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... French novel of the twentieth century In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's ...
... of Anthony Burgess's autobiography. Taking up where Little Wilson and Big God left off, You've Had Your Time is the second volume of Anthony Burgess's autobiography. It begins in 1959, with the author's return from ...
A new definitive text of Marcel Proust's novel was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For the present six-volume edition, D. J. Enright has further revised Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed revision of C. K ...
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'One of the century's greatest writers' Sunday Times Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales and ...
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... Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. These extraordinary manuscripts appear to have been hidden in the caves at Qumran by the Essenes, a Jewish ...
... of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell.'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released ...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' ...
... a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all' Margaret Atwood, New York Times 'The literary titan we must never stop learning from' Metro Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for ...
... and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant' The Times 'A charming and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant' The Times iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour ...
... Library Association, 1966. 'The author has the power to get inside his characters.' The New York Times 'Conveys with insight the reactions, fears, perplexities, ignorances and behavior of children in a real adult ...
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... acclaimed by William Faulkner as 'for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language.' This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Michael Gorra. About ...
All Quiet on the Western Front is the most famous anti-war novel ever written. Now published for the first time alongside Brian Murdoch's new translation of the novel's sequel- The Way Back. ** NOW A HIT NETFLIX FILM, ...
... half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from ... . In the following years he spent a lot of time abroad, struggled with an addiction to gambling and fell deeply ...
... distorting the rural Spanish landscape into a fantasy of impenetrable fortresses and wicked sorcerers. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first ...
... Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experience as a soldier. His first novel, The Train Was on Time, was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of post-war ...
A rediscovered gem from The Hogarth Press, back in print for the first time in years. 'A classic of lesbian literature and the most emotionally accessible work that can be associated with the Bloomsbury group' Regina ...
... was married. Peter Watts' lively modern translation is accompanied by an introduction examining Ibsen's life and times, with individual discussions of each of the three plays. About The Author Henrik Ibsen was born of ...
... at Colonus. A substantial part of The Searches, a satyr play, was recovered from papyri in Egypt in modern times. Fragments of other plays remain, showing that he drew on a wide range of themes; he also introduced the ...
... Ben Fowkes with an introduction by Ernest Mandel in Penguin Classics. One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the ...
... , Adam Smith elaborates his views on some of the key economic issues of his - and our own - times. It is here that Smith (1723-90) offers his considered response to the French Physiocrats, perhaps the first great school ...
'In this new translation one finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original' New York Times Book Review This acclaimed English version of Dostoevsky's magnificent last novel does justice to al lits levels of ...
... Karenina, also available in Penguin Classics. 'McDuff's language is rich and alive' - The New York Times Book Review Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Literature, Poetry & Plays History & ...
... to self-sufficient master of an island. This edition contains a full chronology of Defoe's life and times, explanatory notes, glossary and a critical introduction discussing Robinson Crusoe as a pioneering work of modern ...
... .'The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original'The Times'Sweet prose, clear and clean and dancing like a mountain stream, as here ... West opens the window ...
... a new introduction by Monica Ali. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance ...
... in 1904. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, he worked for four years as sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth novel, Stamboul Train. In 1935 he made a journey across Liberia ...
... two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. Maurice was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971. If you enjoyed Maurice , you might like ...
... rest of his life and completed his best-known work. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times but never won it. He died in 1916 and, despite becoming a British subject shortly before his death, his ...
... his own etchings, producing beautifully illuminated editions. Blake's political beliefs were controversial for the times; he supported the French Revolution, condemned slavery and the subjugation of women. His religious ...
... prose in the telling of their lives, and his depictions of the social classes, mores and values of his times. Some considered him the spokesman for the poor, for he definitely brought much awareness to their plight, the ...
... Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, as they play games, put ...
... and the Damned and Tender is the Night. He died at the age of fourty-four. After his death, the New York Times said that Fitzgerald "was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation ...
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... South Africa. Alexander Stille is a frequent contributor on Italy to the "New York Review of Books," the "New York Times," and the "New Yorker" and is the author of several books. He lives in New York. Author: Gabriele D ...
... a hundred plays, drawing on a wide and varied range of themes, and winning the City Dionysia eighteen times; though only seven of his tragedies have survived, among them Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Ajax and Oedipus at Colonus ...
... he graduated from Sydney University as a pharmacist, a profession he never much liked. John O'Grady was married three times, and had four children. He wrote for most of his adult life, but did not publish a book until he ...
... two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. Maurice was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971. If you enjoyed A Room with a View, you ...
... says . . . Across the language barrier, Dawood captures the thunder and poetry of the original.' The Times Over a million copies sold worldwide. Revised translation with an introduction and notes by N. J. Dawood Author ...
... man caught between love, duty, and fate, the Aeneid redefines passion, nobility, and courage for our times. Robert Fagles, whose acclaimed translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were welcomed as major publishing ...
... self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent new edition dispels it' The Times Author: Ronald de Leeuw. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Arts & Entertainment History of Art & ...
" The Decameron reads in some ways as a guide to social distancing and self-isolation." - The New York Times "The 14th-century Italian book that shows us how to survive coronavirus." - New Statesman A complete edition of ...
... the reader forward with an irresistible flow. Fagles' version is imbued with humanity' Oliver Taplin, The New York Times Book Review 'Robert Fagles has given us an Iliad to read aloud- eloquent, rhythmical, and full of ...
... in 1904. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, he worked for four years as sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth novel, Stamboul Train. In 1935 he made a journey across Liberia ...
... . . . one of those works that can be read and reread throughout one's life." -Liza Dalby, Los Angeles Times Book Review Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely ...
... of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times. Author: Honoré De Balzac. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Classic Fiction Penguin Classics
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... the end of his life he went to live at the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon. It was during his time there that he wrote what many consider his greates work, the Bacchae. When news of his death reached Athens in early ...
... books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know ...
... until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of ...
... until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of ...
... two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan , and an unfinished novel, The Watsons . At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon , a fragmentary draft of which survives. Author ...
... long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the ...
... severe respiratory illness from which he was to suffer for the rest of his life; it was at this time that he determined to become a professional writer. The effects of the often harsh Scottish climate on his poor health ...
... two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan , and an unfinished novel, The Watsons . At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon , a fragmentary draft of which survives. Author ...
... to become the unpaid drama critic for the Dublin Mail. He met Sir Henry Irving, the most famous actor of the time - the two became friends and from 1878 until Irving's death in 1905, Bram Stoker's main job was as the ...
... held an appointment with the BBC and who died in 1952. She travelled a good deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, which she inherited. Elizabeth Bowen is considered by many to be one of the ...
... world and inklings of the supernatural, The Magic Mountain is equally remarkable for Mann's treatment of time - the "flatland time" of healthy, active people and the "inelastic present" of the "people up here, " for whom ...
... long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the ...
... fighting his inevitable end, and ask the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time? In Polikushka a light-fingered drunk's chance to prove himself has tragic repercussions, while Three Deaths ...
... society. H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was a professional writer and journalist. Among his most popular works are The Time Machine (1895); The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), filmed with Bela Lugosi in 1932, and again in 1996 ...
... death in June 1870, William "Wilkie" Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens's bloomed. Now, Collins ...
... with him in his house on the cliffs. It was the end of an era; a year of 'outlandish happenings'; a time when everything seemed to change for Charlie Reeve, a daydreaming lad growing up in a small town on the Mornington ...