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Oxford University Press Frankenstein
Book SynopsisThe most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs and animates a creature from dead body parts - with catastrophic results.Trade Reviewprobably the most brilliantly comprehensive introduction to Frankenstein that I have ever read. Even if you've read the book ... ou have to buy this finely produced OUP annotated edition to enjoy Nick Grooms distillation of Frankenstein's ideas and challenges: especially so as this is the first raw 1818 edition." * Magonia Review *wonderful * Oliver Tearle, Interesting Literature *a quality edition ... it uses the original 1818 text and ... it tells us so much about the author and her history; it is both a novel and a very useful reference book. And what is more, it both looks and feels good - well worthy of a place on your shelves. * Peter Tyers, Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation *
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Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Turn of the Screw
Book SynopsisHow can I retrace today the strange steps of my obsession... The Turn of the Screw tells the tale of an unnamed governess who lives with her two charges in an isolated country house. After living for a while in blissful harmony, the governess begins to spy ghostly apparitions roaming the grounds. She becomes obsessed with these figures that only she can see, and strives to protect the children from their malevolent designs. But the situation soon begins to spiral out of control. This uneasy and sinister novella is a genius work of horror fiction, surrounding the terrors that emerge from everyday life.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Silhouette Classics are high-quality hardback editions with contemporary cover-designs. Presented with dust jackets and beautiful colour end-papers, the titles in this series make wonderful gifts or collectibles for any classic literature lover.
£999.99
Saqi Books Memoirs of a Midget
Book SynopsisMiss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her extraordinarily small size. When her father dies, she must make her own way in a world that treats her as an entertaining curiosity, a momentary diversion from the game of making ones way up the social ladder. An elegiac, misanthropic, sometimes perverse study of isolation, de la Mare's prize-winning classic seduces by its gentle charm and elegant prose.Trade Review'Here is a great book.' New York Times' It sticks like a splinter in the mind.' Angela Carter' For centuries to come this book will inspire imaginative people.' Rebecca West 'One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written.' Alison Lurie Small things do come in big packages. Originally published in 1922 and just released in this new edition, Memoirs of a Midget is a faux memoir that details the life of the tiny Miss M., who ingratiates herself into high society only to find they view her merely as a curio. Resolving to claim her peculiarity as her own, she joins a traveling circus. In a mannered but limpid style, Walter de la Mare unravels his bizarre story with heart, finding a winning voice for his miniature creation. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize upon publication, which put the author in the company of E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence, but in the literary world his stature has undeservedly remained, like that of his protagonist, diminutive. Keith Staskiewicz Entertainment Weekly 24th November 2009
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Baker Street Press His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock
Book SynopsisThe Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle’s wonderful tales of the inimitable “consulting detective” at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover’s shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes’s bustling Victorian London; the misty moors of Dartmoor; the dizzying heights of Reichenbach; and the cozy living room of 221b Baker Street.Trade ReviewThere are few characters from the Victorian era that can possibly have the same resonance today than a certain Sherlock Holmes who, along with his able assistant Dr Watson, and an assorted cast of inept policemen and nefarious villains still regularly seeps into modern life and parlance. The concept of any amateur detective these days being ‘Sherlockian’, the famous deerstalker, violin, pipe and casual drug use, and oft-misquoted lines and ‘catchphrases’ are among the many legacies that show how much Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation will forever be ingrained in the psyche of the nation. And so it was with huge interest that I heard about a new collection of the complete works, released by Baker Street Press. No matter how many times I’ve read the canon, it still fascinates me to this day and demonstrates what a truly remarkable character Conan Doyle created, despite his somewhat hit and miss results outside of the Holmes stories. This collection of nine hardback books is just utterly beautiful to behold. There’s something special, perhaps even more so in this day and age, about holding a quality version of one of your favourite books and simply immersing yourself in it. And this new release delivers more than any that I’ve ever had my hands on. Each of the nine books features the original cover illustrations from the 1920s, which more than makes up for the fact that there are no illustrations inside. Each of the four standalone novels and five collections of short stories are here, acting as the perfect retro antidote to the most recent recreation of the stories, the really quite awful series starring Benedict Cumberbatch, for which I appreciate I’m in a large minority for taking a serious dislike to. The collection begins with A Study in Scarlet, which I have to say isn’t a favourite of mine, neither is The Sign of Four that followed, and for me it’s when the short stories kick in that I find Holmes at his mercurial best, and his frustrating worst, as Conan Doyle struggled to satisfy the insatiable demand at the time for the monster that he had created. Despite ‘killing off’ a character who had become the bane of his life, Conan Doyle thankfully brought Holmes back to life after his seeming demise at the Reichenbach Falls, and the stories have seldom been far from the public’s mind, especially through the films of Basil Rathbone and the peerless depiction by Jeremy Brett in the 1980s and 1990s. I really cannot recommend this new set highly enough to those with even a passing interest in the original stories, through to those who already have several copies of the Sherlock Holmes stories on their bookshelves. If you think you have the definitive version of the books, then think again, as Baker Street Press have outdone themselves with this release. -- https://www.on-magazine.co.uk/arts/book-review/crime/sherlock-holmes-deluxe-classic-series/
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The Oleander Press Cressida: No Mystery
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Gallimard La chute
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£999.99
Livres du Dragon d'Or Les Aventures de Barbapapa: L'arbre de Barbapapa
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. A MUSSOORIE MYSTERY
Book SynopsisRemember the old road,The steep stony pathThat took us up from Rajpur,Toiling and sweatingAnd grumbling at the climb,But enjoying it all the same..''From Remember the Old Road'' by Ruskin BondSometimes, a journey can be of discovery. And, in this compilation, Ruskin Bond has discovered hair-raising stories of other people''s journeys, taken many many years ago. Bond describes the old track from Rajpur to Mussorie, surrounded by Oak trees and colonial buildings in The Kipling Road''. Braving blizzards and bandits, M. Huc takes a momentous journey toadakh in Journey to the Forbidden City'', while Osa Johnson, the only woman adventurer in the book, gives her awe-inspiring account of cannibals in A Woman Among Cannibals''. Be it travelling for shikar or search for newands or just for survival, this book is packed with action!
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Grihabhanga: A Broken Home
Book SynopsisOne of the most published and translated books in the world, The Little Prince fascinates the reader with its story of a pilot marooned in the Sahara after something goes wrong with his plane, and a little man with golden hair who has ''fallen'' to earth by chance.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. The Duel
Book SynopsisThere is an inexplicable pull that we feel towards stories about horror and mystery. The fear of the unknown, coupled with the thirst to know the truth'', keeps us turning page after page. This is a collection of mysterious horror stories that will make you hold your breath at every turn and gasp with shock at every twist. From a duel gone horribly wrong, and aodger who conducts mysterious experiments in the dead of night; to a fiendish cat who is out for revenge, and a waxwork that eerily seems alivethese tales will make your hair stand on end. Written by the masters of the genre and selected and compiled by Ruskin Bond, here are gems from Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Rudyard Kipling, among others. Dare to read The Duel when you are home alone?
