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An Accidental Familyby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard FreebornISBN 0192828363 (0-19-282836-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Accidental Family'Book summary:Set in the 1870s, a time of social disorder in Russia, An Accidental Family is the story of Arkady Dolgoruky, an awkward, illegitimate twenty-year-old on a desperate search for his family. This new translation of Dostoevsky's last completed novel fully captures the raciness and youthful vigor of the original text, and expresses "the innermost spiritual world of someone on the eve of manhood at that tumultuous time." [via]
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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translationby George SteinerISBN 0192880934 (0-19-288093-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation'Book summary:When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the eighteenth century of the phenomenology and processes of translation both inside and between languages. Taking issue with the principal emphasis of modern linguistics, he finds the root of the "Babel problem" in our deep instinct for privacy and territory, noting that every people has in its language a unique body of shared secrecy. With this provocative thesis he analyzes every aspect of translation from fundamental conditions of interpretation to the most intricate of linguistic constructions.
For the long-awaited second edition, Steiner entirely revised the text, added new and expanded notes, and wrote a new preface setting the work in the present context of hermeneutics, poetics, and translation studies. This new edition brings the bibliography up to the present with substantially updated references, including much Russian and Eastern European material. Like the towering figures of Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault, Steiner's work is central to current literary thought. After Babel, Third Edition is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the debates raging in the academy today. [via]More editions of After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation:
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Shanks MaudeISBN 0192833812 (0-19-283381-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world's greatest color. But there is no doubt that Anna Karenina, generally considered Tolstoy's best book, is definitely one ripping great read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn't take well to that sort of thing. [via]
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Anna of the Five Townsby Arnold Bennett, Margaret HarrisISBN 0192829653 (0-19-282965-3)
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Peter HollindaleISBN 0192828126 (0-19-282812-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Ceciliaby Fanny BurneyISBN 0192839098 (0-19-283909-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cecilia'Book summary:Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis. Controversial in its time, this eighteenth-century novel seems entirely fresh in relation to late twentieth-century concerns. [via]
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymologyby T.F. HoadISBN 0192830988 (0-19-283098-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology'Book summary:Where did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle Ages? How were adder, anger, and umpire originally spelled? The answers can be found in this essential companion to any popular dictionary.
With over 17,000 entries, this is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to word origins available in paperback. Based on The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the principal authority on the origin and development of English words, it contains a wealth of information about our language and its history. For example, readers will learn that bungalow originally meant "belonging to Bengal," that assassin comes from the Arabic for "Hashish-eater," and that nice meant "foolish or stupid" in the thirteenth century, "coy or shy" in the fifteenth. And adder, anger, and umpire were originally spelled with an initial "n." These are but a few of the fascinating tidbits found in this dictionary, which is a must for anyone interested in the richness of the English language. [via]More editions of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology:
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Confessionsby Saint Augustine, Henry ChadwickISBN 0192833723 (0-19-283372-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood. Now, Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey. Chadwick renders the details of Augustine's conversion in clear, modern English. We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Ambrose of Milan, and of other early Christians like Victorinus, who gave up a distinguished career as a rhetorician to adopt the orthodox faith. Augustine's concerns are often strikingly contemporary, yet his work contains many references and allusions that are easily understood only with background information about the ancient social and intellectual setting. To make The Confessions accessible to contemporary readers, Chadwick provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context. The religious and philosophical value of The Confessions is unquestionable--now modern readers will have easier access to St. Augustine's deeply personal meditations. Chadwick's lucid translation and helpful introduction clear the way for a new experience of this cla [via]
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Confidence Manby Herman Melville, Tony TannerISBN 0192837621 (0-19-283762-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confidence Man'Book summary:Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the 'masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is 'the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most 'modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. [via]
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The Consolation of Philosophyby Boethius, Peterg WalshISBN 0192838830 (0-19-283883-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Consolation of Philosophy'Book summary:Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust. Though a Christian, Boethius details the true end of life as the soul's knowledge of God, and consoles himself with the tenets of Greek philosophy, not with Christian precepts. Written in a form called Meippean Satire that alternates between prose and verse, Boethius' work often consists of a story told by Ovid or Horace to illustrate the philosophy being expounded. The Consolation of Philosophy dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; it inspired writers as diverse Thomas Aquinas, Jean de Meun, and Dante. In England it was rendered into Old English by Alfred the Great, into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, and later Queen Elizabeth I made her own translation. The circumstances of composition, the heroic demeanor of the author, and the Meippean texture of part prose, part verse have been a fascination for students of philosophy, literature, and religion ever since. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jessie Coulson, Richard Arthur PeaceISBN 0192833839 (0-19-283383-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel's most important--and difficult--aspects. [via]
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Daisy Miller and Other Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 0192835432 (0-19-283543-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories'Book summary:The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succès de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here--'Pandora,' 'The Patagonia,' and 'Four Meetings'-- it describes a confrontation between different values in a changing world. Is the new independent American girl enchanting in her spontaneity, alarming in her unpredictability, or merely vulnerable in her ignorance of social codes? Hung about with make admirers who seek, uncertainly, to grasp the new phenomenon, Daisy marches on undiscourageable, to her triumphant--or tragic--destiny.
