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| "Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude Introduction and Notes by EB Greenwood University of Kent Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels- of destiny death human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence It ends tragically and there is much that evokes despair yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life&39;s many ephemeral pleasures and a profusion of comic relief"
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| "A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex A Pair of Blue Eyes though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels is lively and gripping Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode for example is at once tense ironic feministic and erotic With settings in Wessex and London the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features as the blue-eyed heroine Elfride Swancourt is based largely on Emma Gifford who became Thomas Hardy's first wife Elfride's vivacious nature attracts several lovers but she is beset by sexual prejudice and the ensuing ironies reveal the constraints of her times A Pair of Blue Eyes provides an engaging and moving experience for today's readers"
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| "Ben Hur by Lewis Wallace (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "An immediate best-seller on publication Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal revenge and salvation it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession This was the book that finally overcame the inherent suspicion of fiction that still prevailed in much of america in the late nineteenth century Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy that brings every action-packed scene to life and illuminates the geography ethnology and customs of the ancient world"
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| "Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly University of Reading Translated by CJ Hogarth Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev&39;s finest work It is a political novel set in a domestic context with a universal theme the generational divide between fathers and sons Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state At its centre is Evgeny Bazorov a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist and believes in the need to overthrow all the institutions of the state As the novel develops Bazarov&39;s political ambitions become fatally meshed with emotional and private concerns and his end is a tragic failure The novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862 and this a year later drove Turgenev from Russia"
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| "Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew Professor of Russian Literature Keele University Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly and which leave much to the reader's imagination This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comic sketches as well as examples of his great mature works Throughout the doctor-turned-writer displays compassion for human suffering and misfortune but is always able to see the comical even farcical aspects of the human condition Chekhov sees and depicts life with unwavering honesty and truthfulness although a clear moral sense can be detected beneath his apparent objectivity"
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| "Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman is a huge literary paradox for it is both a novel and an anti-novel As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters variously eccentric farcical and endearing As an anti-novel it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work ostentatiously digressive involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism Vibrant and bizarre Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all time'"
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| "The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett Senior Lecturer in English University of St Andrews Educated beyond her station Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended Giles Winterborne Her alternative choice proves disastrous and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony Hardy eschews a happy ending With characteristic derision he exposes the cruel indifference of the archaic legal system off his day and shows the tragic consequences of untimely adherence to futile social and religious proprieties"
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| "The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "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 Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim John Bunyan was variously a tinker soldier Baptist minister prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this his greatest work It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero - Christian - from the City of Destruction via the Slough of Despond the Hill of Difficulty the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Vanity Fair over the River of the Water of Life and into the Celestial City The Pilgrim's Progress has been translated into 108 languages was a favourite of Dr Johnson and was praised by Coleridge as one of the few books which might be read repeatedly and each time with a new and different pleasure"
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| "Utopia by Saint Thomas More (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose More's Utopia is a complex innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians who live according to the principles of natural law but are receptive toChristian teachings who hold all possessions in common and view gold as worthless Drawing on the ideas of Plato St Augustine and Aristotle Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn giving rise to the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon HG Wells Aldous Huxley and George Orwell At once a critique of the social consequences of greed and a meditation on the personal cost of entering public service Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the competing claims of idealism and pragmatism and continues to invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate concerning the best state of a commonwealth"
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| "The Voyage of the Beagle" |
| "With an Introduction by David Amigoni Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture Words he said were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions the sensation of delight which the mind experiences' Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to South Sea Islands Darwin's descriptive powers are constantly challenged but never once overcome In addition The Voyage of the Beagle displays Darwin's powerful speculative mind at work posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth's structure animal forms anthropology and the origins of life itself"
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| "Symposium and the Death of Socrates" |
| "With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady Translated by Tom GriffithIn Symposium a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre Socrates is put on trial for impiety and sentenced to death Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety Apology is Socrates' speech in his own defence Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment and Phaedo gives an account of Socrates' last day These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before Tom Griffith's Symposium has been described as 'possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue' All the other translations are new"
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| "Democracy in America (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)- Abridged version Paperback" |
| "Abridged with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe De Tocqueville examines the structures institutions and operation of democracy and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people but he also predicts that slavery will bring about the &39;most horrible of civil wars&39; foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women"
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| "On War" |
| "Translated by JJ Graham revised by FN Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war Carl von Clausewitz a Prussian soldier had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies which swept across Europe between 1792 and 1815 His response was to write a comprehensive text covering every aspect of warfare On War is both a philosophical and practical work in which Clausewitz defines the essential nature of war debates the qualities of the great commander assesses the relative strengths of defensive and offensive warfare and - in highly controversial passages - considers the relationship between war and politics His arguments are illustrated with vivid examples drawn from the campaigns of Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte For the student of society as well as the military historian On War remains a compelling and indispensable source"
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| Republic |
| "Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan With an Introduction by Stephen Watt The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher AN Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato's work Beyond philosophy he has exerted a major influence on the development of Western literature politics and theology The Republic deals with the great range of Plato's thought but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual It combines argument and myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by desires and appetites Regarded by some as the foundation document of totalitarianism by others as a call to develop the full potential of humanity the Republic remains a challenging and intensely exciting work"
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| "The Prophet" |
| "The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement Writing in English Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon His language has a breath-taking beauty Before returning to his birthplace Almustafa the 'prophet' is asked for guidance by the people of Orphalese His words redolent with love and understanding call for universal unity and affirm Gibran's certainty of the correlated nature of all existence and of reincarnation The Prophet has never lost its immediate appeal and has become a ubiquitous touchstone of spiritual literature"
