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| "An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures" |
| "Mysterious selkies bad-tempered giants devious fairies and even Loch Ness's most famous resident -- these are the mythical beasts of Scottish folklore In the highly anticipated companion volume to the much-loved An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales award-winning children's author Theresa Breslin brings together a stunning collection of tales from across Scotland Alternately humorous poignant and thrilling each story is brought to life with exquisite illustrations by Scottish fine artist Kate Leiper A wonderful gift this is a truly stunning book to be treasured for a lifetime and will be enjoyed by parents and grandparents as well as children"
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| "Lost For Words : If you loved THE KEEPER OF LOST THINGS, you'll love this" |
| "Compelling irresistible feel-good read Perfect for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine'Quirky clever and unputdownable' Katie Fforde 'An exquisite story' Liz Fenwick'Burns fiercely with love and hurt' Linda Green'I cried like a motherfer' Shelley Harris'Intriguing and touching' SUNDAY EXPRESS'An appealing character with a fascinating hinterland' DAILY MAIL'A beautiful book' PRIMATHIS BOOKSHOP KEEPS MANY SECRETS Loveday Cardew prefers books to people If you look carefully you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin But there are some things Loveday will never show youInto her refuge - the York book emporium where she works - come a poet a lover a friend and three mysterious deliveries each of which stirs unsettling memoriesEverything is about to change for Loveday Someone knows about her past and she can't hide any longer She must decide who around her she can trust Can she find the courage to right a heartbreaking wrong? And will she ever find the words to tell her own story?It's time to turn the pages of her past Praise for Lost for Words'Loveday is a marvellous character and she captured my heart from the very first page and her bookshop is the bookshop of readers' dreams'Julie Cohen bestselling author of Dear Thing'Loveday is so spiky and likeable I so loved Archie Nathan and the book shop and the unfolding mystery' Carys Bray author of A Song For Issy Bradley and The Museum of You'Beautifully written and atmospheric Loveday is an endearing heroine full of attitude and fragility The haunting story of her past is brilliantly revealed'Tracy Rees Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of Amy SnowWhat you are saying about Lost for Words'Best book by far I've read this year''Sat in tears stunned in silence by far my new favourite book''I loved everything about Lost for Words''This is a truly magical book''Warm wise and funny tale with a dark and shocking twist''Could not put it down - absolutely utterly loved it and hung on every word''I loved smart spiky sad Loveday and cried real tears''Will melt your heart and make you cry''Everything you could want from a book''One of the best books I have ever read''Loved this book I laughed & cried & gripped the edge of the seat at times''A book you keep in your bag and can't wait for another spare 15 minutes to read some more''I laughed I cried and more importantly I couldn't put the book down'If you loved Lost for Words don't miss Stephanie Butland's next book where Ailsa Rae learns how to live Search for The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae (9781785764417)"
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| "The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Jane Austen is without question one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists With her wit social precision and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published Whether it is her sharp ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight Indeed not unlike her renowned creator Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose"
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| "The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "It is more than a century since the ascetic gaunt and enigmatic detective Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet From 1891 beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion Dr Watson The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals"
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| "Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by ADP Briggs In 1869 a young Russian was strangled shot through the head and thrown into a pond His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries from which he had become alienated Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils a title that refers the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the time The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries with their naivety ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and destruction might seem exaggerated - until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since The key figure in the novel however is beyond politics Nikolay Stavrogin another product of rationalism run wild exercises his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime - in a chapter long suppressed by the censor This prophetic account of modern morals and politics with its fifty-odd characters amazing events and challenging ideas is seen by some critics as Dostoevsky&39;s masterpiece"
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| "Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Translated by WHWhite and AKStirling With an Introduction by Don Garrett Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic and after his death his works were first banned by the Christian authorities as atheistic then hailed by humanists as the gospel of Pantheism His Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order shows us the reality behind this enigmatic figure First published by his friends after his premature death at the age of forty-four the Ethics uses the methods of Euclid to describe a single entity properly called both &39;God&39; and &39;Nature&39; of which mind and matter are two manifestations From this follow in ways that are strikingly modern the identity of mind and body the necessary causation of events and actions and the illusory nature of free will"
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| "The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Translated by H F Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically At the same time he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work The Comedy tells of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman through the three realms of the Christian afterlife Hell Purgatory and Heaven He presents a vision of the afterlife which is strikingly original in its conception with a complex architecture and a coherent structure On this journey Dante's protagonist - and his reader - meet characters who are variously noble grotesque beguiling fearful ridiculous admirable horrific and tender and through them he is shown the consequences of sin repentance and virtue as he learns to avoid Hell and through cleansing in Purgatory to taste the joys of Heaven"
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| "The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th 1809 in Boston Massachusets Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother he was taken into the foster care of John Allan a Virginia tobacco farmer Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism poetry lecturing short stories publishing criticism and experimentation with fictional genres including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845 The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles but his personal situation remained desperate poverty illness drink and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline In 1849 he was found sick injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern Taken to hospital he lingered on for four days but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40 He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters - a genius who thanks to his dire reputation was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky Conan Doyle and Jules Verne"
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| "The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense the son of a shoemaker His early life was wretched but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer novelist and playwright though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever Here are all of Andersen's 154 tales and among the favourites are The Red Shoes The Mermaid The Real Princess The Emperor's New Clothes The Tinder Box and of course The Ugly Duckling"
