Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
HarperCollins Publishers Heart of Darkness Collins Classics
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.'At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for his fearsome reputation. On his journey into the unknown Marlow takes a terrifying trip into his own subconscious, overwhelmed by his menacing, perilous and horrifying surroundings.The landscape and the people he meets force him to reflect on human nature and society, and in turn Conrad writes revealingly about the dangers of imperialism.
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HarperCollins Publishers Wuthering Heights
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
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Oxford University Press Persuasion
Book Synopsis''She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.''Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances. Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''
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HarperCollins Publishers Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Wilde Oscar Collins
Book SynopsisThe Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition.Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde's texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts.Illustrated with many fascinating photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Merlin Holland (Oscar's grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd and Terence Brown.Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde, and a chronological table of his life and work.
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Orion Publishing Co The Jane Austen Game
Book SynopsisStep into the elegant Regency era of Jane Austen, as you dance from ball to ball collecting ardent admirers!
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Oxford University Press Bright Circle
Book SynopsisA group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movementIn November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society to answer the great questions of special importance to women: What are we born to do? How shall we do it? The lives and works of the five women who discussed these questions are at the center of Bright Circle, a group biography of remarkable thinkers and artists who played pathbreaking roles in the transcendentalist movement. Transcendentalism remains the most important literary and philosophical movement to have originated in the United States. Most accounts of it, however, trace its emergence to a group of young intellectuals (primarily Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau) dissatisfied with their religious, literary, and social culture. Yet there is a forgotten history of transcendentalism--a submerged counternarrative--that features a network of fiercely intelligent women who were central to the development of the movement even as they found themselves silenced by their culturally-assigned roles as women. Bright Circle is intended to reorient our understanding of transcendentalism: to help us see the movement as a far more collaborative and interactive project between women and men than is commonly understood. It recounts the lives of Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Lydia Jackson Emerson, and Margaret Fuller as they developed crucial ideas about the self, nature, and feeling even as they pushed their male counterparts to consider the rights of enslaved people of color and women. Many ideas once considered original to Emerson and Thoreau are shown to have originated with women who had little opportunity of publicly expressing them. Together, the five women of Bright Circle helped form the foundations of American feminism.
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Oxford University Press How Romantics and Victorians Organized
Book SynopsisEvery literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection Fly-Catchers, while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a Quarry, and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his Philosophical Miscellany. Nevertheless, the nineteenth-century commonplace book, along with associated traditions like the scrapbook and album, remain under-studied. This book tells the story of how technological and social changes altered methods for gathering, storing, and organizing information in nineteenth-century Britain. As the commonplace book moved out of the schoolroom and into the home, it took on elements of the friendship album. At the same time, the explosion of print allowed readers to cheaply cut-and-paste extractions rather than copying out quotations by hand. Built on the evidence of over 300 manuscripts, this volume unearths the composition practices of well-known writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, and their less well-known contemporaries. Divided into two sections, the first half of the book contends that methods for organizing knowledge developed in line with the period''s dominant epistemic frameworks, while the second half argues that commonplace books helped Romantics and Victorians organize people.Chapters focus on prominent organizational methods in nineteenth-century commonplacing, often attached to an associated epistemic virtue: diaristic forms and the imagination (Chapter Two); real time entries signalling objectivity (Chapter Three); antiquarian remnants, serving as empirical evidence for historical arguments (Chapter Four); communally produced commonplace books that attest to socially constructed knowledge (Chapter Five); and blank spaces in commonplace books of mourning (Chapter Six). Richly illustrated, this book brings an archive of commonplace books, scrapbooks, and albums to the reader.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Anatomy of the Commonplace Part I. Organizing Ideas 2: Commonplace Books of the Imagination 3: Laboratory Commonplace Books 4: Commonplace Books of History Part II. Organizing People 5: Social Commonplace Books 6: Commonplace Books of Mourning Coda
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Oxford University Press Northanger Abbey
Book Synopsis''No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.''Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about different kinds of peril, both imagined and real. In it, Austen''s youngest heroine, Catherine Morland, must navigate financial disadvantage, social constraint, and sometimes quite ruthless manipulation. The absurdities of fashion and conspicuous consumption, voguish ostentation and social competition are seen first in shark-infested Bath, (the premier health resort and marriage market of the day) and then in a more tranquil pocket of rural Gloucestershire that turns out to be a hotbed of materialism and greed. Jane Austen combines making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel with larger moral issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, and the inexcusability (especially for women) of not thinking for oneself.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Woman in White Collins Classics
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.'One of the earliest works of detective' fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859, the story caused a sensation with its readers, hooking their attention with the ghostly first scene where the mysterious Woman in White' Anne Catherick comes across Walter Hartright. Chilling, suspenseful and tense in mood, the novel remains as emotive for its readers today as when it was first published.
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HarperCollins Publishers Silas Marner Collins Classics
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.'Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his money and living a lonely life as a recluse.It is only when his money is stolen and a small orphan girl, Eppie appears in his life that Silas's fortunes begin to change and he truly begins to learn what it means to regain his faith in life.
