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Book Synopsis'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other StoriesThis, the third volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction concentrates on his later stories, including one of his greatest, 'Hadji Murad'. In the stark form of homily that shapes these later works, life considered as one's own has no rational meaning. From the chain of events that follows in the wake of two schoolboys' deception in 'The Forged Coupon' to the disillusionment of the narrator in 'After the Ball' we see, in Virginia Woolf's observation, that Tolstoy puts at the centre of his writingone 'who gathers into himself all experience, turns the world round between his fingers, and never ceases to ask, even as he enjoys it, what is the meaning of it'.The riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English.

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Book SynopsisGeorge Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written.In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.Trade Review“When it comes to the complexities of everyday life in late-Victorian London, there is no better guide than Gissing and no better Gissing than The Odd Women. And now, in Arlene Young’s carefully edited and annotated edition, we have the definitive guide to Gissing’s novel. Students will also find the historical documents gathered in this volume an invaluable resource in the study of the “woman question” and the sociology of work in the 1890s.” — Stephen Arata, University of Virginia“Broadview’s enterprise is especially welcome in the case of The Odd Women, Gissing’s second most commonly studied novel. [This edition] deserves to become the text of choice for teachers—especially given its modest price.” — The Gissing JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextGeorge Gissing: A Brief ChronologyThe Odd WomenAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews Glasgow Herald 20 April 1893 Saturday Review 29 April 1893 Athenaeum 27 May 1893 Pall Mall Gazette 29 May 1893 Nation (New York) 13 July 1893 Illustrated London News (Clementia Black) 5 August 1893 Appendix B: Attitudes Towards Women and Marriage in Victorian Culture Sarah Ellis, from The Daughters of England (1842) Alfred Lord Tennyson, from The Princess (1847) Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House: “The Rose of the World” (1854) Thomas Henry Huxley, from “Emancipation—Black and White,” Reader (20 May 1865) John Ruskin, from “Of Queens’ Gardens,” in Sesame and Lilies (1865) John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869) Mona Caird, from “Marriage,” Westminster Review (1888) Appendix C: Debate over the “Woman Question” Grant Allen, from “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889) Bernard Shaw, from “The Womanly Woman,” The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Politicians,” Nineteenth Century (July 1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century (October 1891) Mona Caird, “A Defense of the So-Called ‘Wild Women’,” Nineteenth Century (May 1891) From “Character Note: The New Woman” Cornhill Magazine (October 1894) Nat Arling, “What is the Role of the ‘New Woman?’” Westminster Review (November 1898) Appendix D: Women and Paid Employment: The Limitations of Aspirations and the Actualities Charlotte Brontë, from Shirley (1849) From “The Disputed Question,” English Woman’s Journal (August 1858) Evelyn March Phillips, from “The Working Lady in London,” Fortnightly Review (August 1892) Clara Collet, from “The Employment of Women,” Report to the Royal Commission on Labour (1893) Frances H. Low, from “How Poor Ladies Live,” Nineteenth Century (March 1897) Eliza Orme, from “How Poor Ladies Live: A Reply,” Nineteenth Century (April 1897) Appendix E: Conditions of Work for Men in the White-Collar Sector James Fitzjames Stephen, from “Gentlemen” Cornhill Magazine (March 1862) B.O. Orchard, from The Clerks of Liverpool (1871) Charles Edward Parsons, from Clerks: their Position and Advancement (1876) Thomas Sutherst, from Death and Disease Behind the Counter (1884) H.G. Wells, from Kipps (1905) H.G. Wells, from Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Appendix F: Map of London (1892)Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude's sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the "New Woman," and its attacks on "holy wedlock" and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book "Jude the Obscene." Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel marked the culmination of Hardy's development as a leading novelist of the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. The Broadview edition restores the original, controversial 1895 text.Trade ReviewCedric Watts's edition of Jude the Obscure is one of an extremely interesting set of literary works from Broadview Press, distinguished by wise editorial choices and inclusion of a variety of documents contemporary with the works. Watts is one of our era's most resourceful and level-headed analysts of literature, and his introduction richly sketches the angles of several controversies current in Hardy's time. There are numerous selections from writings which influenced Hardy (science, philosophy, poems, the Bible) excerpts from essays and poems from the late nineteenth century, and materials in categories such as divorce, and university education, all of which amplify and add to Watts' comments, and stimulate thinking about Hardy and nineteenth-century subjects, as well as about our own time." - Dale Kramer, University of Oregon."This is an informative and scholarly edition of the novel which brings out its explosive nature, why it so scandalised Hardy's contemporaries. Professor Watts provides a clear, lively introduction, helpful notes and a wealth of material on the textual history of Jude the Obscure, its contemporary reception and its intellectual and social context. Readers of Hardy will find it immensely useful." - T.R. Wright, University of Newcastle"Broadview Press and editor Cedric Watts have done a splendid job." - English Literature in TransitionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements and Editorial NoteIntroductionA Note on the TextThomas Hardy: A Brief ChronologyHardy’s Preface (1895), Revised Preface and Postscript (1912)JUDE THE OBSCUREPart First, At Marygreen, I-XIPart Second, At Christminster, I-VIIPart Third, At Melchester, I-XPart Fourth, At Shaston, I-VIPart Fifth, At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere, I-VIIIPart Sixth, At Christminster again, I-XIAppendix A: Major Textual ChangesAppendix B: Comments by HardyAppendix C: Contemporaneous Reviews and a ParodyAppendix D: Hardy’s OutlookAppendix E: Influences and Contexts: Cultural ExtractsAppendix F: Oxford, Jowett, and Educational OpportunityAppendix G: Divorce in Jude the ObscureAppendix H: Map of Wessex Appended to the 1895 Edition of Jude the ObscureSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen William Blackwood, George Eliot’s publisher, first saw the manuscript of Felix Holt in 1866 he could not contain his enthusiasm; in a letter to a friend he described the novel as “a perfect marvel. The time is 1832 just after the passing of the Reform Bill, and surely such a...series of pictures of English Life, manners, and conversation never was drawn. You see and hear the people speaking. Every individual character stands out a distinct figure.”A political radical and a child of the working class, Felix has lost faith in a political system in which candidates never represent the interests of the working class. Harold Transome, the cynical son of wealthy Tory landowners, embraces radical politics for very different reasons. Both Harold and Felix vie for the affections of Esther Lyon, and she must weigh her feelings for them with the social and material goals she has set for herself. Their personal drama unfolds against the broad canvas of social and political upheaval of 1830s England.This edition is based on the text of the first edition of the novel published in three volumes in 1866, and includes a full introduction, a wide range of appendices including reviews, as well as Eliot’s “Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt”; “The Legal Plot of Felix Holt”; and a chronology of Eliot’s life and career.Trade Review“The Broadview Press Felix Holt, the Radical is a handsomely-produced and reader-friendly edition of George Eliot’s powerful novel of social ambition and illicit love. Generous selections of contextual material show how George Eliot’s theories of artistic production and understanding of political realities shape the novel, and what her contemporaries made of it. Editors Baker and Womack deploy their expertise in Victorian studies to illuminate this work for the twenty-first century.” — Margaret Harris, University of Sydney“This edition carefully documents the politics of composition and of England at a critical time in the author’s and the country’s life. Useful appendices establish the context for understanding the novel and its background. The Condition of England Question at last comes alive!” — Ira Nadel, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionGeorge Eliot: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextFelix Holt, The RadicalAppendix A: The Legal Plot of Felix Holt, The RadicalAppendix B: “An Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt”Appendix C: “The Natural History of German Life”Appendix D: The Critical Response to Felix Holt, The RadicalSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by one of the nineteenth century's great novelists. With sympathy, wit, and unflinching realism, Adam Bede tells a story that would have been familiar to Eliot's first readers: the seduction of a pretty farm girl by the young squire of the district. Eliot uses this story, with its tragic implications, to explore the dangers of reliance on religious and social norms to govern destructive desires. As this edition demonstrates, Adam Bede addresses profound questions of morality, religion, and the role of women in society, while at the same time seeking to establish a new aesthetic for fiction.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of appendices, including selections from Eliot's letters and journals, contemporary reviews of the novel, and accounts of the murder trial of Mary Voce, the woman whose story formed part of the inspiration for the novel.Trade ReviewThe Broadview edition of Adam Bede is an excellent one for students, scholars, and the intelligent general reader. The introduction and appendices offer the apparatus to contextualize the novel, a bestseller in its day because it engaged with major religious and philosophical questions as well as involving the reader with a compelling love story. It appealed then, as it does today, to both head and heart." - Pam Hirsch, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGeorge Eliot: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAdam BedeAppendix A: Realism, Morality, and Fiction George Eliot’s Early Attitudes to Fiction Letter to Maria Lewis, 16 March 1839 Letter to Sarah Hennell, 9 February 1849 George Eliot and George Henry Lewes on the Nature and Function of the Novel From Lewes’s “Recent Novels: French and English,” Fraser’s Magazine (December 1847) From Lewes’s Review of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Westminster Review (April 1853) From Eliot’s Reviews of Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho!, Geraldine Jewsbury’s Constance Herbert, and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Westminster Review (July 1855), and Leader (July 1855) Realism From John Ruskin’s Modern Painters (1856) Eliot’s Response to Ruskin, Westminster Review (April 1856) From George Eliot’s Review of Wilhelm HeinrichRiehl’s Die Naturgeschichte des deutschen Volkes als Grundlage einer deutschen Social Politik, Westminster Review (July 1856) Appendix B: The Genesis and Publication of Adam Bede: From George Eliot’s Letters and JournalsAppendix C: The Trial and Execution of Mary Voce, 1802 An Account of the Experience and Happy Death of Mary Voce The Life, Character, Behaviour at the Place of Execution and Dying Speech of Mary Voce A full and particular Account of the Life,Trial, and Behaviour of Mary Voce Appendix D: The Reception of Adam Bede From a Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle, 20 February 1859 From a Letter from Charles Dickens, 10 July 1859 The Times (12 April 1859) Bentley’s Quarterly Review (July 1859) The Saturday Review (26 February 1859) The London Quarterly Review (July 1861) Henry James, The Atlantic Monthly (October 1866) Appendix E: The Religious Background Methodism: From the Journals of John Wesley Women Preachers Saint Paul From John Wesley’s Letters (1761, 1769) From the Journal of Ann Gilbert, 1771 Sarah’s Crosby’s Experience, 1768 Elizabeth Evans and Mary Voce, 1802 Marriage for Women Preachers Contemporary Religious Thought From David Friederich Strauss, The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (1835-36) From Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity (1841) From Charles Hennell, An Inquiry into the Origin of Christianity (1838) From Herbert Spencer, First Principles (1862) Eliot’s Religious Beliefs From a Letter to Maria Lewis, 18 August 1838 From a Letter to Her Father, 28 February 1842 From Eliot’s Review of Works by John Cumming, Westminster Review (October 1855) From a Letter to François d’Albert-Durade, 6 December 1859 From a Letter to Mme Eugène Bodichon (Barbara Leigh Smith), 26 December 1860 Select Bibliography and Further Reading

