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The Adventures of Roderick Randomby Paul-Gabriel Bouce, Tobias George SmollettISBN 0192837168 (0-19-283716-8)
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An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fictionby Paul SalzmanISBN 0192817442 (0-19-281744-2)
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Aurora Leighby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kerry McSweeneyISBN 0192836536 (0-19-283653-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aurora Leigh'Book summary:This verse-novel is a detailed representation of the early-Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of satirical portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; sir Blaise Delorme, the ostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty, Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant presence in the work is the narrator, Aurora Leigh herself. From early years in Italy and adolescence in the West country, to the vocational choices, creative struggles, and emotional entanglements of her early adult life, Aurora Leigh develops her ideas on love, art, God, the Woman Question, and society. This edition is critically edited and fuly annotated. It should be of interest to readers of Victorian poetry and students of 19th-century English literature and women's writing. [via]
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Burnsby James Kinsley, Robert BurnsISBN 0192811142 (0-19-281114-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burns'Book summary:This edition offers to the student and general reader a complete and authoritative text of all Burns's acknowledged work, and of poems reasonably attributed to him, based on a critical review of all the accessible manuscripts and early printings. The identifiable airs for the songs are included in the 18th-century form, and there is a Glossary, a Chronology, and a Bibliography. [via]
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Castle Richmondby Anthony Trollope, Mary HamerISBN 0192821733 (0-19-282173-3)
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Childhood, Youth, and Exileby Aleksandr Herzen, Aleksandr Ivanovich HertzenISBN 0192815059 (0-19-281505-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Childhood, Youth, and Exile'Book summary:This book comprises the first two parts of Herzen's autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, one of the greatest monuments of Russian iterature, comparable to the major works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev. Herzen begins with his nurse's account of Napoleon's occupation of Moscow in 1812, and continues through his solitary boyhood and close friendship with his cousin Nick Ogarëv, his days at Moscow University, and his eventual imprisonment for his socialist beliefs. The book ends with his adventures in exile which are vividly recounted and disply the rich observation of detail that make Herzen's work so compelling. [via]
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The Claveringsby Anthony Trollope, David SkiltonISBN 0192817272 (0-19-281727-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claverings'Book summary:Since its first appearance in 1867, this novel has been acclaimed as one of Trollope's most successful protrayals of mid-Victorian life. The Claverings is filled with contemporary detail and shows, as Trollope often does, the weakness of men and the emotional strength of women. [via]
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Collected Playsby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0192811363 (0-19-281136-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Plays'Book summary:'"The Lion and the Jewel" alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' - "The Times". The ironic development and consequences of 'progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. "The Lion and the Jewel" shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In "Kongi's Harvest", however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. "The Two Brother Jero" plays pursue that way, the comic 'propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of "Jero's Metamorphosis". "Madmen and Specialists", Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war. [via]
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The Complete Odes and Epodesby Horace, Horace Epodae, David Alexander West, David WestISBN 0192832468 (0-19-283246-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Odes and Epodes'Book summary:Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Steeped in allusion to contemporary affairs, Horace's verse is best read in terms of his changing relationship to the public sphere. While the Odes are subtle and allusive, the Epodes are robust and coarse in their celebrations of sex and tirades against political leaders. This edition also includes the Secular Hymn and Suetonius's "Life of Horace." [via]
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadiaby Katherine Duncan-Jones, Philip SidneyISBN 019281690X (0-19-281690-X)
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Cousin Henryby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192838466 (0-19-283846-6)
