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George Orwell (Hardcover, New Ed): Jeffrey Meyers George Orwell (Hardcover, New Ed)
Jeffrey Meyers
R8,927 Discovery Miles 89 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The "Collected Critical Heritage II" comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of "Critical Heritage" published by Routledge in October 1995. The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. This volume covers the English novelist, George Orwell.

Evelyn Waugh (Hardcover): Martin Stannard Evelyn Waugh (Hardcover)
Martin Stannard
R8,363 Discovery Miles 83 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The "Collected Critical Heritage II" comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of "Critical Heritage" published by Routledge in October 1995. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. This volume covers English novelist Evelyn Waugh.

W. Somerset Maugham - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Anthony Curtis, John Whitehead W. Somerset Maugham - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Anthony Curtis, John Whitehead
R2,635 Discovery Miles 26 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The "Collected Critical Heritage II" comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of "Critical Heritage" published by Routledge in October 1995. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. This volume covers the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham.

Edgar Allen Poe (Hardcover): Ian Walker Edgar Allen Poe (Hardcover)
Ian Walker
R8,932 Discovery Miles 89 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
Collected Critical Heritage II

Mark Twain - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised): Frederick Anderson Mark Twain - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised)
Frederick Anderson
R8,628 Discovery Miles 86 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This individual volume covers American novelist Mark Twain. The 42 volumes that comprise the series covering 19th and 20th-century European and American authors are available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include: contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media in which students can read about how "Lady's Chatterly's Lover" shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen's "Doll's House" meant to the early women's movement. Little-published documentary material such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers, as well as pieces of criticism from later periods that demonstrate how an author's reputation changed over time, are also incorporated into the text.

John Dos Passos - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised): Barry Maine John Dos Passos - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised)
Barry Maine
R2,609 Discovery Miles 26 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This individual volume covers American novelist John Dos Passos. The 42 volumes that comprise the series covering 19th and 20th-century European and American authors are available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include: contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media in which students can read about how "Lady's Chatterly's Lover" shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen's "Doll's House" meant to the early women's movement. Little-published documentary material such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers, as well as pieces of criticism from later periods that demonstrate how an author's reputation changed over time, are also incorporated into the text.

Stephen Crane - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised): Richard M. Weatherford Stephen Crane - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised)
Richard M. Weatherford
R8,628 Discovery Miles 86 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This individual volume covers American novelist Stephen Crane. The 42 volumes that comprise the series covering 19th and 20th-century European and American authors are available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include: contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media in which students can read about how "Lady's Chatterly's Lover" shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen's "Doll's House" meant to the early women's movement. Little-published documentary material such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers, as well as pieces of criticism from later periods that demonstrate how an author's reputation changed over time, are also incorporated into the text.

T.S. Eliot Volume 2 (Hardcover, Revised): Michael Grant T.S. Eliot Volume 2 (Hardcover, Revised)
Michael Grant
R8,929 Discovery Miles 89 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The second volume of two covering the novelist T.S. Eliot whose writings include: "Prufrock and other Observations", "The Wasteland" and "Murder in the Cathedral". The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include: contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media in which students can read about how "Lady's Chatterly's Lover" shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen's "Doll's House" meant to the early women's movement. Little-published documentary material such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers, as well as pieces of criticism from later periods that demonstrate how an author's reputation changed over time, are also incorporated into the text.

The Man of the Crowd - Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Hardcover): Michelle Van Parys The Man of the Crowd - Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Hardcover)
Michelle Van Parys; Scott Peeples
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writings Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he lived and worked, exploring how each new place left its enduring mark on the writer and his craft. Poe wrote short stories, poems, journalism, and editorials with urban readers in mind. He witnessed urban slavery up close, living and working within a few blocks of slave jails and auction houses in Richmond and among enslaved workers in Baltimore. In Philadelphia, he saw an expanding city struggling to contain its own violent propensities. At a time when suburbs were just beginning to offer an alternative to crowded city dwellings, he tried living cheaply on the then-rural Upper West Side of Manhattan, and later in what is now the Bronx. Poe's urban mysteries and claustrophobic tales of troubled minds and abused bodies reflect his experiences living among the soldiers, slaves, and immigrants of the American city. Featuring evocative photographs by Michelle Van Parys, The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings. The Poe who emerges here is a man whose outlook and career were shaped by the cities where he lived, longing for a stable home.

