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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > 19th century

Selected Poems and Prose of John Davidson (Hardcover): John Davidson Selected Poems and Prose of John Davidson (Hardcover)
John Davidson; Edited by John Sloan
R3,340 Discovery Miles 33 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This selection brings together the best of John Davidson's work both from the 1890s and his later materialist phase. Davidson has lately been reassessed, and he is now generally recognized to be a poet of major status, a precursor of the modernist movement, and the best Scottish poet between Robert Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid. This edition demonstrates the breadth of Davidson's work, and also contains selections from his letters and prose writings, which shed new light on his life and aims as a poet.;Widely admired as an early modern, Davidson's fascination with urban experience and the new technologies supplied a precedent for the Modernist movement. John Sloan's edition brings together the popular poems of the 1890s such as "In Romney Marsh", "London" and "Thirty Bob a Week", and the ambitious and highly celebrated poems of his later years such as "The Crystal Palace" and "London Bridge", with their ironic observations of the London crowds. Also included are "The Thames Embankmente" with its materialistic blending of urban and natural landscape, and the moving and scientific "Snow".

The Hand of the Arch-Sinner - Two Angrian Chronicles of Branwell Bronte - A Reader's Edition (Hardcover, Reader's... The Hand of the Arch-Sinner - Two Angrian Chronicles of Branwell Bronte - A Reader's Edition (Hardcover, Reader's ed)
Branwell Bronte
R2,901 Discovery Miles 29 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For almost 150 years, the writings of Branwell Bronte, the tragically self-destructive brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, have remained largely inaccessible, scattered in incomplete manuscript form across the world's libraries and private collections. This is the first publication of two of the longest of Branwell's surviving manuscripts, The Life of...Northangerland and Real Life in Verdopolis. A prolific writer, Branwell's work took the form of chronicles detailing the activities of his central character, Alexander Percy, revolutionary leader and ruthless statesman. These two Angrian Chronicles, newly transcribed, reconstructed, and annotated under the editorship of Robert G. Collins, reveal the dramatic world of the Brontes' Angria, not from the more sentimentalized viewpoint of Charlotte, but focusing instead on the lawless and brutal society of Branwell's robber-king, statesman and self-proclaimed Lucifer. The stories suggest a detailed psychological description of Branwell's own tragic life, and indicate a significant influence on the work of his more celebrated sisters. Read for its own narrative interest, its biographical relevance, and for the many ways in which it reflects significant aspects of the novels his sisters later wrote, The Hand of the Arch-Sinner reveals an astonishing and neglected talent in the fourth Bronte."

American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920 (Paperback): Various American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920 (Paperback)
Various; Edited by Elizabeth Ammons, Valerie Rohy
R698 R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Save R47 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The era between the Civil War and the end of World War I, marked by increasing nation-building, immigration, internal migration, and racial tension in the United States, saw the rise of local color literature that described through "lived experiences" the peculiarities of regional life. This anthology brings together works from every part of the country, written by men and women of many cultures, ethnicities, ideologies, and literary styles.

Organized geographically, American Local Color Writing features such familiar writers as Joel Chandler Harris, Kate Chopin, Hamlin Garland, and Sarah Orne Jewett, and introduces less well-known voices like Sui Sin Far, Abraham Cahan, and Zitkala-Sa. The writings sheds light on varying concepts of "the American identity": Charles Chesnutt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Pauline Hopkins, and others present a distinct African-American experience; shifting notions of gender and sexuality come to light not only in pieces by women but also in nostalgic renditions of frontier life as the embodiment of masculine virtues and values; and racial, class, and ethnic stereotypes are reproduced and challenged in many of the stories.

The Portable Oscar Wilde - Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed): Oscar Wilde The Portable Oscar Wilde - Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed)
Oscar Wilde; Edited by Stanley Weintraub
R703 R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Save R38 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Includes the following works: Novels—The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays—Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings—De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.

The Kingdom of God Is within You (Paperback): Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God Is within You (Paperback)
Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Constance Garnett; Foreword by Martin Green
R495 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R27 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in Russia, The Kingdom of God Is within You reveals Tolstoy's world outlook after his conversion to Christianity. He argues that the kingdom of God is within reach of all. The core of the book deals with his nonresistance to evil, a principle Tolstoy passionately advocated. Gandhi was won over by the book. Tolstoy clearly describes the hazards that bullying governments and false beliefs produced. "The situation of the Christian part of humanity-with its prisons, forced labor, gallows, saloons, brothels, constantly increasing armaments, and millions of confused people ready like trained hounds to attack anyone against whom their masters set them-this situation would be terrible if it were the product of coercion, but it is above all the product of public opinion." Abhorring the violence of revolution, Tolstoy calls on Christians to remember that the only guide for their actions is to be found in the divine principle dwelling within them, which in no sense can be checked or governed by anyone or anything else. The foreword is by Martin Green, an English professor at Tufts University and author of The Origins of Nonviolence: Tolstoy and Gandhi in Their Historical Setting.