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. 50 GREATEST DETECTIVE STORIES
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Broadview Press Ltd Set in Authority
Book SynopsisIn 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. Set in Authority is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English soldier changes the lives of a cast of ruthlessly observed characters.Duncan, who grew up in Ontario, led a remarkably varied life, working as a political correspondent (writing for the Washington Post, the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Star) and living in India for over twenty years. She is increasingly being regarded as deserving of a place among the first rank of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novelists; the re-publication of Set in Authority will do nothing to dispel that view.Trade Review“This valuable edition locates Duncan’s novel about the Anglo-Indian community at the height of the British Empire in its socio-political, historical context—one that foregrounds Duncan’s frank and insightful evocation of the imperialist project in this and other novels.” — Sukeshi Kamra, Chair, English Dept., Okanagan University CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSet in AuthorityNotesAppendix I: ViceroysAppendix II: Contemporary Reviews of Set in AuthorityA Note on the TextVariants in the 1906 New York EditionSara Jeanette Duncan: A Brief Chronology
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Broadview Press Ltd Aurora Floyd
Book SynopsisAurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ‘sensation fiction’—a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, and Dickens’s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser’s magazine asserted that “a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel.”The novel depicts a heroine trapped in an abusive and adulterous marriage, and effectively dramatizes the extra-legal pressures which kept many such unhappy marriages out of the courts: fear of personal scandal, and of betraying one’s family through the publicity and expense of the process. Aurora’s bigamous marriage dramatizes the need for expeditious divorce without the enormous social cost, but the overt sexuality of the heroine shocked contemporary critics. “What is held up to us as the story of the feminine soul as it really exists underneath its conventional coverings, is a very fleshy and unlovely record,” wrote Margaret Oliphant.Braddon’s text is studded with references to contemporary events (the Crimean War, the Divorce Act of 1857) and the text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, which also includes a range of documents designed to help set the text in context.Trade Review“This is the only modern edition to be based on the first three-volume version of Braddon’s much revised novel, and the editors make an excellent case for their choice. A substantial and lucidly written critical introduction situates the novel in its contemporary cultural contexts; in debates about realism and sensationalism, and anxieties about class, femininity, domesticity and marriage. The appendices, containing a selection of contemporary views of femininity and domesticity, and responses to Braddon and her novel, are an added bonus to this excellent volume.” — Lyn Pykett, University of Wales-Aberystwyth“Invaluable … provides copious explanatory notes, appendices containing contemporary reviews and writings on femininity, and a thorough, well-organized introduction.” — Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextMary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief ChronologyAurora FloydAppendix A: Victorian Femininity: The Stable, the Home, and the Fast Young Lady “Fast Young Ladies” (Punch) “Six Reasons Why Ladies Should Not Hunt” (The Field) “Muscular Education” (Temple Bar) John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (Sesame and Lilies) (1865) Appendix B: Reviews and Responses H.L. Mansel, “Sensation Novels” (Quarterly Review) “The Archbishop of York on Works of Fiction” (The Times) W. Fraser Rae, “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon” (North British Review) Henry James, “Miss Braddon” (The Nation) Margaret Oliphant, “Novels” (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine) George Augustus Sala, “The Cant of Modern Criticism” (Belgravia) George Augustus Sala, “On the ‘Sensational’ in Literature and Art” (Belgravia) “Sensation Novels” (Punch) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The History of Sandford and Merton
Book SynopsisAmong the earliest novels written about children, for children, The History of Sandford and Merton was enormously popular for a century and a half after its first publication in 1783-9. The novel is Enlightenment for beginners, offering a course of education in class, race, and gender to its six year-old protagonists, the robust farm-boy Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton, the spoiled boy from the big house. Sandford and Merton offers entertaining and practical lessons in manners, masculinity, and class politics.This Broadview Edition includes the original illustrations, along with contemporary reviews and other material on childhood by John Locke, Thomas Day, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and others.Trade ReviewThomas Day's The History of Sandford and Merton, one of the most interesting pioneering books in the history of children's literature, has long been out of print and in need of a modern critical edition. This new edition of Sandford and Merton – with an illuminating introduction that locates the novel in its intellectual, cultural, and political contexts, indispensable footnotes, and a useful selection of contextual material in the appendices – is exactly what was wanted. I’ll now have to redesign my Children's Literature course.”" - Tom Furniss, University of Strathclyde"The History of Sandford and Merton is a key text in the history of children's literature, education theory, the British novel, Enlightenment philosophy, and the culture of sensibility. This thoughtful, carefully researched, and accessible edition provides a much needed – and long missed – opportunity for reading and teaching in all of these areas. The story of two boys' moral education, and especially of Tommy Merton's transformation from spoiled child of luxury to vigorous, sensitive, and truly gentle man, is one that speaks to ongoing debates about class, education, cruelty, and moral character." - Laura Stevens, University of TulsaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThomas Day: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe History of Sandford and MertonAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews From The English Review (November 1783) From The Analytical Review(September–December 1789) Appendix B: From John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1752) Health, the Body, and Gender Rules and Practice Pain and Punishment Skills and Recreation Appendix C: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile (1763) Books. From Book II Magnetism. From Book III Astronomy. From Book III Books. From Book III Female Education. From Book V Appendix D: From Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1820) Meeting with Day Edgeworth and Day Travel to Ireland Together The Experiment with the Girls Day’s Letter to Edgeworth from Avignon, 1769 Sabrina and Honora Day’s Death Appendix E: Thomas Day and John Bicknell,The Dying Negro (1793)Appendix F: From Thomas Day, Fragment of an Original Letteron the Slavery of the Negroes (1784)Select Bibliography
£26.55
Broadview Press Ltd The Call of the Wild
Book SynopsisA best-seller from its first publication in 1903, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a big mongrel dog who is shipped from his comfortable life in California to Alaska, where he must adapt to the harsh life of a sled dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. The narrative recounts Buck’s brutal obedience training, his struggle to meet the demands of human masters, and his rise to the position of lead sled dog as a result of his superior physical and mental qualities. Finally, Buck is free to respond to the “call” of the wilderness. Over a hundred years after its publication, Jack London’s “dog story” retains the enduring appeal of a classic.This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that explores London’s life and legacy and the complex scientific and psychological ideas drawn upon by London in writing the story. The appendices include material on the Klondike, Darwin’s writings on dogs, other contemporary writings on instinct and atavism, and maps of the regions in which the story takes place.Trade Review“This is the best scholarly edition of The Call of the Wild currently available, with a superb, wide-ranging introduction by Nicholas Ruddick that is a model of judicious lucidity. The edition is also greatly enhanced by a series of fascinating primary documents situating the novella in an array of turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultural contexts, including the Klondike gold rush, Darwin on dogs and men, theories of atavism and instinct, and controversies surrounding charges of plagiarism against Jack London. Highly recommended.” — Jonathan Auerbach, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsReferences and AbbreviationsIllustrationsIntroductionJack London: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Call of the WildAppendix A: The Klondike in Reality and Myth From Tappan Adney, The Klondike Stampede (1900) From A.C. Harris, Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields (1897) Appendix B: The Animal StoryFrom Charles G.D. Roberts, The Kindred of the Wild:A Book of Animal Life (1902)Appendix C: Darwin on Dogs and Men From Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868) From Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) From Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) Appendix D: Outside and Inside Dogs in the Northland From Edward Jesse, Anecdotes of Dogs (1858) From Tappan Adney, The Klondike Stampede (1900) From Jack London, “Husky—The Wolf-Dog of the North” (1900) Appendix E: Instinct, Memory, Recapitulation, and Atavism From Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology (1855, 1890) From Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation (1868, 1880) From Samuel Butler, Life and Habit (1878) From Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868) John Myers O’Hara, “Atavism” (1902) Appendix F: London’s First Dog StoryJack London, “Bâtard” (1902, 1904)Appendix G: Extracts from London’s Correspondence (1902–1916) From Letter to Cloudesley Johns (6 January 1902) From Letter to Anna Strunsky (11 February 1902) From Letter to George P. Brett (28 April 1902) From Letter to George P. Brett (21 November 1902) From Letter to Anna Strunsky (20 December 1902) From Letter to Anna Strunsky (7 January 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (12 February 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (25 February 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (10 March 1903) From Letter to Anna Strunsky (13 March 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (25 March 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (2 April 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (10 April 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (24 July 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (10 August 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (15 August 1903) From Letter to Merle Maddern (28 August 1903) From Letter to Marshall Bond (17 December 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (5 December 1904) From Letter to John M. O’Hara (25 July 1907) From Letter to Karl E. Harriman (12 December 1910) From Letter to Edgar G. Sisson (30 January 1915) From Letter to Frank A. Garbutt (5 February 1915) From Letter to H.E. Kelsey (3 April 1915) From Letter to Loen Weilskov (16 October 1916) Appendix H: Reviews of The Call of the Wild From New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art (25 July 1903) From Outlook (25 July 1903) From George Hamlin Fitch, San Francisco Chronicle (2 August 1903) From Argonaut (3 August 1903) From Mary Calkins Brooke, [San Francisco] Bulletin (23 August 1903) From Athenaeum (29 August 1903) From Comrade (September 1903) From Florence Jackson, Overland Monthly (September 1903) From J. Stewart Doubleday, Reader (September 1903) From Literary Digest (3 October 1903) From Nation (8 October 1903) From H.W. Boynton, Atlantic Monthly (November 1903) Appendix I: The Plagiarism Issue From Egerton R.Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902) From Jack London, The Call of the Wild (1903) From L.A.M. Bosworth and Jack London, “Is Jack London a Plagiarist?” (14 February 1907) From “Against Jack London,” New York Times Saturday Review of Books (23 February 1907) From Egerton R.Young, letter in New York Times, Saturday Review of Books (9 March 1907) From Jack London, letter to Egerton R.Young (18 March 1907) Appendix J: Buck’s Travels Map 1. To the Northland Map 2. The Klondike Trail Map 3. Salt Water Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside down with their mind-boggling logic, word play, and fantastic parodies. The sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1871, and was both a popular success and appreciated by critics for its wit and philosophical sophistication.Along with both novels and the original Tenniel illustrations, this edition includes Carroll’s earlier story Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Appendices include Carroll’s photographs of the Liddell sisters, materials on film and television adaptations, selections from other “looking-glass” books for children, and “The Wasp in a Wig,” an originally deleted section of Through the Looking-Glass.Trade Review“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland appeals to all new generations, and Richard Kelly’s edition is a fresh and fitting jamboree for our time. For the first time, it gives us in a single book both Lewis Carroll’s early version of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground and the full version of the story. It encapsulates the major theories of what the book means, and it provides photographs that Carroll took and excerpts from his diaries and letters; it also offers examples of early reviews, imitations, parodies, and recollections of the author. Altogether it is a splendid cornucopia that is bound to become the ultimate Alice for us and for generations to come.” — Morton N. Cohen, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York, author of Lewis Carroll: A Biography, and editor of The Selected Letters of Lewis CarrollTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionLewis Carroll: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextsAlice’s Adventures in WonderlandThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found ThereAppendix A: Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1864)Appendix B: Lewis Carroll, “Alice on the Stage” (1886)Appendix C: From Lewis Carroll’s Diaries and Letters (1862-90) Diaries Letters Appendix D: Remembering Lewis Carroll From Alice Hargreaves, “Alice’s Recollections of Carrollian Days as Told to Her Son, Caryl Hargreaves” (1932) From Isa Bowman, The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899) Appendix E: George MacDonald, “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893)Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland The Press (25 November 1865) The Publishers’ Circular (8 December 1865) The Bookseller (12 December 1865) The Guardian (15 December 1865) Illustrated Times (16 December 1865) Athenaeum (16 December 1865) The Spectator (22 December 1865) From The Spectator (22 December 1866) London Review (23 December 1865) From The Times (13 August 1868) John Bull (20 January 1866) The Literary Churchman (5 May 1866) The Sunderland Herald (25 May 1866) Aunt Judy’s Magazine (1 June 1866) The Examiner (15 December 1866) From The Daily News (19 December 1866) The Scotsman (22 December 1866) Contemporary Review (May 1869) “Alice Translated,” The Spectator (7 August 1869) Appendix G: Poems Parodied in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Isaac Watts, “Against Idleness and Mischief” (1720) Robert Southey, “The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them” (1799) David Bates, “Speak Gently” (1848) Jane Taylor, “The Star” (1806) Mary Howitt, “The Spider and the Fly” (1834) Isaac Watts, “The Sluggard” (1715) James M. Sayles, “Star of the Evening” (date unknown) William Mee, “Alice Gray” (c. 1815) Lewis Carroll, “She’s All My Fancy Painted Him” (1855) Appendix H: Contemporary Children’s Literature From Anonymous, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765) From Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies (1862-63) From Julia Horatia Ewing, “Amelia and the Dwarfs” (1870) Appendix I: Notable Film and Television ProductionsAppendix J: Lewis Carroll’s Photographs of Alice, Lorina, and Edith LiddellAppendix K: Quentin Massys’s An Old Woman [The Ugly Duchess] (1513)Appendix L: The Wasp in a WigAppendix M: Lewis Carroll’s Comments on “Jabberwocky” From Mischmash (1855) From Letters of Lewis Carroll (15 February 1871) From Preface to The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Appendix N: William Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence” (1807)Appendix O: Looking-Glass Books From The Laughable Looking-Glass for Little Folks (1857–59) From Maria Louisa Charlesworth, The Old Looking-Glass; or, Mrs. Dorothy Cope’s Recollections of Service (1878) Appendix P: Contemporary Reviews of Through the Looking-Glass From Pall Mall Gazette (14 December 1871) The Standard (21 December 1871) The Times (25 December 1871) From The Spectator (30 December 1871) Appendix Q: The Chess Motif in Literature From Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess (1625) From George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical (1866) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Moral Tales: A Selection
