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  • ULYSSES

    Enriched edition. A Modern Classic

    by James Joyce, Brent Holloway ...
    In James Joyce's ULYSSES, the reader is immersed in the stream-of-consciousness narrative of the protagonist, Leopold Bloom, as he navigates through Dublin on a single day. Joyce's modernist style challenges traditional storytelling, incorporating elements such as puns, parodies, and allusions, making the text rich and complex. The book delves into themes of identity, nationality, and the mundane ... Read more

    Was 1,99 € Now 0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Blake Dictionary

    The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake

    by S. Foster Damon ...
    William Blake, poet, artist, and mystic, created a vast multidimensional universe through his verse and art. Spun from a fabric of symbolism and populated by a host of complex characters, Blake’s comprehensive world has provided endless inspiration to subsequent generations. For the reader of Blake, background knowledge of his symbolism is a necessity. In this volume, first published in 1965, S. ... Read more

    20,66 €

  • THE CHRONICLES OF BARSETSHIRE (Complete Collection)

    Enriched edition. The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington & The Last Chronicle of Barset

    by Anthony Trollope, Gary Bishop ...
    In The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Anthony Trollope captures the essence of Victorian England through his detailed portrayal of the residents of the fictional county of Barsetshire. Trollope's writing style is characterized by its realism and social commentary, as he delves into the lives and relationships of the clergy, aristocrats, and common folk. Through interconnected stories, the book ... Read more

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  • In Byron's Shadow

    Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination

    by David Roessel ...
    Modern Greece, constructed by the early nineteenth-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been "haunted, holy ground" in English and American literature for almost two centuries. In Byron's Shadow analyzes how authors employ ideas about romantic nationalism, gender politics, shifts in cultural constructions, and literary experimentation to create variations of "Greece" to suit ... Read more

    37,30 €

  • Flora Annie Steel

    A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib

    by Susmita Roye ...
    A collection of essays on the writer who "after Rudyard Kipling . . . was the most famous nineteenth-century British author to depict India" ( Nineteenth-Century Literature).Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent twenty-two years in India, mainly in ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading Lessons

    An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us

    by Carol Atherton ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better.How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to speak out? What can Lady Macbeth teach us about empathy? Should our expectations for our future be any greater than Pip’s? And why is it so important ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 (Guardian™ Classics)

    by Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Louisa May Alcott, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo ...
    This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Alcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Pride and PrejudiceAusten, Jane: EmmaBalzac, Honoré de: Father GoriotBarbusse, Henri: The InfernoBrontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell HallBrontë, Charlotte: Jane EyreBrontë, Emily: Wuthering HeightsBurroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the ApesButler, Samuel: The ... Read more

    0,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sweet Sorrow

    The Sunday Times bestselling novel of first love from the author of ONE DAY and YOU ARE HERE

    by David Nicholls ...
    Sweet Sorrow: a novel of the searing explosion of first love, and the rocky path to adulthood'A beautiful paean to young love'OBSERVER'Fizzing'GUARDIAN'A glorious escape to the sunlit uplands of the 1990s'FINANCIAL TIMES'Exquisite'DAILY TELEGRAPH'The sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bend... ... Read more

    5,49 €

  • Differences between the play and the film adaptation of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' concerning censorship and setting

    by Anonymous ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, University of Salzburg, language: English, abstract: This paper focuses on the main differences between the play and the film adaption of A Streetcar Named Desire concerning censorship and setting. ... Read more

    12,39 €

  • Sur Hoffmann et les compositions fantastiques

    by Walter Scott ...
    Le goût des Allemands pour le mystérieux leur a fait inventer un genre de composition qui peut-être ne pouvait exister que dans leur pays et leur langue. C’est celui qu’on pourrait appeler le genre FANTASTIQUE, où l’imagination s’abandonne à toute l’irrégularité de ses caprices et à toutes les combinaisons des scènes les plus bizarres et les plus burlesques. Dans les autres fictions où le ... Read more

    2,21 €

  • Jews and Christians in The Merchant of Venice

    by Claudia Oldiges ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Osnabrück, course: The Merchant of Venice, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although one is able to find a lot bias towards Jews in the play The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare is not to be blamed as an anti-Judaic person. Regarding the ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • The Early H.G. Wells

    A Study of the Scientific Romances

    by Bernard Bergonzi ...
    Series series Heritage
    This is a sensitive study of Wells’ imaginative development during his formative years. It comes at a time when interest in H.G. Wells’ early writing is beginning to revive, owing, no doubt, to the current translation into reality of some aspects of science fiction.Mr. Bergonzi examines Wells’ early fiction, from surviving student writings of the late eighties to 1901 when he published The First ... Read more