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| "The Monk by Matthew Lewis (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "With an Introduction by Kathryn White Prepare to be shocked This novel written in 1796 is a Gothic festival of sex magic and ghastly ghostly violence rarely seen in literature The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation imprisonment and betrayal Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio the holier-than-thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter corruption of the soul Meanwhile two sets of young lovers are thwarted and the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits and is chilled by the spectre of nuns imprisoned in vermin-ridden and skeleton-crowded vaults Late Eighteenth Century audiences were polarised in opinion as to the novel's merits Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade were impressed by Lewis's daring while Coleridge warned parents against The Monk's suitability for their sons or daughters describing the novel as 'poison for youth If you want a novel that still terrifies over two hundred years after it was written there is none finer than The Monk"
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| "The Collected Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin San Francisco State University Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story Born in Wellington New Zealand in 1888 she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908 her first book of stories In a German Pension appeared in 1911 and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work This edition of The Collected Stories brings together all of the stories that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923 With an introduction and head-notes this volume allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early satirical stories set in Bavaria through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand and through the mature deeply felt stories of her last years Admired by Virginia Woolf in her lifetime and by many writers since her death Katherine Mansfield is one of the great literary artists of the twentieth century"
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| "Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Editedand with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine University of Kent at Canterbury Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular influential and controversial book written by an American Stowe's rich panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery and resoundingly concludes that only repentance justice and mercy' will prevent the onset of the wrath of Almighty God!' The novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that President Lincoln half-jokingly greeted Stowe asthe little lady' who started the great Civil War As Keith Carabine argues in his lively and provocative Introduction the novel immediately provoked a storm of competing and contradictory responses among Northern and Southern readers moderate and radical abolitionist groups blacks and women with regard to issues of form genre politics religion race and gender that are still of great interest because they anticipate the concerns that vex and divide modern readers and critical constituencies"
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| "A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies &39;Doctor Watson Mr Sherlock Holmes&39; - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&39;s A Study in Scarlet bringing together Sherlock Holmes the master of science detection and John H Watson the great detective&39;s faithful chronicler This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah The Sign of the Four the second Holmes novel presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery deceit and murder With these two classic novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four you have the brilliant foundation of the Sherlock Holmes canon Reading pleasure rarely comes any finer"
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| "Crime and Punishment: With selected excerpts from the Notebooks for Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Paperback,..." |
| "Translated by Constance Garnett with an 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"
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| "The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren University of Kent at Canterbury The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan Athos Porthos and Aramis who first appeared in The Three Musketeers Some thirty-five years on the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the French monarchy In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark Dumas pitches us straight into the action What is the secret shared by Aramis and Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? And what is the nature of the threat he poses?Dumas the master storyteller keeps us reading until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers"
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| "The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr TCBCook Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written He also however wrote many masterly short stories and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time In the early story Family Happiness Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife In The Kreutzer Sonata he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown in The Devil a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation and in perhaps the finest of all The Death of Ivan Ilyich he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality This volume also includes an Introduction and Notes written specially for this Wordsworth edition by Dr Tim Cook formely lecturer in literature at the Universities of Kingston and Ulster Previous work contributed by Dr Cook for Wordsworth includes an introduction and notes to Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby"
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| "Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "MR James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced These tales are not only classics of their genre but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement convincing background and chilling terror As well as the preface there is a fascinating tail-piece by MR James Stories I Have Tried To Write' which accompanies these thirty tales Among them are Casting the Runes' Oh Whistle and I'll come to you My Lad' The Tractate Middoth' The Ash Tree' and Canon Alberic's Scrapbook' There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time For me MR James is one of these' Ruth Rendell"
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| "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (Hardback, 2007)" |
| "William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time He excels in plot poetry and wit and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet King Lear Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour ribaldry and tenderness This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece"
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| "Notes From Underground & Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton Department of English University of Ottowa Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction Many of these stories like his great novels reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour In Notes from Underground the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man In Bobok one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity In A Gentle Spirit the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife's suicide In short as a commentator on spiritual stagnation Dostoevsky has no equal"
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| "The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume One by H. P. Lovecraft (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Selected and Introduced by MJ Elliott That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago the Old Ones ruled our planet Since that time they have but slumbered But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more the Old Ones awaken at last The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer HP Lovecraft Included in this volume are several early tales along with the classics 'The Call of Cthulhu' 'The Dunwich Horror' and 'At the Mountains of Madness' Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred's fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all save HP Lovecraft"
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| "The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "With an Introduction by Alex Dolby Translation by WHG KingstonJules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his 'extraordinary voyages' was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction In The Mysterious Island a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon Blown across the world they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe the men apply their scientific knowledge and technical skill to exploit the island's bountiful resources eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature The book is also an intriguing mystery story for the island has a secret"