Book SynopsisIn their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in their readers while entertaining them with vivid, emotional storytelling. In More's 'Tawney Rachel,' for example, a servant girl suffers severe consequences for succumbing to superstition; in Opie's 'The Black Velvet Pelisse,' a young woman is rewarded for a charitable act with a desirable marriage; and in Edgeworth's 'The Dun,' a wealthy man's selfishness destroys a poor family before he finally sees the error of his ways.This edition offers a selection of five short fictions by More, Opie, and Edgeworth-the best-known writers of the moral tale-prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period. The volume concludes with a variety of background materials that help situate the moral tale in its late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary contexts, including moral tales for children, theories of education, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“This is a fascinating and thought-provoking book. Arguing that writing moral tales was women writers’ solution to the disparagement of the novel, Robin Runia’s selection of stories by Hannah More, Amelia Opie and Maria Edgeworth, three popular authors, provides interesting and stimulating illustrations of their different use of the genre. However, Runia does more than this: she includes, for each writer, excerpts from contemporary critical reviews. This gives us an insight not just into the contemporary reception of their work but into the criteria that critics used for these judgements, a most important one being educating and improving the reader. Unusually but commendably, Runia includes in her discussion the moral tales for children by Edgeworth and Opie, providing as context the didactic advice about suitable reading for children and about female education purveyed in two of the most important educational texts of the late 18th century, Practical Education and Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. This book will be ‘amusing and instructive’ to scholars, students, and general readers alike.” — Michele Cohen, UCL Institute of Education"Professor Robin Runia’s Broadview edition of Moral Tales will appeal to a broad range of readers with interests in the long eighteenth century and Romanticism, the histories of the novel, gender, popular culture and education, and in the distinctive works of Hannah More, Amelie Opie, and Maria Edgeworth, the writers featured in the volume. The stories included are fascinating, rich and compelling, the notes helpful, the contexts (with contemporary reviews, illustrations and commentary) illuminating. Runia’s splendid introduction alone, lucidly placing the moral tale and writers in their respective contexts, is worth the price of the volume. This book should be required reading for any student interested in the long eighteenth century and in how the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries understood themselves." — Christopher Fox, University of Notre Dame“Robin Runia’s Moral Tales provides an excellent introduction to Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth—three leading female authors at the turn of the nineteenth century—and some of their short fictions from the oft-neglected, though popular didactic genre. The contexts from contemporary reviewers and conduct books, as well as their connections to early children’s literature, are useful for student readers and convincingly demonstrate the significance of these works.” — Hilary Havens, University of Tennessee“This well-researched edition shows how moral tales became a mode of resistance to derogatory perceptions of women writers and readers of the English sentimental novel in the late eighteenth century. Runia shows how the moral tale was developed in reaction to the English sentimental novel; how it broadened women’s authority; and how it became a highly versatile form that could be adapted to suit the political positions of writers as diverse as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth. In an introduction that clearly demonstrates how the moral tale was used for diverse purposes, Runia places the moral tale beside the sentimental novel, not apart from it. This fine and readable edition also includes contemporaneous reviews and selections from other texts by the three writers, which add literary and social context that expands our knowledge of the history of genre, gender, and the English novel.” — Rebecca Shapiro, City University of New York“The rise of the British ‘moral tale’ in the early nineteenth century promoted powerful female authors, advanced far-ranging pragmatic educational theories, and established the genre that flourished in the following decades as the Golden Age of children’s literature. Robin Runia’s collection, Moral Tales, focuses on three influential figures: Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth, supplying biographical information, cultural context, and readable samples from each one. This book will be a useful reference guide for advanced scholars; Runia has employed extensive archival knowledge to excavate both the most essential and the most accessible materials. Professors teaching Women’s and Gender Studies, Education, and Romantic Literature will find it invaluable, since the material deals explicitly with issues of class, gender, and the impact of military service. They show a side of the period erased by canonical Romantic fiction and will provoke passionate discussions among twenty-first century students.” — Katharine Kittredge, Ithaca College“Robin Runia’s Broadview edition of Moral Tales reminds scholars and students that the Romantic-era’s publishing landscape was rich and diverse. It is past time that scholars set the essays, poetry, and novels of Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth into conversation with their tales, and this ground-breaking teaching edition allows us to do so.” — Roxanne Eberle, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction The Moral Tale Hannah More Amelia Alderson Opie Maria Edgeworth Moral Tales: A Selection Hannah More, 'Tawney Rachel,' Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) Hannah More, 'The Servant Man Turned Soldier,' Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) Amelia Opie, 'The Black Velvet Pelisse,' Simple Tales (1806) Amelia Opie, 'The Soldier's Return,' Simple Tales (1806) Maria Edgeworth, 'The Dun,' Tales of Fashionable Life (1809) In Context A. Contemporary Reviews 1. from anonymous, review of 'Cheap Repository Tracts,' The Evangelical Magazine (October 1795) 2. from anonymous, review of 'Cheap Repository Tracts,' Critical Review (October 1797) 3. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' Literary Journal (August 1806) 4. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' Edinburgh Review (July 1806) 5. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' The Critical Review (August 1806) 6. from anonymous, review of 'Tales of Fashionable Life,' The Critical Review (July 1809) 7. from anonymous, 'On Edgeworth's Tales of Fashionable Life,' The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature (October 1809) B. Illustrations 1. Title page, 'Tawney Rachel,' from Hannah More, Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) 2. Title page, 'Servant Man Turned Soldier,' from Hannah More, Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) 3. Valentine Green after John Opie, 'A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children' (1785) 4. William Harvey, 'Ennui' [Frontispiece engraving], in Maria Edgeworth's Tales and Novels, Volume 6 (1832) C. Tales for Children 1. Maria Edgeworth, 'Tarlton,' The Parent's Assistant (1796) 2. Amelia Opie, 'The Little Boy and His Lame Dog,' Tales of the Pemberton Family (1825) D. Educating Readers 1. from Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education (1798) 2. from Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education with a View to the Principles and Conduct of Women of Rank and Fortune (1799; 1809)
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Broadview Press Ltd Dreams (1890)
