - all genres are catered for between the covers of these coveted classics.
Classics Books
Arlen House Pray for the Wanderer
Book SynopsisPray for the Wanderer, usually regarded by critics as Kate O'Brien's response to the banning of Mary Lavelle in Ireland, is much more than a discourse on culture and censorship. It explores the emotional pain of an Irish writer genuinely torn between the artistic freedom of abroad and the beguiling beauty and security of home.
£15.26
Arlen House Carmen Cavanagh
Book SynopsisAnnie Smithson's third novel, Carmen Cavanagh, is for the most part set in 1911 in the wilds of Donegal and in cosmopolitan Dublin, and the story deals largely with the exacting life of district nurses and dispensary doctors where the calls of duty have to be met under the most trying conditions.
£19.76
Arlen House The Mill in the North
Book SynopsisWhen Patricia O’Connor’s novel, The Mill in the North, was first published in 1938, by Dublin’s prestigious Talbot Press, the Irish Times heralded it as ‘a very human drama … presenting a realistic picture of life in a northern mill village’. For today’s reader, the novel skilfully presents to us an Irish community in rural County Down painfully caught between tradition and modernity, where sectarian prejudice and violence can unexpectedly disrupt daily life. Focusing on Nancy Montgomery, a young woman fired from the local mill for insolence, the novel presents the social friction caused by this assertive, principled woman seeking to protect those she loves.
£19.76
AU Press Dustship Glory
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroederfictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen’s wild scheme tobuild an ocean-going ship in the middle of a wheat field inSaskatchewan. Set during the hardships of the “DirtyThirties,” Dustship Glory presents us withSukanen’s mythic effort to escape both the drought and pestilenceof his time, as well as his own personal struggle to be free. Featuring an illuminating foreword by beloved Saskatoon writer DonKerr, Dustship Glory will provide Canadian and internationalaudiences alike with the opportunity to reacquaint themselves with thedramatic tale of a ship that still stands in the fields south of MooseJaw in Saskatchewan.
£17.09
Western Michigan University, New Issues Press The Nature of Remains
Book SynopsisIn Flyshoals, Georgia, karma is writ small enough to witness. When Doreen Swilley discovers that her boss and lover of thirty years intends to fire her to placate his dying wife, she devises a plan to steal his business from him. Her plan just might work too, if she is not thwarted by a small town’s enmeshed histories and her family’s own dark secrets. Set during the 2009 recession, The Nature of Remains rests at the intersection of class, gender, education and place. Through extended geological metaphor, readers witness the orogeny, crystallization, and weathering of the human soul. Doreen’s journey reveals the ways even a woman’s most precious connections—her children, her grandchildren, her lover—operate within larger social structures capable of challenging her sovereignty.
£15.00
2Leaf Press Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and
Book SynopsisMonsters: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and "Mathilda" presents Mary Shelley's most popular works, accompanied by a critical introduction and commentary by scholar Claire Milllkin Raymond. Cultures create and ascribe meaning to monsters, endowing them with characteristics derived from their most deep-seated fears and taboos. In this volume, Millikin Raymond explores both Frankenstein and Mathilda from a feminist and cultural studies perspective, illuminating the cultural transgressions that each work presents through its monsters. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, conceived by Shelley at the age of nineteen and published before she was twenty, is the most famous and enduring imaginative work of the Romantic era. Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific developments and incorporated them into Frankenstein. Monsters includes the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, which Shelley revised as an adult, respecting the artistic maturity and agency of the author. Mathilda, Shelley's second long work of fiction written between August 1819 and February 1820, deals with taboos that haunt our society to this day: incest and suicide. Published for the first time in 1959, it has become Shelley's best-known work after Frankenstein. The version edited by Elizabeth Nitchie in 1959 is presented here. Frankenstein and Mathilda capture readers by force of their astonishing fantasy and range of implication: the definition of "monster," which Millikin Raymond explores as well as other aspects of the Shelley's work. Monsters will resonate profoundly with readers with a background or interest in science fiction, history, and literature, and anyone intrigued by the fundamental questions of creativity and cultural change.
£16.15
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic We Were a Handful
Book SynopsisA favorite work of Czech humor, We Were a Handful depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek at the height of World War II before his deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, this book draws on the happier years of Polacek's own childhood as inspiration. As we look upon the world through Petr's eyes, we, too, marvel at the incomprehensible world of grownups; join in fights between gangs of neighborhood kids; and laugh at the charming language of boys, a major source of the book's humor. This translation at last offers English-language readers the opportunity to share in Petr's (and Polacek's) childhood and reminds us that joy and laughter are possible even in the darkest times.
£10.97
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Saturnin
Book SynopsisOn its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected if temporary reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation. In the years since, the novel has been hailed as a classic of Czech literature, and this translation makes it available to English-language readers for the first time which is entirely appropriate, for author Zdenek Jirotka clearly modeled his light comedy on the English masters Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse. The novel's main character, Saturnin, a "gentleman's gentleman" who obviously owes a debt to Wodehouse's beloved Jeeves, wages a constant battle to protect his master from romantic disaster and intrusive relatives, such as Aunt Catherine, the "Prancing Dictionary of Slavic Proverbs." Saturnin will warm the heart of any fan of literary comedy.