This volume contains prefaces by Henry James, a chronology of his life, and editor's notes. [via]More editions of Daisy Miller and Other Stories:
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The Divine Comedyby Alighieri Dante, David H. Higgins, SissonISBN 0192830732 (0-19-283073-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, David H. Higgins, C. H. SissonISBN 0192835025 (0-19-283502-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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English Idioms and How to Use Them.by Jennifer SeidlISBN 0194327752 (0-19-432775-2)
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Hardcover, Oxford University Press - English Idioms and How to Use Them.: ISBN 0194327752 (0-19-432775-2)
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The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moralby Francis Bacon, Brian VickersISBN 0192838024 (0-19-283802-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral'Book summary:Published in 1625, Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral provides dispassionate observation of human life and powerfully expressed moral judgments. Bacon focuses on the ethical, political, and historical influences on human behavior and records observations on such diverse topics as beauty, deformity, fortune, adversity, truth, marriage, and atheism. Based on the Oxford Authors series, this edition contains substantial annotation and notes on Bacon's rich vocabulary. [via]
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, James E. FalenISBN 0192838997 (0-19-283899-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. [via]
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinkerby Paul-Gabriel Bouce, Tobias Smollett, Lewis M. KnappISBN 0192835947 (0-19-283594-7)
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard FreebornISBN 0192833928 (0-19-283392-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:The era in which faith and reason conflicted in a profound manner seems far away, and perhaps even a bit incomprehensible, to citizens of the modern world. Most of us take for granted our right to choose the life of the mind over that of the spirit without feeling remorse. At the very least, we've learned that the two need not be mutually exclusive. But this is hard-won ease, born of a conflict that began with the Victorians. Edmund Gosse's Father and Son (1907) traces his own reckoning--as well as that of his father, the eminent British zoologist Philip Gosse--with the clash. His story is, as he declares, "The diagnosis of a dying Puritanism."
The only Puritanism that dies here, however, is the author's. His parents were Christian fundamentalists and as a result, young Edmund was denied interaction with other children as well as all variety of fictional tales. "Here was perfect purity," Gosse writes, "perfect intrepidity, perfect abnegation; yet there was also narrowness, isolation, and absence of perspective, let it boldly be admitted, an absence of humanity." Despite all of this, the child maintained his sense of humor, which adds much levity to a tale of such potentially grim proportions.
When Edmund was 8, his mother died of cancer, leaving him the care of a man in whom "sympathetic imagination ... was singularly absent." Philip Gosse held on to his faith in God above all else--so much so, in fact, that when evolutionary theory was announced to the world, he dismissed it entirely because it discounted the book of Genesis. Little by little, Edmund began to chafe against the traditions he had inherited. By the age of 11, he already saw himself "imprisoned for ever in the religious system which had caught me and would whurl my helpless spirit." At this point he believed his fate was sealed and went through the motions of piety. It is not until he goes off to boarding school, and discovers the Greeks and Romantic poetry, that he slowly chooses his own path. Eventually he comes to realize that he and his father "walked in opposite hemispheres of the soul." Their split encapsulates a particular moment in history but also embodies their destiny: "one was born to fly backward, the other could not help being carried forward." --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Felix Hold, the Radicalby George Eliot, Fred C. ThomsonISBN 0192838210 (0-19-283821-0)
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The Golden Bowlby Henry James, Virginia Llewellyn SmithISBN 0192835424 (0-19-283542-4)
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Green Mansionsby W. H. Hudson, Ian DuncanISBN 0192832883 (0-19-283288-3)
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Henry 6thby Randall MartinISBN 0192831410 (0-19-283141-0)