Book SynopsisDreams is a work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture its unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dream vision poem. Arthur Symons praised Dreams by saying, “The words seem to chant themselves to a music which we do not hear.” Though a work of prophecy, it proceeds with a light touch. The sequence of eleven dreams, loosely interlinked, leaves us to wrestle with our doubts; it takes up thorny questions that challenge a culture right where it may tend to be its proudest. The landscape of the work shifts as it moves among the African savannah, congested late-industrial London, and the olive tree-studded hillsides of Italy. The intersectionality of Schreiner’s writing—its concern with gender, sexual orientation, class, nation, and race—makes her a particularly salient voice for today’s students. The appendices to this edition provide an accessible representation of Schreiner’s key contexts, South African and British as well as American. The introduction provides a biographical overview of a writer wrestling with questions of social justice pertinent to her own era, yet relevant to our contemporary moment.Trade Review“The genre of the allegorical fable has long been out of fashion. In their new edition of Olive Schreiner’s Dreams, the editors have provided a wealth of judiciously chosen materials, critical and historical, to help us read these allegories with fresh eyes.” — J.M. Coetzee“Dreams, Olive Schreiner’s book of feminist allegories, became an inspirational book for hunger-striking British suffragettes in Holloway Prison. Charlotte Perkins Gilman carried it with her when she left her marriage, and she called it the sunlight of her freedom. It is wonderful to have Schreiner’s influential book now available for students and scholars, with a splendid introduction co-written by the three editors, connecting her South African political roots, London intellectual experiences, controversial feminist ideas, and literary evolution. The editors have provided a rich selection of contextual documents illuminating Schreiner’s literary influences and her intersecting views of the relationships between feminism, race, sexuality, and labor. A welcome and timely edition for a new generation of readers.” — Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita, Princeton University“Congratulations to the editors on producing a wonderful new edition of Olive Schreiner’s Dreams, one of her key publications. The editors have also added to the allegories in providing well-chosen selections from across a wide range of Schreiner’s writings, together with thoughtful interpretational notes. The result will surely be an essential book in Schreiner scholarship, appealing both to those wanting an introduction and to those wanting to deepen their knowledge of Schreiner’s work. Brava!” — Liz Stanley, University of EdinburghTable of Contents 1. From the Charter of the British South Africa Company (1889) 2. From Cecil Rhodes, “What We Were Fighting” (November 13, 1900) 3. From Sol Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (1916) 4. Women’s Enfranchisement Leaflet with Schreiner’s notes (1908) 5. Letters to Julia Solly (1908), Will Schreiner (June 12, 1898), and Edward Carpenter (April 3, 1911) Appendix B: London 1. From Edward Carpenter, My Days and Dreams (1916) 2. From Constance Lytton, Prisons and Prisoners (1914) 3. From W.T. Stead, “The Novel of the Modern Woman” (March 1896) 4. Letters to Havelock Ellis (April 24, 1887), Maria Sharpe (November 24, 1887), and Karl Pearson (November 11, 1890) Appendix C: Literary and Intellectual Influences 1. From John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for his Book” and “In the Similitude of a Dream,” Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) 2. “The Parable of the Wedding Banquet,” Luke 14:7-24 3. From Herbert Spencer, First Principles (1860) 4. From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lecture on the Times (1841) 5. From W.E.B. Du Bois, On the Souls of Black Folk (1903) 6. Selected poems from contemporary black South African poets: I.W.W. Citashe, “Your Cattle are Gone” (written during the 19th century, published 1961); Sol Plaatje, “Sweet Mhudi and I” (1920); Mrs. A.C. Dube, “Africa: My Native Land” (1913); and A.K. Soga, “Daughters of Africa” (1919) 7. From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) 8. Edward Carpenter, “The Curse of Property” from Towards Democracy (1905) 9. Anna Kingsford, “The Armed Goddess” from Dreams and Dream Stories (1883) 10. Letters to Edward Carpenter (October 26, 1905) and Margaret Harkness (between January and February 1891) Appendix D: The Reception and Importance of Dreams 1. Letter to T. Fisher Unwin (1892) 2. Arthur Symons, “Review of Dreams,” The Athenaeum (1891) 3. Amy Wellington, Introduction to Dreams (1915) 4. Advertisement for Dreams, from Trooper Peter Halket (1897) Appendix E: Schreiner’s Corpus 1. From The Story of an African Farm (1883) 2. From Woman and Labour (1911) 3. From From Man to Man (1926) 4. From “The Buddhist Priest’s Wife” (1891) 5. From “The Dawn of Civilisation” (1921) 6. From “Diamond Fields” (1872) 7. From “The Lingua Franca of the World” (1896)
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Chéri and The End of Chéri
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Merlin Unwin Books Ovington's Bank
Book SynopsisA forgotten masterpiece from consummate story-teller Stanley Weyman (1855-1928) who was once the Charles Dickens of his day yet 25 years ago all his books were out of print. Graham Greene described Weyman's novels as key books in my life'.
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The Cloister House Press The Shorter Proust: An abridged edition of
Book Synopsis'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' by Marcel Proust is a magnificent and towering achievement of French literature, published in English translation in twelve volumes between 1922 and 1931, and totalling nearly one and a half million words. It is difficult for many readers to find the time and motivation needed to keep going through to the end as Proust has a rich and sometimes discursive style. However, a powerful structure underlies the whole work which is not revealed till the last chapter. This selection, which is less than a quarter of the original, includes all the crucial characters, places and themes needed to understand this and omits everything else. It is not intended to improve the original novels by editing, as many wonderful passages and descriptions have been left out. The style of the book in its vocabulary and sentence structure is unaltered. Nothing is paraphrased or condensed. The text reads as a continuous lively narrative with much of Proust's wit and humour and follows the sequence of the original, showing the development of all the major characters and including all the incidents which are referred to in the closing passages which resolve the whole novel. Proust himself encouraged the publication of "selected passages showing a coherent whole which is not diffused and will make one want to read the whole book" and this is the aim of this selection. It is intended to inspire the reader to go to the full text and enjoy individual sections in the knowledge of where they fit into the whole.Table of ContentsEditor's introduction. Swanns Way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way. Cities of the plain. The captive. The sweet cheat gone. Time regained.
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Editions Larousse 100 poemes classiques et contemporains
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Pocket La chamade
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Aiora Press Pope Joan
Book SynopsisRoïdes' irreverent, witty and delightful novel tells the story of Joan who, according to a popular medieval legend, ascended to the Papal Throne as Pope John VIII. The truth of the legend is of little importance as the book is far more than a historical novel and, in fact, parodies the popular historical romances of the time. In Joan, Roïdes has created one of the most remarkable characters in modern Greek literature and in so doing has assured his place as one of its classic authors.Trade Review"Pope Joan has a double claim on our attention for it occupies a central position among the popular books of modern Greece; and it is also in its own way a small masterpiece which might occupy a position on the bookshelf of the discerning reader midway, say, between Candide and Thaïs." -- Laurence Durrell"... the only Greek novel of the nineteenth century to have found a place, albeit a modest one, in the European canon." -- Roderick Beaton
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Wonder State
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Girl One comes a spellbinding adventure about a strange power lurking in the Arkansas Ozarks, and the group of friends obsessed with finding it.Five friends arrive back in Eternal Springs, Arkansas, the small town they all fled after high school graduation. Each is drawn home by a cryptic, scrawled two-word letter that reads, You promised. It has been fifteen years since the summer that changed their lives, and they?re anxious to find out why Brandi called them back, especially when they vowed never to return. But Brandi is missing. She?d been acting erratically for months, railing at whoever might listen about magic all around them. About a power they can?t see. And about strange houses that appear only when you need them . . .Told in two enthralling timelines, The Wonder State is a gorgeous, immersive, speculative Gothic tale about searching for home. Sara Flannery Murphy has created another brilliant, genre-blurring novel?an adventure story laced with nostalgia, exploring belonging and the lasting power of community.