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Verso Books The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition
Book SynopsisIn the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word "capitalism" itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis and global recession in the twenty-first century, capitalism is once again up for discussion. The status quo can no longer be taken for granted.As Eric Hobsbawm argues in his acute and elegant introduction to this modern edition, in such times The Communist Manifesto emerges as a work of great prescience and power despite being written over a century and a half ago. He highlights Marx and Engels's enduring insights into the capitalist system: its devastating impact on all aspects of human existence; its susceptibility to enormous convulsions and crises; and its fundamental weakness.Trade ReviewAs a force for change, its influence has been surpassed only by the Bible. As a piece of writing, it is a masterpiece. * Guardian *[T]he best possible explanation of what the world was about that I had ever read. It pointed out that the real conflicts in the world were not between black and white, men and women, Muslims, Christians and Jews, Americans, Russians and Chinese; it was about the conflict of economic interest between 95 per cent of the population of the world, who create the world's wealth, and the 5 per cent who own it. I think of Marx as a prophet: the last of the Old Testament prophets. And we should think of him as a teacher ... Karl Marx discovered it all long before I did, and I am very grateful to him. -- Tony Benn * The New Statesman *
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Oxford University Press The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
Book SynopsisArthur Machen is a significant figure in supernatural and horror literature, in the genre of 'weird fiction'. This collection brings together his best horror tales with a full contextual introduction and which helps to illuminate Machen's place in the literary and cultural milieu of 1890s Britain.Trade ReviewThis is a must-have collection of landmark tales of horror. * Publisher's Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Arthur Machen The Lost Club The Great God Pan The Inmost Light The Three Impostors The Red Hand The Shining Pyramid The Turanians The Idealist Witchcraft The Ceremony Psychology Midsummer The White People The Bowmen The Monstrance N The Tree of Life Change Ritual Explanatory Notes
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Oxford University Press A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
Book SynopsisIn the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer''s romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from ''living life''. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the ''underground'' of many of Dostoevsky''s later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how, in Dostoevsky''s view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky''s writing, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewThe new translations read smoothly, and Professor William Leatherbarrow's introductory essay is helpfully informative. * Sunday Telegraph *Table of ContentsWhite Nights ; A Gentle Creature ; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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Broadview Press Ltd The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and
Book SynopsisThe Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory is the most comprehensive collection of poetry from the period ever published. Included are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representation of the work of virtually every poet of significance, from Thomas Ashe at the beginning of the era to Charlotte Mew at its end. The work of Victorian women poets features very prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, but also from poets such as Augusta Webster for which high claims have recently been made by critics. The anthology reflects (and will contribute to) the ongoing reassessment of the canon that is central to English Studies today; in all, sixty-six poets are represented.The editors have included complete works wherever feasible — including the complete texts of Tennyson’s In Memoriam and of a number of other long poems. A headnote by the editors introduces the work of each poet, and each selection has been newly annotated.The inclusion of twenty-five selections of the poetic theory from the period is an important feature rounding out the anthology.This anthology is also available in a concise edition.Trade Review“What we have needed has been the Victorian poetic texts, by many writers—and here they are, splendidly assembled! Thank you.” — William N. Rogers, San Diego State University“I’m excited about the appearance of this comprehensive anthology—especially about its inclusion of so many full-text long poems.” — Peter W. Sinnema, University of Alberta“A long overdue collection that balances representative and canonical works with traditionally under-represented ones.” — Barbara Gates, University of DelawareTable of ContentsPOETRYAnonymousA New Song on the Birth of the Prince of WalesAshe, Thomas (1770-1835)Corpse-BearingTo Two BereavedLandor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)For An Epitaph At FiesoleIanthe LeavesDying Speech of an Old PhilosopherDeath’s LanguageHer NameA Foreign RulerClare, John (1793-1864)“I Am”An Invite to EternityThe Old YearThe YellowhammerSonnet: “I Am”Stanzas “The passing of a dream”“There is a charm in Solitude that cheers”Stanzas “Black absence hides upon the past”The Winters SpringAn Anecdote of LoveTo Miss B.“The thunder mutters louder…”Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835)The Suloite MotherThe Lady of The CastleTo WordsworthCasabianca Properzia RossiThe Memorial PillarThe Grave of a PoetessThe Image In LavaThe Indian With His Dead ChildThe Rock of Cader IdrisHenry, James“Two hundred men and eighteen killed … ”Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)The Song of the ShirtBarnes, William (1801-1886)Uncle an’ AuntPolly Be-En Upzides Wi’ TomThe Vaïces that Be GoneChildhoodThe TurnstileJay A-Pass’dLandon, Letitia .E. (1802-1838) from The Improvisatrice AdvertisementSappho’s Song Erinna“Preface” to The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other PoemsThe Nameless GraveThe FactoryCarthageFelicia HemansRydal Water and Grasmere LakeInfanticide in Madagascar R.E. Egerton Warburton (1804-1891)Past and PresentElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) The Romaunt of the PageLady Geraldine’s CourtshipThe Dead PanThe Cry of the ChildrenA Man’s RequirementsSonnets From the Portuguese IIIXXIIXXIXXLIII The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s PointAurora Leigh 1st Book2nd Book5th Book A Curse for a Nation (Prologue)A Musical Instrument Frederick Tennyson (1807-1898)Old AgeCaroline Norton (1808-1877)from Voice From the FactoriesThe Creole GirlThe Poet’s ChoiceSonnet IVSonnet VIII (To My Books)Sonnet XI The WeaverEdward FitzgeraldRubáiyát of Omar KhayyámTennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)MarianaSupposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive MindThe