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Book SynopsisDu Maurier’s Trilby was the novel sensation of the 1890s. Du Maurier had spent a good deal of his life as a child and later as an art student in Paris; when he turned from his career in journalism and magazine illustration to novel writing he found enormous success with a novel divided as his own life had been between Paris and London. Billee, an English artist living the Bohemian life abroad, meets and falls in love with Trilby, a Parisian model. Differences in social class doom their romance, but Trilby, taught by the mysterious hypnotist Svengali to sing like “some enchanted princess” becomes a famous entertainer. As it turns out, however, her talent and her possession of her own mind have become dependent on Svengali maintaining his spell over her. Originally serialized in Harper’s Monthly in 1894, Trilby was published with 120 illustrations by the author (who was also a celebrated caricaturist for Punch). All 120 illustrations were included in the Harper and Brothers New York edition of 1894, and in a British edition published the following year in London. The first British publication in book form, however, (by Osgood & McIlvaine in 1894) did not include any of Du Maurier’s illustrations, and many editions since that time have included no illustrations or reproduced only a selection of the illustrations. Particularly given that many of the illustrations are integrated into the page of text in which they appear, Trilby is ideally suited to be made available again in a facsimile reprint.In its first year of publication, the book sold over 200,000 copies, and before long it had also been adapted for the stage. The name “Svengali” came to be applied to any hypnotist and the image of Svengali carved a lasting place in the popular imagination. Perhaps the most important expression of 1890s Bohemianism, Trilby has also attracted interest in recent years on account of its presentation of hypnosis and split personality, and for the conflicted but often anti-Semitic presentation of the mysterious Svengali.This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.

