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Animal Farm
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the …
Crime and Punishment
With selected excerpts from the Notebooks for Crime and Punishment
Av Fyodor Dostoevsky, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 2000
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
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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 …
Nineteen Eighty-Four
A Novel
Häftad, 2021
71 kr
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The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his …
Wuthering Heights
Av Emily Brontë, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1992
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
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Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated …
Mrs Dalloway
Häftad, 1996
3,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (6)
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With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield.Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the …
North and South
Av Elizabeth Gaskell, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1993
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull.Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent …
Anna Karenina
Av Leo Tolstoy, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1995
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
71 kr
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Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. 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 …
Dubliners
Av James Joyce, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1993
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
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Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing …
Ulysses
Av James Joyce, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 2010
3,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
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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 …
Emma
Av Jane Austen, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1992
4,1 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (7)
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. …
Karamazov Brothers
Av Fyodor Dostoevsky, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 2010
71 kr
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Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs.As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate …
Middlemarch
Av George Eliot, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1993
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
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Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior …
Mill on the Floss
Av George Eliot
Häftad, 1993
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Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into …
Finnegans Wake
Av James Joyce, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 2012
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
71 kr
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FinnegansWake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle andtheir family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well asall our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowedstyles, like Ulysses, but, rather,formulated as one dense, …
Sense and Sensibility
Av Jane Austen
Häftad, 1992
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
71 kr
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Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University.'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in …
Don Quixote
Av Miguel de Cervantes, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1992
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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Translated by P. A. MotteuxWith an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, CorkCervantes’ tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations …
Essential Kafka
The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Av Franz Kafka, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 2014
71 kr
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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, …
Little Women & Good Wives
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and …
Notes From Underground & Other Stories
Av Fyodor Dostoevsky, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 2015
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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 …
War and Peace
Av Leo Tolstoy, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1993
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, …
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Av Jules Verne, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1996
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
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The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland on a journey which will lead them to the centre of the earth. Along …
Madame Bovary
Av Gustave Flaubert, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1993
3,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
71 kr
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With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of …
Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier
Häftad, 2021
68 kr
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George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities of imperialism. Both the books in this …
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Av D.H. Lawrence, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 2005
3,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
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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 D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only …
Sons and Lovers
Häftad, 1992
74 kr
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Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury.‘When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life’.Richard AldingtonThis novel is Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece in …
Great Gatsby
Av F. Scott Fitzgerald, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1992
3,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (20)
76 kr
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Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age".Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which …
Tempest
Av William Shakespeare, Cedric Watts
Häftad, 1994
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the …
Pride and Prejudice
Av Jane Austen, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1992, 6-9 år
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (21)
74 kr
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Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of …
Agnes Grey
Av Anne Brontë, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 1994
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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Agnes Grey is a trenchant exposé of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century.This is a deeply personal novel written from the author’s own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and …
Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories
Av Leo Tolstoy, Keith Carabine
Häftad, 2004
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook.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 …