PoetThe Poet’s MindThe MysticThe KrakenThe Lady of ShalottTo ——. With the following Poem [Palace of Art]The Palace of ArtThe HesperidesThe Lotos-Eaters (107)The Two VoicesSt Simeon StylitesUlyssesTiresiasThe Epic [Morte d’Arthur]Morte d’Arthur“Break, break, break”Locksley HallThe Vision of SinIn Memoriam A.H.H. (33)The Charge of the Light BrigadeMaudTithonusThe Higher Pantheism“Flower in the crannied wall”Crossing the BarIdylls of the KingThe Coming of ArthurLancelot and ElaineBrowning, Robert (1812-1889) My Last DuchessSoliloquy of the Spanish CloisterJohannes Agricola in MeditationPorphyria’s LoverPictor Ignotusthe Lost LeaderThe Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s ChurchThe LaboratoryLove Among the RuinsFra Lippo LippiA Toccata of Galuppi’sBy the Fire-SideAn Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician”Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”The Statue and the BustHow It Strikes a ContemporaryThe Last Ride TogetherBishop Blougram’s ApologyAndrea del SartoOld Pictures in FlorenceIn a BalconySaulCleonTwo in the CampagnaA Grammarian’s FuneralDîs Aliter Visum or Le Byron de Nos JoursAbt VoglerRabbi Ben EzraCaliban Upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the IslandThe Ring and the BookThe Ring and the Book: Book I Count Guido Franceschini: Book VPompilia: Book VIGuido: Book XI Prologue (to Asolando)Development Lear, Edward (1812-1888)The Owl and the PussycatThe Dong with a Luminous NoseHow Pleasant to Know Mr. LearBrontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)The MissionaryMaster and PupilOn the Death of Emily Jane BrontëOn the Death of Anne BrontëReason“The house was still—the room was still”The Lonely Lady"Is this my tomb, this humble stone”"Obscure and little seem my way”Brontë, Emily Jane (1818-1848)“Riches I hold in light esteem”To ImaginationPlead For MeRemembranceThe Prisoner“No coward soul is mine”Stanzas—“Often rebuked, yet always back returning”A Farewell to Alexandria“Long neglect has worn away”“The night is darkening round me”“What winter floods, what showers of spring”“She dried her tears, and they did smile”Cook, Eliza (1818-1889)LinesThe WatersThe Ploughshare of Old EnglandThe Old Arm-ChairSong of the Red IndianSong of The Ugly MaidenMy Old Straw HatLines Written for the Sheffield Mechanics Exhibition, 1846A Song For The WorkersMy Ladye LoveClough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)Duty—that’s to say complyingQui Laborat, OratThe Latest Decalogue“Say not the struggle nought availeth”Amours de VoyageEliot, George (1819-1880) “O, May I Join the Choir Invisible”The Spanish Gypsy Book IBook III ArmgartBrother and Sister Sonnets IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXX Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)A Fragment—“Maiden, thou wert thoughtless once”Lines Written at Thorp Green“My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring”A Word to the CalvinistsThe Captive DoveViews of LifeSelf-CommunionThe BluebellDreamsA Voice from the DungeonIngelow, Jean (1820-1897)Supper At The MillRemonstranceA Lily And A LuteGladys And Her IslandOn The Borders of Cannock ChaseGreenwell, Dora (1821-1882)The SingerThe Railway StationThe Picture and the ScrollThe Broken ChainOld LettersTo Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861One FlowerA ScherzoA Song to Call to RemembranceSperanza (Lady Wilde) (1821?-1896)The Voice of the PoorA RemonstranceA Lament For the PotatoFatalityCorinne’s Last Love-SongTristan and IsoldeThe Poet’s DestinyAn Appeal to IrelandArnold, Matthew (1822-1888)To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-ShoreThe Strayed RevellerResignationThe Forsaken MermanTo Marguerite—ContinuedStanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann”Empedocles on EtnaMemorial VersesDover BeachThe Buried LifeStanzas from the Grande ChartreuseThe Scholar-GipsyPhilomelaThyrsisPatmore, Coventry (1823-1896)The ToysMagna est VeritasThe Angel in the HouseAllingham, William (1824-1889)The Fairies“Four Ducks on a Pond”WritingExpressDobell, Sydney (1824-1874)The Botanist’s VisionTo the Authoress of “Aurora Leigh”PerhapsTwo Sonnets on the Death of Prince AlbertMacDonald, George (1824-1905)Professor NoctutusNo End of No-StoryProcter, Adelaide Anne (1825-1864)The Cradle Song of the PoorIncompletenessMy Picture GalleryAn AppealThe Jubilee of 1850HomelessA Woman’s QuestionA Woman’s AnswerA Woman’s Last WordEnvyA Legend of ProvencePhilip and MildredCollins, MortimerLotos EatingBigg, J. Stantyon (1828-1865)An Irish PictureMassey, Gerald (1828-1907)Hope On, Hope EverThe Cry of the UnemployedA Song in the City“As proper mode of quenching legal lust…”WomankindMeredith, George (1838-1909)Modern LoveLucifer in StarlightRossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Blessed DamozelMy Sister’s SleepJennyThe PortraitThe WoodspurgeThe Ballad of Dead LadiesA Last ConfessionThe Sea-LimitsFoundAt the Sunrise in 1848The House of Life: A Sonnet Sequence “A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,—”Nuptial SleepThe PortraitSilent NoonWillowwoodThe Soul’s SphereThe LandmarkAutumn IdlenessThe Hill SummitOld and New ArtSoul’s BeautyBody’s BeautyA SuperscriptionThe One Hope Munby, Arthur (1828-1910)The Serving MaidPost MortemA Husband’s EpisodesT’ Runawaa Lass“Followers Not Allowed”Woman’s RightsSiddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)The Lust of the EyesWorn OutAt LastLove and HateBrown, T.E. (1830-1870)A Sermon at ClevedonRossetti, Christina (1830-1894)Goblin MarketA BirthdayAfter DeathAn Apple GatheringEcho“No, Thank you, John”SongUphillA Better Resurrection“The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children”Monna Innominata 1 - 14“For Thine Own Sake, O My God”In an Artist’s StudioCarroll, Lewis (1832-1898)JabberwockyThe Walrus and the CarpenterThe Hunting of the SnarkMorris, William (1834-1896)The Defence of GuinevereThe Haystack in the FloodsRiding TogetherNear AvalonAn ApologyA Garden by the SeaThe End of MayThomson, James (1834-1882)The City of Dreadful NightE.B.B. 1861A Real Vision of SinWarren, John Leicester (Lord de Tabley) (1835-1895)The Strange ParableA Song of Faith ForswornEchoes of HellasL’EnvoiConclusionBraddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915)Queen GuinevereAt LastWaitingUnder GroundWakingSwinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)Atalanta in CalydonLaus VenerisThe Triumph of TimeItylusAnactoriaHymn to ProserpineThe LeperDoloresThe Garden of ProserpineHerthaA Forsaken GardenAt A Month’s EndAve Atque ValeA Jacobite’s FarewellThe Lake of GaubeWebster, Augusta (1837-1894) CirceA CastawayMother and Daughter Sonnets Sonnet VI - VIISonnet IXSonnet XIISonnet XIII - XVII The Wind’s Tidings In August 1870To-DayHer MemoriesA Coarse MorningNot To BeOnceThe Old Dream Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)HapNeutral TonesA Broken AppointmentThe Darkling ThrushThe Self-UnseeingIn TenebrisThe Minute Before MeetingNight in the Old HomeThe Something that Saved HimAfterwardsA Young Man’s ExhortationSnow in the SuburbsIn a WoodDowden, Edward (1843-1913)BurdensLeonardo’s “Monna Lisa”EuropaSeeking GodIn a June NightBridges, Robert (1844-1930)London SnowOn a Dead ChildHopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1899)The Wreck