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Cousin Henryby Julian Thompson, Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192817841 (0-19-281784-1)
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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:"Daisy Miller" is one of Henry James's most popular tales, it is the story of a young American woman who while traveling in Europe is courted by Frederick Winterbourne. Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878, "Daisy Miller" is a novel that plays upon the contrast between American and European society, a theme common to James's work. The title character's youthful innocence is sharply contrasted with the sophistication of European society in this fatefully tragic tale. Also included in this volume are three additional shorter works by Henry James. They include "Pandora", "The Patagonia", and "Four Meetings". [via]
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The Dead Secretby Wilkie Collins, Ira Bruce NadelISBN 0192838415 (0-19-283841-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dead Secret'Book summary:A mystery of unrelenting suspense and penetrating characterization, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter, and buried secrets in a superb blend of romance and Gothic drama. Reprinted here in the only critical edition available, is the text of the first edition, including Collins's preface and revisions. A superb introduction relates the text to Collins's love of the theatre, and previous and subsequent works. [via]
Dr. Wortle's Schoolby Anthony Trollope, John HalperinISBN 019281673X (0-19-281673-X)
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Eclogues and Georgicsby VirgilISBN 0192816438 (0-19-281643-8)
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Elia and the Last Essays of Eliaby Charles Lamb, Jonathan BateISBN 0192817647 (0-19-281764-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elia and the Last Essays of Elia'Book summary:Charles Lamb wrote essays under the pseudonym "Elia" in the 1820s. Few have written more evocatively of the past, of childhood, loss, books and plays, and London. This volume contains all the "Elia" essays Lamb collected in book form, including the "Confessions of a Drunkard". [via]
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The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moralby Francis Bacon, Brian VickersISBN 0192838024 (0-19-283802-4)
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An Eye for an Eyeby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0192829106 (0-19-282910-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Eye for an Eye'Book summary:Fred Neville, a young officer in the Hussars, is heir to an earldom, but before taking up his responsibilities resolves to enjoy a year of adventure in Ireland where his regiment is posted. When Fred falls in love and seduces an Irish girl of great beauty and mysterious background, the scene is set for a tragic outcome that far exceeds the adventures Fred had in mind. Written in 1870 but not published until 1879, An Eye For An Eye is arguably the most melodramatic story that Trollope wrote and certainly his frankest and most daring treatment of pre-marital sex. [via]
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Five Playsby Ben Jonson, G.A. WilkesISBN 0192817825 (0-19-281782-5)
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Four Comediesby Plautus, Erich Segal, Titus MacCius PlautusISBN 0192831089 (0-19-283108-9)
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert FraserISBN 0192835416 (0-19-283541-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Golden Pot and Other Talesby E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ritchie RobertsonISBN 0192837230 (0-19-283723-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Pot and Other Tales'Book summary:Hoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, focuses on those stories in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. This new translation includes The Golden Pot, The Sandman, Princess Brambilla, Master Flea, and My Cousin's Corner Window. [via]
Henry 6thby Randall MartinISBN 0192831410 (0-19-283141-0)
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The History of Pendennisby William Makepeace Thackeray, John SutherlandISBN 0192831682 (0-19-283168-2)
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In a Glass Darklyby Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert TracyISBN 0192828053 (0-19-282805-3)
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Islandmanby Tomas O'CrohanISBN 0192812335 (0-19-281233-5)
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Jane Austen's Lettersby Jane Austen, Deirdre Le FayeISBN 0192832972 (0-19-283297-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen's Letters'Book summary:Jane Austen famously labeled her literary ambit a "little bit (two inches wide) of ivory." Luckily, her personal travels and those of her family were slightly more extensive, otherwise we should be without her letters. Not only should every Janeite possess them, but also every connoisseur of correspondence. Austen's wit is ubiquitous--even though some protest it edges into waspishness. E. M. Forster, for example, described the letters between Austen and her beloved sister, Cassandra, as "the whinnying of harpies."