The Collected Works of Henry Fielding - Edited with a biographical essay by Leslie Stephen (Hardcover): Leslie Stephen The Collected Works of Henry Fielding - Edited with a biographical essay by Leslie Stephen (Hardcover)
Leslie Stephen
R40,404 Discovery Miles 404 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Henry Fielding (1707-54) began his writing career as a playwright and before the age of 30 produced a great number of comedies, farces and burlesques. His wit was already apparent, and his admirers included Swift who particularly enjoyed his "Tom Thumb". His "Pasquin, A Dramatick Satire on the Times" was in part responsible for the ensuing restrictive censorship of plays with the Licensing Act of 1737. Fielding practised at law, wrote essays and poems, ran a few journals - but remains most famous for his novels. He began "Joseph Andrews" as a parody of the sentimentalism of Richardson's "Pamela", and quickly developed his humourous and satirical style in "Tom Jones", "Jonathan Wild" and "Amelia". Admired by writers and readers alike, Fielding is one of the true founders of the English novel whose influence can be traced into the 19th century and the works of Dickens and Thackeray. This boxed collection of ten volumes includes all his work and a biographical essay.

Bernanos - His Political Thought and Prophecy (Paperback): Thomas Molnar Bernanos - His Political Thought and Prophecy (Paperback)
Thomas Molnar
R1,356 Discovery Miles 13 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Thomas Molnar's "Bernanos "is an illuminating study of the personal evolution of the French Catholic novelist Georges Bernanos from a reactionary royalist to a religiously principled anti-fascist. It also provides a detailed account of the intellectual divisions within the French Catholic Right and suggests a number of parallels with intellectual and literary figures on the secular and religious left including Zola, Peguy, and Simone Weil. But, as Molnar points out, the significance of Bernanos is not exhausted by his writings. Bernanos the man is as deserving of attention as is Bernanos the novelist, essayist, and social critic.

Molnar shows Bernanos against the troubled political-religious background of modern France: the Dreyfus case, the disillusionment following World War I, the Franco regime, Vichy, and the beginnings of the cold war. Whatever touched France touched Bernanos, and he flung himself into each crisis, not armed with a political system nor an academically sanctioned philosophy, but with a peasant's respect for what is and a Christian's sense of what might be. The portrait that Molnar draws is that of a passionately concerned Christian who knows that truth is hard to come by, but who is ready to follow it wherever it leads, regardless of the consequences.

A crucial theme covered by Molnar is Bernanos' long and conflicted relations with Charles Maurras and the "Action Francaise. "He makes clear the extent to which Bernanos' fervent Catholicism set him apart from Maurras whose positivistic inspiration and passion for order helped lay the groundwork for the political collapse that led to the Vichy regime. Thomas Molnar's book is a fascinating account of Georges Bernanos' stature as both a political thinker and an important novelist. "Bernanos "will be enjoyed by historians, political scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars of literature.

T.S. Eliot Volume I (Hardcover, Revised): Michael Grant T.S. Eliot Volume I (Hardcover, Revised)
Michael Grant
R5,972 Discovery Miles 59 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first volume of two covering the novelist T.S. Eliot whose writings include: "Prufrock and other Observations", "The Wasteland" and "Murder in the Cathedral". The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include: contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media in which students can read about how "Lady's Chatterly's Lover" shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen's "Doll's House" meant to the early women's movement. Little-published documentary material such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers, as well as pieces of criticism from later periods that demonstrate how an author's reputation changed over time, are also incorporated into the text.

Arnold Bennett - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised): James Hepburn Arnold Bennett - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised)
James Hepburn
R5,700 Discovery Miles 57 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The "Collected Critical Heritage II" comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of "Critical Heritage" published by Routledge in October 1995. The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media.

Fenimore Cooper (Hardcover, Revised): George Dekker, John P. Williams Fenimore Cooper (Hardcover, Revised)
George Dekker, John P. Williams
R8,915 Discovery Miles 89 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This individual volume covers American novelist Fenimore Cooper. The 42 volumes that comprise the series covering 19th and 20th-century European and American authors are available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include: contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media in which students can read about how "Lady's Chatterly's Lover" shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen's "Doll's House" meant to the early women's movement. Little-published documentary material such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers, as well as pieces of criticism from later periods that demonstrate how an author's reputation changed over time, are also incorporated into the text.