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Book SynopsisHawthorne's story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet "A" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, Puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature.This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne's writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the story, and contemporary reviews of the novel. New to the second edition are an updated critical introduction and bibliography and, in the appendices, additional writings by Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry James, and William Dean Howells.Trade Review“Anyone interested in how novels refract history will be enriched by the Broadview edition of The Scarlet Letter. The valuable introduction and extensive archival material will give readers a great foundation for using Hawthorne’s historicist methodology as a model for discussing the complexities of history and storytelling not only for Hawthorne but for contemporary readers as well.” — Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago“John Stephen Martin’s meticulously prepared edition of The Scarlet Letter offers both students and general readers the most comprehensive introduction to Hawthorne’s life and work currently available in one volume. With its historical contextualization, enormously helpful annotations, and judicious assessment of Hawthorne’s greatest work, it establishes itself as the single best guide to this great American masterpiece.” — Joel Porte, Cornell University“This edition is the most effective teaching tool for Hawthorne’s text that I know. Contained within a single volume, students have everything that is necessary for a rich understanding of one of the most important moments in American literary history. Especially donative are the substantial contextualizations provided here—literary, social, and historical—and in turn, these contextualizations ground the principal issues with which Hawthorne’s romance engages. Supplementary to all this is the extensive bibliography, far-ranging and comprehensive. This edition is easily the most comprehensive introduction to the work that is currently available.” — Ian Bell, Keele UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Scarlet Letter, A RomanceAppendix A: Hawthorne and Brook Farm (1841)Appendix B: Hawthorne at Concord (1842–1845): Thoreau, Emerson, Fuller, and TranscendentalismAppendix C: The Controversy of “The Custom-House” IntroductionAppendix D: Hawthorne’s Preface to the Second EditionAppendix E: Hawthorne’s Earlier Writings on Puritan History From “Endicott and the Red Cross” (1838) From “Main-street” (1849) From “The Celestial Rail-road” (1843) Appendix F: Hawthorne’s American NotebooksAppendix G: Hawthorne’s Ironic VisionAppendix H: The Development of The Scarlet Letter into a RomanceAppendix I: Imagination and “the Neutral Ground” of MoonlightAppendix J: Historical Sources for The Scarlet LetterAppendix K: Contemporary Reviews of The Scarlet Letter From Anon.,“The New Romance,” Boston Transcript (15 March 1850) From Anon., Salem Register (21 March 1850) From Evert A. Duyckinck, “Nathaniel Hawthorne,” The Literary World (30 March 1850) From George Ripley, New York Tribune Supplement (1 April 1850) From E.P. Whipple, Graham’s Magazine (May 1850) From Henry F. Chorley, Athenæum (June 1850) From Anne W. Abbott, North American Review (July 1850) From George Bailey Loring, Massachusetts Quarterly Review (September 1850) From Orestes Brownson, Brownson’s Quarterly Review (October 1850) From Arthur Cleveland Coxe, “The Writings of Hawthorne,” Church Review (January 1851) From Henry James, Hawthorne (1879) From William Dean Howells, Heroines of Fiction (1901) Appendix L: IllustrationsWorks Cited and Recommended Readings

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Book SynopsisThe most exotic of George Eliot’s works, Romola recounts the story of the famous religious leader Savonarola in Florence at the time of Machiavelli and the Medicis. Of all her novels, this was the author’s favourite.No other Eliot novel was illustrated in its first edition. Romola, however, was sought by George Smith for serialization in the prestigious illustrated Cornhill Magazine. Smith commissioned illustrations for the novel from the rising young artist Frederick Leighton, who had studied in Florence in the 1840s and had frequently painted Florentine Renaissance subjects. Romola was serialised with the Leighton illustrations in the magazine from July 1862 to August 1863. It was first published in book form in 1863; the first edition was published by Smith, Elder in three volumes, and a one-volume edition in two-column format with all but one of the Leighton illustrations was published later that year by Harper & Brothers in the United States. This facsimile reprint is of the one-volume 1863 Harper & Brothers edition, and includes 8 pages of original advertisements from the back of the book.This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.