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WW Norton & Co The Arabian Nights
Book SynopsisNow as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories.Trade Review"The resourceful Shahrazad... has never been more entertaining than in this fresh and vigorous version of this immortal book." -- Doris Lessing - The Independent"Easily the clearest, most fluent and readable translation." -- A.S. Byatt - Sunday Times [London]"A distinguished new translation." -- Edward Said - The Nation
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro Bilingual
Book SynopsisA bilingual companion to The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa Trade Review"As searing as Rilke or Mandelstam." -- New York Times"Pessoa invented numerous alter egos. Arguably, the four greatest poets in the Portuguese language were all Pessoa using different names." -- NPR"Here we finally see these poems as they ought to be seen... When I read Pessoa (in his own voice and in the voices of his heteronyms), what I am left with, rather than answers, or even questions, is a feeling, the embarrassment of a genuine sensation, one I might sheepishly call love." -- Poetry Foundation"Pessoa’s amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output." -- William Boyd
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Lost Writings
Book SynopsisA windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael HofmannTrade Review"Kafka himself stays well enough afloat. Even when he fumbles, he never falls wholly flat: at his worst, he is provocative yet provisional. But at his best, he is hilarious and mordant, mired in the impossibilities that he could neither live with nor without." -- Becca Rothfeld - Bookforum"This delightful collection features dozens of untitled fragments, false starts, and unfinished work by Kafka, found and chosen by biographer Stach...Opening sentences such as “I was allowed to set foot in a strange garden” and “The city resembles the sun,” make the reader’s pulse heighten with the thrill of entering the space of great literature. This offers precisely the kind of fare Kafka enthusiasts would hope for from the legendary writer’s archives. " -- Publishers Weekly"They have been translated by polyphonic, wizardly Michael Hofmann, who has made of Kafka a marvelous, often very humorous writer of eccentric English prose." -- Reading in Translation"These marks make visible the fourth wall that is implicit in each work Kafka left in some way unfinished, and even in those whose publication he permitted. It’s not only the characters, but Kafka himself who could find no way out. The Lost Writings helps us linger with him, in his impassable doorways." -- Nathan Goldman - The Baffler"I think of a Kafka story as a perfect work of literary art, as approachable as it is strange, and as strange as it is approachable." -- Michael Hofmann"Kafka is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him." -- Vladimir Nabokov"If the mundane is, for Kafka, the domain of improbability and impossibility—wherein even the simplest of gestures cannot be guaranteed—the extraordinary is evoked with an air of sheer certitude." -- Ari Linden - Public Books
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos
Book SynopsisA companion volume to Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet and The Complete Works of Alberto CaeiroTrade Review"As searing as Rilke or Mandelstam." -- The New York Times"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output." -- William Boyd"Arguably, the four greatest poets in the Portuguese language were all Pessoa using different names." -- NPR
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WW Norton & Co Aristophanes Four Plays
Book SynopsisA “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.
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Pan Macmillan The Wind in the Willows
Book SynopsisOne of the most celebrated works of classic literature for children, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame remains a timeless tale of camaraderie, loyalty and bravery more than a hundred years after its first publication. Mole and Rat have a pleasant life by the river, where they talk, boat and wile away the days. The wise and private Mr Badger lives sedately in the Wild Woods, content in his solitude. Then there's Mr Toad - wealthy, impulsive and utterly obsessed with motor cars, he's always getting into scrapes and can't survive without the help of his friends.With sixteen gorgeous colour illustrations by the celebrated Arthur Rackham, and an afterword by author David Stuart Davies.
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University of Minnesota Press Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man
Book SynopsisA fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert’s influential bildungsroman Gustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one that failed to fulfill the promise of the Revolution of 1848. Published a few months before the start of the 1870 Franco–Prussian War, it offers both a sweeping panorama of French society over three decades and an intimate bildungsroman of a young man from a small town who arrives in Paris when protests against the monarchy are increasing. The novel’s protagonist, Frédéric Moreau, alternates between aimlessness and ambition as he searches for a meaningful life through love affairs and republican politics. Flaubert’s narrative includes scenes of high drama, as scattered protests across Paris swell into revolution, and quiet moments of self-aware romanticism, crafting a story that possesses the sweep and scope of a historical novel combined with deep emotion and scandalous intimacy. Suffused with tragedy and the poignancy of lost chances and wasted lives, Sentimental Education is sharpened by satirical observations of what Flaubert condemned as the Second Empire’s endemic hypocrisy and willful blindness. This vibrant, new translation by Raymond N. MacKenzie includes an extensive critical introduction and annotations to help the modern reader appreciate Flaubert’s achievement. Sentimental Education intertwines the personal, the intimate, and the subjective with the political, social, and cultural, embedding Frédéric’s story in the larger arc of what Flaubert saw as France’s decline into mediocrity and imbecility in its politics and manners.
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Flame Tree Publishing David Copperfield
Book SynopsisLittle treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. David Copperfield is the story of a hard life endured is ultimately rewarded because of perseverance, kindness and common sense. Copperfield loses his father as a child, his mother then marries Murdstone, a cruel man who oppresses her and sends the boy away from home to a hostel. His mother dies, then Copperfield is sent to a factory, before running away to his Aunt Betsey Trotwood who protects him and whose relationship he maintains throughout his life. Further suffering follows though when Copperfield's first wife dies in childbirth, but by the end of the novel he too marries once more, finally to live towards a happy end, with Agnes and their three children. Throughout, Dickens highlights the systemic abuse of the weak, the ill, and, often, the female, eager to show that society is at fault for poverty, not the individual, so the poor should be helped, not victimised.
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Bodleian Library Aesop's Fables
Book SynopsisFor 25 centuries, the animal stories which go by the name of Aesop’s Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. They are still as fresh and poignant today as they were to the ancient Greeks who composed them. This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved fables, including the Boy who cried Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, the Hare and the Tortoise, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with 35 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980), one of the greatest British wood engraving artists of the twentieth century. Parker was influenced by the art of Wyndham Lewis and the Cubist and Vorticist movements which flourished in the period between the wars. Her distinctive work is strikingly stylised and deceptively simple. Commissioned in the 1930s by the fine press publisher, Gregynog Press, for their edition of the work, these exquisite wood engravings inspired by the fables are among Parker's finest.