£10.97
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Summer of Caprice
Book SynopsisSummer of Caprice, a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the complexities of the text, which is characterized by a playful narrative and an exceptional mastery of language, and its profound cultural context, it is rendered here in English that beautifully captures Vladislav Vancura's experimental style or, as the author himself called it, his "poetism in prose." Mixing the archaic with the innovative, raw colloquialisms with biblical quotations, Summer of Caprice opens an uproarious window onto the Czech spirit, humor, and way of life.
£10.97
Zubaan The Madness of Waiting
Book SynopsisPublished in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out, with its candid fictionalized account of the life of Umrao Jaan, based on a renowned Lucknow courtesan and poetess of the same name. Considered by many to be the first Urdu novel, it remains highly popular today and has been the basis of three films and a Pakistani television serial. But despite Ruswa's notoriety, few know that a month after he wrote "Umrao Jaan Ada", he penned a sly novella entitled "Junun-e-Intezar", in which "Umrao" avenges herself on her creator, Ruswa, by narrating the story of his life. Blurring the lines between truth and fiction, narrator and character, this clever narrative strategy gives the courtesan a voice. While "Umrao Jaan Ada" is still celebrated, "Junun-e-Intezar" has been completely forgotten - until now. The "Madness of Waiting" redresses this imbalance, featuring both the Urdu original and a superb English translation. The book also includes a critical introduction that rethinks "Umrao Jaan Ada" and the Urdu literary milieu of the late-nineteenth-century Lucknow courtesan.
£14.50
NUS Press Tales of an Eastern Port: The Singapore Novellas
Book SynopsisSingapore in the writings of Joseph Conrad: a node in the networks of colonial modernity. In the 1880s, Joseph Conrad spent three extended stints in the colonial port city of Singapore, while working on ships around the region. Over the next thirty years, he would return to this place many times in his writing. Singapore is the principal, if sometimes obscured, port of call in Conrad’s fiction; it is the center of overlapping networks, colonial and commercial, religious and literary. His characters travel to upriver Borneo and to Bangkok, to Shanghai and to Sydney, and yet they tend to return to Singapore. This volume pairs for the first time two Conrad novellas that start in Singapore: The End of the Tether and The Shadow-Line.Together they provide a fleeting portrait of the developing city, through narrators who are uneasy with the trappings and workings of the colonial enterprise. These stories have renewed relevance as part of global modernist and oceanic literatures, and reading them now helps recall one chapter in Singapore’s long history as a vital site of cultural exchange, one that harbors and inspires distinctive storytelling traditions.Table of Contents Figures Introduction: Joseph Conrad's Double Visions of Singapore The End of the Tether (1902) The Shadow Line (a Confession) (1917)
£18.86
Wildside Press A Gent from Bear Creek and Other Tales
£22.50
Thoughts Alive LLC The Jackrabbit Factor Why You Can
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£999.99
Independent Publishing Network The Tide Between us
£14.50
Public Park Publishing Ethan Frome
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£18.31
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Lo que el viento se llevó / Gone with the Wind
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£18.57
Ediciones Abraxas Utopía: El Estado Perfecto
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£10.77
Ediciones Abraxas El Castillo: La Búsqueda de Una Meta Inalcanzable
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£12.99
Ediciones Abraxas Viaje Al Mundo Subterráneo
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£10.89
Ediciones Abraxas El Proceso: Una Obra Completamente Absurda, Pero
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£11.73
Ediciones Abraxas La Máquina del Tiempo
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£11.25
Ediciones Abraxas Alicia a Través del Espejo
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£10.89
Editorial Alma La Llamada de Cthulhu
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£10.62
Editorial Alma Narraciones Extraordinarias
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£19.42
Editorial Alma El Perro de Los Baskerville
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£14.78
Editorial Alma Orgullo Y Prejuicio
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£17.82
Editorial Alma Estudio En Escarlata: El Signo de Los Cuatro
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£15.05
Nordica Libros El Coloquio de Los Perros
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£18.34
Editorial Periferica El Doctor Héraclius Gloss
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£20.52
Editorial Periferica La Declaración de George Silverman
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£12.60
Editorial Alma El Fantasma de Canterville: Y Otros Relatos
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£17.48
Editorial Alma La Metamorfosis Y Otros Relatos
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£12.31
Editorial Alma Las Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym
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£26.05
Editorial Alma Alicia a Través del Espejo
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£12.46
Editorial Alma El Extraño Caso de Dr. Jekyll Y Mr. Hyde
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£11.42
Editorial Alma Las Mil Y Una Noches
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£17.65
Editorial Alma Sentido Y Sensibilidad
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£17.60
Editorial Alma Romeo Y Julieta
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£14.78
Editorial Alma Persuasión
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£16.55
Editorial Alma Orgullo Y Prejuicio
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£13.31
Editorial Alma Drácula
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£13.37
Editorial Alma Cuentos de Andersen
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£12.23
Editorial Alma Cuentos de Chéjov
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£13.87
Ediciones Almar, S.A. Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte
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£999.99
Editorial Alma Poesia de Antonio Machado
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£17.40
Editorial Alma El Jardinero
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£13.82
Roca Bolsillo Arsene Lupin contra Herlock Sholmes/ Arsene
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£14.30
Roca Bolsillo La doble vida de Arsène Lupin/ Arsène Lupin in
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£13.74
