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The text here is based on Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford's
1967 edition, footnoted to include biographical discoveries.
Reviews, letters by Melville and belated praise is collected, and a
wealth of new biographical material has been added, while new
research is highlighted. Parker also explores what writing
Moby-Dick cost Melville and his family.
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. We walk about under a load of
memories which we long to share and somehow never can. John Flory,
a white timber merchant in 1920s Burma, has unorthodox views. To
him, the Burmese culture and people should be appreciated as things
of beauty and worth. To the other white members of the European
club of which he is member, these views are dangerous, undermining
the foundation of British colonial rule. Flory is drawn into a
deadly rivalry when he befriends Veraswami, an Indian doctor, who
is under the scrutiny of a corrupt magistrate. Flory defies the
convention of imperial bigotry in Burma by offering to help his new
friend, but the consequences to him, and Elizabeth Lackersteen, the
woman he loves, will be explosive. Based on his experiences as a
policeman in Burma, Burmese Days was Orwell's first novel, and
sparked controversy for its scathing portrayal of colonial society.
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Collected Stories
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Saul Bellow; Edited by Janis Bellow; Preface by Janis Bellow; Introduction by James Wood
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A collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of
American fiction
Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as
one of America's greatest writers. For more than sixty years he
stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his
exhilarating perceptions of life. Here, collected in one volume and
chosen by the author himself, are favorites such as "What Kind of
Day Did You Have?," "Leaving the Yellow House," and a previously
uncollected piece, "By the St. Lawrence." With his larger-than-life
characters, irony, wisdom, and unique humor, Bellow presents a
sharp, rich, and funny world that is infinitely surprising. This is
a collection to treasure for longtime Saul Bellow fans and an
excellent introduction for new readers.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Our consciousness rarely registers the
beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there
have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the
smallest sign of the bud.' Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe
in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled
from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of
theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his money and
living a lonely life as a recluse. It is only when his money is
stolen and a small orphan girl, Eppie appears in his life that
Silas's fortunes begin to change and he truly begins to learn what
it means to regain his faith in life.
Cornwall is steeped in poetry, legend and storytelling. Join Luke
Thompson on a literary tour around its dramatic coastline, its
cliffs and coves, across the moor and down the mines. Meet Cornish
poets such as Jack Clemo and Charles Causley, enjoy retellings of
thrilling legends and stirring songs and read inspiring fiction and
non-fiction from famous Cornish writers and residents including
Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Hardy, Winston Graham and D. H. Lawrence.
What each and every one has in common is a deep-rooted connection
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folklore and its fiercely independent people. Treasures of
Cornwall: A Literary Anthology is edited by Luke Thompson.
By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way
through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable
monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and
his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws
opened... Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever
written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a
visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the
secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a being
from dead body parts, and animates this creature. The results, for
Victor and for his family, are catastrophic. Written when Mary
Shelley was just eighteen, Frankenstein was inspired by the ghost
stories and vogue for Gothic literature that fascinated the
Romantic writers of her time. She transformed these supernatural
elements an epic parable that warned against the threats to
humanity posed by accelerating technological progress. Published
for the 200th anniversary, this edition, based on the original 1818
text, explains in detail the turbulent intellectual context in
which Shelley was writing, and also investigates how her novel has
since become a byword for controversial practices in science and
medicine, from manipulating ecosystems to vivisection and genetic
modification. As an iconic study of power, creativity, and,
ultimately, what it is to be human, Frankenstein continues to shape
our thinking in profound ways to this day.
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The Floating Admiral
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The Detection Club, Agatha Christie; Preface by Simon Brett; Introduction by Dorothy L Sayers; Prologue by G. K. Chesterton; Epilogue by …
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Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other
writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this
fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80
years ago. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder
in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor
lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to
the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up
against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found
in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has
disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye
- even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. Inspector
Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to
this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever unravel it... In
1931, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and ten other crime
writers from the newly-formed 'Detection Club' collaborated in
publishing a unique crime novel. In a literary game of
consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G.K.
Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony
Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends. In addition, each of the
authors provided their own solution in a sealed envelope, all of
which appeared at the end of the book, with Agatha Christie's
ingenious conclusion acknowledged at the time to be 'enough to make
the book worth buying on its own'. The authors of this novel are:
G. K. Chesterton, Canon Victor Whitechurch, G. D. H. Cole and
Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward
Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts,
Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley.
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San
Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded
as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in
Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to
attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first
book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she
went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This
edition of The Collected Stories brings together all of the stories
that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923.
With an introduction and head-notes, this volume allows the reader
to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from
the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous
recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the
mature, deeply felt stories of her last years. Admired by Virginia
Woolf in her lifetime and by many writers since her death,
Katherine Mansfield is one of the great literary artists of the
twentieth century.
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare
had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in
genius, but whose legacy is radically different.This imaginary
woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius
unexpressed. But if only she had found the means to create, urges
Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal
sibling. In this classic essay, Virginia Woolf takes on the
establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world
around her and give a voice to those who have none. Her message is
simple: A woman must have a fixed income and a room of her own in
order to have the freedom to create.
