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Book SynopsisArt Spiegelman is a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus, which was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award. He lives in New York.
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Random House USA Inc In Search of Lost Time Volume V The Captive The
Book SynopsisThe Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
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WW Norton & Co The WineDark Sea
Book SynopsisThe sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States.Trade Review"I haven’t read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O’Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn’t stop." -- E. O. Wilson - Boston Globe"Addictively readable." -- Chicago Tribune"They're funny, they're exciting, they're informative. . . there are legions of us who gladly ship out time and time again under Captain Aubrey." -- The New Yorker"lf Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian." -- Time
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WW Norton & Co Townie A Memoir
Book SynopsisWon Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction—2012 Indie Choice Awards Amazon Best Book of the Month February 2011 An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing.Trade Review"You have to buy Townie." -- The Chronicle of Higher Education"Starred Review. Dubus chronicles each traumatic incident and realization in stabbing detail. So chiseled are his dramatic memories, his shocking yet redemptive memoir of self-transformation feels like testimony under oath as well as hard-hammered therapy, coalescing, ultimately, in a generous, penetrating, and cathartic dissection of misery and fury, creativity and forgiveness, responsibility and compassion." -- Booklist"Starred Review. His compassionate memoir abounds with exquisitely rendered scenes of fighting, cheating, drugging, drinking and loving. A striking, eloquent account of growing up poor and of the making of a writer." -- Kirkus Reviews"[A] harrowing and strange and beautiful book....an important moment in the growing body of Dubus’s work. " -- Boston Globe"In his memoir Townie, Andre Dubus III bravely claims all of the shadows he grew up under—his famous writer father, his parents’ divorce, his newly single mother’s impoverishment, the rough streets of the many working-class New England towns he called home. Fighting saved him for a while; then he put down his fists and picked up a pen. Lucky him, lucky us." -- Elle"[Dubus] is such a solid writer, he redeems the genre. He shows that truth can be as honest as fiction." -- Seattle Times"His ability to describe violence might be unmatched among contemporary writers. He understands the arcane, unspoken vocabulary of how fights start, as well as the bone-crushing details of how they end. But Townie is most memorable for how vulnerable Dubus seems, once he has stripped himself down to the soul for his readers." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch"Dubus writes compellingly of those trying times. Townie is a poignant coming-of-age story told by a man whose raw determination allowed him to endure a boyhood ruled by violence and emerge talented enough to write about it with brutal honesty." -- Miami Herald"Townie has all the rich texture, lucid characterization, compelling conflicts and narrative momentum of the best fiction. It renders heartbreaking, violent, tender and sometimes absurdly comic scenes without a trace of narcissism or sentimentality. From first sentence to last, Dubus employs a dispassionate yet urgent voice. It allows him to do justice to his past and to the people who populated it." -- Cleveland Plain-Dealer"Fans of Dubus’s fiction will thrill to reading his muscular, occasionally lyrical prose rendering his own life." -- Smith Magazine"In this powerful memoir, Andre Dubus III explores the complicated and intense relationships between siblings, mothers and sons, and fathers and sons. Growing up in hardscrabble old mill towns, Dubus learned to fight and survive and ultimately to find his own glorious voice … as Dubus finds his redemptive place in the world at last." -- Ann Hood, author of The Red Thread"Whatever it cost Dubus to bare his soul and write this brutally honest and life-affirming memoir, it is an extraordinary gift to his readers." -- Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed
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WW Norton & Co The Sufferings of Young Werther A New Translation
Book Synopsis“Stanley Corngold’s translation is a triumph. This is a glorious achievement, a Werther for the ages.”—Christopher Prendergast
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WW Norton & Co H.M.S. Surprise
Book Synopsis"The best historical novels ever written." —Richard Snow, New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"I haven’t read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O’Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn’t stop." -- E. O. Wilson - Boston Globe"Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars." -- James Hamilton-Paterson - New Republic"A first-rate tale of the sea…I read it with absorption and satisfaction." -- Robertson Davies
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WW Norton & Co Flash Fiction 72 Very Short Stories