    22,57 €

  • Community and Solitude

    New Essays on Johnson’s Circle

    by John Radner, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, James E May, Marilyn Francus, Lance Wilcox, Elizabeth Lambert, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Christopher Catanese, James J. Caudle ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, ... Read more

    24,05 €

  • Rewriting Crusoe

    The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media

    by Robert Mayer, Rivka Swenson, Patrick A. Gill, Przemyslaw Uscinski, Frederick Burwick, Marta Pellerdi, Lora E. Geriguis, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Jennifer Preston Wilson, Ian Kinane, Daniel Cook ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel—who in 1731 penned his own island narrative—coined the term “Robinsonade” to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide ... Read more

    24,05 €

  • 'Household Business'

    Domestic Plays of Early Modern England

    by Viviana Comensoli ...
    Series series Heritage
    The domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its roots were predominantly native, rather than classical, and its mainspring was the staging of domestic conflict amongst English characters from the middle ranks of society. 'Household Business' traces the genre's origins in the cycle plays of medieval England and examines its ... Read more

    25,11 €

  • The Limits of Orientalism

    Seventeenth-Century Representations of India

    by Rahul Sapra ...
    The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India challenges the recent postcolonial readings of European, predominantly English, representations of India in the seventeenth century. Following Edward Said’s discourse of “Orientalism,” most postcolonial analyses of the seventeenth-century representations of India argue that the natives are represented as barbaric or exotic ... Read more

    28,93 €

  • Byrons und Leopardis Verhältnis zur Natur

    by Antonio Sisto ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,3, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Englisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Proseminar - Lord Byron, 13 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gegenstand dieser Arbeit wird die Entwicklung der Naturphilosophie von George Gordon Lord Byron und Giacomo Leopardi sein. Es werden aus der ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Critique littéraire

    by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Savine (traducteur) ...
    L’auteur de Mandeville est un des plus illustres exemples du pou-voir intellectuel du siècle présent. Il a fait preuve de cette variété, de cette universalité de talents qui distingue l’homme destiné à hériter d’un renom durable, d’avec ceux qui possèdent une célébrité passagère. Quand ses droits ne devraient être mesurés qu’à l’exactitude de ses recherches dans la science morale et politique, il ... Read more

    1,99 €

  • L’Association des hommes roux

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeanne de Polignac ...
    L’année dernière, un jour d’automne, j’entrai chez mon ami Sherlock Holmes. Je le trouvai en conférence avec un gros clergyman, d’âge moyen et dont la face rubiconde et les cheveux roux ardent me frappèrent singulièrement. J’étais sur le point de me retirer en balbutiant une excuse, lorsque Sherlock Holmes m’attira brusquement dans le salon et fermant la porte derrière moi : — Vous ne pouviez ... Read more

    2,21 €

  • Jonathan Swift

    Our Dean

    by Eugene Hammond ...
    Jonathan Swift: Our Dean details the political climax of his remarkable career—his writing and publication of The Drapier’s Letters (1724), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729)—stressing the relentless political opposition he faced and the numerous ways, including through his sermons, that he worked from his political base as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, psychologically as ... Read more

    48,22 €

  • Alien Albion

    Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England

    by Scott Oldenburg ...
    Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how immigrants to England forged ties with their English hosts and how those relationships were reflected ... Read more

    27,66 €

  • Jude Law on Hamlet (Shakespeare on Stage)

    by Jude Law ...
    Series series Shakespeare on Stage
    In each volume of the Shakespeare on Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes, recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. They discuss their character, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing candour and in forensic detail. The result is a masterclass on playing the role, invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as ... Read more

    4,23 €

  • Fifty Forgotten Books

    by R. B. Russell ...
    Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bibliophile and for book-lovers of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty backrooms of long vanished used bookstores, a love letter to bookshops and bookselling, and a browser’s dream wish list of often overlooked and ... Read more

    11,54 €

  • The Shakespeare Code

    by Virginia M. Fellows ...
    In October 1623 Sir Francis Bacon describes a new and ingenious method for writing in code. One month later the Shakespeare First Folio is published. A coincidence? Over 250 years later a brilliant young physician made a discovery about the works of Shakespeare—coded messages which offer an unsettling revision of history in the royal court of Elizabethan England. Hidden agendas, secret lives, ... Read more

    10,29 €