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| "Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "With an Introduction by A M de Medeiros University of Kent at Canterbury A year after the publication of The Three Musketeersem Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original In Twenty Years After the much beloved D'Artaganan Athos Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil In the original novel they defeated Milady a formidable foe; now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt as well as countering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin Their adventures also take them to England where Cromwell is about to topple Charles I Meanwhile they must overcome the obstacles which the passing of time has placed between them Rediscovering strength in unity they fight for Queen and country The Musketeer novels were a huge success in Dumas' own lifetime and have lost none of their original appeal Translated into many languages and adapted for cinema and television they have helped to make Dumas arguably the most successful exporter of French culture to the wider world Our edition is based on the William Robson translation first published by Routledge in 1856"
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| "Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block whose son has been killed by Customs Officers Unofficially adopted by Block John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night of 'Blackbeard' Mohune's lost treasure and Elzevir Block's secret This dashing tale of eighteenth-century Dorset smugglers will be enjoyed by all who love stories of derring-do written in the tradition of Treasure Island"
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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 Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales telling of princes and princesses in their castles witches in their towers and forests of giants and dwarfs of fabulous animals and dark deedsTogether with the well-known tales of Rapunzel The Goose Girl Sleeping Beauty Hansel and Gretel and Snow White there are the darker tales such as Death's Messengers which deserve to be better known and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore but also to all those who simply love good story-telling"
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| "Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain's most popular books Again we meet his world famous characters Tom Sawyer 'Nigger Jim' and Huck Finn - together now on a fantastical balloon journey across the Atlantic to meet lions and Bedouins in the Sahara and retrace something of Twain's own expedition to the Holy Land in his best-selling The Innocents Abroad (1869) Later in Tom Sawyer Detective (1896) Twain returns us the banks of the Mississippi and a murder mystery involving identical twins and stolen diamonds The author is back in his formative territory the region his imagination could never leave behind It provides him with another comedy of human foibles starring the irrepressible Tom Sawyer"
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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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| "The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller It features the world's greatest detective Sherlock Holmes in his most challenging case The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry the new master of the Baskerville estate Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve this devilish affair The Valley of Fear is a dark powerful tale which provides the great detective with a most perplexing case and opens with a vile murder Lying across his chest was a most curious weapon a shotgun with the barrel sawn off in front of the triggers It was clear that it had been fired at close range and that he had received the whole charge in the face blowing his head almost to pieces Sherlock Holmes' arch enemy the criminal genius Professor Moriarty is back! But the solution to the riddle found after many surprising twists and high dramas lies far away half across the world in a location known as 'The Valley of Fear' This is Conan Doyle's last Holmes novel and in the opinion of many of his fans it is the best!"
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| "De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Others by Oscar Wilde (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty Royal Holloway University of London De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life which was published anonymously in 1898 This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist"
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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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| "The Well-Beloved with The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Jane Thomas University of Hull The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art and the suffering that ensues Jocelyn Pierston celebrated sculptor tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in stone just as he tries to find her in the flesh Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location the Isle of Slingers or Portland as we know it Overt exploration of the relationship between erotic fascination and creativity makes this novel a nineteenth-century landmark in the persistent debate about art aesthetics and gender This volume breaks new ground by including in full the1892 serialised version of the novel - The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved"
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| "Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights Department of English Studies Durham University With this intensely moving short novel Edith Wharton set out to draw life as it really was' in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains Through the eyes of a visitor from the city trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land Piecing together the story of monosyllabic Ethan Frome his grim wife Zeena and Mattie Silver her charming cousin Wharton explores psychological dead-lockfrustration longing resentment passion First published in 1911 the novella stunned its public with its consummate handling of the unfolding drama and has remained for many readers the most compelling and subtle of all Wharton's fiction"
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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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| "The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer Manchester Metropolitan University The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart aged 29 beautiful impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite and to support her expensive habits - her clothes her charities and her gambling Unwilling to marry without both love and money Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long Wharton charts the course of Lily's life providing along the way a wider picture of a society in transition a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity The House of Mirth was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton's most accomplished and compelling social satires"
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| "Washington Square by Henry James (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Ian FA Bell Professor of English Literature University of Keele Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's a period of great change in the life of the city This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion Through the relationships between Austin Sloper a celebrated physician and his sister Lavinia Penniman his daughter Catherine and Catherine's suitor Morris Townsend James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression"
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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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| "Irish Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Illustrated by John D Batten Stories selected by Jennifer Chandler The Folklore Society The captivating Irish stories collected in this new edition include both comic tales such as Paddy O'Kelly and the Weasel and tales of heroes from ancient literature such as How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery By turns funny fantastical and mysterious the stories are matched in liveliness by the original illustrations of John D Batten It would be hard to find a better introduction for children to the special magic of Celtic storytelling The stories in this book are taken from Joseph Jacob's classic two-volume collection Celtic Fairy Tales (1891-2) and More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894)"