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Early Essays and Miscellanies. (Hardcover): Henry David Thoreau The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Early Essays and Miscellanies. (Hardcover)
Henry David Thoreau; Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Edwin Moser
R2,962 Discovery Miles 29 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of fifty-three early pieces by Thoreau represents the full range of his youthful imagination. Collected, arranged, and carefully edited for the first time here, the writings date from 1828 to 1852 and cover a broad range of subjects: learning, morals, literature, history, politics, and love. Included is a major essay on Sir Walter Raleigh that was not published during the author's lifetime and a fragmentary college piece here published for the first time. Titles of essays published in the volume are given below. Early Essays * The Seasons * Anxieties and Delights of a Discoverer * Men Whose Pursuit Is Money * Of Keeping a Private Journal *"We Are Apt to Become What Others ...Think Us to Be" * Forms, Ceremonies, and Restraints of Polite Society * A Man of Business, a Man of Pleasure, a Man of the World * Musings * Kinds of Energetic Character * Privileges and Pleasures of a Literary Man * Severe and Mild Punishments * Popular Feeling * Style May ...Offend against Simplicity * The Book of the Seasons * Sir Henry Vane * Literary Digressions * Foreign Influence on American Literature * Life and Works of Sir W. Scott * The Love of Stories * Cultivation of the Imagination * The Greek Classic Poets * The Meaning of "Fate" * Whether the Government Ought to Educate * Travellers & Inhabitants * History ...of the Roman Republic * A Writer's Nationality and Individual Genius * L'Allegro & Il Penseroso * All Men Are Mad * The Speeches of Moloch & the Rest * People of Different Sections * Gaining or Exercising Public Influence * Titles of Books * Sublimity * The General Obligation to Tell the Truth *"Being Content with Common Reasons" * The Duty, Inconvenience and Dangers of Conformity * Moral Excellence * Barbarities of Civilized States * T. Pomponius Atticus * Class Book Autobiography *"The Commercial Spirit of Modern Times" Miscellanies * * DIED ...Miss Anna Jones * Aulus Persius Flaccus * The Laws of Menu * Sayings of Confucius * Dark Ages * Chinese Four Books * Homer. Ossian. Chaucer. * Hermes Trismegistus ...From the Gulistan of Saadi * Sir Walter Raleigh * Thomas Carlyle and His Works * Love * Chastity & Sensuality

Shadows of Blue & Gray (Paperback, New ed): Ambrose Bierce Shadows of Blue & Gray (Paperback, New ed)
Ambrose Bierce; Edited by Brian M. Thomsen
R443 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R23 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it--on the battlefields and over the graves--and in doing so gave birth to a literary chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. The fact that some of these stories verged on the supernatural, others on factual reporting, and others on the fine line between humor and morbidity in no way detracts from their resonance to both the history of the war between the states and the imaginative historical literature in the tradition of Washington Irving.

Shadows of Blue & Gray collects all of Bierce's Civil War stories (twenty-seven in total) with six of his memoir pieces on his own experiences on the front lines.

This collection includes such classics as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "A Horseman in the Sky," "Parker Addison, Philosopher", and "A Bivouac of the Dead"; as well as lesser known stories and sketches such as "The Mockingbird" and "Two Military Executions" and memoirs of his experiences at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Franklin.

Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (Paperback): Various Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (Paperback)
Various; Edited by Kathryn Derounian-Stodola
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is an archtype of American literature. Most such narratives were fact- based, but the stories themselves were often transformed into spiritual autobiographies, spellbinding adventure stories, sentimental tales, or anti-Indian propaganda. The ten narratives here span two hundred years (1682-1892), and depict the experiences of women such as Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dunstan, Sarah Wakefield, and Mary Jemison.

Facundo - Or, Civilization and Barbarism (Paperback): Domingo F. Sarmiento Facundo - Or, Civilization and Barbarism (Paperback)
Domingo F. Sarmiento; Translated by Mary Peabody Mann
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century

Army Life in a Black Regiment - And Other Writings (Paperback, New ed): Thomas Wentworth Higginson Army Life in a Black Regiment - And Other Writings (Paperback, New ed)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT AND OTHER WRITINGS WITH AN INTRODUTION AND NOTES BY R. D. MADISON

A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slaves

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas.

Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson's interest in both man and nature, Army Life in a Black Regiment ranges from detailed reports on daily life to a vivid description of the author's near escape from cannon fire, to sketches that conjure up the beauty and mystery of the Sea Islands.

This edition of Army Life features as well a selection of Higginson's essays, including "Nat Turner's Insurrection" and "Emily Dickinson's Letters."