Book Synopsis"These stories are not merely flashes in the pan; there's pay dirt here!" —DeWitt Henry, editor of PloughsharesTrade Review"In just a little more time than it will take you to read this paragraph you can sample any one of the seventy-two very short stories in this anthology of brilliant miniatures. Some of the selections have already become so-called 'modern classics,' while many others deserve to become much more widely known. You can space out your reading of these epiphanic delicacies over a week or even months. Dear Browswer, I have to confess, I gobbled them up in a day!" -- Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio"Flash Fiction is fun. I loved the variety and surprise of these stories. They should spark great dinner conversation, class discussion, and perhaps inspire some marathon writers to sprint and see what happens." -- Jerome Stern, author of Making Shapely Fiction"Flash Fiction is purely and simply a delight. Lots of stars are mustered here, but best of all for my money are the newer names and voices that speak well to and for the future." -- George Garrett, Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing, University of Virginia
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WW Norton & Co Somewhere Towards the End
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —“An honest joy to read” (Alice Munro).Trade Review"Athill writes…with clarity, calm, and common sense." -- Barbara Fisher - Boston Globe"Life, not death, is her preoccupation…Reflections on old age, rather than on a long life lived are rare…It is rarer still for a woman to write such a book: so Athill’s candor and economic prose on religion, regrets, and sex are invigorating." -- Emma Jacobs - Financial Times"Jean Rhys said that literature was a lake, and what mattered was to contribute to it, even if only a trickle. She contributed a narrow boiling river. Diana Athill has contributed a cool clear burn." -- Carole Angier - Literary Review"A great gift. . . . This is a warm, inspiring book." -- Susan Salter Reynolds - Los Angeles Times"Bracingly frank…joyful rather than grim… she offers clear-eyed wisdom of the grandma-you-wish-you’d-had variety." -- People"To paraphrase Shakespeare, wisdom is bred in neither the heart nor the head, but in the bones that carry us through the decades. A few very talented artists, like Diana Athill, may persuade their old bones to yield up a glimpse or two of what they’ve learned." -- Laura Miller - Salon"There is something terrifically comforting about a nonagenarian writing with clarity, wit and verve about getting old and facing death. . . . [Athill] evokes another grande dame of British letters in her uninhibited lifestyle and no-holds-barred, clarion voice: last year’s Nobel Prize winner, Doris Lessing." -- N. Heller McAlpin - San Francisco Chronicle"Welcome and original." -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times"She writes as a person of wide-ranging learning, a generalist, a lover of men and animals and a garden enthusiast, a person intoxicated with life." -- Erica Jong - The New York Times Book Review"A spry dispatch on the condition of being elderly." -- The New Yorker"Unusually appealing. . . . To readers Athill delivers far more than modest pleasure: Her easy-going prose and startling honesty are riveting, for whither she has gone many of us will go as well." -- Michael Dirda - Washington Post Book World"A perfect memoir of old age—candid, detailed, charming, totally lacking in self-pity or sentimentality and above all, beautifully, beautifully written." -- The Costa Award Judges
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WW Norton & Co The Return of the Native
Book SynopsisThis Second Edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition.
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WW Norton & Co A Clockwork Orange
Book Synopsis“A brilliant novel . . . a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.” —New York Times “Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel.” —Time
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WW Norton & Co Jude the Obscure
Book SynopsisThis third Norton Critical Edition of Hardy's last novel has been revised to reflect the breadth of responses it has received over the last fifteen years.
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WW Norton & Co David Copperfield
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition reprints the original 1850 text of Dickens’ most autobiographical novel, and his own personal favorite, including all of the line drawings by Phiz.
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WW Norton & Co Death in Venice 0 Norton Critical Editions
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WW Norton & Co Lord Jim A Norton Critical Edition
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition provides the most authoritative text of Lord Jim yet published; it is based on the definitive third English edition, collated with the periodical version that appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine and with the first English edition.
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WW Norton & Co Tales of Henry James
Book SynopsisNine of James’s most important tales, including (new to the second edition) "In the Cage," a tale that engages James’s complicated attitudes toward gender, class, and the rise of information technology.
