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Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870 |
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The HunchbackThe Hunchback |
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Echoes of the WarEchoes of the War |
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Paradise LostParadise Lost has been justifiably called the greatest English epic poem. Milton takes us immediately into the action of the tale, gliding over what we all know from the Bible, developing the story's background as he goes. We learn how Satan came to be in Hell after the war in heaven, see warfare and the ambitions of the angels -- come to know God's wisdom, power, and His wrath. Milton gives us characters who personify Death, Chaos, Mammon, and Sin, and they interact with more traditional figures -- Adam, Eve, Satan, and, yes, God. If you have not read Paradise Lost, it's likely that you're already familiar with a lot of it -- it's a tale that's become a part of our culture. To understand it truly, you need to read this book. |
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Poetry Out LoudRediscover the fun of reading poetry aloud with this anthology full of literary landmarks and children's rhymes, difficult classics and modern verses. Here are over 100 lyrics, limerics, ballads, raps and other poems that come alive when read aloud. Accompanying each poem are background notes, introductions to basic poetic terms, explanations of difficult passages and hints on reading them aloud. |
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Selected PoetryThomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood, love, marriage, age, and death. Those elegies inspired by the death of hisfirst wife Emma are some of his best, and are well represented in this new selection of his verse. Prepared by Samuel Hynes, the editor of the definitive Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Thomas Hardy, this volume includes a selection of Hardy's poetry that spans his life, verses thatinfluenced later poets as diverse as Robert Graves and Philip Larkin, Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden. |
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Law and Colonial CulturesDescription not available. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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The Victorian NovelThis inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. The author explores the extremely varied and often experimental prose fiction of the period, paying attention to contemporary bestsellers as well as to major literary works. He reminds the reader that most Victorian novelists had their imaginations shaped not by High Victorianism, but by the ideals and sensibility of the Romantic period, and suggests that their work therefore embodies a tension between idealism and a new materialist objectivity. |
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The Intellectuals & the Masses: Pride & Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia: 1880-1939In This Landmark Study, John Carey analyzes the elitest views of some of the most highly respected literary icons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book, as defined in his preface, is about the response of the English literary intelligentsia to the new phenomenon of mass culture. Readers may be shocked to learn that H.G. Wells liked to think that this newly emerged mass would be eliminated by plague and atomic bombs; that Yeats wished them to perish in an apocalyptic war against the educated classes and that D.H. Lawrence visualized a huge lethal chamber in which they could be exterminated.John Carey's devastating attack on the intellectuals exposes the loathing which the mass of humanity ignited in many of the virtual founders of modern culture: G.B. Shaw, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and others. Professor Carey compares their detestation of common humanity to Nietzsche, whose philosophy helped create the atmosphere leading to the rise of Adolph Hitler.Any s |
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The Duchess of MalfiMore widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is presented here in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the often reprinted Revels Plays Edition the notes have been augmented to cast further light as Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action which it implies. A new introduction gives a revealing view of the plays themes, action, and visual imagery and sets the tragedy in the context of pro-Civil War England; it all explores why the play has lived on stage with renewal force in the last decades of the twentieth century. |
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