On September 18, 1796, she tells Cassandra, "What dreadful Hot weather we have!--It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.--If Miss Pearson should return with me, pray be careful not to expect too much Beauty..." The dashes and capitalization alone make one long for the days before stylistic rules had so cemented. As for the sentiments! Austen paces her monologues to perfection, making the comic and ironic most out of the smallest incidents. Still, her frustration does occasionally emerge. "I am forced to be abusive," she implodes to Cassandra, "for want of a subject, having nothing really to say." Jane Austen has more than enough to say for lovers of literature and the cultural pinprick. [via]
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LA Reine Margotby Alexandre DumasISBN 019283844X (0-19-283844-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Reine Margot'Book summary:La Reine Margot (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder and duplicity of the French Renaissance. Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action and the engaging generosity of spirit which has made him one of the world's greatest and best-loved story-tellers. This revised edition of the classic translation of 1846 is richly annotated. An introduction sets Dumas and his work in their literary, historical and cultural context. [via]
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Lady Annaby Anthony Trollope, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192837184 (0-19-283718-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Anna'Book summary:When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - 'This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' ("Saturday Review") - although Trollope himself considered it 'the best novel I ever wrote! Very much! Quite far away above all others!!!' This tightly constructed and passionate study of enforced marriage in the world of Radical politics and social inequality, records the lifelong attempt of Countess Lovel to justify her claim to her title, and her daughter Anna's legitimacy, after her husband announces that he already has a wife. However, mother and daughter are driven apart when Anna defies her mother's wish that she marry her cousin, heir to her father's title, and falls in love with journeyman tailor and young Radical Daniel Thwaite. The outcome is never in doubt, but Trollope's ambivalence on the question is profound, and the novel both intense and powerful. [via]
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Lancelot of the LakeISBN 0192837931 (0-19-283793-1)
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Lancelot of the Lakeby Corin Corley, Elspeth Kennedy, Corley F. W. CorinISBN 0192817566 (0-19-281756-6)
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Letters from an American Farmerby J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, Susan Manning, J. Hector st John De CrevecoeurISBN 0192832344 (0-19-283234-4)
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The MacDermots of Ballycloranby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192821814 (0-19-282181-4)
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The Malcontent and Other Playsby Marston, Keith SturgessISBN 0192822500 (0-19-282250-0)
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Marion Fayby Anthony Trollope, Geoffrey HarveyISBN 019282855X (0-19-282855-X)
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Marius the Epicureanby Walter Pater, Ian SmallISBN 0192817051 (0-19-281705-1)
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The Masterpieceby Thomas Walton, Emile Zola, Roger PearsonISBN 0192829068 (0-19-282906-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Masterpiece'Book summary:The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public. [via]
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The Mirror of the Sea and a Personal Recordby Joseph Conrad, Zdzislaw NajderISBN 0192817299 (0-19-281729-9)
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Miss Mackenzieby Anthony Trollope, A.O.J. CockshutISBN 0192818465 (0-19-281846-5)
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Mr. Scarborough's Familyby Anthony Trollope, Geoffrey HarveyISBN 0192818082 (0-19-281808-2)
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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, And Othersby Stephanie DalleyISBN 0192835890 (0-19-283589-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, And Others'Book summary:The stories translated in this volume are all of ancient Mesopotamia, and they stand alongside the "Odyssey" and the "Arabian Nights" in being popular with an international audience at the dawn of history. The selection includes not only myths about the creation and stories of the flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the "Epic of Gilgamesh". This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man who has an enormous capacity for endurance and adventure, for joy and sorrow, a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley differ considerably from previous versions. As well as introduction and notes to each item, there is a glossary of deities, place-names, and key terms, together with a chronological chart, a map, and illustrations of some of the mythical monsters which feature in the book. [via]
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The Nature of the Godsby Marcus Tullius Cicero, P.G. WalshISBN 0192825119 (0-19-282511-9)
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Notes from the Underground and the Gamblerby Fedor Dostoevsky, Jane KentishISBN 0192836269 (0-19-283626-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from the Underground and the Gambler'Book summary:One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Both works are new translations, specially commissioned for the World's Classics series. [via]
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Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Isobel MurrayISBN 019281978X (0-19-281978-X)
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The Oxford Book of Essaysby John GrossISBN 019282970X (0-19-282970-X)
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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Storiesby Michael Cox, R.A. GilbertISBN 0192826662 (0-19-282666-2)
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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:
The Oxford Book of Humorous Proseby Frank MuirISBN 0192829599 (0-19-282959-9)
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The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Storiesby Michael Cox, R.A. GilbertISBN 0192829998 (0-19-282999-8)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literatureby Pat RogersISBN 0192827286 (0-19-282728-6)
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas Hardy, Alan ManfordISBN 0192816845 (0-19-281684-5)
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Pope: Poetical Worksby Herbert DavisISBN 0192812467 (0-19-281246-7)
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Rachel Rayby Anthony Trollope, P. D. EdwardsISBN 0192837389 (0-19-283738-9)