of the DeutschlandGod’s GrandeurThe WindhoverPied BeautyHarrahing in HarvestThe Caged SkylarkPeaceFelix Randal“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”The Leaden Echo and the Golden EchoSpelt from Sibyl’s LeavesCarrion Comfort“No worst, there is none”“To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life”“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day”“Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray”“My own heart let me more have pity on”Tom’s GarlandHarry PloughmanIt was a hard thing to undo this knotLee-Hamilton, Eugene (1845-1907) The Keys of the ConventIntroduction (Picciola)The New MedusaThe RaftTo the MuseRiver BabbleTwilightWhat the Sonnet IsSunken GoldThe Ever Young IIIIII The Mandolin Field, MichaelPrefaceDrawing of Roses and VioletsLa GiocondaThe Birth of VenusA PortraitA “Sant’ Imagine”The MagdalenA Pen-Drawing of Leda“Death, men say, is like a sea”“Ah, Eros doth not always smite”“Sometimes I do despatch my heart”An Apple-Flower“Solitary Death, make me thine own”“A curling thread”A Spring Morning By the SeaLove’rsquo;s Sour Leisure“It was deep April, and the morn”NoonAn Aeolian HarpCyclamensMeynell, Alice (1847-1922) A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old AgeIn February A Poet’s Fancies The Love of NarcissusTo Any PoetUnlikned The ShepherdessParentageCradle-Song at TwilightIn Manchester SquareMaternityA Study Before LightAbout NoonAt Twilight A Father of WomenThe Threshing MachineReflections (I) In Ireland(II) In “Othello”(III) In Two Poets Dolben, Digby Mackworth (1848-1867)A SongA Poem Without A NameAfter Reading AeschylusGood FridaySister DeathPro CastitateHenley, William Ernest (1849-1903)WaitingMallock, William H. (1849-1923)Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern ThinkerStevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)Bed in SummerTravelThe Land of CounterpaneThe Land of Story-booksRequiemThe Celestial Surgeon“I have trod the upward and the downward slope”“So live, so love, so use that fragile hour”“I saw red evening through the rain”Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) RequiescatHélas!Impressionsle jardinla mer Symphony in Yellow Davidson, John (1857-1909)Thirty Bob a WeekA Ballad of a NunA Ballad in Blank VerseA Northern SuburbA Woman and Her SonYuletideRobinson, A. Mary F. (1857-1944)The Scape-GoatThe IdeaDarwinismAn Orchard at AvignonLove, Death, and ArtArt and LifeSongNeurastheniaTo My MuseStephen, J.K. (1859-1907)In the BacksThompson, Francis (1859-1907)The Hound of HeavenColeridge, Mary (1861-1907)IX — The Other Side Of A MirrorXIV — ReginaXXVII — Winged WordsLX — MarriageLXIII — In Dispraise of the MoonLXXVI — The White WomenXCVII — The Fire LampCXIV — To the writer of a poem on a bridgeCXCI — Tar Ublia Chi Bien EimaCCVI — A Clever WomanLevy, Amy (1861-1889)XantippeFelo De SeTo a Dead PoetA Minor PoetMagdalenA London Plane-TreeLondon PoetsOn The ThresholdIn The Black ForestTo Vernon LeeTo E.Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1889)Gentlemen-RankersIn the Neolithic AgeRecessionalThe White Man’s BurdenIfGray, JohnThe BarberPoemDowson, Ernest (1867-1900)Nuns of the Perpetual AdorationNon Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno CynaraeVillanelle of SunsetTo One in BedlamBenedictio DominiAd Manus PuellaeTerre PromiseSpleenVitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longamJohnson, Lionel (1867-1902)The Dark AngelSummer StormDeadThe EndNihilismThe DarknessIn a WorkhouseBagley WoodThe Destroyer of a SoulThe Precept of SilenceA ProselyteMew, Charlotte (1869-1909) The Farmer’s BrideThe FêteIn Nunhead CemeteryKenMadeleine In ChurchThe Road To KérityI Have Been Through The GatesThe CenotaphV. R. I. i. January 22nd, 1901ii. January 2nd, 1901 POETIC THEORYFox, William Johnson (1786-1864)Tennyson — Poems, Chiefly Lyrical — 1830 Pub. 1831Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833)On some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson Pub. 1831Landon, Letitia E. (1802-1838)On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry Pub. 1832Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)“What is poetry?”“Two kinds of poetry” Pub. January and October 1833Taylor, Sir Henry (1800-1886)Preface to Philip Van Artevelde Pub. 1834Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)Hand and Soul Pub. 1850Browning, Robert (1812-1889)An Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley Pub. 1851Clough, Arthur HughRecent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems by Alexander Smith, Mathew Arnold, and othersArnold, Matthew (1822-1888)Preface to the 1853 Edition of Poems Pub. 1853Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)Preface to the Third Edition of Babe Christabel Pub. 1854Ruskin, John (1819-1900)Of the Pathetic Fallacy Pub. 1856Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)The Function of Criticism at the Present Time Pub. 1864Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry Pub. 1864Morley, JohnMr. Swinburne’s New Poems: Poems and BallardsDallas, Eneas Sweetland (1828-1879)The Secrecy of Art Pub. 1888Buchanan, Robert (1841-1901)The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti Pub. 1871Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)The Stealthy School Of Criticism Pub. 1871Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)Under The Microscope Pub. 1872Pater, Walter (1839-1890)Preface to The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Pub. 1873Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)Author’s Preface Pub. 1883Levy, AmyJames Thompson: A Minor PoetWhistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)Ten O’Clock Pub. 1890Morris, WilliamOf the Origins of Ornamental ArtWilde, Oscar (1854-1900)The Critic as Artist Pub. 1890Symons, Arthur (1865-1945)The Decadent Movement in Literature Pub. 1893The Symbolist Movement In Literature Pub. 1899Meynell, AliceTennysonRobert BrowningThe Rhythm of LifeRobins, ElizabethWoman’s SecretHardy, Thomas (1840-1928)Apology Pub. 1922INDEXESIndex of First LinesIndex of Authors and Titles
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Oxford University Press Pride and Prejudice
Book SynopsisWith the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal.Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Volume I Volume II Volume III Explanatory Notes
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HarperCollins Publishers The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Collins Classics
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.'When Helen flees from her alcoholic husband in order to protect her son she defies societal convention. Earning a living as an artist, she becomes the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall as she hides herself away and uses her art to support her child. However, the beautiful and reclusive young woman soon begins to stir up malicious gossip and speculation. Captivated and drawn to Helen, Gilbert Markham becomes suspicious when he begins to hear these stories, however it is only when he reads Helen's diary that he learns the full cruelty that her husband subjected her to in her previous life.Rejecting the societal norms surrounding marriage in Victorian Society, Anne Brontë's novel, said to be based on the experiences of her own brother Branwell, shocked her readers at the time and still remains a scan