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Giles de la Mare Publishers Walter de la Mare, Short Stories 1895-1926: v. 1
Book SynopsisThe publication of "Short Stories 1895-1926" celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Walter de la Mare's death. It is also the culmination of a major literary enterprise. For many people Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) is as great a writer of fiction as of poetry. But the majority of his short stories, of which there are a hundred, have long been unavailable. "Short Stories" brings them all together in three volumes in the first comprehensive collection to be published. De la Mare's earliest published works were stories, and he continued writing and rewriting stories throughout the rest of his life. There was always a creative counterpoint between the themes and imagery of his prose and his poetry - such as the dream, childhood, the house, night, love lost and regained, solitude and the traveller. A full understanding of either is impossible without knowledge of both.Trade Review"'What strikes one most about [them] is how truly peculiar they are... it is good to see these dark and disquieting stories back in print.' TLS on Short Stories 1895-1926 and Short Stories 1927-1956 'He was so... "great" that, like all the greatest, his greatness functions as an assumption that goes hardly even recognized...the chief emotion is, as it should be, one of immense gratitude.' Martin Seymour-Smith in Scotland on Sunday on Short Stories 1895-1926 'Beautiful, enigmatic and disquieting stories.' Lord David Cecil 'De la Mare is a master of mise-en-scene...Prose with the most vivid and unsettling intensity, which resembles some of what the surrealists were producing in France...' Angela Carter"Table of Contents"The Riddle" and other stories (1923): "The Almond Tree"; "The Count's Courtship"; "The Looking-Glass"; "Miss Duveen"; "Selina's Parable"; "Seaton's Aunt"; "The Bird of Travel"; "The Bowl"; "The Three Friends"; "Lispet, Lispett and Vaine"; "The Tree"; "Out of the Deep"; "The Creatures"; "The Riddle"; "The Vats". Ding, dong bell (1924): "Lichen"; "Benighted"; "Strangers and Pilgrims"; "Winter". "The Connoisseur" and other stories (1926): "Mr Kempe"; "Missing"; "The Connoisseur"; "Disillusioned"; "The Nap"; "Pretty Poll"; "All Hallows"; "The Wharf"; "The Lost Track". Uncollected stories, 1895-1920: "Kismet"; "The Hangman Luck"; "A Mote"; "The Village of Old Age"; "The Moon's Miracle"; "The Giant"; "De Mortuis"; "The Rejection of the Rector"; "The Match-Maker"; "The Budget"; "The Pear-Tree"; "Leap Year"; "Promise at Dusk"; "Two Days in Town".
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Mary Paterson, or, the Fatal Error
Book SynopsisMary Paterson, or, The Fatal Error is a high-Victorian tale of the tragic life, and sorry end, of poor Mary Paterson: her fall from grace, her unhappy loves - and her final grisly demise at the hands of Burke and Hare, who kept Edinburgh''s anatomists supplied with freshly manufactured corpses. But the melodrama doesn''t stop with Mary lying cold upon the dissecting slab: David Pae''s galloping novel, originally serialised in the Dundee People''s Journal in 1864 and 1865, hounds Burke and Hare to their capture and trial, leads Burke to the gallows, and thereafter follows Hare and his accomplices to their various just deserts. The Scottish writer David Pae was one of the most successful serial novelists of his day. Edited by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, this new edition of Pae''s original and unexpurgated tale not only provides a fascinating window into the popular Victorian imagination but is also a highly entertaining novel in its own right.
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Peirene Press Ltd Yesterday
Book SynopsisIn San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what’s waiting around the corner. Over the course of a single day – the day before today – the hero of this novel and his adored wife embark on a journey through the absurd and the surreal, encountering a choir of monkeys and a carnivorous ostrich, travelling from the studio of an artist obsessed with the colour green to the waistcoat pocket of a pot-bellied man. All the while, the tolling of the bell in the city square pushes their whirlwind adventure towards its fateful conclusion.Trade Review'The legacy left behind by this literary forerunner [...] is a vivid world marked by unreality which is forever inseparable from the enduring world we live in.' - Pablo Neruda; 'For his extraordinary genius [...] he should have been recognised as the greatest Chilean novelist of his century.' - Jose Miguel Ibanez; 'Emar's writing incorporates popular forms, elements of rhetoric, and literary allusions in carefully wrought language reminiscent of Borges at its most brilliant moments.' - Luis Inigo Madrigal, Letra Sobre Letras.
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Pan Macmillan Just So Stories
Book SynopsisThese twelve magical tales tell, among other things, how the camel got his hump; the leopard his spots; the elephant his trunk; how the alphabet was made; and how a butterfly caused mayhem at the court of King Solomon. Rightfully considered one of the enduring classics of children's literature, Just So Stories is an enchanting collection that still delights and illuminates over a century after it was first published.Beautifully illustrated throughout by Kipling himself, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition also contains an afterword by editor Marcus Clapham.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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Honno Ltd The Rebecca Rioter
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Grub Street Publishing Over and Above
Book SynopsisOver and Above is Gurdon’s first and best book, repeatedly reprinted for two decades, variously titled Winged Warriors or Wings of Death. Billed as a novel, it is not so much that as a fictionalised account of his own service flying career, with names changed, incidents rearranged. True, it tells of ‘exciting raids over enemy lines and towns, desperate fights against fearful odds, chivalry shown to an unchivalrous foe...’ but the narrative turns darker as men become wearier, new comrades arrive and are killed, and those who remain try to hold onto meaning in increasingly unintelligible circumstances, a mirror to Gurdon’s own experiences. Written in the style of the era and by and for a class which put great store in maintaining a slangy, backslapping cheerfulness, no matter how grim things were, with chums wishing each other ‘beaucoup Huns’ before embarking on a ‘show’ in ‘beastly’ weather, this book is a classic to rank with Winged Victory by V M Yeates, and which should never have been out of print. This new edition retains exactly the original script but has been updated with an introduction by John Gurdon’s granddaughter Camilla Jane Gurdon Blakeley and an extended illustrated appendix by renowned historian Norman Franks.Trade ReviewGrub Street has re-issued a number of Great War aviator books and this one is up there with the best of them. Gurdon, as Warton, is heroic and tragic. He was just a kid. Imagine the youth of today climbing into a fighter and shooting down twenty-eight enemy aeroplanes in the length of a summer madness? This book is well worth reading to appreciate the author for the brave and flawed young man he was. In later life, Gurdon lived in straitened circumstances, the consequences of the decisions he made as a younger man. -- Mark Barnes * War History Online *
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Honno Welsh Women's Press Dew On The Grass
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Galileo Publishers The Land Without Death: The Amazonas Trilogy
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Galileo Publishers Lupin: The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures
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UEA Publishing Project Five Little Peppers: And How They Grew
Book SynopsisWorking hard to survive in a harsh world, the Peppers still find joy and love in their little brown house - until a chance encounter with a wealthy family changes their fortunes forever. When it was first published in 1881, Margaret Sidney’s Five Little Peppers was an immediate bestseller. Its account of the five Pepper siblings’ adventures in the American Gilded Age attracted an army of young readers who clamoured for sequels well into the twentieth century. Progressive for its time in its depictions of the children’s lives, this groundbreaking edition will strike a new chord with young readers in the twenty-first century: it is the first version of the book to give readers a full introduction to the text, providing an account of Sidney’s life and times, a full description of the book’s historical and literary context, and a sense of what insights the Pepper family’s extraordinary experiences might provide for our own moment of upheaval. A must-read for all fans of American classics such as Little Women and What Katy Did.