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Book SynopsisIn the late eighteenth century, Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis, a notorious author of lurid Gothic novels and plays, began to gather this collection of horror ballads. Including original and traditional works, translations and adaptations, and even burlesques of the Gothic, this "hobgoblin repast," as Lewis called it, brings together a fascinating assortment of works. Contributors include Lewis, the young Walter Scott, William Taylor of Norwich, John Leyden, and Robert Southey.Appendices contain selections from Tales of Terror (1801), a text long intertwined with Lewis's collection; information on Scott's An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799); and parodies and reviews of Lewis's particular brand of Gothic poetry.Trade Review“Douglass H. Thomson’s excellent new edition makes Matthew Gregory Lewis’s long out-of-print Tales of Wonder (1801) available to scholars and students of Romanticism. The text is based on the first edition of the first volume of this important—and controversial—collection, and includes ballads by ‘Monk’ Lewis himself, as well as by Walter Scott and Robert Southey. It is accompanied by a detailed critical introduction and helpful notes. The generous appendices contain crucial contextual materials, including a Lewis chronology, extracts from the second volume of Tales of Wonder (nicknamed ‘Tales of Plunder’ by contemporaries) and a much misunderstood follow-up, Tales of Terror, plus a selection of contemporary reviews. This is an indispensable edition for anyone interested in the Gothic, generic complexity, seriousness and parody, nationalism, canons and their discontents, and literary marketplaces in the Romantic period.” — Lynda Pratt, University of Nottingham“The rediscovery of Gothic fiction has been at the neglect of Gothic poetry. This richly annotated edition of the most important, eclectic, and entertaining anthology of Gothic balladry will help redress the balance. Thomson’s wide-ranging critical introduction shows how Tales of Wonder constantly crosses literary and critical boundaries, playfully blurring distinctions between the serious and the burlesque. This is an invaluable publication, not only for Gothicists but for all interested in the Ballad Revival, Anglo-German literary connections, and Romanticism’s ambiguous relationship with the Gothic.” — Paul Barnaby, Edinburgh University LibraryTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionM.G. Lewis and Tales of Wonder: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextTales of Wonder Bothwell’s Bonny Jane / M.G. Lewis Osric the Lion / M.G. Lewis Sir Hengist / M.G. Lewis Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine / M.G. Lewis Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green / M.G. Lewis Elver’s Hoh / M.G. Lewis The Sword of Angantyr / M.G. Lewis King Hacho’s Death-Song / M.G. Lewis The Erl-King / M.G. Lewis The Erl-King’s Daughter / M.G. Lewis The Water-King / M.G. Lewis The Fire-King / Walter Scott The Cloud-King / M.G. Lewis The Fisherman / M.G. Lewis The Sailor’s Tale / M.G. Lewis The Princess and the Slave / M.G. Lewis The Gay Gold Ring / M.G. Lewis The Grim White Woman / M.G. Lewis The Little Grey Man / H. Bunbury Glenfinlas; or Lord Ronald’s Coronach / WalterScott The Eve of Saint John / Walter Scott Frederick and Alice / Walter Scott The Wild Huntsmen / Walter Scott The Old Woman of Berkeley / Robert Southey Bishop Bruno / Robert Southey Lord William / Robert Southey The Painter of Florence / Robert Southey Donica / Robert Southey Cornelius Agrippa’s Bloody Book / RobertSouthey Rudiger / Robert Southey The Elfin-King / John Leyden The Sorceress; or Wolfwold and Ulla / Mickle Appendix A: A Selection of Poems from Volume II of Tales of Wonder LVI. Clerk Colvin LVII. Willy’s Lady LVIII. Courteous King Jamie LIX.Tam Lin LX. Lenora Appendix B: Robert Southey and the Tales of WonderAppendix C: Selections from Tales of Terror (1801) I. Introductory Dialogue IV.The Wolf-King or Little Red-Riding-Hood. An Old Woman’s Tale X. The Grey Friar of Winton; or, the Death of King Rufus. An English Legend XI. Grim, King of Ghosts; or, the Dance of Death. A Church-Yard Tale XV. The Black Canon of Elmham; or, Saint Edmond’s Eve. An Old English Ballad XIX. The House upon the Heath. A Welsh Tale XX.The Mud-King; or, Smedley’s Ghost. A Tale of the Times Appendix D: A Note on Scott’s Compilation An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799)Appendix E: Critical Reception of Tales of Wonder and Tales of Terror British Critic (December 1801) Antijacobin Review (March 1801) Monthly Magazine (July 1801) Poetical Register (1801) Critical Review (January 1802) From George Gordon, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) Select Bibliography and Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThis group of fifteen brief narratives connected by a place and a time, the city of Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century, was written when James Joyce was a precocious young graduate of University College. With great subtlety and artistic restraint, Joyce suggests what lies beneath the pieties of Dublin society and its surface drive for respectability, suggesting the difficulties and despairs that were being endured on a daily basis in homes, pubs, streets, and offices of the city: underemployment, domestic violence, alcoholism, poverty, hunger, emotional and sexual repression. No writer ever took more seriously the details, history, and culture of a particular place than Joyce did with his home city, and these stories combine dark humor with compassion and a searching eye for the causes of suffering.This new edition's historical appendices include contemporary reviews (including one by Ezra Pound) and materials on religion, the struggle for Irish independence, and Dublin's musical and performance culture.Trade Review“Keri Walsh’s Broadview edition of Dubliners will deepen and enliven any reader’s experience of Joyce’s book. Included here are extensive appendices of primary materials that contextualize Joyce’s fictional world in terms of Ireland’s social, cultural, religious, and economic history, and in terms of the book’s troubled publication history, its early reception, and its place in literary history. Walsh’s introductory essay lays out the stakes of Joyce’s fraught relationship with Dublin and its denizens with clarity, concision, wit, and readability. Nowhere else have I read Joyce’s early life and work so essentially distilled, and rarely have I read Dubliners so artfully described. I expect Walsh’s Broadview edition of Dubliners to be around for a long time to come.” - Michael Rubenstein, Stony Brook University“Keri Walsh, as we already know from her collection of Sylvia Beach’s letters, is an archivist who blends the conscience of an ethnographer with the touch of a lover. She has achieved something genuinely exhilarating in this edition of Dubliners - transformed us into Joyce’s contemporaries while simultaneously renewing the book as a contemporary text, richly teachable and learnable, for twenty-first century readers, students, and scholars.” - Saikat Majumdar, author of Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire“In an age when anthologized literary may give students the impression that the texts they are given to study arrived already canonized, Walsh’s approach - the provision of text, subtext, pretext, and context - allows an appreciation of the contingency of both creation and reputation, and is therefore an approach full of merit.” - Stephen Whittaker, James Joyce Literary Supplement“Walsh’s entertaining prose moves competently and gracefully among many aspects of Dublin life and Irish history that have an immediate bearing on the stories…Deftly juggling and ordering so many layers of concerns, Walsh’s essay gives and ideal opening performance, drawing out questions and alerting readers to the details and controversies of the stories while refraining from editorializing or providing a simple, singular answer. In this sense, it makes a nicely polished critical looking glass that opens up many reflective possibilities for readers of Dubliners…The stories are evenly and skillfully annotated by Walsh; the level and depth of her notes also sustain the historical and cultural contexts developed in the critical essay and supplementary materials…Her annotative style is disciplined and concise, providing just the right amount of information about archaic vocabulary or arcane allusions. At their best, her annotations show readers the active interpretive choices that confront them in particular moments.” - Greg Winston, James Joyce QuarterlyTable of Contents Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews Times Literary Supplement (18 June 1914) Athenaeum (20 June 1914) New Statesman (27 June 1914) Everyman Review (3 July 1914) Academy (11 July 1914) From Ezra Pound, ""Dubliners and Mr. James Joyce,"" The Egoist (15 July 1914) The Irish Book Lover (November 1914) Appendix B: Literary Contexts From Matthew Arnold, ""On the Study of Celtic Literature"" (1867) From Padraic Colum, ""With James Joyce in Ireland"" (1922) From Henry James, ""The Story-Teller at Large: Mr. Henry Harland"" (April 1898) From Emile Zola, Preface to Thérése Raquin: A Realistic Novel (1887) Caroline Norton, ""The Arab's Farewell to His Horse"" (c. 1830) From W.B. Yeats, ""Ireland and the Arts"" (1903) From John Eglinton, ""The Philosophy of the Celtic Movement"" (1918) Appendix C: Dublin Musical and Performance Culture From Augusta Gregory, ""West Irish Ballads"" (1903) Charles Dibdin, ""The Lass that Loves a Sailor"" (1811) George Linley, ""Arrayed for the Bridal"" (1835) Anonymous, ""The Lass of Aughrim"" (date unknown) Alfred Bunn and Michael William Balfe, ""I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls"" (1843) ""Dougherty's Boarding House,"" Wheman Bros.' Pocket Size Irish Song Book (1909) Appendix D: Emigration From Rev. Michael J. Henry, ""A Century of Irish Emigration"" (1900) From Maud Gonne, ""Ways of Checking Emigration"" (15 October 1901) Philip Francis Little, ""Farewell to the Land"" (1901) From Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, ""Parents and Children"" (1904) Appendix E: Religion, Home Rule, and the Struggle for Independence From Charles Stewart Parnell's Address in Cork (22 January 1885) From Katharine Tynan, ""The Parnell Split"" (1912) From Filson Young, ""Holy Ireland"" (1903) Maud Gonne, ""The Famine Queen"" (7 April 1900) From Michael J.F. McCarthy, ""In Catholic Dublin"" (1903)