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HarperCollins Publishers North and South
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.'When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole world changes. As her sympathy for the town's mill workers grows, her sense of social injustice piques and she passionately fights their corner. However, just as she disputes the mill owner, John Thornton's treatment of his workers, she cannot deny her growing attraction to him. Highlighting the changing landscape of nineteenth-century Britain and championing the role of women in Victorian society, Gaskell brilliantly captures the lives of ordinary people through one of her strongest female characters in literature.
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Oxford University Press The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisAfter a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the most authoritative text, with a wide-ranging critical introduction.
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Oxford University Press The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Book Synopsis''he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked - Mamma, why are you so wicked?''The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark secret. But as the captivated Gilbert Markham will discover, it is not the story circulating among local gossips. Living under an assumed name, ''Helen Graham'' is the estranged wife of a dissolute rake, desperate to protect her son from his destructive influence. Her diary entries reveal the shocking world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. Combining a sensational story of a man''s physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of marital breakdown, a disquisition on the care and upbringing of children, and a hard-hitting critique of the position of women in Victorian society, this passionate tale of betrayal is set within a stern moral framework tempered by Anne Brontë''s optimistic belief in universal redemption. Drawing on her first-hand experiences with her brother Branwell, Brontë''s novel scandalized contemporary reade
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Oxford University Press Jane Eyre
Book SynopsisCharlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has gripped readers since its 1847 publication. Thousands of readers since then have been drawn by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion.Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Appendix A: Opinions of the Press (as printed at the end of the third edition) Appendix B: Charlotte Brontës Punctuation Explanatory Notes and Selected Variants
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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 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Mary Shelley Frankenstein Appendix A. Author's Introduction to the Standard Novels Edition (1831) Appendix B. The Third Edition (1831): Substantive Changes Appendix C. On Frankenstein by Percy Bysshe Shelley Explanatory Notes
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Oxford University Press Belinda Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisBelinda (1801) tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought-provoking. Braving the perils of the marriage market, Belinda learns to think for herself as the examples of her friends prove singularly unreliable.Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Maria Edgeworth Belinda Appendix Explanatory notes
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Oxford University Press The Professor
Book SynopsisThe Professor (1845-6), written before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before and after marriage for its hero and heroine. Strikingly up to date for its period, the action begins against a background of the fight for better factory conditions in the 1830s, and finishes in the early 1840s with the spread of liberal ideas which led to the continental revolutions of 1848.This edition is based directly on the author''s fair copy manuscript, and also includes `Emma'', Charlotte Brontë''s last, unfinished attempt to write a novel after Villette. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify t
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Oxford University Press Zofloya
Book SynopsisThis is the first edition for nearly 200 years of an unduly neglected work, originally published in 1806, by an intriguing and unconventional woman writer. A Gothic tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in fifteenth-century Venice, the novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of the central character, Victoria's, intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya. A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron andShelley, it contradicts idealized stereotypes in women's writing and challenges the received idea of the Gothic genre's representation of passive, victimized women.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Charlotte Dacre; Engraving of Charlotte Dacre as Rosa Matilda; ZOFLOYA, OR THE MOOR; Appendix; A Note on Names; Explanatory Notes
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Oxford University Press The Count of Monte Cristo
Book SynopsisThe young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Château d'If. His daring escape, recovery of Monte Cristo's fabulous treasure, and revenge on his enemies make this one of the great thrillers of all time. This is a newly revised, unabridged translation.
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Oxford University Press Ivanhoe
Book SynopsisMore than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords. The dissolute Prince John plots to seize his brother''s crown, his barons terrorize the country, and the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood haunts the ancient greenwood. The secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight, Ivanhoe, heralds the start of a splendid and tumultuous romance, featuring the tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, the siege of Torquilstone, and the clash of wills between the wicked Templar Bois-Guilbert and the sublime Jewess Rebecca. In Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819. The most famous of Scottish novelists drew on the conventions of Gothic fiction, including its risky sexual and racial themes, to explore the violent origins and limits of English nationality. This edition uses the 1830 Magnum Opus text, corrected against the Interlea
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Penguin Books Ltd Lady Audleys Secret
Book SynopsisWeathering critical scorn, Lady Audley''s Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian ''sensation'' fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly plotted and certainly sensational, Lady Audley''s Secret draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. What is the mystery surrounding the charming heroine? Lady Audley''s secret is investigated by Robert Audley, aristocrat turned detective, in a novel that has lost none of its power to disturb and entertain.