Annotated and with an introduction by Susan Gubar
'A light-hearted twisty thriller... Reminiscent of an Agatha
Christie novel, with a great cast of characters. A real
page-turner!' NetGalley reviewer, New Year's Eve, 1962 As a
snowstorm rages outside, Oxford high society gathers to ring in the
new year at the city's most exclusive party. This is a soiree no
one will forget... not least because a guest is found dead in his
car the next morning. It seems the young man tragically froze to
death overnight after crashing into a snowdrift - but when WPC
Trudy Loveday and coroner Clement Ryder are called in to
investigate, they discover a tangled web of secrets that plainly
points to murder. With everyone telling different stories about
that fateful night, only one thing is clear: several people had
reason to want the victim dead. And if Trudy and Clement don't find
the cracks in each lie, the killer will get away with the perfect
crime... Perfect for fans of Betty Rowlands, LJ Ross and Agatha
Christie, this mystery will keep you hooked until you've solved the
case! Readers LOVE A Fatal Night! 'I just love this series... Faith
Martin is the modern day Agatha Christie, deftly drawing her
characters with a couple of lines... A delight as always.'
NetGalley reviewer, 'Well written with likeable and credible
protagonists... A perfect addition to this excellent series and
perhaps the best to date.' NetGalley reviewer, 'I thoroughly
enjoyed reading it... Loved the interaction between the two
unlikely main characters who complemented each other so very well
as they tried to solve the crime.' NetGalley reviewer, '[This] "who
done it" is a bit of nostalgia... A great read.' NetGalley
reviewer, 'I've enjoyed most of Faith Martin's books but this Fatal
series is my clear favourite.' NetGalley reviewer, The Ryder and
Loveday Series Book 1: A FATAL OBSESSION Book 2: A FATAL MISTAKE
Book 3: A FATAL FLAW Book 4: A FATAL SECRET Book 5: A FATAL TRUTH
Book 6: A FATAL AFFAIR Book 7: A FATAL NIGHT Book 8: A FATAL END
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The Outsider
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Albert Camus; Translated by Sandra Smith
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'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The
Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores
the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social
norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother
dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the
expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of
violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse
compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is
as much a victim as a criminal. Albert Camus' portrayal of a man
confronting the absurd, and revolting against the injustice of
society, depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with
the 'tender indifference' of the world. Sandra Smith's translation,
based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work
aloud on French radio in 1954, sensitively renders the subtleties
and dream-like atmosphere of L'Etranger. Albert Camus (1913-1960),
French novelist, essayist and playwright, is one of the most
influential thinkers of the 20th century. His most famous works
include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Just
(1949), The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956). He was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, and his last novel, The First
Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared in print for the
first time in 1994, and was published in English soon after by
Hamish Hamilton. Sandra Smith was born and raised in New York City
and is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where
she teaches French Literature and Language. She has won the French
American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, as
well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.
Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain
until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial,
Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal
novels of the twentieth century. Lawrence's determination to
explore every aspect - sexual, social, psychological - of Lady
Chatterley's adulterous liaison with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors
makes for a profound meditation on the human condition, the forces
of nature and the social constraints that people struggle to
overcome. Containing autobiographical elements and set in the
author's native Nottinghamshire, Lawrence's final novel had a
profound impact on twentieth-century culture and sexual attitudes,
while confirming his standing as one of the most eminent fiction
writers that England has produced.
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Between the Acts
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Virginia Woolf; Edited by Frank Kermode
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Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own
opinion it was `more quintessential' than any of her others. Set in
the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at
Pointz Hall, the book weaves together the musings of several
disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of a war
which is to change the pattern of history. Before the book was
published in the spring of 1941, Virginia Woolf had taken her own
life. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics
has made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
One of Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2021. "This
trailblazing work of fiction is notable for its depiction of
Harlem's African American society and culture in the 1930s"
-Bookpage When the body of N'Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man,
is discovered in his consultation room, Perry Dart, one of Harlem's
ten Black police detectives, is called in to investigate. Together
with Dr Archer, a physician from across the street, Dart is
determined to solve the baffling mystery, helped and hindered by
Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins, local boys keen to clear themselves
of suspicion of murder and undertake their own investigations. The
Conjure-Man Dies was the very first detective novel written by an
African-American. A distinguished doctor and accomplished musician
and dramatist, Rudolph Fisher was one of the principal writers of
the Harlem Renaissance, but died in 1934 aged only 37. With a
gripping plot and vividly drawn characters, Fisher's witty novel is
a remarkable time capsule of one of the most exciting eras in the
history of Black fiction. This crime classic is introduced by New
York crime writer Stanley Ellin, and includes Rudolph Fisher's last
published story, 'John Archer's Nose', in which Perry Dart and Dr
Archer return to solve the case of a young man murdered in his own
bed.
The classic tale of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi in
the nineteenth century. Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world
since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life
in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided
unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in
classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the
fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting
in and out of trouble with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Based on
Twain's own childhood, this novel not only gives profound insights
into American life but also shows how children can develop moral
codes based on friendship, loyalty, and respect.
This Christmas, 'hand yourself over to be enchanted' (Guardian) by
the English genius behind witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes. 'Worth
GBP9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber) ... It's exquisite
and shivery, just like the stories within ... By turns creepy,
melancholy, horrifying, tragic and beltingly romantic.' Sunday
Times 'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman 'One of the most
shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years.'
Sarah Waters 'Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be
enchanted.' Guardian 'Extraordinary, lucid wildness.' Helen
MacDonald 'Glinting perfection' The Times Decades after her
divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage.
A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder
raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before
eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these
bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery
of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades.
Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's
entanglements, from marriages and affairs to widowhood; and a
champion of outsiders, whether single women, the elderly or wartime
refugees. Witty and subversive, her stories meld tradition and
transgression, with secret sins and fetishes as much a feature of
English life as eccentric aunts, country houses and parish
churches.
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