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Book SynopsisE. Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, is remarkable as one of a very few early North American Indigenous poets and fiction writers. Most Indigenous writers of her time were men educated for the ministry who published religious, anthropological, autobiographical, political, and historical works, rather than poetry and fiction. More extraordinary still, she became both a canonical poet and a literary celebrity, performing on stage for fifteen years across Canada, in the US, and in London. Johnson is now seen as a central figure in the intellectual history of Canada and the United States, and as an important historical example of Indigenous feminism. This edition collects a diverse range of Johnson’s writings on what was then called “the Indian question” and on the question of her own complex Indigenous identity.Six thematic sections gather Johnson’s poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and a rich selection of historical appendices provide context for her public life and her work as a feminist and activist for Indigenous people.Trade Review“More than a century after her death, E. Pauline Johnson continues to surprise, intrigue, and challenge us to ask important questions about the long and often troubled relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. Margery Fee and Dory Nason have done a commendable job in assembling Johnson’s work in such a way as to demonstrate not only her enduring legacy as a writer, but also, more importantly, her efforts as an early Native activist/feminist who engaged with issues that First Nation, Métis, and Inuit communities still confront on a daily basis. Created in an era during which ‘Indians’ were considered a ‘disappearing race,’ Johnson’s writing serves as a testament to the resilience of Indigenous peoples everywhere, and this book is evidence that her words deserve to be considered as still relevant, and vital, to the ongoing project of decolonizing our nations.” — Richard Monture, McMaster University“This collection represents a significant expansion of the available archive of E. Pauline Johnson’s work, positioning her writing in relationship to other literary and political voices of her era. A rich contribution.” — Beth H. Piatote, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionE. Pauline Johnson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the Text The Iroquois Confederacy and Loyalism “Canadian Born” (1900) “The Re-interment of Red Jacket” (1885) “‘Brant,’ A Memorial Ode” (1886) “The Lodge of the Law-makers” (1906) “My Mother” (1909) “Heroic Indian Mothers” (1908) “Forty-Five Miles on the Grand” (1892) “A Brother Chief” (1892) “The Brotherhood” (1910) “The Death Cry” (1888) “As Red Men Die” (1890) “The Avenger” (1892) “Her Majesty’s Guest” (1913) “A Pagan in Saint Paul’s Cathedral” (1906) “We-hro’s Sacrifice” (1907) “The Happy Hunting Grounds” (1889) The Plains and the Second Riel Resistance “A Cry from an Indian Wife” (1895) “Wolverine” (1893) “Silhouette” (1894) “The Cattle Thief” (1894) “A Request” (1886) “The Indian Corn Planter” (1897) “The Haunting Thaw” (1907) Dreams, Rivers, and Winds “At the Ferry” (1886) “The Song My Paddle Sings” (1892) “His Majesty, the West Wind” (1894) “Shadow River” (1889) “Kicking Horse River” (1894) “Moonset” (1894) Women and Children “A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction” (1892) “A Red Girl’s Reasoning” (1893) “Dawendine” (1895) “Ojistoh” (1895) “The Derelict” (1896) “The Pilot of the Plains” (1891) “Lullaby of the Iroquois” (1896) • 190 “The Corn Husker” (1896) • 190 Residential School “As It Was in the Beginning” (1899) “His Sister’s Son” (1896) “Little Wolf-Willow” (1907) The West Coast “The Potlatch” (1910) “Catharine of the Crow’s Nest” (1910) “Hoolool of the Totem Poles” (1911) “The Tenas Klootchman” (1911) “A Squamish Legend of Napoleon” (1910) “The Legend of the Ice Babies” (1911) “The Lost Lagoon” (1910) Appendix A: On Johnson From Garth Grafton / Sara Jeannette Duncan, Interview with E. Pauline Johnson, “Women’s World,” Toronto Globe (14 October 1886) W.D. Lighthall, “Miss E. Pauline Johnson,” Songs of the Great Dominion (1889) Hector Charlesworth, “Miss Pauline Johnson’s Poems,” Canadian Magazine (1895) Horatio Hale, Review of The White Wampum, The Critic (4 January 1896) “From Wigwam to Concert Platform,” Evening Telegraph [Dundee] (4 July 1906) Charles Mair, “Pauline Johnson: An Appreciation,” The Moccasin Maker (1913) Gilbert Parker, Introduction, The Moccasin Maker (1913) Ernest Thompson Seton, “Tekahionwake (Pauline Johnson),” Introduction, The Shaganappi (1913) From Theodore Watts-Dunton, “In Memoriam: Pauline Johnson,” Introduction, Flint and Feather: Collected Verse (1913) Appendix B: Writings by Women Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, “On Leaving My Children John and Jane at School” (1851) Margaret Fuller, “Governor Everett Receiving the Indian Chiefs, November, 1837” (1844) From Sarah Winnemucca, “Domestic and Social Moralities” (1883) Inshata Theamba (“Bright Eyes”) / Susette La Flesche, Introduction to William Justin Harsha’s Ploughed Under: The Story of an Indian Chief (1881) From Anna Julia Cooper, “Woman versus the Indian” (1892) Sophia Alice Callahan, “Is This Right?,” Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) Zitkala-Ša / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, “Why I Am a Pagan,” Atlantic Monthly (December 1902) From Zitkala-Ša / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, “An Indian Teacher among Indians,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1900) Appendix C: On the Six Nations Duncan Campbell Scott, “The Onondaga Madonna” (1898) W.D. Lighthall, “The Caughnawaga Beadwork Seller” (1889) Walt Whitman, “Red Jacket (From Aloft)” (1885) Ely S. Parker / Donehogawa, Speech at the Ceremony to Re-inter Red Jacket (1885) From Arthur C. Parker, “Certain Important Elements of the Indian Problem,” American Indian Magazine (1915) Appendix D: Canadian Residential Schools From Nicholas Flood Davin, Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds (14 March 1879) From Peter Henderson Bryce, The Story of a National Crime (1922) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisThis edition brings together Tolstoy’s 1886 masterpiece and several shorter works that connect with it in thought-provoking ways. The stories are accompanied by a fascinating selection of contextual materials, including nineteenth-century reviews, excerpts from Tolstoy’s letters concerning death, excerpts from a pamphlet he wrote after witnessing the slaughtering of livestock, and a portfolio of relevant photographs. As well as crafting fresh translations both of the stories themselves and of the background materials, Kirsten Lodge has provided an illuminating introduction and helpful annotations.Trade Review“Brilliantly conceived and executed, this slender volume should hold great appeal to both teachers of literature and students of life… In her masterful translation, Lodge captures the writer’s full stylistic register, from his quiet lyricism, lucid metaphors, fleshy descriptions, and arresting juxtapositions to his at times torturous syntax, defamiliarizing word choice, and scathing, mirthless wit. Like his contemporaries, modern readers cannot help but marvel at the range and originality of Tolstoy’s experiments in the literature of death, from the felling of a tree at the close of ‘Three Deaths’ to the dark inner worlds of characters drawing their last breath. Lodge’s inclusion of ‘Strider’—a short story told from the perspective of a dying horse—feels especially timely in light of the recent turn in literary criticism toward animal studies… Taken together, Lodge’s selections from Tolstoy’s oeuvre form a sort of modern dance macabre in which death, indifferent and inhuman, fells not only sinners from all stations of life but also plants, animals, self, and other. As her volume amply demonstrates, Tolstoy—more than a century after his own storied death at the Astapovo train station—remains as vital as ever.” — Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Montclair State University“Kirsten Lodge’s translation is neat and efficient; she doesn’t mind phrasings that would not, in 1886 in English, have been used and I don’t mind either (for example “goofed up,” p. 21). The voice is steady and un-self-conscious and not bookish or cautious or twisted by Russian grammar or syntax.” — Bob Blaisdell, The Russian ReviewCOMMENTS on Kirsten Lodge ’s edition of Notes from the Underground:“… superlative in all respects. It offers an excellent translation, highly readable yet always faithful to the original, as well as essential supplementary materials that make it by far the easiest edition to teach from.” — Michael Wachtel, Princeton University“Kirsten Lodge’s important new edition of Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground offers readers a dazzling collection of contexts, sources, and images for Dostoevsky and his novel, all of which will be indispensable for students and general readers alike.” — Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University“For years I have taught these classic Russian texts [Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, and Zamyatin’s We] to students with little or no knowledge of Russian language or culture. In addition to providing clear, readable translations of the texts themselves, Lodge’s editions provide critical apparatus—introductions, notes, secondary texts, and images—that have made these stories much more accessible to my students. Contextual material that I have long had to put in handouts and powerpoints is now conveniently included in the text itself. These are certainly the most teachable editions of these texts currently available.” — Chad Engbers, Calvin UniversityTable of Contents Introduction The Death of Ivan Ilyich Strider Three Deaths In Context Killing Animals, Eating Animals from Leo Tolstoy, The First Step from Howard Williams, Preface to The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating (1882) From Tolstoy’s Letters Concerning Death Letter of Oct. 17, 1860 to Afanasy Fet (on the death of Tolstoy’s brother Nikolai from tuberculosis Letter of May 1, 1868 to Aleksandra Tolstaya, Tolstoy’s grandmother (on “Three Deaths”) Other Writings by Tolstoy from Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Chapter 27: Grief (1852) from Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878 from Leo Tolstoy, Confession (1879) from Leo Tolstoy, “Notes of a Madman” (unfinished; begun in 1884 and published posthumously) Critical Reception from Nikolai Leskov, “On the Kitchen Muzhik and Other Matters: Notes on Certain Reviews of Count Leo Tolstoy’s Work” (1886) from Dmitry Pisarev, “‘Three Deaths’: A Story by Count Leo Tolstoy” (1859) Nineteenth-Century Images