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Oxford University Press Twenty Years After
Book SynopsisTwenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.In his Introduction to this edition David Coward sets both the author and his exciting tale in their historical and cultural contexts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Review'All good fun.' Sunday Telegraph
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Random House USA Inc Mansfield Park Bantam Classics
Book SynopsisIn Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, when the author had reached her full maturity as a novelist, Jane Austen paints some of her most witty and perceptive studies of character. Against a genteel country landscape of formal parks and stately homes, the gossipy Mrs. Norris becomes a masterful comic creation; the fickle young suitor Henry Crawford provides an unequaled portrait of an unscrupulous young man; and the complexly drawn Fanny Price emerges as one of Jane Austen’s finest achievements—the poor cousin who comes to stay with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park and learns how the game of love can too easily turn to folly. More intricately plotted and wider in scope than Austen’s earlier works, Mansfield Park continues to enchant and delight us as a superb example of a great author’s craft.
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HarperCollins Publishers Hardy Women
Book SynopsisA TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER''He understands only the women he invents the others not at all''Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real women?In this highly innovative book, acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy's life through the eyes of the women who made him mother, sisters, girlfriends, wives, muses. The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged, to poignant vignettes of unfulfilled passion, to fascinating details of working women's lives in the nineteenth century.Hardy Women is the story of how the magnificent fictional women he invented would not have been possible without the hardship and hardiness of the real ones who Trade Review EARLY PRAISE FOR HARDY WOMEN ‘Absorbing… a treat for Hardy fans and unhappy wives’ The Times ‘Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy created some of literature’s most enduring female characters . . . but it is the real women who shaped the life of the tortured genius that a book vividly reanimates’ Independent 'By turns infuriating and inspiring, but always fascinating, this page-turner of a book offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of Victorian Britain’s most famous writers' Gareth Russell, author of The Palace ‘A fascinating re-examination of the life of Thomas Hardy through the eyes of the women who profoundly influenced him-his mother, his sisters, girlfriends, wives and muses. Drawing on access to some neverbefore-seen passages in Hardy's journals, she shows that it is through these hardy women that we can truly appreciate his much-loved works’ The Bookseller, Editor’s Choice
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Oxford University Press The Idiot
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Oxford University Press The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
Book SynopsisArthur Machen is a significant figure in supernatural and horror literature, in the genre of 'weird fiction'. This collection brings together his best horror tales with a full contextual introduction and which helps to illuminate Machen's place in the literary and cultural milieu of 1890s Britain.Trade ReviewThis is a must-have collection of landmark tales of horror. * Publisher's Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Lost Club (1890)The Great God Pan (1894)The Inmost Light (1894)The Three Impostors; or, the Transmutations (1895)The Shining Pyramid (1895)The Red Hand (1895)From Ornaments in Jade (1897, 1924)Psychology, or, Fragments of PaperThe Rose GardenThe CeremonyThe TuraniansThe White People (1899)The Bowmen (1914)Out of the Earth (1915)The Coming of the Terror (1917)The Islington Mystery (1927)N (1935)The Children of the Pool (1936)Ritual (1937)ReferencesFurther Reading
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Little, Brown Book Group Prairie Fires
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book seriesTrade Review[This new biography is] just as gripping as the original novels . . . As pacy and vivid as one of Wilder's own narratives, this surprising biography is immensely revealing both about Wilder and about America's founding myths -- Eleanor Mills * Sunday Times *Fraser's gripping account is much more than a biography. Hugely recommended, even if you haven't read Wilder -- Claire Lowdon * Sunday Times, Books of the Year *A fascinating tale, which spans an extraordinary period of American history . . . Whether you're a Wilder fan or have never picked up one of her books, this is compelling stuff - and as a history of the American dream, it's hard to beat * Telegraph *The sweep of the story is magnificent -- Laura Freeman * The Times *Memories can be both "treasures" and "consuming fires of torment", as Laura Ingalls Wilder knew. Caroline Fraser's rigorously researched biography shows how the author's life was so much more painful than it appears in her writings. Having combed through manuscripts, letters and other documents, Fraser has gained insight into the history that shaped her, including the dust bowl and the great depression. She explores the dreams that sustained the writer - and gets to the heart of a pioneer spirit. Here is an atmospheric portrait of places as much as of a person, too: the log cabin in which Wilder was born, the Great Plains, the dense forests and, of course, the prairies -- Anita Sethi * Observer *Tells a story that is far more intriguing than the myth * Oldie *Caroline Fraser's expert account of both Laura and her troubled daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who is widely thought to have over-influenced her mother's oeuvre, minutely dissects their related lives and careers to explain and illustrate modern America's inviolate founding myth . . . should stand as the last word on a long life...Her story is everything you never knew and, now more than ever, need to understand about a defining element of the national character and the great American dream * Country Life *An absorbing new biography [that] deserves recognition as an essential text.... For anyone who has drifted into thinking of Wilder's 'Little House' books as relics of a distant and irrelevant past, reading Prairie Fires will provide a lasting cure.... Meanwhile, 'Little House' devotees will appreciate the extraordinary care and energy Fraser devotes to uncovering the details of a life that has been expertly veiled by myth -- Patricia Nelson Limerick * New York Times Book Review *The definitive biography...Magisterial and eloquent...A rich, provocative portrait * Star Tribune *Fraser's meticulous, smart, historically informed biography shows where the books hew to - and diverge from - the facts of Wilder's long and eventful life...Fraser got a head start on her work for this biography when she edited the Library of America editions of Laura Ingalls Wilder's writing. Even readers who have already enjoyed those annotated volumes will find a trove of new material in Prairie Fires, which puts the books