Rule Britannia - Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing (Hardcover): Deirdre David Rule Britannia - Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing (Hardcover)
Deirdre David
R3,720 Discovery Miles 37 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Portable Margaret Fuller (Paperback): Margaret Fuller The Portable Margaret Fuller (Paperback)
Margaret Fuller; Edited by Mary Kelley
R1,018 R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Save R108 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An anthology of the writings of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), American editor, essayist, poet, teacher and author. An associate of Emerson, Thoreau and William Henry Channing at the Brook Farm Community in Massachusetts, Fuller edited the transcendentalist journal "The Dial", and became the first woman journalist for the "New York Tribune".;This book includes the texts "Summer on the Lakes" and "Women in the Nineteenth Century" in their entirety, a selection of criticisms, her despatches from Italy for Horace Greeley during the Italian Revolution, and selected correspondence.;Mary Kelley has edited and prefaced the collection with a critical introduction, and provided chronology and notes.

Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (Paperback): Mark Twain Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (Paperback)
Mark Twain
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar,' to the parodic perfection of 'An Awful - Terrible Medieval Romance,' to the satirical delights of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; from the warm nostalgia of 'Early Days' to the bitter, brooding tone of 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' to the anti-imperial vehemence of 'To the Person Sitting in the Darkness' and the poignant grief expressed in 'Death of Jean', Twain emerges in this volume in many guises, all touched by genius.

The Portable Darwin (Paperback): Peter Graham The Portable Darwin (Paperback)
Peter Graham
R665 R631 Discovery Miles 6 310 Save R34 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Deserves to be as widely read as were the originals when they were first published."—Biological Journal of the Linneas Society. Includes five chapters from The Origin of Speices,complete and unabridged; significant extracts from the works that precede and develop the theory of evolution: The Voyage of the Beagle, The Descent of Man, and The Variations of Animals and Plants; scientific papers, travel writings, letters, and a family memorial; plus a chronology and biography.

Tainted Souls and Painted Faces - The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Hardcover): Amanda Anderson Tainted Souls and Painted Faces - The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Hardcover)
Amanda Anderson
R1,725 Discovery Miles 17 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hard Times (Paperback): Charles Dickens Hard Times (Paperback)
Charles Dickens
R147 Discovery Miles 1 470 Ships in 2 - 4 working days
Hope Leslie - Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Paperback): Catharine Maria Sedgwick Hope Leslie - Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Paperback)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick 1
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.

Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books (Hardcover): Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books (Hardcover)
Thomas Carlyle; Edited by Mark Engel; Introduction by Rodger L. Tarr; Contributions by Rodger L. Tarr; Text written by Mark Engel, …
R2,907 Discovery Miles 29 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Sartor Resartus" is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. First published in serial form in "Fraser's Magazine" in 1833-1834, it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was published in 1838. By the 1840s, largely on the strength of "Sartor Resartus," Carlyle became one of the leading literary figures in Britain.
"Sartor Resartus" became one of the important texts of nineteenth-century English literature, central to the Romantic movement and Victorian culture. At the time of Carlyle's death in 1881, more than 69,000 copies had been sold. The post-Victorian influence continued and extends to writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, Willa Cather and Ernest Hemingway.
This edition of "Sartor Resartus" is the first publication of the work that uses all extant versions to create an accurate authorial text. This volume, the second in an eight-volume series, includes a complete textual apparatus as well as a historical introduction and full critical and explanatory annotation.

The Portable Edmund Burke (Paperback): Edmund Burke The Portable Edmund Burke (Paperback)
Edmund Burke
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament with his powerful defense of the American Revolution and the rights of persecuted Catholics in England and Ireland; his indictment of the English rape of the Indian subcontinent; and, most famously, his denouncement of English Jacobin sympathizers during the French Revolution. The Portable Edmund Burke is the fullest one- volume survey of Burke's thought, with sections devoted to his writings on history and culture, politics and society, the American Revolution, Ireland, colonialism and India, and the French Revolution. This volume also includes excerpts from his letters and an informative Introduction surveying Burke's life, ideas, and his reception and influence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A Week On the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Paperback, New Ed): A Week On the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Paperback, New Ed)
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R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories of New England, the Bhagavad Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects.

Although it shares many of the themes in Thoreau's classic WALDEN, A WEEK offers an alternative perspective on his analaysis of the relationship between nature and culture.

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Paperback, New): Various The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Paperback, New)
Various; Edited by George Gibian 1
R658 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Save R33 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and "The Grand Inquisitor" episode from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova, Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished scholar George Gibian provides an introduction, chronology, biographical essays, and a bibliography.

The Oregon Trail (Paperback): Francis Parkman The Oregon Trail (Paperback)
Francis Parkman
R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On April 28, 1846, Francis Parkman left Saint Louis on his first expedition west. The Oregon Trail documents his adventures in the wilderness, sheds light on America's westward expansion, and celebrates the American spirit.

Two Years Before the Mast - A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Paperback): Dana, Richard Henry, Jr Two Years Before the Mast - A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Paperback)
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr 1
R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dana’s account of his passage as a common seaman from Boston around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life. Bringing to the public’s attention for the first time the plight of the most exploited segment of the American working class, he forever changed readers’ romanticized perceptions of life at sea.

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