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Book SynopsisAs George Orwell wrote in 1940, “Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it.” Graham, the “sleeper” of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. He wakes to a London encased in a glass dome, in which the Victorian class system has hardened into castes and a revolution is brewing. An important influence on later dystopian novels, Sleeper is a deeply pessimistic book, although Wells could not resist an ending ambiguous enough to permit the reader a faint gleam of optimism. The novel was re-written and published in 1908 as The Sleeper Awakes, but this edition preserves the original version. Historical appendices include contemporary reviews, Henri Lanos illustrations from The Graphic, and other utopian fiction from the period.Trade Review“In his masterly introduction to H.G. Wells’s 1899 novel When the Sleeper Wakes, John Sutherland amply demonstrates its enduring relevance to the contemporary reader, even though it is one of Wells’s lesser-known works. Sutherland’s assessment of the novel is not only extraordinarily erudite and informative but also witty and immensely readable. He provides a lively biography of Wells alongside an appraisal of the novel that is brim-full of fascinating contextual detail and penetrating critical observations. The appendices offer an invaluable historical background to the novel’s inspiration, reception, and film adaptations, as well as reproductions of the fabulous illustrations accompanying the serialization in The Graphic. The two Prefaces and the “Afterword” give us a unique personal glimpse into the development of Wells’s ideas and his writing processes. For any fan or scholar of Wells, this is a much-needed, exemplary revisiting of his tale of time travel.” — Linda Dryden, Edinburgh Napier University“John Sutherland has produced a knowledgeable, classroom-friendly edition of one of the lesser-known masterpieces of Wells’s scientific fantasies. When the Sleeper Wakes brims with some of Wells’s most prophetic technological inventions and radical political ideas, all of which are expertly discussed and contextualized in Sutherland’s introduction, notes, and appendices.” — Jeremy Withers, Iowa State University“… this novel deserves to be studied by a larger audience, and John Sutherland is well suited to the task of helping to bring When the Sleeper Wakes to more readers. … this is another commendable volume by Broadview Press. This Canadian publisher continues to produce high-quality, classroom-friendly, affordable editions of many literary works, and their roster of texts by H. G. Wells is now up to half a dozen titles. … One can only hope that we continue to see more Wells volumes published by this press.” — Jeremy Withers, The WellsianTable of Contents Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews 1. Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (June 1900) 2. Athenæum (3 June 1899) 3. “Prophet vs. Novelist,” Academy (10 June 1899) 4. New York Times, 18 August 1899 Appendix B: Two Prefaces and an “Afterword” 1. Preface to the 1910 Edition 2. Preface to the 1921 Edition 3. From Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Appendix C: Illustrations by Henri Lanos 1. The Graphic, no. 1529 (21 January 1899) 2. The Graphic, no. 1529 (4 February 1899) 3. The Graphic, no. 1529 (25 February 1899) 4. The Graphic, no. 1529 (29 April 1899) Appendix D: Utopian Quarrels 1. From W.H. Hudson, A Crystal Age (1887) 2. From William Morris, News from Nowhere (1891) 3. From Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1889) Appendix E: Film Versions of When the Sleeper Wakes

