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Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim
U.K. Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1998 1853260371 / 9781853260377 Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 195mm x 125mm
First published in 1900, "Lord Jim" established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters. "Lord Jim" explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit. 272 pages with introduction and notes.
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Conrad, Joseph Nostromo: A Tale of the Sea Board
San Diego, California, U.S.A. Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1998 1853261742 / 9781853261749 Paperback Large Format Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 195mm x 125mm
Introduction and Notes by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, University of London Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures? Nostromo is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role. 388 pages
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Dickens, Charles Dombey and Son
U.K. Wordsworth 2006 1853262579 / 9781853262579 Paperback Large Format Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 195 x 125mm H. K. Browne (phiz)
Brand new, unopened, unread, cover slightly faded, minimal shelf wear. With an Introduction and Notes by Karl Ashley Smith, University of St Andrews Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned. 'Girls' said Mr Dombey, 'have nothing to do with Dombey and Son'. When Walter Gay, a young clerk in her father's office, rescues her from a bewildering experience in the streets of London, his unforgettable friends believe he is well on his way to receiving her hand in marriage and inheriting the company. It is to be a very different type of story. 814 pages
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
U.K. Wordsworth 2000 1840224304 / 9781840224306 Paperback Large Format Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 195 x 125mm
With Selected excerpts from The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality. 484 pages
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Gambler
Mineola, New York, U.S.A. Dover Pubns 1996 0486290816 / 9780486290812 Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, 110mm x 180mm
Narrated by the character Alexei, who is addicted to gambling, this short novel is based on Dostoevsky's own experiences as a compulsive gambler. Like so many characters in Dostoevsky's novels, Alexei is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human condition itself but instead he is drawn into the vortex of the roulette wheel. From The Publisher: Psychologically probing novel concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers and other characters. Bleak picture of the fatal attractions of gambling with wonderful characterization, faithful depiction of gambling life at fashionable German watering holes.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Idiot
San Diego, California, U.S.A. Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1998 1853261750 / 9781853261756 Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 200mm x 125mm
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor;Garnett, Constance The Brothers Karamazov
Mineola, New York, U.S.A. Dover Pubns 2005 0486437914 / 9780486437910 Paperback Large Format Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 210mm x 135mm
Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Revised reissue. 718 pages This brilliant work by one of Russia's foremost novelists teems with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues. Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
U.K. Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1998 1853260703 / 9781853260704 Paperback Large Format Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 195 x 125mm
Unopened, unread, cover slightly faded, otherwise as new. This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories, reprinted from The Strand Magazine. It contains the short story series Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear - a sinister novella which appeared in 1914-15 - His Last Bow:The War Service of Sherlock Holmes and the last 12 stories The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
New York Vintage 9780099511849 Paperback Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, G 195 x 125mm
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society. This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the market. Readers in the twenty-first century will find themselves absorbed as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems and possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years later: the complex relationships, public and private, between men and women of different classes.
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Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
U.K. Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1999 1853260215 / 9781853260216 Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 195 x 125mm
Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-heartedness. 730 pages.
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Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich Dead Souls
Mineola, New York, U.S.A. Dover Pubns 2003 0486426823 / 9780486426822 Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, G 172 x 110mm
. A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their “dead souls, the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner receives a payment and a relief of his tax burden, and the stranger receives— what? Gogol’s comic masterpiece offers the answer in a vast and satirical painting of the Russian panorama, as it traces the path and encounters of its mysterious protagonist, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, in pursuit of his dubious scheme. The plot of Dead Souls is reputed to have been inspired by an actual episode related to the author by his friend, the poet Pushkin. Although intended as a three-part novel, only the first part and a few fragments of a draft of the second part exist; Gogol completed and destroyed the second part, and died in the course of his ascetic preparations for writing the third. Some readers consider his novel a realistic portrait of nineteenth-century Russia; others regard it as a work of great symbolism, proclaiming the trickster Chichikov an accurate image of commercial travelers the world over, whose success rests less upon their actual wares than on their grasp of human nature and powers of persuasion. Among the greatest nineteenth-century Russian novels, Dead Souls continues to inspire twenty-first century authors and readers. Dover (2003) unabridged republication of the 1846 second edition (original edition, 1842), as published in the Everyman’s Library series by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., London, and E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, n.d. Translated by D. J. Hogarth.