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Random House USA Inc Cities of Salt A Novel Vintage International
Book SynopsisBanned in Saudia Arabia, this is a blistering look at Arab and American hypocrisy following the discovery of oil in a poor oasis community.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of D H Lawrence Wiley Blackwell Critical
Book SynopsisComplete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D.H. Lawrence spans the full range of his intellectual interests and creative output to offer new insights into Lawrence s life, work, and legacy.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Preface xvi Part I Literary Formation, 1885–1912 1 1 Early Voices, September 1885–October 1908 3 2 Literary London, October 1908–April 1910 31 3 ‘A Small but Individual Name’, April 1910–May 1912 49 Part II Un Englished, 1912–1914 79 4 ‘Coming Out Wholesome and Myself’, May 1912–May 1913 81 5 Forging a Career, June 1913–August 1914 106 Part III The Bitterness of the War and its Aftermath, 1914–1919 125 6 ‘The Real Fighting Line’, August 1914–December 1915 127 7 Outlaw, December 1915–April 1918 150 8 ‘Laid Up’, May 1918–November 1919 177 Part IV Europe Again, 1919–1922 197 9 Italy and Sicily, November 1919–December 1920 199 10 End of the Line, January 1921–February 1922 218 Part V New Worlds and Old Worlds, 1922–1925 235 11 Ceylon and Australia, February–August 1922 237 12 On to America, August 1922–November 1923 247 13 Broken Bonds, December 1923–July 1924 270 14 Writing for the Race, August 1924 –September 1925 283 Part VI Returning, 1925–1927 303 15 Understanding, September 1925–April 1926 305 16 Writing and Painting, April 1926–March 1927 319 Part VII ‘Unfailing Courage’, 1927–1930 339 17 Friendship and Isolation, March 1927 –May 1928 341 18 ‘Dropping a Little Bomb in the World’s Crinoline of Hypocrisy’, May 1928–August 1929 363 19 ‘Living on his Spirit’, August 1929 –March 1930 394 Afterword 406 Bibliography 411 Index 420
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to George Eliot. Edited by Amanda
Book SynopsisThis collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.Trade ReviewReview copy sent on 04.04.14 to The Hudson Review "Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers." (Reference Reviews, 1 March 2014) "Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." (Choice, 1 November 2013)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19 1 Eliot and Narrative 21 Monika Fludernik 2 Metaphor and Masque 35 Michael Wood 3 “It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You”: George Eliot’s Narrative Refusals 46 Robyn Warhol 4 Surprising Realism 62 Caroline Levine 5 Two Flowers: George Eliot’s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76 John Plotz Part II: Works 91 6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93 Stefanie Markovits 7 Adam Bede: History’s Maggots 105 Rae Greiner 8 The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil”: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117 Adela Pinch 9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129 David Wayne Thomas 10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141 David Kurnick 11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153 Andrew H. Miller 12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166 Alex Woloch 13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178 Herbert F. Tucker 14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192 Jeff Nunokawa 15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: “Not a Story” 204 James Buzard Part III: Life and Reception 217 16 The Reception of George Eliot 219 James Eli Adams 17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233 Lynn Voskuil 18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247 Alison Booth 19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262 Daniel Hack Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277 20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279 T. H. Irwin 21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294 Isobel Armstrong 22 George Eliot and the Law 309 Jan-Melissa Schramm 23 George Eliot and Finance 323 Nancy Henry 24 George Eliot and Politics 338 Carolyn Lesjak 25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot’s Villages 353 Josephine McDonagh 26 George Eliot’s Liberalism 370 Daniel S. Malachuk 27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385 Laura Green 28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400 Bruce Robbins 29 The Continental Eliot 413 Hina Nazar 30 George Eliot and Secularism 428 Simon During 31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442 Amanda Anderson 32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457 Jill L. Matus 33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471 Ian Duncan 34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486 Jonathan Loesberg Index 500
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The University of Michigan Press Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the years. This study is suitable for scholars and students of American literature, ethnic studies, Latino studies, critical race theory, and Marxist literary theory.Trade ReviewA valuable contribution to ongoing debates about critical paradigms in Chicana/o studies, especially in the scholarship about the power and limitations of the narrative form. - Louis Mendoza, University of Minnesota
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The University of Michigan Press Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the years. This study is suitable for scholars and students of American literature, ethnic studies, Latino studies, critical race theory, and Marxist literary theory.Trade ReviewA valuable contribution to ongoing debates about critical paradigms in Chicana/o studies, especially in the scholarship about the power and limitations of the narrative form. - Louis Mendoza, University of Minnesota
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The University of Michigan Press A Martian Muse