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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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| "What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl Katy Carr and her family who first appeared in What Katy Did What Katy Did at School is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the New England girls' boarding school which Katy attends Her trials and adventures are all interwoven with a sense of fun and gently ironic good humour What Katy Did Next describes a tour by Katy of Europe as she evolves from the child of earlier books into a spirited young woman and brings to a satisfying close this delightful trilogy"
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| "Cranford & Selected Short Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple University of Hull The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this and to trace the development of her art As diverse in setting as in subject matter these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrison's Confessions to atmospheric horror in far north-west Wales with The Doom of the Griffiths The story of Cousin Phillis her masterly tale of love and loss is a subtle complex and perceptive analysis of changes in English national life during an industrial age while the gripping Lois the Witch recreates the terrors of the Salem witchcraft trials in seventeenth-century New England as Gaskell shrewdly shows the numerous roots of this furious outbreak of delusion Whimsically modified fairy tales are set in a French chateau while an engaging love story poetically evokes peasant life in wine-growing Germany"
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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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| "Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Notes and Introduction by David Ellis University of Kent at Canterbury With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which DH Lawrence is most often associated First published privately in Florence in 1928 it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition The famous 'Lady Chatterley trial' heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down and of the tender love which then develops between her and her husband's gamekeeper is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrence's bitter indictment of modern industrial society and to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love and sex"
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| "The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde (Hardback, 2007)" |
| "Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism brilliant craftsmanship legendary wit and ultimately his tragic muse He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace artistry and wit of which the best-known is The Happy Prince Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray which shocked and outraged many readers of his day and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life Wilde took London by storm with his plays particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol both written after his release from prison strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century"
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| "The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (Hardback, 2007)" |
| "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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| "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 Velveteen Rabbit & Other Animal Adventures by Margery Williams Bianco (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "This endearing edition proudly includes the original telling of the beloved tale The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Together we travel alongside the Velveteen Rabbit on his magical journey towards becoming real and discover how he and other toys are brought to life once they are truly loved by their little owners Also in this edition are modern infant-friendly retellings of The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Three Little Pigs The Frog Prince and The Tale of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse All stories are beautifully illustrated with exclusive line drawings which truly bring these charming tales to lifejust like your favourite toys"
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| "The Sea-Wolf by Jack London (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840) Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) The dominant subject is an intellectual conflict between a ship-wrecked literary figure Humphrey Van Weyden and the brutal captain of a seal-hunting schooner Wolf Larsen who rescues Van Weyden and puts him to menial work on the schooner The central chapters focus on the gory details of seal-hunting and the final section shows how far Van Weyden has learned seamanship as he restores The Ghost to sailing health and returns to port with the only woman passenger another shipwrecked figure to plight their troth"
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| "Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Everyone in Greenall Bridge knew Sam Carraclough's Lassie In fact you might say that she was the best-known dog in the village because nearly every man in the village agreed she was the finest collie he had ever laid eyes on'Sam's son Joe and Lassie are a devoted pair but a time comes when they have to be parted The Carracloughs are not well off and when they fall on hard times Sam is forced to sell his champion dog to the Duke of Rudling whose great estate borders their Yorkshire village But Lassie escapes and makes her way home to the Carracloughs The Duke not one to be tricked by a dog claims Lassie back and she is taken many miles away to the Duke's other home in Scotland But again Lassie pines for her proper home and escapes Undaunted by the challenge she sets off on the long trek back to her Yorkshire home She faces many dangers and adventures along the way but she also meets some kind people who offer her help and comfort At the end when Joe has given up all hope of ever seeing his long-lost companion again the weary Lassie returns and he finds her waiting for him at the school gates in her accustomed spot just like old times Lassie and Joe are joyfully reunited Against all the odds Lassie has come home!"
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| "The Lingard Trilogy by Joseph Conrad (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Almayer's Folly was Conrad's outstanding debut novel as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction it showed immense sophistication in its handling of narrative time-shifts and point of view Hailed as a writer of genius' by contemporary reviewers Conrad returned to the same riverine settlement in Borneo in his second novel An Outcast of the Islands Set some 15 years earlier this prequel to Almayer's Folly tells how Lingard lost his monopoly of trade in Sambir and follows the dangerous rivalry of his proteges Willems and Almayer In The Rescue the narrative moves even further back in time and shows the young idealistic Lingard torn between his loyalties to his Sulawesi allies and his unexpected attraction to Edith Travers with explosive consequences Throughout this sequence of novels the fascinating figure of Captain Lingard comes steadily into the foreground"
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| "The Ultimate Children's Classic Collection by Anna Sewell, James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson,..." |
| "The perfect gift for any book-lover this box set contains eight of the best children's classics ever writtenBeautifully packaged in a ridged matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing complete with strikingly attractive bespoke artwork this would make an ideal Christmas present IncludesAlice's Adventures in Wonderland 9781853261183The Wind in the Willows 9781853261220The Little Prince 9781853261589Treasure Island 9781853261039Black Beauty 9781853261091The Jungle Book 9781853261190The Secret Garden 9781853261046Peter Pan 9781853261206"
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