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Homer The Odyssey
Mineola, New York, U.S.A. Dover Pubns 1998 0486406547 / 9780486406541 Paperback Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, 200mm x 115mm
Excellent prose translation of the ancient epic poem recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage from the Trojan War. The clever hero circumvents the wrath of Poseidon to overcome an incredible array of obstacles, including a fantastic cast of adversaries -- Cyclops, the one-eyed giant; the enchantress Circe; plus cannibals, sirens, and many other monstrous creatures.
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Lawrence, D. H. The Rainbow
Hertfordshire Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1995 1853262501 / 9781853262500 Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 190mm x 130mm
With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century. The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence’s essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the ‘rainbow’ of the title is his unifying motif. His primary focus is on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in Women in Love, is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy of the confining structures of English social life and the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the human psyche.
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Lawrence, D. H. The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories
Hertfordshire Wordsworth 2004 1853261955 / 9781853261954 Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 190mm x 130mm
"The Virgin and the Gipsy" affirms the powers of instinct and intuition in their struggle against the constraints of civilisation and anticipates "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in its theme. Lawrence tells the reverent tale of a young girl's emotional awakening in the elemental presence of a gypsy. This title was first published in 1930.
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Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind
New York, New York, U.S.A. Pocket Books 2008 1416548947 / 9781416548942 Paperback Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, 110mm x 180mm
Beloved by generations of fans, Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Civil War and its aftermath--the basis of one of the most famous films of all time--is back in this stunning new package with a new Preface by bestselling author Pat Conroy.
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Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe
San Diego, California, U.S.A. Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1998 1853262021 / 9781853262029 Paperback Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, Slightly Faded 200mm x 130mm
This title includes 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 beautiful, spirited daughter Rebecca; Wamba and Gurth, jester and swineherd respectively. Scott explores the conflicts between the Crown and the powerful Barons, between the Norman overlords and the conquered Saxons, and between Richard and his scheming brother, Prince John. At the same time he brings into the novel the legendary Robin Hood and his band, and creates a brilliant, colourful account of the age of chivalry with all its elaborate rituals and costumes and its values of honour and personal glory. From The Publisher: Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
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Shakespeare, William Julius Caesar: Student Shakespeare Series
San Diego, California, U.S.A. Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1998 1853260223 / 9781853260223 Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, Slightly Faded 200mm x 130mm
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, research Professor of English, University of Sussex. With introduction, notes and glossary. Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked. The cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!' is used to exculpate brutal realities, while personal ambitions taint public actions. Rich in characterisation and replete with eloquent rhetoric, Julius Caesar remains engrossing and topical: a play for today.
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Shakespeare, William Merchant Of Venice
San Diego, California, U.S.A. Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1997 1840224312 / 9781840224313 Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, 200mm x 130mm
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often triumphs in the theatre. He is a character so intense that he can dominate the play, challenging abrasively its romantic and lyrical affirmations.
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Tolstoy, Leo;Maude, Louise Shanks Resurrection
Mineola, New York, U.S.A. Dover Pubns 2004 0486432165 / 9780486432168 Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, 210 x 135mm
A rich, visual record of the vices of petty officialdom, Tolstoy's novel of spiritual regeneration recounts the sins of a young Russian nobleman and his attempts in later life to redress those transgressions. A panoramic view of Russian social life at the end of the 19th century, Resurrection pointedly articulates the author's contempt for the social injustices of the world in which he lived.
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Voltaire, Francois M. Candide
New York, New York, U.S.A. Bantam Classic & Loveswept 1993 0553211668 / 9780553211665 Paperback Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, 110mm x 180mm
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachings of his distringuished tutor Dr. Pangloss -- all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work. Praise Praise“When we observe such things as the recrudescence of fundamentalism in the United States, the horrors of religious fanaticism in the Middle East, the appalling danger which the stubbornness of political intolerance presents to the whole world, we must surely conclude that we can still profit by the example of lucidity, the acumen, the intellectual honesty and the moral courage of Voltaire.”—A. J. AyerFrom the Hardcover edition.
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