in a richer, more complicated context without undermining their value. Fraser concludes, "They are not, as Wilder and her daughter had claimed, true in every particular. Yet the truth about our history is in them. ...Anyone who would ask where we came from and why, must reckon with them * Sarah Harrison Smith, the Amazon Book Review, An Amazon Best Book of November 2017 *Unforgettable... A magisterial biography, which surely must be called definitive. Richly documented (it contains 85 pages of notes), it is a compelling, beautifully written story.... One of the more interesting aspects of this wonderfully insightful book is its delineation of the fraught relationship between Wilder and her deeply disturbed, often suicidal daughter. But it is its marriage of biography and history - the latter providing such a rich context for the life - that is one of the great strengths of this indispensable book * Booklist, starred review *Engrossing... Exhilarating... Lovers of the series will delight in learning about real-life counterparts to classic fictional episodes, but, as Fraser emphasizes, the true story was often much harsher. Meticulously tracing the Ingalls and Wilder families' experiences through public records and private documents, Fraser discovers failed farm ventures and constant money problems, as well as natural disasters even more terrifying and devastating in real life than in Wilder's writing * Publishers Weekly *In the twenty-first century, the tense and secret authorial partnership between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane has emerged as the most complex and fascinating psychological saga of mother-daughter collaboration in American literary history. Caroline Fraser's deeply researched and stimulating biography analyzes their controversial relationship and places Wilder's influential fiction in the contexts of other myths of pioneer women and the frontier -- Elaine ShowalterA fantastic book. We've long understood the Little House series to be a great American story, but Caroline Fraser brings it unprecedented new context, as she masterfully chronicles the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family alongside the complicated history of our nation. Prairie Fires represents a significant milestone in our understanding of Wilder's life, work, and legacy -- Wendy McClure, author of The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
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HarperCollins Publishers Villette Collins Classics
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
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HarperCollins Publishers Dickens C Tale of Two Cities
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.''It was the best of times, it was the worst of times''Set in Paris and London against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Lucie Manette and her father Alexandre, held captive in Paris's notorious Bastille prison for eighteen years. When Alexandre is finally released, the Manettes find themselves caught up in the lives of a French aristocrat and an English lawyer who compete for the love of Lucie. The ensuing tale of violence and revenge depicts the plight of the peasantry, the brutality of the early revolutionaries, and the menacing shadow of the guillotine.Serialised in Dickens's own literary periodical in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities is one of the best-known works of literature set during the French Revolution.
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems Tennyson
Book SynopsisContains poems which epitomize the Victorian age.Trade Review"[Tennyson] had the finest ear of any English poet since Milton." -T. S. Eliot
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Oxford University Press The Last Chronicle of Barset
Book Synopsis''All Hogglestock believed their parson to be innocent; but then all Hogglestock believed him to be mad.''Josiah Crawley lives with his family in the parish of Hogglestock, East Barsetshire, where he is perpetual curate. Impoverished like his parishioners, Crawley is hard-working and respected but he is an unhappy, disappointed man, ill-suited to cope when calamity strikes. He is accused of stealing a cheque to pay off his debts; too proud to defend himself, he risks ruin and disgrace unless the truth can be brought to light. Crawley''s predicament divides the community into those who seek to help him despite himself, and those who, like Mrs Proudie, are convinced of his guilt. When the Archbishop''s son, Major Grantly, falls in love with Crawley''s daughter Grace, battle lines are drawn.The final volume in the Barsetshire series, The Last Chronicle draws to a close the stories of many beloved characters, including the old Warden, Mr Harding, Johnny Eames, and Lily Dale. Panoramic in sTrade ReviewHelen Small makes the novel's dual focus on country and city her explicit theme, delivering a spaital analysis that complements the on Sophie Gilmartin offered in her 2002 Penguin edition of the novel. * Matthew Ingleby, The Times Literary Supplement *A fine new Oxford World's Classics edition, building on that prestigious list's long history of including the author. * TLS, Matthew Ingleby *
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Oxford University Press The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob
Book SynopsisThe Lifted Veil (1859) is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works.
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Oxford University Press The Doctors Wife
Book Synopsis`Isabel Gilbert was not a woman of the world. She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers...she believed in a phantasmal world created out of the pages of poets and romancers.'' The Doctor''s Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon''s rewriting of Flaubert''s Madame Bovary in which she explores her heroine''s sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life married to a good natured but bovine husband who seems incapable of understanding his wife''s imaginative life and feelings. A woman with a secret, adultery, death and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements which combine to make The Doctor''s Wife a classic women''s sensation novel. Yet, The Doctor''s Wife is also a self-consciously literary novel, in which Braddon attempts to transcend the sensation genre. This is the only edition of a fascinating and engrossing work, and reproduces uncut the first three-volume edition of 1864. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
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Pearson Education Wuthering Heights everything you need to catch up
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The text Part 3: Critical approachs Part 4: Critical history Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
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HarperCollins Publishers Moonstone The
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.'Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic enquiry into hunting down the thief. At the same time, three Indian men, Brahmin guardians of the diamond are attempting to reclaim the stone in order to return it to their sacred Hindu Idol.Told from the perspective of 11different characters, Wilkie Collins' tale of mystery and suspicion was considered the first modern English detective novel at its time of publication.