Book SynopsisA volume of critical essays by the author of ""Orpheus in the Bronx"".Trade Review"Reginald Shepherd died September 10, 2008, after a hard struggle with cancer. While he had completed the essays presented here and had selected them from his available essays to form a collection, he didn't have time to organize the presentation of the essays within the collection. "The task of editing this collection has been a daunting challenge as I struggle to live up to the level of intellectual engagement, clarity, and coherence that Reginald always expected. While daunting, it has also been a labor of love and a compulsion for me, based on the many years I spent with him as a partner, friend, lover, intellectual companion, and sharer of common passions." - Robert Philen, from the Introduction"
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The University of Michigan Press Embroidering the Scarlet A
Book SynopsisDiscusses an array of narratives that span the American literary tradition, tracing the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press On Gwendolyn Brooks
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Luck of Barry Lyndon
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The University of Michigan Press The Chinese Postmodern
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The University of Michigan Press The Taste for Nothingness
Book SynopsisApplies a close-reading methodology to Lucan's Bellum Civile to analyse Lucan's distortions of traditional epic forms. Sklenar's work not only illuminates many passages of this author for classicists but also captures the attention of comparatists.Trade Review. . . full of fascinating readings of many passages of the Bellum Civile and it is on these grounds that it can most thoroughly be recommended. In particular, the reader who is new to Lucan will find the application of the critical tools which have developed over the last thirty years to large portions of the text very useful." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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The University of Michigan Press Graceful Errors
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The University of Michigan Press Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton
Book SynopsisTraditional approaches to understanding sublimity and skepticism have often asserted the importance of one concept over the other. This book argues that literary and philosophical notions of skepticism and sublimity simultaneously developed and influenced one another. It includes selections from two Renaissance writers: Montaigne and Milton.
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The University of Michigan Press The Imprint of Another Life
Book SynopsisAdoption has a special relationship to fiction-making, and tends to generate stories rather than uncover bedrock truths. Adoptive families are made, not born. The Imprint of Another Life shows some of the ways in which literary creation and a concept of adoption as a form of creativity make available new ways of thinking about adoption and what it means to be human.
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The University of Michigan Press The Metanarrative of Blindness
Book SynopsisAlthough the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism rarely engages the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of 20th-century works in English a perspective appreciative of impairment and disability.
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The University of Michigan Press On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë
Book SynopsisDuring two research trips to Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë is Pascoe's account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights, including varied and surprising adaptations of the novel.Trade ReviewA beautifully written, innovative book that brings together personal memoir and an ethnographic scholarly study of translation and transnational flows of culture focused around the reception of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. The author’s experience of Japan and the complex intersections of Wuthering Heights with Japanese culture are artfully layered and integrated."" - Adela Pinch, University of Michigan
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc My Losing Season
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life—and a crucible for becoming his own man. With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966–67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a m
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Penguin Young Readers Mientras escribo Memorias de un oficio On
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Random House USA Inc OLD GORIOT Easton Press
Book SynopsisHonoré de Balzac’s great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, who has bankrupted himself for the sake of his two rapacious, social-climbing daughters, Delphine and Anastasie; a mysterious and sinister conspirator named Vautrin; Victorine, a disinherited heiress; and a naive and impoverished law student from the country, Eugène de Rastignac. Rastignac is appalled at first by the greed and corruption he finds in Paris, but he soon sets his sights on conquering high society. He joins forces with the array of schemers who surround him, while the suffering, self-sacrificing Goriot yearns in vain for his daughters’ love. The sprawling, vibrant, and turbulent Paris of the post-Napoleonic era is it
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Random House USA Inc Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Random House USA Inc Typhoon and Other Stories
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Random House USA Inc The Warden
Book SynopsisWhen John Bold decides to challenge corruption in the Church of England he sets the whole town of Barchester by the ears with consequences both comic and sad. Trollope's first masterpiece is the study of conflicting loyalties and principles in a cathedral city where the gentle warden becomes an unwilling focus of national controversy. The resulting story is both a fine comedy of manners and a magnificent group portrait. THE WARDEN is the first novel of the Barsetshire series.
