Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Reaktion Books Fyodor Dostoevsky
Book SynopsisIf it is true that great art comes from great suffering, then the art of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 81) must be truly great indeed. The second of seven children, he developed epilepsy and was ruled over by a drunken, violent father. From this harsh childhood, to his brief forays in the army, through the years of exile and imprisonment in Siberia, Dostoevsky's troubled life shaped his character and art in profound ways. Robert Bird traces Dostoevsky's path from a political revolutionary to one who fought his battles through the printed word. Bird describes how Dostoevsky came into contact with the poor and oppressed who attended the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor in Moscow, where his father practiced medicine, and how Dostoevsky was to champion the downtrodden throughout his career. He outlines the years Dostoevsky spent in prison after his arrest and near-execution in 1849, and how these experiences, in combination with his difficult childhood, epileptic seizures, religious and political views, contributed to the writing of acclaimed novels such as Crime and Punishment (1867). The author also describes how Dostoevsky's craving for social justice and 'quest for form' spurred his literary achievements. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Virginia Wolfe admired and praised Dostoevsky, and he is often acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent psychologists in literature - the parricide in The Brothers Karamazov even attracted the attention of Sigmund Freud. Fyodor Dostoevsky will fascinate all lovers of literature and Russian history.
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Celtic Studies Publications,U.S. The Correspondence of Thomas Stephens:
Book SynopsisThomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial nineteenth-century Welsh scholars. His Literature of the Kymry (1849) was the first work to apply modern critical scholarship to medieval Welsh literature. Throughout his career, he was an outspoken critic of unscrupulous interpretations of the Welsh and Celtic past. His scholarly ability brought him into correspondence with notable writers from not only Wales, but across the world. Indeed, writing the year after his death, B. T. Williams noted that the publication of his correspondence ‘would be welcomed by all Celtic scholars’, as it includes comments by many of the most noted historians, literary critics and Celticists of his day on a wide range of subjects. More than this, however, Stephens’s correspondence shows the complex networks of knowledge exchange which stretched across the nineteenth-century scholarly world and, within those networks, the development of modern Welsh and Celtic studies.
£26.66
The University of Akron Press Thomas Boyd: Lost Author of the Lost Generation
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£34.19
Ave Maria University Press A Lifetime With Hopkins
Book SynopsisIn these brief, readable, and insightful essays, Fr. Milward delves into the poetry of Hopkins and his central ideas on God the Trinity, the self, nature and people.
£28.45
Les Belles Lettres Ce Qui Est Unique Chez Baudelaire
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Classiques Garnier Le Chemin Des Correspondances Et Le Champ
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Classiques Garnier La Confession de Claude: Oeuvres Completes
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£49.00
Classiques Garnier Des-Admirer Barres: Le Prince de la Jeunesse Et
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£88.00
Classiques Garnier Lire Zola Au Xxie Siecle
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£58.90
Classiques Garnier Le Roi Est Mort: Fictions Du Politique Au Temps
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£108.30
Classiques Garnier Le Roi Est Mort: Fictions Du Politique Au Temps
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Classiques Garnier Le Sphinx Rouge: Un Duel Entre Le Genie
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£42.00
Classiques Garnier Le Naturalisme Au Theatre: Oeuvres Completes
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Classiques Garnier Litterature Et Sciences Au Xixe Siecle: Une
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£57.00
Classiques Garnier Nouvelles
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Classiques Garnier L'Idee de Litterature Dans l'Enseignement
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£58.90
Classiques Garnier Les Paradoxes d'Octave Mirbeau
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Classiques Garnier Guy de Maupassant Et l'Affolant Mystere de la
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Classiques Garnier Ecrits de Femmes Et Livres d'Instruction Au Xixe
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Classiques Garnier Correspondance. Tome I: Paris, l'Arsenal,
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£72.20
Classiques Garnier Relire Le Cousin Pons
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£37.00
Classiques Garnier Venises Mineures: Quatre Ecrivains Italiens Entre
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£42.00
Classiques Garnier Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma Femme
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£42.21
Classiques Garnier Essais de Critique Et d'Histoire. Volume II
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£82.65
Classiques Garnier Bulletin de l'Association Des Amis d'Alfred de
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£46.00
Classiques Garnier Cahiers d'Etudes Nodieristes: Marie
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£37.00
Classiques Garnier Musset, Auteur Tout NU
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£46.55
Classiques Garnier Oeuvres (Tome IV): Monstres Parisiens
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£46.00
Classiques Garnier Oeuvres, Tome II: Romans Decadents - Le Roi
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£72.20
Classiques Garnier Bloy-Huysmans
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£49.00
Classiques Garnier Oeuvres, Tome VI: L'Homme Tout NU
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£44.86
Classiques Garnier Maxime Du Camp Polygraphe
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£49.00
Classiques Garnier L'Illustration En Majeste: L'Edition Curmer de
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Classiques Garnier Correspondance. Tome II: Saint-Pol-Sur-Ternoise,
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£76.95
Classiques Garnier Les Lois de l'Economie
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Classiques Garnier Revue Verlaine
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£52.25
Classiques Garnier Theatre
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Classiques Garnier Oeuvres Completes
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Classiques Garnier George Sand Et Le Monde Des Objets
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Classiques Garnier Correspondance. Tome III: Lettres a Marie
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£46.00
Classiques Garnier Une Page d'Amour: Oeuvres Completes - Les
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£69.99
Classiques Garnier Dictionnaire Balzac
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£81.00
Classiques Garnier Etudes Stephane Mallarme
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet. Tome III
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£71.28
Classiques Garnier Histoires de Chasse: Traces Et Traques Dans La
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Classiques Garnier Cahiers Octave Mirbeau
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Classiques Garnier L'Ensorcelee Suivie de la Lioncelle
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Classiques Garnier La Boheme Galante
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