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The History of Pendennisby John Sutherland, William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0192839594 (0-19-283959-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Pendennis'Book summary:One of the earliest and greatest of the Victorian Bildungsroman, this introspective novel treats London's bohemian and literary underworld and the romantic entanglements of its hero, Arthur Pendennis, with comic and uninhibited style. Son of a selfless widow, Pendennis moves from one disastrous romantic involvement to another on the fringes of the corrupt upper classes. Thackeray had slaved for ten years in this literary bohemia; the introduction considers the parallels between Thackeray's life and the novel, and examines the changes taking place in Victorian England throughout the years of the story. [via]
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The History of Pendennisby William Makepeace Thackeray, John SutherlandISBN 0192831682 (0-19-283168-2)
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael Davitt BellISBN 0192836455 (0-19-283645-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter re-addresses the theme of human guilt in a style remarkable in both its descriptive virtuosity and its truly modern mix of fantasy and realism. [via]
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The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitentsby Ann Radcliffe, Frederick Garber, E. J. CleryISBN 0192832549 (0-19-283254-9)
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The Karamazov Brothersby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat AvseyISBN 0192835092 (0-19-283509-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Karamazov Brothers'Book summary:Dostoevsky'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 involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work. [via]
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Last Chronicle of Barsetby Anthony Trollope, Stephen GillISBN 0192835343 (0-19-283534-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'Book summary:The central drama of the book is that of Mr.Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock who, falsely accused of theft, suffers bitterly with his family. This deceptively simple plot, though, is given a twist, and the character of Mr. Crawley is more ambigious than would at first appear. It is he himself who seems to bring about the most of his suffering, and the portrait of his man--gloomy brooding, and proud, moving relentlessly from one humiliation to another--achieves tragic dimensions. [via]
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The Last Manby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Morton D. PaleyISBN 0192838652 (0-19-283865-2)
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore Cooper, John P. McWilliamsISBN 019283505X (0-19-283505-X)
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Linguistic Imperialismby PhillipsISBN 0194371468 (0-19-437146-8)
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introductionby Jonathan CullerISBN 019285383X (0-19-285383-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction'Book summary:What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These questions and more are addressed in Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, a book which steers a clear path through a subject which is often perceived to be complex and impenetrable.
Jonathan Culler, an extremely lucid commentator and much admired in the field of literary theory, offers discerning insights into such theories as the nature of language and meaning, and whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience. Concise yet thorough, Literary Theory also outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools: deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and structuralism, among others.
From topics such as literature and social identity to poetry, poetics, and rhetoric, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction is a welcome guide for anyone interested in the importance of literature and the debates surrounding it. [via]More editions of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction:
Literature of Renaissance Englandby J HollanderISBN 0195016378 (0-19-501637-8)
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Lord Byron: The Major Worksby Jerome J. McGannISBN 0192840401 (0-19-284040-1)
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Love for Lydiaby BatesISBN 019424153X (0-19-424153-X)
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall, Margaret MauldonISBN 0192840398 (0-19-284039-8)
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0192836293 (0-19-283629-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories'Book summary:This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master. The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster. The other tales include the ironic, horrific, poignant and haunting. Here Kipling displays his descriptive panache and realistic boldness. Shrewd, audacious, abrasive and challenging, he remains absorbingly readable. [via]
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan ManningISBN 0192839764 (0-19-283976-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marble Faun'Book summary:The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy.
Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society. [via]More editions of The Marble Faun:
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Medieval English Literatureby J.B. Trapp, Joseph Burney TrappISBN 0195016246 (0-19-501624-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval English Literature'Book summary:This volume includes a verse translation of Beowulf, Chaucer's General Prologue and five of the Canterbury Tales (including The Franklin's Tale) with guides to grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, seventeen Middle English lyrics, ten popular ballads, Everyman, and The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play. [via]
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Melmoth the Wandererby Charles Robert MaturinISBN 0192835920 (0-19-283592-0)
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Memoirs of Emma Courtneyby Mary Hays, Eleanor Rose TyISBN 019283729X (0-19-283729-X)
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Janet SharistanianISBN 019283200X (0-19-283200-X)
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Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. Chesterton, Bernard BergonziISBN 0192831453 (0-19-283145-3)
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The Nether Worldby George Gissing, Gill StephenISBN 0192837672 (0-19-283767-2)
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Notre-Dame De Parisby Victor Hugo, Alban KrailsheimerISBN 019283701X (0-19-283701-X)
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Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors. [via]More editions of Notre-Dame De Paris:
Oroonoko, and Other Writingsby Aphra Behn, Paul SalzmanISBN 0192834606 (0-19-283460-6)
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An Outcast of the Islandsby Joseph Conrad, Hans Van Marle, J.H. StapeISBN 0192838407 (0-19-283840-7)
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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionaryby Albert SidneyISBN 0194311368 (0-19-431136-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary'Book summary:This thoroughly revised and updated new edition of the standard dictionary for advanced learners of English contains thousands of new words, increased coverage of phrasal verbs, idioms and American English, greater focus on pronunciation and stress, as well as appendices on irregular verbs, punctuation and weights and measures. The edition also provides notes to clarify points of semantic or grammatical difficulty, and an introduction in simple English for the student plus a higher-level foreword for the teacher or lecturer. The work will be of benefit to advanced students of English, for students reading and studying contemporary textbooks, literature, newspapers and periodicals, for non-native teachers of advanced-level English and for non-native lecturers in English studies. [via]
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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current Englishby A.P. Cowie, A. S. HornbyISBN 0194311104 (0-19-431110-4)
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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current Englishby A. S. Hornby, Albert Sydney Hornby, A.P. Cowie, A. C. GimsonISBN 019431295X (0-19-431295-X)
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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Storiesby Michael Cox, R.A. GilbertISBN 0192840851 (0-19-284085-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories'Book summary:With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this marvelous anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories combines a serious literary purpose with the simple intention of arousing a pleasurable fear of the doings of the dead.
As the first volume to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction tradition, this selection of forty-two stories, written between 1829 and 1968, demonstrates the tradition's historical development, as well as its major themes and characteristics. Though the genre reached its peak in the nineteenth century, it enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and even now still attracts dedicated practitioners and readers. The anthology includes stories by Walter Scott, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, T. H. White, and many others.
According to Edith Wharton, we can judge the success of a story by what she called its "thermometrical quality; if it sends a cold shiver down the spine, it has done its job and done it well." A host of writers have taken up the challenge of succeeding at this most demanding form of literary art, including both "specialists" such as J.S. Le Fanu and Algernon Blackwood, and other writers such as Henry James and H.G. Wells, for whom ghost stories constituted only a portion of their literary output. Stressing the important contribution women writers have made to the genre, the collection also offers eight stories by women, ranging from Amelia Edward's "The Phantom Ghost" (1864) to Elizabeth Bowen's "Hand in Glove" (1952). [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories:
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendyby J. M. Barrie, Peter HollindaleISBN 0192839292 (0-19-283929-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy'Book summary:In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie let this remarkable child grow a little older and he became the boy-hero of Neverland, making his first appearance, with Wendy, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys, in Peter and Wendy. The Peter Pan stories were Barrie's only works for children but, as their persistent popularity shows, their themes of imaginative escape continue to charm even those who long ago left Neverland. This is the first edition to include both texts in one volume and the first to a present an extensively annotated text for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. [via]
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautifulby Edmund Burke, Adam PhillipsISBN 0192835807 (0-19-283580-7)
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Phineas Reduxby Anthony Trollope, John C. Whale, T. L. B. Huskinson, F. S. L. LyonsISBN 0192835599 (0-19-283559-9)
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The Prime Ministerby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192835327 (0-19-283532-7)
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The Prisoner of Zendaby Anthony HopeISBN 0192839047 (0-19-283904-7)
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Restoration and the Eighteenth Centuryby Martin PriceISBN 0195016149 (0-19-501614-9)
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The Rivals, the Duenna, a Trip to Scarborough, the School for Scandal, the Criticby Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Michael CordnerISBN 0192825674 (0-19-282567-4)
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The Rover: Easyread Large Editionby Joseph Conrad, J.H. Stape, Andrzej BuszaISBN 0192826239 (0-19-282623-9)
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The Rover, the Feigned Courtesans, the Lucky Chance, the Emperor of the Moonby Aphra Behn, Jane SpencerISBN 0192834517 (0-19-283451-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rover, the Feigned Courtesans, the Lucky Chance, the Emperor of the Moon'Book summary:Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance, a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look at marriage customs; and the dazzling and popular farce, The Emperor of the Moon. All the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. [via]
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Ruthby Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan ShelstonISBN 0192834762 (0-19-283476-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruth'Book summary:One of the less familiar of Mrs. Gaskell's novels, Ruth was in its own time a cause celebre which not only contributed substantially to its author's growing reputation but also won the approval of a number of her distinguished contemporaries. The text used for this edition is based upon that of the first edition published in 1853. [via]
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Samuel Taylor Coleridgeby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H.J. JacksonISBN 0192840436 (0-19-284043-6)
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Selected Poetryby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0192839322 (0-19-283932-2)
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Selected Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, David Van LeerISBN 0192832247 (0-19-283224-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Tales'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection of twenty-four tales places the most popular--"The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Purloined Letter"--alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires. [via]
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorickby Laurence Sterne, Ian Robert James JackISBN 019283522X (0-19-283522-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick'Book summary:"I have laid a plan for something new, quite out of the beaten track." The result, A Sentimental Journey is as far from the conventional travel book as Tristram Shandy is from other novels. This volume includes the journal Sterne wrote for Eliza Draper which is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of his comic and satiric genius. [via]
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Sheby H. Rider Haggard, Daniel KarlinISBN 0192835505 (0-19-283550-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She'Book summary:Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
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Sybilby Benjamin Disraeli, Sheila M. SmithISBN 0192836935 (0-19-283693-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sybil'Book summary:So vivid was its exposure of the horrifying inequalities of Victorian society--from the desperate poverty of the industrial workers to the gross and irresponsible excesses of the wealthy--that is subtitle "The Two Nations" has passed intothe language.