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| "The House of the Dead / The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out The House of the Dead is fiction but based on his four years in a Siberian prison An educated upper-class man is condemned to live among criminals and brutal guards with arbitrary punishments lousy food disgusting living conditions hard toil and many floggings Somehow he avoids bitterness and recrimination; faith in humanity survives With its breadth of characterisation acute sense of detail and strong narrative interest this work can still shock entertain and inspire In The Gambler we see the Russian community in a German spa town Drawn to the casino Alexey becomes obsessed with roulette In a gripping story full of psychological interest his growing mania eclipses even his interest in Polina a heroine of demonic and vibrant sexuality Dostoevsky himself was rescued from a similar gambling obsession by the young stenographer who took down this work at his dictation and married him soon afterwards"
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| "Ulysses by James Joyce (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece Ulysses tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904 during which Bloom's voluptuous wife Molly commits adultery Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA this richly-allusive novel revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism was hailed as a work of genius by W B Yeats T S Eliot and Ernest Hemingway Scandalously frank wittily erudite mercurially eloquent resourcefully comic and generously humane Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience"
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| "The Horror in the Museum: Collected Short Stories Volume Two by H. P. Lovecraft (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "With an Introduction by MJ Elliott My eyes perversely shaken open gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic fear and physical exhaustion'A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit which no man has seen and remained sane A businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method of capital punishment A doctor plans a horrible revenge using as his murder weapon an insect believed capable of consuming the human soul Within these pages some of H P Lovecraft's more obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found including several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos No true Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume"
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| "The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies 'I read it and reread it and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet' With its strange imaginative blend of horror science fiction romance and lyrical prose Robert W Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison Dare you read it? This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns H P Lovecraft creator of the famed Cthulu mythos whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'"
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| "Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books Joyce&39;s last great work it is not comprised of many borrowed styles like Ulysses but rather formulated as one dense tongue-twisting soundscape This &39;language&39; is based on English vocabulary and syntax but at the same time self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning Announcing a &39;revolution of the word&39; this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a unique kind of miscommunication which far from stabilizing the world in meaning constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild diversity of possibilities and potentials It also remains the most hilarious &39;obscene&39; book of innuendos ever to be imagined"
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| "This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly University of Reading This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine the only child of wealthy parents whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University where his literary talents flourish in contrast to his academic failure A sequence of love affairs with beautiful young women are fatally damaged by the collapse of his family's fortune and the novel ends with him poised to face the challenge of making his own way in the world Composed in an unconventional narrative mode the novel is a rich fusion of satiric and romance idioms and found a captivated audience on its publication in 1920 It made Fitzgerald rich and famous overnight The Beautiful and Damned is a bleaker version of the corrosive power of wealth and its privileges one of Fitzgerald's abiding subjects Anthony Patch is heir to a huge fortune whose marriage to the beautiful and indolent Gloria is increasingly shadowed by Anthony's fall into alcoholism Though he wins a lawsuit to gain his inheritance of millions of dollars it is a pyrrhic victory for he is now a physically and morally broken man"
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| "Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge Senior Lecturer School of English University of Kent at Canterbury Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the Roaring Twenties' A wealthy schizophrenic Nicole Warren falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist The resulting saga of the Divers' troubled marriage and their circle of friends includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people unhappy love affairs a duel incest and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal experiences on which the novel is based Six years separate Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon the novel Fitzgerald left unfinished at his death in December 1940 Fitzgerald lived in Hollywood more or less continuously from July 1937 until his death and a novel about the film industry at the height of 'the studio system' centred on the working life of a top producer was begun in 1939 Even in its incomplete state The Last Tycoon remains the greatest American novel about Hollywood and contains some of Fitzgerald's most brilliant writing"
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| "The Essential Philosophical Works by David Hume (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "With an introduction by Charlotte R Brown and William Edward Morris David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English as well as a master stylist This volume contains his major philosophical works A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) published while Hume was still in his twenties consists of three books on the understanding the passions and morals It applies the experimental method of reasoning to human nature in a revolution that was intended to make Hume the Newton of the moral sciences Disappointed with the Treatise's failure to bring about such a revolution Hume later recast Book I as An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1751) and Book III as An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals which he regarded as incomparably the best' of all his works Both Enquiries went through several editions in his lifetime Hume's works controversial in his day remain deeply and widely influential in ours especially for his contributions to our understanding of the nature of morality political and economic theory philosophy of religion and philosophical naturalism This volume also includes Hume's anonymous Abstract of Books I and II of the Treatise and the short autobiographical essay My Own Life' which he wrote just before his death"
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| "The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume Three by H. P. Lovecraft (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott They were removing the stones quietly one by one from the centuried wall And then as the breach became large enough they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax'From the dark mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century Here are some of Lovecraft's weirdest flesh-creeping masterpieces including Pickman's Model The Shunned House his famous serial Herbert West - Reanimator and several classic tales from the Cthulhu Mythos in which mankind is subjected to the unimaginable terrors known only to those who have read from the forbidden Necronomicon Also included in this compelling collection are the complete Randolph Carter stories chronicling his adventures in this world and the realm of his dreams where he faces perils beyond comprehension"
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