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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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| "King Solomon's Mines & Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "In King Solomon's Mines Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry's brother George who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while searching for the legendary treasure trove of a lost kingdom Quatermain agrees to lead the expedition though he has little hope they will return alive After suffering unimaginable hardships they find the treasure hidden deep within a mountain but while they are admiring the hoard the vast stone door closes Their store of food and water rapidly runs out and the trapped men prepare to die but in the nick of time they find a way of escape On their return trek to civilisation they succeed in the purpose of their expedition when they miraculously come upon George Curtis alive and well They return to England with enough of the treasure to live in style but Allan Quatermain lures them back for more African adventures In Allan Quatermain the trio undertake the search for the kingdom of a warlike 'white' race another expedition fraught with danger A hazardous canoe journey along an underground river leads them to Zu-Vendi a land ruled by two beautiful queens Both queens fall in love with Sir Henry and this explosive situation leads to civil war several battles many funerals and a wedding"
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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 Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?'So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867 His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life He was making his first responses to the Old World - to Paris Milan Florence Venice Pompeii Constantinople Sebastopol Balaklava Damascus Jerusalem Nazareth and Bethlehem For the first time he was seeing the great paintings and sculptures of the 'Old Masters' He responded with wonder and amazement but also with exasperation irritation disbelief Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries"
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| "Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs Translated by Isabel F Hapgood Russia in the 1840s There is a stranger in town and he is behaving oddly The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up &39;dead souls&39; These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity?There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country a picaresque series of grotesque portraits situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole This is quite simply the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century"
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| "The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Sara Haslam Department of English The Open University The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction an inspiration for many later distinguished writers including Graham Greene Set before the First World War it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples one English one American as they travel socialise and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe They are 'playing the game' in style That game has begun to unravel however and with compelling attention to the comic as well as the tragic results the American narrator reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its facade"
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| "The Complete Richard Hannay Stories by John Buchan (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War The strong and silent type combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914 he manages to thwart the enemy's evil plan and solve the mystery of the 'thirty-nine steps' In Greenmantle he undertakes a vital mission to prevent jihad in the Islamic Near East Mr Standfast set in the decisive months of 1917-18 is the novel in which Hannay after a life lived 'wholly among men' finally falls in love; later in The Three Hostages he finds himself unravelling a kidnapping mystery with his wife's help In the last adventure The Island of Sheep he is called upon to honour an old oath A shrewd judge of men he never dehumanises his enemy and despite sharing some of the racial prejudices of his day Richard Hannay is a worthy prototype hero of espionage fiction"
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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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| "From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon by Jules Verne (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on extraordinary voyages' His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure The popularity of his novels led directly to modern science fiction In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility - an engineering dream for the industrial age Directly inspired by Verne's story enthusiasts worked successfully at overcoming the practical difficulties and within a century human beings did indeed fly to the Moon Curiously however Verne is unlikely to have thought it possible that a manned projectile could actually be fired out of a giant cannon rising higher than the Moon swinging around it and then landing safely back on Earth He had used the science of the day to construct a literary conjuring trick a hoax one of the most successful in all history By skilful misdirection he drew the attention of readers away from weaknesses in the project Read the book and you too will be fooled into accepting the realistic possibility in Verne's time of that dream of flying to the Moon"
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| "The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume One by E. F. Benson (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine University of Kent at Canterbury Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature Outrageously pretentious hypocritical and snobbish Queen Lucia as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of Riseholme' based on the Cotswold village of Broadway Her long-suffering husband Pepino is her prince-consort' the outrageously camp Georgie is her gentleman-in-waiting' the village green is her parliament' and her subjects such as Daisy Quantock are hapless would-be Bolsheviks' In Lucia in London the prudish manically ambitious Lucia launches herself into the louche world of London society Her earnest determination to learn all about modern movements' makes her the perfect comic vehicle for Benson's free-wheeling satire of salon society and of the dominant fads and movements of the 1920s including vegetarianism yoga palmistry Freudianism seances Post-Impressionist art and Christian Science Meanwhile in Tilling clearly modelled on Benson's home town of Rye Miss Mapp consumed by chronic rage and curiosity' sits at her window armed with her light-opera glasses keeping baleful watch on her neighbours Anger and the gravest suspicions about everybody had kept her young and on the boil' and Benson transmutes her boiling into a series of small humiliations in his witty malicious comedy In his insightful Introduction Keith Carabine shows that these books are excruciatingly funny because Benson like Jane Austen invites the reader to view the world through the self-deluded fabrications and day-dreams of Lucia and the self-deluded chronic anger and jaundiced suspicions of Elisabeth Carabine also concentrates on the novels' disturbing bitchy camp' humour whenever that horrid thing which Freud calls sex' is raised"