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The Railway Childrenby E. Nesbit, Dennis ButtsISBN 019282659X (0-19-282659-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Railway Children'Book summary:The comfortable middle-class Edwardian life of Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis is shattered when their father is arrested for treason. Forced to leave London for the country, they discover a railway line near their home, befriending the stationmaster and his family, the owner of the railway, and a Russian dissident in the course of their adventures, which culminate in a dramatic reunion. Described as `the first modern writer for children', Edith Nesbit here confirms her status with this skilful blend of humour, pathos, and vivid insight into the behaviour of her characters. This version is based upon the text of the sixth edition, with the significant variations from the first edition recorded in the explanatory notes. This book is intended for students and teachers in colleges of higher education, students of children's literature, parents, children, general. [via]
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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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Roderick Hudsonby Henry JamesISBN 0192815474 (0-19-281547-4)
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A Russian Gentlemanby Sergei Aksakov, J. D. DuffISBN 0192815733 (0-19-281573-3)
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Selected Fablesby Maya Slater, Christopher Wood, Jean De LA FontaineISBN 0192824406 (0-19-282440-6)
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Selected Poetryby John KeatsISBN 0192834932 (0-19-283493-2)
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Selected Poetryby Gerard Manley HopkinsISBN 0192834924 (0-19-283492-4)
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Selected Writingsby William Hazlitt, John CookISBN 0192838008 (0-19-283800-8)
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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Worksby Francesco PetrarcaISBN 0192817078 (0-19-281707-8)
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Sentimental Journey Through France and Italyby Laurence Sterne, Ian Robert James JackISBN 0192816853 (0-19-281685-3)
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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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A Sicilian Romanceby Ann Ward Radcliffe, Alison MilbankISBN 0192836668 (0-19-283666-8)
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher RodenISBN 0192823795 (0-19-282379-5)
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192837656 (0-19-283765-6)
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Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.
Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.
Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes's deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers' real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes's denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, "You are wonderful, Holmes!" Generations of readers agree. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward IIby Christopher Marlowe, David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmusse NISBN 0192827375 (0-19-282737-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward II'Book summary:Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two.
Under the General Editorship of Dr. Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation. [via]More editions of Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward II:
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The Three Clerksby Anthony Trollope, Graham HandleyISBN 0192818295 (0-19-281829-5)
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Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Playsby John Ford, Marion LomaxISBN 0192822535 (0-19-282253-5)
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Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover's Melancholy, the Broken Heart, Perkin Warbeckby John Ford, Marion LomaxISBN 0192834495 (0-19-283449-5)
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Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes, and Selected Travel Writingsby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 0192826298 (0-19-282629-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes, and Selected Travel Writings'Book summary:This volume of Stevenson's travel writings includes his first published book An Inland Voyage (1878) - a vivid account of a canoe voyage in Belgium and France in two sail-powered skiffs, named Cigarette and Arethusa - and Stevenson's popular description of a tour with his recalcitrant donkey Modestine, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879). Stevenson's natural affinity for France, his appreciation of its landscape, and his enthusiasm for the French way of life are borne out by these works, which prompted a contemporary critic to suggest that he was `a Frenchman born out of place', rather than `a Scotsman of the Scots'. In addition to these longer pieces, a selection of travel essays deriving from the writer's experiences on the C te d'Azur, at Fontainbleau, and in the Swiss Alps reveal Stevenson's iconoclasm, his unconventionality, and the Bohemian stance which brought about his confrontation with the Edinburgh literary establishment. [via]
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Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize With a Hammerby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Duncan LargeISBN 0192831380 (0-19-283138-0)
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Valpergaby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Michael RossingtonISBN 0192832891 (0-19-283289-1)
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The Vicar of Bullhamptonby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192821636 (0-19-282163-6)
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Wessex Tales: The Three Strangers; a Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; the Melancholy Hussar; the Withered Armby Thomas Hardy, Kathryn R. KingISBN 0192835580 (0-19-283558-0)
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The critically established text, the first to be based on detailed study of all revised texts, presents manuscript readings which have never before appeared in print.
The stories include The Three Strangers; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Withered Arm; Fellow-Townsmen; Interlopers at the Knap; The Distracted Preacher [via]More editions of Wessex Tales: The Three Strangers; a Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; the Melancholy Hussar; the Withered Arm:
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquistby Charles Brockden Brown, Emory ElliottISBN 0192836803 (0-19-283680-3)
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquistby Emory Elliott, Charles Brockden BrownISBN 0192828762 (0-19-282876-2)
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The Wood Beyond the Worldby William MorrisISBN 0192813013 (0-19-281301-3)
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