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	Reminiscences Thomas Carlyle 019283889X June 1999 Paperback ·



	Under the Greenwood Tree (Oxford World's Classics) Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell 0192835173 July 22, 1999 Paperback ·
Book Description This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. Download Description "Under the Greenwood Tree is Thomas Hardy's one and only rural idyll, a startling contrast to his other Wessex tales. In Mellstock, its surrounding farms and woodlands, the story interweaves the lingering courtship of Dick Dewy and sweet Fancy Day with the battle for survival of the old Mellstock String Choir - the last in the county - against the mechanical church organ of the new vicar, the Reverend Maybold. Under the Greenwood Tree appears to be pastoral romance at its most sunlit and good humoured, and has been called the...


	The Moonstone (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Wilkie Collins 159308322X August 2005 Paperback ·



	Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) William Makepeace Thackeray 1593083653 September 2005 Hardcover ·



	Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s Emma Sutton 0198187327 Dec 2002 Hardcover ·
Book Description This volume is an interdisciplinary study of the influence of the operas, writing, and personality of Richard Wagner (1813-1883) on the work of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). In exploring Beardsley's often iconoclastic versions--or perversions--of Wagner's work Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagernism in the 1890s aims to investigate the role of Wagnerism with "fin-de-siecle" British culture, in particular the relations between Wagnerism and contemporary decadence.


	The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen (Six Volume Set) Jane Austen, R. W. Chapman 0192547070 November 17, 1988 Hardcover ·
Book Description "R.W. Chapman's fine new edition has, among its other merits, the advantage of waking the Jane Austenite up.... The novels continue to live their own wonderful internal life...freshened and enriched by contact with the life of facts. His illustrations are beyond all praise."--E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest. This beautiful set provides the definitive text of Austen's six great comic masterpieces and her minor works (the latter include three high-spirited efforts written at about age fifteen; a charming fragment, The Watsons, which has been thought to be a sketch for Emma; and a tantalizing fragment, Sanditon, written in the last year of her life). All six volumes feature splendid early 19th-century illustrations as well as Chapman's detailed explanatory notes. Chapman has collated all the editions published in...


	Dickens on Literature Richard Lettis 0404614884 Jan 1990 Hardcover ·



	Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) William Makepeace Thackeray 1593080719 December 2003 Paperback ·
Book Description “I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,” observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest—and most appealing—women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair, a wonderfully satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. From London’s ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and...


	She (Oxford World's Classics) H. Rider Haggard, Daniel Karlin 0192835505 October 22, 1998 Paperback ·
Book Review 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 ...


	Literary Magazines and British Romanticism Mark Louis Parker 0521781922 Mar 2001 Hardcover ·
Review '... alert, stimulating, and abundantly documented ...'. Yearbook of English Studies 'Literary Magazines and British Romanticism is a vivid and detailed picture of the intense intellectual life of magazines.' Romanticism Review "...elegantly written...if the richness and complexity of this genre had to wait till now to be appreciated, Literary Magazines and British Romanticism will send its own readers back to the periodicals with renewed appreciation and enjoyment." The Wordsworth Circle See all Editorial Reviews


	The Letters of Charles Dickens : 12 Volume Set (British Academy) Graham Storey, et al 0199258082 December 1, 2002 Hardcover ·
Book Description The widely acclaimed Pilgrim edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens has contributed vastly to our knowledge of Dickens's life, personality, friendships, and preoccupations. The complete 12-volume set is now available at a specially reduced price.


	Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Literature Masterpiece Jennifer Crusie (Editor) 1932100725 September 2005 Paperback ·
From Booklist Starred Review Although Jane Austen is often acknowledged as the godmother of the Regency romance (of course, she was writing contemporary love stories at the time), the contributors to this collection intend to prove that Austen's much-loved novels, and specifically her masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, provide the prototype for today's chick-lit fiction. After romance superstar Crusie presents a crisp and witty introduction distilling the essence of Austen's appeal, an eclectic mix of popular romance authors explore a variety of topics, including Austen's social commentary, the role of history in her novels, and the adaptation of her books into film. Beth Kendrick considers how much today's woman has in common with Austen's heroines in her deliciously clever "Does This Petticoat Make Me Look Fat?" Jo...


	The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics) Wilkie Collins, John Sutherland 0192833383 February 17, 2000 Paperback ·
From AudioFile This seminal English mystery is presented in an unusual, but appropriate, manner, reflecting the episodic nature of the story. Three actors present the story in parts, taking on separate first-person accounts of events. All the voices are convincing, cultured British intonations describing the events surrounding the apparent theft of the Moonstone diamond from a country mansion. Each voice shades the various characters featured within the particular parts, just as the narrative offers characterizations of the other persons without attempting an outright mimicry. The abridgment is nicely done, too, avoiding any choppiness. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Review "The first and greatest of English detective...


	George Eliot and the British Empire Nancy Henry 0521808456 Jan 2002 Hardcover ·
Review '... a worthy and impressive study ...'. Literature & History Review "Henry's skillful interweaving of biographical, textural, and cultural criticism enables us to see George Eliot and her work in fresh, new ways." Canadian Woman Studies "Henry fully delivers on her promise to present 'a new Eliot,' demonstrating the centrality of empire to Eliot's life an literary practice." Victorian Periodicals Review "Refreshing and rewarding..." Victorians Institute Journal "This is a timely and necessary book and its attack on post-colonial readings of Eliot is cogent and to me persuasive...this book is clearly a significant contribution to Eliot studies." George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies "Drawing on various sources, including essays, reviews, letters, journals, and records...