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| "The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two by E. F. Benson (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine University of Kent at Canterbury These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye) Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game of bridge tea or dinner-party church service council meeting or art-exhibition are thrilling encounters that ensure Tilling is always on a very agreeable rack of suspense' Both Elisabeth and Lucia are gross hypocrites snobs and bullies the huge differences in temperament and style ensure the battle is usually unequal Elisabeth is incurably mean-spirited and Lucia suffers from splendid delusions of grandeur and personal prestige Driven by demons of revenge Elisabeth always acts impulsively and therefore every revelation of her meanness allows Lucia the consummate actress to kill her ally with a sickening kindness In his insightful Introduction Keith Carabine shows that these books are excruciatingly funny because Benson like Jane Austen invites the reader to view the world through the self-deluded chronic anger and jaundiced suspicions of Elisabeth and through the self-deluded fabrications and day-dreams of Lucia Carabine also concentrates on the novels' disturbing bitchy camp' humour whenever that horrid thing which Freud calls sex is raised'"
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| "Pollyanna & Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sourtempered aunt after her father's death things seem bad enough but then a dreadful accident ensues However Pollyanna's sunny nature and good humour prove to have an astonishing effect on all around her and this wonderful tale of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has remained one of the world's most popular children's books since its first publication in 1913 In Pollyanna Grows Up the only sequel written by Porter herself Pollyanna finds that that despite being cured of her health problemsadulthood brings fresh challenges to be overcome"
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| "Night and Day / Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Virginia Woolf's second novel Night and Day (1919) portrays the gradual changes in a societythe patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where therepresentatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way for life has to be faced to be rejected; then accepted on new terms with rapture' Woolf begins to experiment with the novelform while demonstrating her affection for the literature of the past Jacob's Room (1922) Woolf's third novel marks the bold affirmationof her own voice and search for a new form to express her view that the humansoul orientates itself afresh everynow & then It is doing so now No one can see it whole therefore' Jacob's life is presented in subtle delicateand tantalising glimpses the novel's gaps and silences are as replete withmeaning as the wicker armchair creaking in the empty room"
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| "The Years / Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937 and Between the Acts (1941) an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweaves comedy satire and disturbing observation Rewriting the traditional family saga and the pageant these unsettling novels provide extraordinary critiques of Englishness and English identity while pursuing compelling existentialist and psychological themes such as the nature of time memory personal relationships and sexual desire Their tightly constructed narratives enable the reader to experience the fragmented lives of their characters and the difficulties that they have in communicating with each other and even understanding themselves Read together these novels illuminate each other in ways that will engage both the student and the general reader"
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| "Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of the great Father of Waters' Part memoir part travelogue it expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality and remains the most vivid boisterous and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley from the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War This new edition of Life on the Mississippi contains a comprehensive introduction extensive annotations and a guide to further reading designed to appeal to both the student and the general reader"
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| "An Arsene Lupin Omnibus by Maurice Leblanc (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Enter Arsene Lupin Gentleman - Cambrioleur the Prince of Thieves' one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond necklace from under the noses of the authorities Young and handsome laughing his way through difficulties and danger Lupin is also the master of disguise and languages His sense of humour and conceit make life difficult for the police who attribute most of the major crimes in France to Lupin and his gang of ruffians and urchins Maurice Leblanc's stories are lively and witty occasionally taking on the air of burlesque especially when Lupin pits his wits against the English detective named variously Holmlock Shears' and Herlock Sholmes'These are significant tales in the history of crime fiction but more importantly they are great fun"
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| "Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty risking his life and liberty in the process His daughter Mary is caught between two lovers from opposing classes - worker and manufacturer And at the heart of the narrative lies a murder which implicates them all Mary Barton was published in 1848 at a time of great social ferment in Europe and it reflects its revolutionary moment through an English lens Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her first novel about the world in which she lived - Manchester at the height of the industrial revolution As the wife of a Unitarian minister she was solidly middle-class; but she also had close contact with the working classes around her sympathised with them and represented their extreme distresses in her fiction She is radical in taking on their dialect imagining the realities of their lives and placing a working woman at the centre of her fiction If to our eyes her vision remains limited it was an honest vision for which she was much criticised in her own time by her own class"
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| "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again But she meets the Munchkins and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will grant any wish On the way she meets the brainless Scarecrow the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion The four friends set off to seek their heart's desires and in a series of action packed adventures they encounter a deadly poppy field fierce animals flying monkeys a wicked witch a good witch and the Mighty Oz himself In Glinda of Oz the last of the original Oz' books Dorothy and Princess Ozma seek the help of Glinda the Good Witch of the South when they find themselves in peril on the Magic Isle of the Skeezers"
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| "The Princess and the Goblin & The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "When Princess Irene and her nursemaid stay out too late one night and are chased home by goblins a young miner boy called Curdie comes to their rescue So begins a fantastic adventure in which Irene and Curdie must try to stop a goblin invasion helped by Irene's mysterious great-great-grandmother This much-loved tale was a personal favourite of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien This edition includes the sequel The Princess and Curdie"
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| "The Beatrix Potter Collection Volume Two" |