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Random House USA Inc Tristram Shandy Everymans Library Classics Series
Book SynopsisThis bawdy, high-spirited novel—whose author, Laurence Sterne, was described by Diderot as “the Rabelais of the English”—provoked a literary scandal when its first two volumes were published in 1759. A masterpiece of narrative absurdity, ribald humor, and philosophical playfulness, Tristram Shandy is famously studded with witty metafictional gambits—chapters out of order, blank and blacked-out pages, a preface that occurs in the middle of the book—that prefigured postmodernism by two centuries. Tristram Shandy, the hero of this fictional autobiography, purports to narrate the story of his life, but along the way he engages in so many colorful digressions and exuberant jokes that his birth does not even occur until Volume III. In the meantime, we meet an unforgettable supporting cast of characters—including Shandy’s father and mother, his uncle Toby, the servant Trim, Dr. Slop, an
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Portrait of a Lady
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Random House USA Inc Vanity Fair
Book SynopsisA panoramic satire of English society during the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray’s masterpiece. At its center is one of the most unforgettable characters in nineteenth-century literature: the enthralling Becky Sharp, a charmingly ruthless social climber who is determined to leave behind her humble origins, no matter the cost. Her more gentle friend Amelia, by contrast, only cares for Captain George Osborne, despite his selfishness and her family’s disapproval. As both women move within the flamboyant milieu of Regency England, the political turmoil of the era is matched by the scheming Becky’s sensational rise—and its unforeseen aftermath. Based in part upon Thackeray’s own love for the wife of a friend, Vanity Fair portrays the hypocrisy and corruption of high society and the dangers of unrestrained ambition with epic brilliance and scathing wit. With an introduction by Catherine Peters.
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Random House USA Inc Middlemarch A Study of Provincial Life Everymans
Book SynopsisOne of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment.Introduction by E. S. Shaffer(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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Random House USA Inc Tom Jones
Book SynopsisOne of the first and most influential of English novels—originally published in 1749—is blessed with a lively and endearing hero at the center of one of the most ingeniously constructed comic plots in fiction. • Inspiration for the PBS MASTERPIECE series Tom Jones starring Solly McLeod, Sophie Wilde and Hannah Waddingham Tom Jones, a foundling brought up in the household of the benevolent Squire Allworthy, falls in love with the beautiful heiress Sophia Western, whose father forbids them to marry on grounds of Tom’s low birth. Tom is a lusty, high-spirited yet good-hearted soul, and after he is banished by his guardian for youthful misbehavior he heads to London to make his own fortune, with the smitten Sophia in pursuit. A series of bawdy escapades and assorted scrapes ensues, including a duel and a stint in prison, before the mystery of Tom’s birth is unraveled. Fielding
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Random House USA Inc Far from the Madding Crowd Everymans Library
Book SynopsisFar From the Madding Crowd, published in 1874, is the book that made Hardy famous. Bathsheba Everdene is a prosperous farmer in Hardy’s fictional Wessex county whose strong-minded independence and vanity lead to disastrous consequences for her and the three very different men who pursue her: the obsessed farmer William Boldwood, dashing and seductive Sergeant Frank Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy’s great novels, as Bathsheba and her suitors move through a beautifully realized late-nineteenth-century agrarian landscape that is still almost untouched by the industrial revolution and the encroachment of modern life. With an introduction by Michael Slater
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Random House USA Inc Childhood Boyhood and Youth Everymans Library
Book SynopsisLeo Tolstoy’s earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that would come to fruition in his later masterpieces. Chronicling the experiences of a wealthy landowner’s son as he grows up and becomes aware of the world and his place in it, these three short novels were only loosely inspired by Tolstoy’s own memories. In old age he condemned the work as “an awkward mixture of fact and fiction,” but the imaginative powers that enabled him to capture so vividly the universal emotions and sensations of childhood have enthralled generations of readers. We are blessed to have, alongside the mature writer of Anna Karenina and War and Peace and the revolutionary mystic of the later years, the young Tolstoy who wrote these elegiac tales. In their sensitivity to nature and their evocations of fugitive
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Random House USA Inc Jane Eyre
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Random House USA Inc Howards End
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked—some very funny, some very tragic—that results in a dispute over who will inherit Howards End, the Wilcoxes'' charming country home. As much about the clash between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the classes, Howards End is a novel whose central tenet, Only connect, remains a powerful prescription for modern life.Introduction by Alfred Kazan(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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Random House USA Inc The Leopard
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Don Quixote
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