But Disraeli, the man who was to become one of Britian's most famous prime ministers, did not produce in "Sybil" merely a political tract on behalf of Tory democracy as the answer to the Hungry Forties. This is a dramatic novel of romance, full of wit and irony; a love story which ranges through adventure, mystery and political intrigue while questioning many of the basic assumptions of the Victorian social structure. [via]
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192835750 (0-19-283575-0)
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Tom Brown's Schooldaysby Thomas Hughes, Arthur Hughes, Andrew SandersISBN 0192835351 (0-19-283535-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'Book summary:One of the classics of English children's literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novel's steady popularity has given it an influence well beyond the upper middle-class world that it describes. It tells a story central to an understanding of Victorian life, but its freshness helps to distinguish it from the narrow schoolboy adventures that it later inspired. The book includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders. [via]
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Trilbyby George Du Maurier, Dennis Denisoff, Elaine ShowalterISBN 0192833510 (0-19-283351-0)
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Trilby and Other Plays: Four Plays for Victorian Star Actorsby Peter Holland, Michael Cordner, Martin Wiggins, George TaylorISBN 019282984X (0-19-282984-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trilby and Other Plays: Four Plays for Victorian Star Actors'Book summary:Trilby and Other Plays is a new selection of English plays that had wide success on both sides of the Atlantic. Each achieved its greatest fame through the talents of a particular star performer. In Buckstone's Jack Sheppard , a spectacular and popular adaptation of Ainsworth's much dramatized novel, the rascal hero was played by the comedienne Mary Keeley. Dion Boucicault's The Corsican Brothers starred Charles Kean as telepathic twins and featured the famous stage-effect of the Corsican-trap. Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin became a star vehicle by default when E. A. Sothern improvised the role of Lord Dundreary to such effect that his performance became the rage on both the British and American stage. That President Lincoln was assassinated watching the play adds an extra macabre dimension to its interest. Finally, Paul Potter's dramatization of the novel Trilby achieved cult status after Herbert Beerbohm Tree built up the sinister Svengali into a mythical force of artistic creativity and evil genius. This book is intended for students from undergraduate level up studying drama, Victorian literature, theatre studies, cultural studies. Also actors and directors. [via]
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Typhoon and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192837877 (0-19-283787-7)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jean Fagan YellinISBN 0192827871 (0-19-282787-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:A monumental work of American literature, Uncle Tom's Cabin charts the progress to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of slavery, and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties. This edition firmly locates the novel within the context of African-American writing, the issues of race, and the role of women. Its appendices include the most important contemporary African-American literary responses to the glorification of Uncle Tom's Christian resignation, as well as excerpts from popular slave narratives, quoted by Stowe in her justification of the dramatization of slavery, Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. [via]
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer MaudeISBN 0192833987 (0-19-283398-7)
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The White Devil, the Duchess of Malfi, the Devil's Law-Case a Cure for a Cuckoldby John Webster, Rene WeisISBN 0192834533 (0-19-283453-3)
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William Wordsworthby William Wordsworth, Stephen Charles GillISBN 0192840444 (0-19-284044-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Wordsworth'Book summary:William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative.
This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included. [via]More editions of William Wordsworth:
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 0192839772 (0-19-283977-2)
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