| "All your favourite Beatrix Potter stories in two volumes The books in Volume Two The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tailor of Gloucester The Tale of Benjamin Bunny The Tale of Two Bad Mice The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit The Story of Miss Moppet The Tale of Tom Kitten The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes"
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| "The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy" |
| "Hello I'm Raggedy Ann Welcome to my world I'm going to tell you about myself and this book Some grown-ups think I'm just another rag doll with floppy arms and legs who has been nibbled by the mice but they are wrong When the other toys and I are left alone we get up to all sorts of games and adventures Once I nearly got boiled to bits in the washing machine Then I had fun with the kittens and the puppy But best of all one day Marcella's daddy brought home a package with another rag doll in it They called him Raggedy Andy What jolly times we have! What funny games we play! He is now my best friend I'm sure you will enjoy reading this book full of stories about us'"
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| "The Essential Kafka : The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories" |
| "Like George Orwell Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare but in Kafka's world it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is The Trial where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials and if there is any help to be had it will come from unexpected sources is a chilling blackly amusing tale that maintains to the very end a relentless atmosphere of disorientation Superficially about bureaucracy it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature Still more enigmatic is The Castle Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist victim or an outsider battling against elusive authority?Finally in his fables Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties"
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| Resurrection |
| "This powerful novel Tolstoy's third major masterpiece after War and Peace and Anna Karenina begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event Dmitri Nekhlyudov called to jury service is astonished to see in the dock charged with murder a young woman whom he once seduced propelling her into prostitution She is found guilty on a technicality and he determines to overturn the verdict This pitches him into a hellish labyrinth of Russian courts prisons and bureaucracy in which the author loses no opportunity for satire and bitter criticism of a state system (not confined to that country) of cruelty and injustice This is Dickens for grown-ups involving a hundred characters Crime and Punishment brought forward half a century With unforgettable set-pieces of sexual passion conflict and social injustice Resurrection proceeds from brothel to court-room stinking cells to offices of state luxury apartments to filthy life in Siberia The ultimate crisis of moral responsibility embroils not only the famous author and his hero but also you and me Can we help resolve the eternal issues of law and imprisonment?"
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| "Candide and Other Works" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler Senior Lecturer in French University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century He fought against religious persecution bigotry and injustice throughout his life and is one of the thinkers who prepared the way for the French Revolution This volume contains Zadig (1748) the story of a young man who becomes king of Babylon; Candide (1759) Voltaire's most famous tale of all; and (in a new translation by Editor James Fowler) The Ingenu (1767) in which the hero raised by Huron Indians discovers the ways of Europe The heroes of these tales are young handsome talented and naive All three are animated by Voltaire's sparkling wit but also by his dark satire of ancient regime society The volume closes with a new translation of Nanine Voltaire's three-act comedy which was seen first as dangerously meritocratic then as anti-revolutionary The hero falls in love with a servant girl but will he overcome society's prejudice and marry her?"
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| "Dangerous Liaisons" |
| "In this famous story of seduction two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young married woman and a fifteen year old girl who has only just emerged from the convent The letters these two conspirators exchange are remarkably frank in describing how they manage to achieve their ends and at the same time reveal nuances of character which make it impossible to dismiss either of them as simply evil Those written by their victims are equally revelatory in a quite different and subtle way while the manner in which Laclos handles the epistolary form in order to ensure that his two protagonists are finally defeated not by outside forces but the fissures in their own relationship is a triumph of narrative skill This novel poses shrewd questions about the relation between love and sex and suggests that in certain sections of eighteenth century French high society idleness boredom and wealth had created individuals whose misfortunes it would be hard to regret when only seven years after Dangerous Liaisons was published the Revolution broke out Blurb by David Ellis"
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| Leviathan |
| "With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson Trinity College Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651 Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling and most controversial works of political philosophy written in English Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare of the mid-seventeenth century it proposes a political theory that combines an unequivocal commitment to natural human liberty with the conviction that the sovereign power of government must be exercised absolutely Leviathan begins from some shockingly naturalistic starting-points an analysis of human nature as being motivated by vain-glory and pride and a vision of religion as simply the fear of invisible powers made up by the mind Yet from these deliberately unpromising elements Hobbes constructs with unparalleled forcefulness an elaborate systematic and comprehensive account of how political society ought to be ordered law-bound peaceful In Leviathan Hobbes presents us with a portrait of politics which depicts how a state that is made up of the unified body of all its citizens will be powerful fruitful protective of each of its members and - above all - free from internal violence"
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| "The Drug and Other Stories : Second Edition" |
| "This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume only thirty-five were published in his lifetime Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first timeCrowley was a successful critic editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922 Like their author his stories are fun smart witty thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling They are set in places in which he had lived and knew well Belle Epoque Paris Edwardian London pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the First World WarThe title story The Drug stands as one of the first accounts - if not the first - of a psychedelic experience His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy that can stand with Samuel Butler&39;s ErewhonFrank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written This second edition adds several additional stories including the Qabalistic allegory Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum featuring the author&39;s previously unpublished annotations Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories"
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