Archive For The “British Literature” Category
By G. K. Chesterton
ISBN-10: 1504022599
ISBN-13: 9781504022590
A attention-grabbing survey of Victorian literature from certainly one of England’s maximum minds
dispensing his signature model of harsh wit, G. ok. Chesterton casts a serious eye at the poets and novelists that outlined the Victorian age in English literature. “Her mind's eye was once occasionally superhuman—always inhuman,” he writes of Emily Brontë. “Wuthering Heights could have been written via an eagle.” starting from sharp denunciation to actual admiration, Chesterton opinions the works of Tennyson, Ruskin, Eliot, Byron, and Shelley, between many others. He explores the effect of faith at the international of artwork and expounds upon the gridlock he believes to be permeating England within the early 20th century.
Conversational popular yet exacting in its remark, The Victorian Age in Literature is an necessary account of this influential period in literary history.
This book has been professionally proofread to make sure accuracy and clarity on all units.
"Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson function within the nation's favorite annual advisor to the fast tale, now in its 5th 12 months …" most sensible British brief tales invitations you to pass judgement on a booklet through its conceal - or extra safely, via its identify. This new sequence goals to reprint the easiest brief tales released within the earlier calendar yr via British writers, no matter if dependent within the united kingdom or in other places. The editor's short is large ranging, masking anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and websites, searching for the simplest of the bunch to reprint multi function quantity. Authors contain Hilary Mantel, Alison Moore, Jenn Ashworth, Helen Simpson, Charles Wilkinson, Rebecca Swirsky, Matthew Sperling, Julianne Pachico, KJ Orr, Bee Lewis, Uschi Gatward, Emma Cleary and Neil Campbell
By Jane Austen
In the most universally enjoyed and widespread English novels, a rustic squire of no nice skill needs to marry off his 5 vivacious daughters.
Jane Austen's paintings remodeled this bubbling story of rural romance right into a witty, shrewdly saw satire of English nation existence.
By G. K. Chesterton
ISBN-10: 1504022521
ISBN-13: 9781504022521
Part comedy, half experience, half social remark, this amazing story of the following day explores the essence of human nature
released in 1904, G. okay. Chesterton’s debut novel is decided 80 years sooner or later. expertise and social mores stay a similar, however the England of 1984 boasts a central authority within which ineffectual kings are chosen at random from an differently apathetic population that has “lost religion in revolutions.”
The political process hits a snag while Auberon Quin is chosen because the subsequent monarch. extra joker than potentate, Quin amuses himself by means of fitting a chain of legislation and weird customs that inflate civic pomp and situation to laughable proportions. those regulations unavoidably positioned Quin, a pace-setter who doesn't believes in any of his dictums, on a collision path together with his so much earnest supporter: Adam Wayne, another way often called the Napoleon of Notting Hill.
a favourite between students and critics, The Napoleon of Notting Hill showcases the eclectic wit and unorthodox mind that verified Chesterton as one of many 20th century’s such a lot influential and far-reaching thinkers.
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By H. G. Wells
ISBN-10: 1101042559
ISBN-13: 9781101042557
Jointly in a single vital quantity, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man are masterpieces of irony and inventive imaginative and prescient from H. G. Wells, the daddy of technology fiction.
The Time Machine conveys the Time traveler into the far-off destiny and a unprecedented global. There, stranded on a slowly loss of life Earth, he discovers extraordinary races: the effete Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—a haunting portrayal of Darwin’s evolutionary conception carried to a poor conclusion.
The Invisible Man is the interesting story of a brash younger scientist who, experimenting on himself, turns into invisible after which criminally insane, trapped within the terror of his personal creation.
Convincing and unforgettably genuine, those classics are consummate representations of the tales that outlined technological know-how fiction—and encouraged generations of readers and writers.
With an advent via John Calvin Batchelor
and an Afterword by means of Paul Youngquist
By William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 0140714790
ISBN-13: 9780140714791
"I think that i've got spent part my profession with one or one other Pelican Shakespeare in my again pocket. comfort, notwithstanding, is the least very important element of the hot Pelican Shakespeare sequence. here's a chic and transparent textual content for both the examine or the practice session room, notes the place you wish them and the celebrated scholarship of the overall editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who take into account that those are performs for functionality in addition to nice texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)
The exotic Pelican Shakespeare sequence, which has offered greater than 4 million copies, is now thoroughly revised and repackaged.
Each quantity features:
* Authoritative, trustworthy texts
* top of the range introductions and notes
* New, extra readable alternate trim size
* An essay at the theatrical international of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's lifestyles and the choice of texts
By Virginia Woolf
ISBN-10: 0547662408
ISBN-13: 9780547662404
Harcourt is proud to introduce new annotated variants of 3 Virginia Woolf classics, excellent for the school lecture room and past. For the 1st time, scholars examining those books could have the assets handy to assist them comprehend the textual content in addition to the explanations and strategies at the back of Woolf's writing. We've commissioned the best-known Woolf students within the box to supply necessary introductions, modifying, severe research, and recommendations for additional examining. those much-awaited volumes are the 1st of many annotated Woolf variations Harcourt plans on publishing within the coming years.
This incredible novel explores the hidden springs of proposal and motion in a single day of a woman's existence. Direct and bright in her account of the main points of Clarissa Dalloway's arrangements for a celebration she is to provide that evening,Woolf eventually controlled to bare even more; for it's the feeling in the back of those day-by-day occasions that provides Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so memorable.
By Virginia Woolf
ISBN-10: 0544535162
ISBN-13: 9780544535169
In A Room of One's personal, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equivalent to Shakespeare in expertise, equivalent in genius, yet whose legacy is notably different.
This imaginary lady by no means writes a notice and dies by way of her personal hand, her genius unexpressed. but when purely she had came across the skill to create, urges Woolf, she could have reached an identical heights as her immortal sibling.
In this vintage essay,Virginia Woolf takes at the institution, utilizing her present of language to dissect the area round her and provides a voice to people who have none. Her message is easy: a lady should have a hard and fast source of revenue and a room of her personal for you to have the liberty to create.
Annotated and with an creation via Susan Gubar
By Angela Carter
ISBN-10: 0141399651
ISBN-13: 9780141399652
Desiderio, an worker of the town below a weird and wonderful fact assault from physician Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. yet Albertina, a stunning girl made from glass, turns out basically to seem to him in his goals. assembly on his adventures a number of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio needs to conflict opposed to unreality and the warping of time and area to be along with her, because the medical professional reduces Desiderio's urban to a chaotic kingdom of emergency -- one ridden with insanity, crime and sexual extra. A satirical story of magic and intercourse, The Infernal hope Machines of health practitioner Hoffman is a blinding quest for fact, love and id.
