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One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World'' ''The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist'' Independent With its ''light and bright and sparkling'' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane...

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''The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste'' Virginia Woolf Jane Austen''s subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid social convention clashes with the...

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Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and deb...

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''Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion and vanity'' Margaret Drabble Jane Austen''s profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of Fanny Price, who is accustomed to being the poor relation at ...

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This wide-ranging anthology explores the fascinating fellowship created by life at sea. Isolated from land and society, the ship and its crew develop a close relationship. These stories reveal how this comradeship is heightened, sharpened, and tes...

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Tony Tanner's classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author's most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen's novels. Tanner shows how Austen changed from a basically ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Indira Varma, who has starred in Luther and Game of Thrones. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Vivien Jones. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fi...

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Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulne...

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Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulne...

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When THE OTHER HOUSE first appeared in 1896 it caused one critic to declare thatit was the work which would secure James's literary reputation.Presented in 3 acts,THE OTHER HOUSE combines James's skills as a dramatist with the craftmanship of his ...

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The adopted attitude towards reality and experience in American literature tends to be one of wonder and cultivated naivety rather than analysis and judgement. In this book, Dr Tanner offers some reasons for this and seeks to demonstrate the pecul...

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This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Among the questions considered in the first section of the b...

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The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. His work is familiar to generations of students and scholars, and has helped shape our understanding of the major nineteenth and twentie...

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When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in literary theory. In the final ten years of his life...

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Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulne...

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Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulne...

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Tony Tanner's classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author's most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen's novels. Tanner shows how Austen changed from a basically ...

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Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples. Tony Tanner proposes that tra...

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Venecia esta presente en la obra de Melville, Lord Byron, Ruskin, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Hofmannsthal, Ezra Pound, Rilke, Mann, Satre, es decir, en buena parte de los autores fundamentales para entender la literatura moderna y el mundo en el ...

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