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Book SynopsisIn this 1874 novella, the celebrated British writer of sensation fiction tells the tale of two brothers sentenced to be executed for having committed a murder that never occurred, and of the efforts of the energetic Naomi Colebrook to ferret out the truth and save the two innocents. As editor Anna Clarke observes, Collins' work is both a compelling legal sensation thriller and an important transatlantic commentary on American life. Along with the text itself and an illuminating introduction, Clarke provides a range of background materials-including documents from the real-life Boorn murder trial that inspired the novella-in order to set the work in its historical context.Trade Review“This is a timely re-examination of Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive. Anna Clark has situated Collins’s novella within its nineteenth-century context in terms of the Boorn murder trial, which inspired its plot, and other contemporary materials, including reviews and illustrations. The introduction provides a clear overview of Collins’s work, as well as of the text under consideration, which makes this volume useful for both scholars and students. This is a welcome and exciting addition to Broadview’s indispensable Victorian literature series.” — Joanne Ella Parsons, Falmouth University“Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive is an incredibly teachable novella, and Anna Clark’s introduction helpfully situates it within a range of historical contexts. This little-known text—advertised as Collins’s ‘first American story’ and based on an actual 1819 Vermont trial—is distinct within Collins’s oeuvre. The bold Naomi Colebrook prefigures Collins’s detective-heroine Valeria Woodville in The Law and the Lady but is also depicted as a uniquely American heroine. The contextual material that Clark provides, including reviews and reports of the real-life trial, position The Dead Alive as a significant experiment in transatlantic, legal, and sensational writing.” — Tara MacDonald, University of IdahoTable of Contents Introduction William Wilkie Collins The Dead Alive in Context A Note on the Text The Dead Alive In Context The Boorn Murder Trial from Leonard Sargent, The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn, for the Murder of Russell Colvin, and the Return of the Man Supposed to Have Been Murdered (1873) from Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Seventieth Session, "Report of the Select Committee on the Abolishment of Capital Punishment" (5 March 1847) from Lemuel Haynes, "The Prisoner Released. A Sermon delivered at Manchester, Vermont, Lord's Day, Man. 9th, 1820, on the remarkable interpositin of Divine Providence in the deliverance of Stephen and Jesse Boorn, who had been under sentence of death for the supposed murder of Russell Colvin." In Sketches of the Life and Character of Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A.M., by Timothy Mather Cooley (1837) On the American Character from Alexis de Tocqueville, "Of the Principal Source of Belief Among Democratc Nations," Democracy in America, vol. 2, trans. Henry Reeve (1841) from Charles Dickens, American Notes (1842) American Reviews from "The Dead Alive" (Review), Cincinnati Daily Enquirer (4 January 1874) from "New Publications" (Review of The Dead Alive), Christian Watchman (5 February 1874) from "Literariana" (Review of The Dead Alive), The Daily Graphic (18 February 1874) from "New Publications" (Review of The Dead Alive), The Christian Register (21 February 1874) from "Novels of the Week" (Review of The Frozen Deep, and Other Stories), The Athenaeum (21 November 1874) Advertising, Illustrations from The Commercial Advertiser (3 January 1874) Illustrations from Shepard and Gill edition of The Dead Alive Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams up elaborate historical fantasies of himself as a Viking traveller, a freedom-fighter for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the colleague of a Falstaffian knight who participates in the Battle of Bannockburn. He is then hurled into the future as Thor, who returns to the Orkneys as an adult and recalls his internment in a German POW camp, where he discovered his writing skills. Thor also reflects on the history of Orkney, the links between dreaming and writing and the whims of fate. In this beautiful and haunting novel, Brown’s lyrical descriptions and gift for local colour capture, as ever, the myth-drenched magic of his native islands.

