Archive For The “British Literature” Category
By R. D. Blackmore
ISBN-10: 0143039326
ISBN-13: 9780143039327
First released in 1869, Lorna Doone is the tale of John Ridd, a farmer who reveals love amid the spiritual and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. he's only a boy whilst his father is slain through the Doones, a lawless extended family inhabiting wild Exmoor at the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by way of interest and a feeling of experience, he makes his method to the valley of the Doones, the place he's stumbled on by means of the attractive Lorna. In time their infantile fantasies blossom into mature love—a bond that may encourage John to rescue his liked from the ravages of a stormy iciness, rekindling a clash along with his archrival, Carver Doone, that climaxes in heartrending violence. liked for its portrait of star-crossed enthusiasts and its surpassing descriptions of the English nation-state, Lorna Doone is R. D. Blackmore’s enduring masterpiece.
By Doris Lessing
ISBN-10: 1476792917
ISBN-13: 9781476792910
Lengthy thought of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s most sensible choice of brief tales, African Stories—a important publication within the paintings of a very cherished writer—is now again in print. this gorgeous assortment is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a super portrait of African life.
This is Doris Lessing’s Africa—where she lived for twenty-five years and the place loads of her curiosity and predicament nonetheless is living. the following in those tales, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of existence in Africa.
First released in 1965, and out of print because the Nineties, this assortment includes a lot of Ms. Lessing’s such a lot outstanding paintings. it's a tremendous portrait of an international that's important to all of us—perceived by way of an artist of the 1st rank writing with ardour and honesty approximately her local land.
African Stories comprises each tale Doris Lessing has written approximately Africa: all of her first assortment, This used to be the outdated Chief’s Country; the 4 stories approximately Africa from Five; the African tales from The behavior of Loving and A guy and Women; and 4 tales featured simply during this edition.
African Stories represents a few of Doris Lessing’s top work—and is an important publication by means of one of many 20th century’s most vital authors.
By William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 1443443417
ISBN-13: 9781443443418
Whilst the 3 Witches prophesy that Macbeth, a Scottish common, turns into king, they unharness a sequence of occasions that turn out tragic for all concerned. Spurred by way of ambition, Macbeth and his ruthless woman will cease at not anything, together with homicide, to make the throne theirs. starting with the homicide of King Duncan and culminating with woman Macbeth’s descent into insanity and Macbeth’s ultimate conflict with Macduff, Macbeth is one in all William Shakespeare’s maximum dramatic works.
Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the best English-language author recognized. greatly well known in the course of his lifestyles, Shakespeare’s works proceed to resonate greater than 3 centuries after his dying, as has his impression on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s leading edge use of personality, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a origin for later playwrights and dramatists, and a few of his most famed traces of debate became a part of daily speech.
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By Virginia Woolf
ISBN-10: 190917548X
ISBN-13: 9781909175488
Set in the summertime domestic of an English relatives, the unconventional unfolds via moving views of every character's move of recognition, recalling adolescence feelings and highlights of grownup relationships.
Shifts happen even mid-sentence, and in a few feel they resemble the rotating beam of the lighthouse.
A landmark of excessive modernism and certainly one of Woolf's most sensible works.
By Rudyard Kipling, John Seelye
ISBN-10: 1101144009
ISBN-13: 9781101144008
First released in 1897, Captains brave tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxurious ocean liner, is rescued via the raucous team of the fishing send We're right here. Obstinate and spoiled before everything, Harvey sooner or later learns diligence and accountability and earns the camaraderie of the seamen, who deal with him as one in every of their very own. a real try of personality, Harvey's months aboard the We're the following supply a pleasant glimpse of existence at sea and well-told morals of self-discipline, empathy, and self- reliance.
Introduction by means of John Seelye.
By Mina Loy
ISBN-10: 1564786307
ISBN-13: 9781564786302
Stories and Essays of Mina Loy is the 1st book-length quantity of Mina Loy's narrative writings and significant paintings ever released. This quantity brings jointly her brief fiction, in addition to hybrid works that come with modernized fairy stories, a Socratic discussion, and a ballet. Loy's narratives tackle concerns comparable to abortion and poverty, and what she known as “the intercourse war" is an abiding subject matter all through. Stories and Essays of Mina Loy additionally includes dramatic works that parody the bravado and misogyny of Futurism and display Loy's early, potent use of absurdist method. Essays and commentaries on aesthetics, historic occasions, and faith entire this beguiling assortment, cementing Mina Loy's position as one of many nice writers of the 20th century.
By William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 1443443476
ISBN-13: 9781443443470
An account of the brutal and bloody upward thrust of King Richard III to the throne, Shakespeare’s play depicts the short-lived monarch’s ruthless crusade for energy, which led to the deaths of 2 of his brothers. Disfigured, hunchbacked, and harsh, King Richard’s unpopularity with the the Aristocracy crippled his reign, leading to his final demise.
Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the best English-language author recognized. drastically well known in the course of his lifestyles, Shakespeare’s works proceed to resonate greater than 3 centuries after his demise, as has his effect on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s cutting edge use of personality, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a starting place for later playwrights and dramatists, and a few of his most famed strains of debate became a part of daily speech.
HarperPerennial Classics brings nice works of literature to lifestyles in electronic structure, upholding the top criteria in book creation and celebrating studying in all its types. search for extra titles within the HarperPerennial Classics assortment to construct your electronic library.
By William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 0486111946
ISBN-13: 9780486111940
By the point depicted during this play, Henry has become the best of English kings. although he has retained the typical contact and humorousness he confirmed as Falstaff's bosom blood brother within the components of Henry IV, he has develop into fiercely centred. He punishes those that have plotted opposed to him; in conflict opposed to the French, he exhibits himself an indomitable chief of fellows; and, on the finish, he conquers even the center of Catherine, the attractive daughter of the French king.
Henry V is among the most well-liked of Shakespeare's performs — in part since it brings additional information of the downward-spiraling fortunes of a few of the cherished scoundrels from Henry IV, and in part since it is so intensely patriotic.
Who can continue dry-eyed, who can maintain his or her middle from welling up, whilst Henry provides his nice speech prior to the conflict of Agincourt?
By Graham Greene
ISBN-10: 0671019090
ISBN-13: 9780671019099
"A masterpiece - tapped out within the lean, sharp-eyed prose that movie paintings taught Greene to perfect." - Sunday Times
"A easily plotted mental thriller."- Time
"All the Greene hallmarks are there: velocity, ingenuity--profundities urged yet by no means insisted upon." - Penelope Lively
An completely gripping tale of a filthy rich French legal professional being held prisoner through the Germans in the course of global warfare II. The legal professional is selected by way of the warriors to die, yet as a substitute he makes a cowardly alternate for his life--one that he'll need to pay for while a loose guy .
In the advent to the 1st variation of his novel Graham Greene states that he had forgotten approximately this tale till receiving a letter approximately it from a stranger in 1983. Greene had first instructed it as an idea for a movie script in 1937, and later built it when operating for MGM through the Nineteen Forties. not anything got here of it and the rights have been provided on the market through MGM in 1983. the customer (Anthony Blond) allowed Greene to revise and thus put up the paintings. Greene additionally writes of this novel that "I like it in lots of how one can The 3rd Man"
By Emily Brontë
ISBN-10: 1480484083
ISBN-13: 9781480484085
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's in simple terms novel, is likely one of the pinnacles of nineteenth century English literature.
It's the tale of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls inlove with a woman above his classification, loses her, and devotes the remainder of his lifestyles to wreaking revenge on her kinfolk.