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THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS

ROBERT TRESSELL

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities.Epic in scale, the novel charts the ruinous effects of the laissez-faire mercantilist ethics on the m...

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

LEE, HARPER

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationalit...

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THE BOOK OF DISQUIET

FERNANDO PESSOA

u003cpu003eReaders with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable.--u003ciu003ePublishers Weeklyu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003eu003cpu003ePessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output.--William Boydu003c/pu003eu003cpu003eA self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the hum...

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THE GOOD SOLDIER

FORD, FORD MADOX

With an Introduction and Notes by Sara Haslam, Department of English, The Open University.The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, a...

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ULYSSES

JAMES JOYCE

James Joyces astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Blooms voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery.Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Y...

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THE PARADISO

ALIGHIERI, DANTE / JOHN CIARDI

In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love. ...

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THE PURGATORIO

ALIGHIERI, DANTE / JOHN CIARDI

In The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his coming into the presence of God. This brilliant translation of Dante?s canticle crystallizes the great poet?s immortal conception of the aspiring soul. ...

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THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

HURSTON, ZORA NEALE

u003cpu003e One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, u003ciu003eTheir Eyes Were Watching Godu003c/iu003e, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dre...

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CRANFORD & SELECTED SHORT STORIES

ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL / JOHN CHAPPLE

The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskells shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art. As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrisons C...

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THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD

KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queens College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The Colle...

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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through such powerfully realized characters as Tom, Eliza, Topsy, Eva, and Simon Legree. First published more than 150 years ago, this monumental work is today being reexamined by critics, scholars, and students. ...

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THE FORSYTE SAGA

JOHN GALSWORTHY

The Forsyte Saga is Galsworthys enduringly popular masterpiece. Initially, the plot centres on Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife, Irene. A pillar of the late-Victorian upper middle class, wealthy and well-connected, he seems to lead an enviable life. But beneath the respectable exterior lie acute tensions and frustrations. The marr...

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WASHINGTON SQUARE

JAMES, HENRY

Washington Square marks the culmination of Jamess apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870s, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novels action dur...

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WIVES AND DAUGHTERS

GASKELL, ELISABETH / ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL

Gaskells last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue.Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one of ...

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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Uncle Toms Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowes rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only repentance, justice and mercy will prevent the onset of the wrath of Almighty God!.The novel gave such a ...

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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD AND OTHER STORIES

DICKENS, CHARLES

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventurin...

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ADAM BEDE

GEORGE ELIOT

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelingsAdam Bede (1859), George Eliots first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the e...

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THE BEST SHORT STORIES

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies and vanities at different levels of society. Prostitution is frankly d...

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SELECTED STORIES

ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV / ANTON CHEKHOV

With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University.Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the readers imagination.This collection contains some of the most important of his earlies...

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DANIEL DERONDA

GEORGE ELIOT

George Eliots final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship.Set largely in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts their search ...

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THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

JAMES, HENRY

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James inimitable poise, is of t...

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TRISTRAM SHANDY

LAURENCE STERNE

Laurence Sternes The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly e...

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IVANHOE

WALTER SCOTT

Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his beauti...

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HARD TIMES

DICKENS, CHARLES

Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster. Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen. Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian T...

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THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP

DICKENS, CHARLES

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, ...

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THE MILL ON THE FLOSS

GEORGE ELIOT

This novel, based on George Eliots own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelli...

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JUDE THE OBSCURE

THOMAS HARDY

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience a...

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ROB ROY

WALTER SCOTT

From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scotts finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorised, unprincipled predator to others.Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, thr...

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NORTH AND SOUTH

ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL

Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the authors first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroines movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskells skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial soc...

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KIM

RUDYARD KIPLING

Kim is Rudyard Kiplings finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption f...

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Libros de Classic literature 562 resultados

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