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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. This title 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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Book SynopsisThe first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction In Lost Souls, Honoré de Balzac’s brilliant evocation of nineteenth-century Paris, we enter a world of glittering wealth and grinding poverty, teeming with strivers, poseurs, and pleasure seekers along with those who struggle merely to survive. Between the heights of Parisian society and the criminal world lurking underneath, fate is about to catch up with Lucien de Rubempré, last seen in Lost Illusions, as his literary aspirations, his love for the courtesan Esther van Gobseck, and his scheme to marry the wealthy Clotilde become entangled in the cunning and ultimately disastrous ambitions of the Abbé Herrera, a villain for the ages. An extraordinary volume in Balzac’s vast Human Comedy (in which he endeavored to capture all of society), Lost Souls appears here in its first new English translation in half a century. Keenly attuned to the acerbic charm and subtleties of Balzac’s prose, this edition also includes an introduction presenting thorough biographical, literary, and historical context, as well as extensive notes throughout the text—an invaluable resource for today’s readers as they navigate Balzac’s copious allusions to classical and contemporaneous politics and literature.Trade Review"Beautifully written."—Book Post"Between Lost Illusions and Lost Souls, in two hefty, handsome paperbacks—with scholarly trimmings to help, not impede a reader—we now have both of the novels (technically all seven novels in a trilogy followed by a tetralogy… published between 1837 and 1847 in not entirely chronological order… because Balzac?) tracing the fate of Lucien de Rubempre, in print as though they belong together, on your to-be-read lists and your shelves. They are a remarkable itinerary."—LitHub"Here’s a gift to the world literature in English that keeps on giving: Raymond Mackenzie keeps making fine translations of Balzac’s huge, great novels and the University of Minnesota Press keeps publishing them in the same handsome format: after Lost Illusions, Lost Souls. They have given us convincing, eminently readable versions of Balzac. "—David Ball, METAMORPHOSES

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Book SynopsisA masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature in a fresh translation that fully captures the language, psychology, and social reach of Stendhal’s original Fueled with a combustible mix of ambition, naivete, and Napoleonic ideals, Julien Sorel sets his sights on the heights of French society. But for the son of a provincial carpenter in post-Napoleonic France, the prospects for advancement are vanishingly narrow, the chances for glory rarer yet. After securing a toehold as a tutor to a wealthy family, Julien proceeds through a series of misadventures, illicit affairs, and lucky reversals to breach the ranks of French aristocracy—only to be undone by treasonous schemes, cynical romantic calculations, and an unexpectedly genuine and ultimately disastrous passion.Shocking at the time of its original publication, startling in its relevance today, Stendhal’s masterpiece is a scorching social satire, a remarkably detailed portrait of a fraught moment in history and, as perhaps the first psychological novel, a brilliant precursor to modern literature at once comical and tragic, cerebral and passionate. This new translation faithfully reproduces the nimble wit, emotional depth, and social acuity of Stendhal’s text. Distinguished translator Raymond N. MacKenzie includes an extensive introduction to Stendhal’s world and time, as well as copious annotations that explain allusions and terms for the modern reader.Trade Review "Despite being written and set in the 19th century, Red and Black has all the hallmarks of a modern novel. Stendhal enjoys recounting his young protagonist’s adventures, and that enjoyment is contagious. Raymond Mackenzie makes good use of his Translator’s Introduction and the copious end-notes to explain historical details, point out Stendhal’s propensity to invent and falsely attribute chapter epigraphs, and educate the reader on the nuances of language. "—On the Seawall "An elegant stylist and thoughtful critic, MacKenzie has an excellent ear for what makes Stendhal’s dry-as-extra-brut-champagne style so effective as a deglazing liquid."—Rain Taxi Table of ContentsContentsTranslator’s Introduction. Chronicling the Nineteenth Century: Stendhal, Politics, and the NovelRaymond N. MacKenzieRed and BlackPublisher’s NoteBook IBook IINotes

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Book SynopsisIn 1984, a dystopian society is controlled by Big Brother through constant surveillance and suppression of personal freedom. Winston rebels against the oppressive regime but is ultimately tortured into submission. The novel explores themes of power, control, and the manipulation of truth.

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Book SynopsisThe original trilogy of Isaac Asimov’s bestselling science fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series, in a striking boxed set package THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved series by PBS’s The Great American Read For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. Collected in this boxed set, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation form the celebrated original trilogy that started it all. One of the most influential in the history of science fiction, the Foundation series is celebrated for its unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. Here, Asimov has written a timely and timeless saga of the best—and worst—that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness.

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Book SynopsisEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.So begins The Metamorphosis, one of the most recognizable opening lines in literature. The story of Gregor Samsa, a young man who, after transforming overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, and a quintessentially alienated man. One of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction, The Metamorphosis is a harrowing yet absurdly comic meditation on inadequacy, guilt, and isolation. A work in which, in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, &

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Book SynopsisA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authorsA Penguin Classic In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean and read by t

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