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Legend Press Ltd Mrs Dalloway (Legend Classics)
Book SynopsisHe thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.Mrs Dalloway is a novel that features two main characters and two different worldviews. On the one hand, there is Clarissa Dalloway, who being labelled as Mrs, symbolises her marital and social confinement. On the other, the readers meet Septimus Warren Smith, who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The lack of conventionally linear narrative and the stream of consciousness embedded in the text represents the author's take on the complexities of human existence and the ambiguity of reality. While Septimus appears mad as the war memories are haunting him, Clarissa is assumingly sane, with her existential troubles being centred around the midlife crisis both, however, share an astute sensibility about societal maladies of post-war Britain. Even though the two characters never meet, they are inextricably connected. The story takes a twist when Clarissa in her quintessential midlife meets her first love, Peter Walsh and Septimus madness takes a dramatic manifestation. Will Clarissa take any steps for the sake of her first love, or will she stay devoted to the societal pressure and her status as a statesman's wife? What will become of Septimus' madness?The novel was developed from Woolf's earlier short story entitled Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street'. It takes you to the industrialised society, the hustle and bustle of London to represent the surface, the wrapper of modern society. The internal side is represented by ambiguous dark desires and fears of the characters. The passion and dramatic events in this whole novel take place over the course of a single day and the novel has been compared to poetry for being packed with meaning and intensity. How can a day change your whole life, how can a life built for years, crumble in the blink of an eye? This text is an exciting journey in itself with stylistic symbiosis, making it a true modernist classic.The Legend Classics series:Around the World in Eighty DaysThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Importance of Being EarnestAlice''s Adventures in WonderlandThe MetamorphosisThe Railway ChildrenThe Hound of the BaskervillesFrankensteinWuthering HeightsThree Men in a BoatThe Time MachineLittle WomenAnne of Green GablesThe Jungle BookThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other StoriesDraculaA Study in ScarletLeaves of GrassThe Secret GardenThe War of the WorldsA Christmas CarolStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeHeart of DarknessThe Scarlet LetterThis Side of ParadiseOliver TwistThe Picture of Dorian GrayTreasure IslandThe Turn of the ScrewThe Adventures of Tom SawyerEmmaThe TrialA Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan PoeGrimm Fairy TalesThe AwakeningMrs DallowayGulliver's TravelsThe Castle of OtrantoSilas MarnerHard Times
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UEA Publishing Project Black Beauty: Redwings Horse Sanctuary Edition
Book SynopsisAs a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, his life changes drastically. He has many new owners--some of them cruel and some of them kind. All he needs is someone to love him again... Whether pulling an elegant carriage or a ramshackle cab, Black Beauty tries to live as best he can. This is his amazing story, told as only he could tell it.This edition of this beloved novel features an original foreword by favourite children's author Jacqueline Wilson and an afterword by Professor Thomas Ruys Smith (University of East Anglia) which reintroduces readers to this much-loved book, examining the roots of its extraordinary longevity, the timelessness of Sewell’s powerful literary vision, and the ongoing necessity of her message of kindness and care to animals – and humans.Every copy of this edition sold will contribute directly to Redwings’ mission to value every horse and try to see the world from an equine point of view.
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Debolsillo El amor en los tiempos del colera
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Tales
Book SynopsisSelected Tales contains some of the most timeless and enchanting folk and fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, translated with an introduction by David Luke These folktales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are among the most memorable stories in European culture - conjuring up a world of spells and bewitchment, outwitted villains and cruel stepmothers, animal bridegrooms and enchanted princesses. Tales such as 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Little Red Cape' and 'The Robber Bridegroom' depict the dangers lurking in dark forests, and others, including 'Briar-Rose' and 'Snow White' show young beauties punished by unforgiving sorceresses. Other tales include 'Thickasathumb', which portrays a childless young couple whose wish for a baby is granted in an unexpected way, while 'The Frog King' tells of a rash promise made by a haughty princess to share her bed with a frog, and a fortune is won in 'The Blue Lamp', when a soldier gains a kingdom with the help of a magic Table of ContentsTranslated with an Introduction and Notes by David LukeIntroduction1. The Fisher an His Gweedwife2. Rumplestiltskin3. Hansel and Gretel4. Little Redcape5. Rapunzel6. Briar Rose7. Snowwhite8. The Jeniper Tree9. Little Brother and Little Sister10. The Three Little Men in the Forest11. Mother Snowbed12. The Three Birdies13. The Twelve Brothers14. The Seven Ravens15. The Six Swans16. The Two Brothers17. The Master Huntsman18. The Water of Life19. The Golden Bird20. The Dwarfie21. Jack the Strong Man22. The Six Who Went Far in the World23. The Six Servants24. The Sea-Rabbit25. The Worn-out Dancing-shoes26. The Devil's Three Golden Hairs27. The Griffin28. The Three Snake-leaves29. Faithful John30. One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes31. Ashiepattle32. Manypelts33. The Rightful Bride34. The Iron Stove35. The Twa Royal Bairnies36. The Goosegirl37. Jack of Iron38. The Frog King, or Iron Harry39. The Young Donkey40. Jack My Hedgehog41. The Magic Table, the Gold-donkey, and the Cudgel in the Sack42. The Knapsack, the Hat and the Horn43. The Blue Lamp44. The Salad-donkey45. The Three Brothers46. The Four Skilful Brothers47. The Young Giant48. Thickasathumb49. Bearskin50. The Devil and His Grandmother51. The King of the Golden Mountain52. The Prince Afraid of Nothing53. The Crystal Ball54. Auld Rinkie55. Jorinda and Joringle56. The Nixie in the Pond57. Fetcher's Fowl58. The Robber Bridegroom59. The Bremen Town Band60. Clever Elsie61. Lazy Harry62. The Three Army-surgeons63. The Clever Little Tailor64. Bumpkin65. Owld PeadairNotesGlossary of Scots Words
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