	The Prince and the Pauper (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Mark Twain 1593082185 December 2004 Paperback ·



	Devoted Sisters Sarah Annes Brown 0754604780 May 2003 Hardcover ·



	Emma Jane Austen 0486406482 March 1999 Paperback ·
Book Review Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or...


	Jane Austen's Letters Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye 0192832972 April 3, 1997 Paperback ·
Book Review 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...


	Writing Irishness in Nineteenth-Century British Culture Neil McCaw 0754639479 Apr 2004 Hardcover ·



	Pride and Prejudice: A Norton Critical Edition Jane Austen 0393976041 October 2000 Textbook Paperback ·
Book Review "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to...


	Romanticism and Postmodernism Edward Larrissy (Editor) 0521642728 August 28, 1999 Hardcover ·
Book Description The persistence of Romantic thought and literary practice into the late twentieth century is evident in many contexts. Though the precise meaning of the Romantic legacy is contested, it remains stubbornly difficult to move beyond. This collection of essays by prominent critics and literary theorists explores the continuing impact of romanticism on a variety of authors and genres, including John Barth, William Gibson, and John Ashbery, while writers from the Romantic and Victorian period include Wordsworth, Byron and Emily Brontë. This book considers the mutual impact of postmodernism and Romanticism.


	The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Oscar Wilde 159308059X December 2003 Paperback ·
Book Description Oscar Wilde’s legendary wit dazzles in The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the greatest and most popular works of drama to emerge from Victorian England. A light-hearted satire of the absurdity of all forms and conventions, this comic masterpiece features an unforgettable cast of characters who, as critic Max Beerbohm observed, “speak a kind of beautiful nonsense—the language of high comedy, twisted into fantasy.” This collection also includes Oscar Wilde’s most famous comedies, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband, as well as his poetic tragedy Salomé—all written between 1891 and 1895, Wilde’s most creative period. George Bernard Shaw said of Oscar Wilde that he is “our most...


	The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel Terence Dawson 075464135X Nov 2004 Hardcover ·



	The Meaning of Everything : The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester 019517500X October 14, 2004 Paperback ·
From Publishers Weekly With his usual winning blend of scholarship and accessible, skillfully paced narrative, Winchester (Krakatoa) returns to the subject of his first bestseller, The Professor and the Madman, to tell the eventful, personality-filled history of the definitive English dictionary. He emphasizes that the OED project began in 1857 as an attempt to correct the deficiencies of existing dictionaries, such as Dr. Samuel Johnson's. Winchester opens with an entertaining and informative examination of the development of the English language and pre-OED efforts. The originators of the OED thought the project would take perhaps a decade; it actually took 71 years, and Winchester explores why. An early editor, Frederick Furnivall, was completely disorganized (one sack of paperwork he shipped to his successor, James Murray,...


	Oxford Illustrated Dickens (21 Volume Set) Charles Dickens 0192545221 ·
Book Description long out of print, The Oxford Illustrated Dickens is again available in a handsome 21-volume hardbound set complete with the original illustrations. Based on the definitive Charles Dickens Edition, which was revised by the author in 1860, each volume features up to 76 original illustrations by such notable Victorian artists as "Phiz" and George Cruikshank, and an informative introduction by a prominent writer or critic. Dickens captured the popular imagination as no other novelist. His high-spirited humor, genius for characterization, mysterious plots, and biting irony give his works an appeal for all ages in all times. Simply name the stories--"A Christmas Carol," Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Oliver Twist--and a marvelous world comes to mind, peopled by some...


	Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 0486292568 September 1996 Paperback ·
From School Library Journal Grade 8 Up-British actor Martin Shaw reads this shortened version of the classic Emily Bronte novel. His easily-understood accent is appropriate and helps to set the mood. Shaw reads at a very steady pace, pausing effectively for emphasis or when his character might be thinking. Usually calm and gentle, his voice can resonate with anger or other emotion when necessary. There is some differentiation in pitch to emphasize male vs. female speech, but it is not exaggerated or overdone. The abridgement retains Bronte's words linking speech or narration sometimes from one page to another. It provides students with an easier way to become familiar with the story and get a feel for her style. Teachers could use this presentation to introduce the novel or to entice students to read it on their own.Claudia Moore, W.T....


	Linguistic Transformations in Romantic Aesthetics from Coleridge to Emily Dickinson Morag Harris 0773470298 Dec 2002 Hardcover ·



	Re-Visioning Romanticism Carol S. Wilson 0812232313 Dec 1994 Hardcover ·



	On Liberty John Stuart Mill 0486421309 June 2002 Paperback ·
Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University A wonderful edition... --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona The introduction offers fresh insights... --This text refers to the Paperback edition. See all Editorial Reviews


	The Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene S.) Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar 0300084587 July 11, 2000 Paperback ·
Martin Arnold, The New York Times "A groundbreaking study of women writers." Book Description This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual. See all Editorial Reviews