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| "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant Canterbury Christchurch University CollegeThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation love oppression sin religion and betrayal It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon the mysterious tenant' of the title and her dissolute alcoholic husband Defying convention Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father's influence and earns her own living as an artist Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall she encounters Gilbert Markham who falls in love with her On its first publication in 1848 Anne Bronte's second novel was criticised for being coarse' and brutal' The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of women's rights in the face of psychological abuse from their husbands Anne Bronte's style is bold naturalistic and passionate and this novel which her sister Charlotte considered an entire mistake' has earned Anne a position in English literature in her own right not just as the youngest member of the Bronte family This newly reset text is taken from a copy of the 1848 second edition in the Library of the Bronte Parsonage Museum and has been edited to correct known errors in that edition"
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| "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" |
| "Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire published between 1776 and 1788 is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality seventy-one chapters of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition With style learning and wit Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 - an enthralling account by 'the greatest of the historians of the Enlightenment' This edition includes Gibbon's footnotes and quotations here translated for the first time together with brief explanatory comments a precis of the chapters not included 16 maps a glossary and a list of emperors"
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| "Lady Audley's Secret" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Esther SaxeyThe flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets But ME Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy arson and murder It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines Combining elements of the detective novel the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life Lady Audley's Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century and still exerts a powerful hold on readers"
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| "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston University of Nottingham Illustrations by SL Fildes and Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Dickens's final novel left unfinished at his death is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London Drugs sexual obsession colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel's themes At the centre of the plot lie the baffling disappearance of Edwin Drood and the many explanations of his whereabouts A sombre and menacing atmosphere a fascinating range of characters and Dickens's usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches with subjects as different as murder and guilt and childhood romance This unusual selection illustrates Dickens's immense creativity and versatility"
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| "The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren University of Kent at Canterbury The story of Edmund Dantes self-styled Count of Monte Cristo is told with consummate skill The victim of a miscarriage of justice Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence In his campaign of vengeance he becomes an anonymous agent of fate The sensational narrative of intrigue betrayal escape and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace Dumas&39; novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero&39;s ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions Our edition is based on the most popular and enduring translation first published by Chapman and Hall in 1846 The name of the translator was never revealed"
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| "Complete Ghost Stories" |
| "Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime He had always loved a good ghost story himself particularly at Christmas time and was open-minded willing to accept and indeed put to the test the existence of spirits His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales and in the twenty stories presented here which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol the full range of his gothic talents can be seen Chilling as some of these stories are Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge insanity pre-cognition and dream visions he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity"
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| "Barnaby Rudge" |
| "Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots instigated by Lord George Gordon which terrorised London in 1780 Dickens' targets are prejudice intolerance religious bigotry and nationalistic fervour together with the villains who exploit these for selfish ends His intense account of the riots is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long-unsolved murder and with a romance involving forbidden love treachery and heroism Barnaby Rudge abounds in memorably strange comic and grotesque characters Furthermore recent historical events have renewed its political topicality"
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| "Three Sea Stories" |
| "Editedand with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man the edge of his temper and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret stuff of his pretences not only to others but also to himself' In Typhoon Conrad's funniest story Captain MacWhirr blunders into a hurricane that reveals the sea's treachery violence and terror Falk is desperate to get married but first he must tell of his terrible experiences as sole survivor of a stricken ship that once drifted into the ice-caps of Antarctica The Shadow-Line is a poignant and beautiful story Written during the First World War and based on Conrad's fond evocation of his own first command it expresses his solidarity with all who were obliged to cross in early youth the shadow-line of their war-torn generation Includes a glossary of nautical terms"
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| "Shadows of Sherlock Holmes" |
| "Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog These gripping tales of mystery suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor Professor Augustus SFXVan Dusen - The Thinking Machine Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth and the natty ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont On the other side of the law there are gentleman crooks Raffles and Simon Carn - the Prince of Swindlers The stories include ''The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Stolen Cigar Case' by Bret Harte 'The Swedish Match' by Anton Chekhov 'Nine Points of the Law' by EW Hornung 'The Ghost at Massingham Mansions' by Ernest Bramah and 'The Great Pearl Mystery' by Baroness Orczy"
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| "The Best of Sherlock Holmes" |
| "Selected Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's Baker Street Dozen' creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print And there at the centre in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion Doctor John H Watson Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers and intrigues"
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| "The Prince" |
| "Translated by CEDetmold With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret KekewichWritten in 1513 for the Medici following their return to power in Florence The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century Widely quoted in the Press and in academic publications The Prince has direct relevance to the issues of business and corporate governance confronting global corporations as they enter a new millennium Much of what Machiavelli wrote has become the common currency of realpolitik yet still his ideas retain the power to shock and annoy In the words of Norman Stone The Prince is 'a manual of man-management that would suit a great many parts of the modern world'"
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| "Thus Spake Zarathustra" |
| "Translated by Thomas Common With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey This astonishing series of aphorisms put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra or Zoroaster contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought God is dead' he tells us Christianity is decadent leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life but with the next Nietzsche emphasises the UEbermensch or Superman whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed the book also had a profound influence on early twentieth-century writers such as Shaw Mann Gide Lawrence and Sartre"
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| "The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang" |
| "Translated by Yuan Shibing and JJLDuyvendak With introductions by Robert Wilkinson The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC) they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject It analyses the nature of war and reveals how victory may be ensured The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation They are serious urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China"
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| "The Origin of Species (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace &39;A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die&39; Darwin&39;s theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task Yet The Origin of Species (1859) is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological interrelatedness revealing the complex mutual interdependencies between animal and plant life climate and physical environment and - by implication - within the human world Written for the general reader in a style which combines the rigour of science with the subtlety of literature The Origin of Species remains one of the founding documents of the modern age"
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