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HarperCollins Publishers The House of Mirth Collins Classics
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.'Lily Bart, an attractive young woman living in New York City, relies on beauty and charm to ensure economic survival. Determined to marry into wealth to support her expensive lifestyle, Lily denies her feelings for Lawrence Stern due to his modest income. She turns instead towards young millionaire, Percy Grace. During her pursuit of money and status, Lily becomes the agent of her own undoing. Events take a tragic turn and her reputation is ruined by scandal. She is unwilling to adhere to the standards of New York's social elitism, which leads to devastating consequences.Wharton's stunning and disturbing commentary on the role of women in this irresponsible, hedonistic society will delight those enchanted by her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence'.Trade Review‘its depiction of social mores and their influence gives it universal resonance.’ Guardian ‘crackling and complex prose’. Independent
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Oxford University Press The Karamazov Brothers
Book SynopsisDostoevsky''s last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved.Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky''s exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disatrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the authors most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence, so that orthodoxy, and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive. Rebecca West considered it the allegory for the world''s maturity, but with children to the fore. This new translation does full justice to Doestoevsky''s genius, particularly in the use of the spoken word, which ranges over every mode of human expression. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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University of California Press Moby Dick
Book SynopsisIncludes illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, that are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser.Trade Review"Andrew Hoyem’s Arion Press edition of Moby Dick, published in San Francisco in 1979, in an edition of 265 total copies, is considered one of the two or three greatest American fine press books ever. . . .a trade edition published by University of California Press retains the look of the type and the illustrations, done in woodcut by Barry Moser." * The New Antiquarian *"A great American edition with features more diverse than those in any previous edition of Melville's classic." -- Stuart C. Sherman, * Fine Print *Table of ContentsETYMOLOGY EXTRACTS CHAPTER I Loomings 2 The Carpet Bag 3 The Spouter-Inn 4 The Counterpane 5 Breakfast 6 The Street 7 The Chapel 8 The Pulpit 9 The Sermon 1O A Bosom Friend II Nightgown I2 Biographical I3 Wheelbarrow I4 Nantucket IS Chowder I6 The Ship I7 The Ramadan I8 His Mark I9 The Prophet 20 All Astir 2I Going Aboard 22 Merry Christmas 23 The Lee Shore 24 The Advocate 25 Postscript 26 Knights and Squires 27 Knights and Squires 28 Ahab 29 Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb 30 The Pipe 3I Queen Mab 32 Cetology 33 The Specksynder 34 The Cabin Table 35 The Mast-Head 36 The Quarter-Deck · Ahab and all 37 Sunset 38 Dusk 39 First Night-Watch 40 Forecastle-Midnight 41 Moby Dick 42 The Whiteness of the Whale 43 Hark! 44 The Chart 45 The Affidavit 46 Surmises 47 The Mat-Maker 48 The First Lowering 49 The Hyena 50 Ahab's Boat and Crew-Fedallah 51 The Spirit-Spout 52 The Pequod meets the Albatross 53 The Gam 54 The Town Ho's Story 55 Monstrous Pictures of Whales 56 Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales 57 Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c. 58 Brit 59 Squid 6o The Line 61 Stubb kills a Whale 62 The Dart 63 The Crotch 64 Stubb's Supper 65 The Whale as a Dish 66 The Shark Massacre 67 Cutting In 68 The Blanket 69 The Funeral 70 The Sphynx 71 The Pequod meets the Jeroboam ·Her Story 72 The Monkey-rope 73 Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale 74 The Sperm Whale's Head 75 The Right Whale's Head 76 The Battering Ram 77 The great Heidelburgh Tun 78 Cistern and Buckets 79 The Prairie 8o The Nut 8I The Pequod meets the Virgin 82 The Honor and glory of Whaling 83 Jonah Historically Regarded 84 Pitch poling 85 The Fountain 86 The Tail 87 The Grand Armada 88 Schools & Schoolmasters 89 Fast Fish and Loose Fish 90 Heads or Tails 91 The Pequod meets the Rose Bud 92 Ambergris 93 The Castaway 94 A Squeeze of the Hand 95 The Cassock 96 The Try-Works 97 The Lamp 98 Stowing Down & Clearing Up 99 The Doubloon IOO The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London IOI The Decanter I02 A Bower in the Arsacides I03 Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton I04 The Fossil Whale I05 Does the Whale Diminish? I06 Ahab's Leg I07 The Carpenter I08 The Deck · Ahab and the Carpenter 109 The Cabin · Ahab and Starbuck IIO Queequeg in his Coffin III The Pacific II2 The Blacksmith Il3 The Forge 114 The Gilder II5 The Pequod meets the Bachelor II6 The Dying Whale II7 The Whale-Watch II8 The Quadrant II9 The Candles I20 The Deck 121 Midnight, on the Forecastle I22 Midnight, Aloft I23 The Musket I24 The Needle I25 The Log and Line I26 The Life, Buoy 127 Ahab and the Carpenter I28 The Pequod meets the Rachel 129 The Cabin· Ahab and Pip 130 The Hat I31 The Pequod meets the Delight I32 The Symphony I33 The Chase · First Day I34 The Chase · Second Day I35 The Chase · Third Day EPILOGUE
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Oxford University Press Shirley
Book Synopsis''You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don''t shriek...you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.''Shirley is Charlotte Brontë''s only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to riots in the woollen district of Yorkshire. A mill-owner, Robert Moore, is determined to introduce new machinery despite fierce opposition from his workers; he ignores their suffering, and puts his own life at risk. Robert sees marriage to the wealthy Shirley Keeldar as the solution to his difficulties, but he loves his cousin Caroline. She suffers misery and frustration, and Shirley has her own ideas about the man she will choose to marry. The friendship between the two women, and the contrast between their situations, is at the heart of this compelling novel, which is suffused with Brontë''s deep yearning for an earlier time. ABOUT
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Oxford University Press North and South
Book SynopsisThrough the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.
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Oxford University Press Culture and Anarchy
Book Synopsis''The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.''Matthew Arnold''s famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Arnold seeks to find out ''what culture really is, what good it can do, what is our own special need of it'' in an age of rapid social change and increasing mechanization. He contrasts culture, ''the study of perfection'', with anarchy, the mood of unrest and uncertainty that pervaded mid-Victorian England. How can individuals be educated, not indoctrinated, and what is the role of the state in disseminating ''sweetness and light''? This edition reproduces the original book version and enables readers to appreciate its immediate historical context as well as the reasons for its continued importance today, in the face of the challenges of multi-culturalism and post-modernism. ABOUT THE SERIE
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Oxford University Press Anna Karenina
Book SynopsisMany believe Anna Karenina to be the greatest novel ever written. The impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky, is set against the marriage of Levin and Kitty, illuminating the most important questions which beset humanity. This edition uses Louise and Aylmer Maude's classic translation - still unsurpassed - and is printed here with a new introduction and detailed annotation.
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