The Young H.G. Wells - Changing the World (Paperback): Claire Tomalin The Young H.G. Wells - Changing the World (Paperback)
Claire Tomalin
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction? From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty years of H. G. Wells' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers. The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of The Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened. In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today. 'The finest of biographers' Hilary Mantel 'A most intelligent and sympathetic biographer' Daily Telegraph 'One of the best biographers of her generation' Guardian

Herman Melville - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised): Watson G. Branch Herman Melville - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised)
Watson G. Branch
R8,935 R6,297 Discovery Miles 62 970 Save R2,638 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

The Karamazov Brothers (Paperback): Fyodor Dostoevsky The Karamazov Brothers (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Edited by Ignat Avsey
R342 R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Save R53 (15%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved. Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky's exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disatrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the authors most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence, so that orthodoxy, and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive. Rebecca West considered it "the allegory for the world's maturity", but with children to the fore. This new translation does full justice to Doestoevsky's genius, particularly in the use of the spoken word, which ranges over every mode of human expression. 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.

Mahasweta Devi - Writer, Activist, Visionary (Hardcover): Radha Chakravarty Mahasweta Devi - Writer, Activist, Visionary (Hardcover)
Radha Chakravarty; Series edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar, Chandana Dutta
R3,756 Discovery Miles 37 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1) This book presents a comprehensive account of the eminent Bengali writer and activist, the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Mahasweta Devi's oeuvre in its full range and versatility. 2) It draws attention to Devi's role as a woman writer with a difference and her image outside Bengal. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of South Asian Literature and Cultural studies across UK.

The Black Eden (Hardcover, Main): Richard T Kelly The Black Eden (Hardcover, Main)
Richard T Kelly
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster's son and a farmer's boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they will do with their lives. Meanwhile, Mark and Ally, bright pupils at Edinburgh's grandest private school, are aspiring to make change in the world - one through high finance, the other on the political stage. And Joseph, heir to an Aberdeen trawler-fishing dynasty, is brooding over whether his true ambitions are set higher than his father's succession plan. For each of them, the discovery of oil under the North Sea will make their dreams achievable. But behind the promise and temptation of 'black gold,' there is a price to be paid; and they will discover that oil can overthrow relationships, turn friends into foes, and even put lives in peril.

White Skins/Black Masks - Representation and Colonialism (Hardcover, annotated edition): Gail Ching-Liang Low White Skins/Black Masks - Representation and Colonialism (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Gail Ching-Liang Low
R3,928 Discovery Miles 39 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"White Skin/Black Masks" focuses on the fiction and travel writings of Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling. Close friends as well as prominent figures of imperial and colonial myth-making, Haggard and Kipling were praised for their alleged knowledge of and ability to speak from within the "native" cultures of Africa and India. Narrators and characters in their fiction attest to a persistent fascination with the body-image of the "Other." Kipling's fiction in particular deals with disguise and physical transformation through the use of costume. This book addresses the psychic processes of negation, projection and reappropriation in the dynamics of pleasure/unpleasure and mastery/defense found in the work of these two writers. It also seeks to provide a historical context for understanding how these forces emerged from and were played out in contemporary society.
The fascination with exotic cultures and the crossing of cultural boundaries provides some of the most striking ways in which a colonizing culture articulates its self-identity and authority. "White Skin/Black Masks" employs the most recent thinking in psychoanalysis, anthropology and colonial discourse theory to analyze the manner in which fantasy and fabulation is always caught up in networks of desire and power.

The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present (Paperback, New): Professor Steven Connor, Steven Connor The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present (Paperback, New)
Professor Steven Connor, Steven Connor
R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as
* George Orwell
* William Golding
* Angela Carter
* Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo
* Hanif Kureishi
* Marina Warner
* Maggie Gee
Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century.

Sir Thomas Malory - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Marylyn Parins Sir Thomas Malory - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Marylyn Parins
R7,444 Discovery Miles 74 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume in the series gathers together a body of critical sources on the literary figure of Thomas Malory. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.

Daniel Defoe - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised): Pat Rogers Daniel Defoe - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, Revised)
Pat Rogers
R8,611 Discovery Miles 86 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.

Henry Fielding - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Ronald Paulson, Thomas Lockwood Henry Fielding - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Ronald Paulson, Thomas Lockwood
R11,113 Discovery Miles 111 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

Laurence Sterne - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Alan B. Howes Laurence Sterne - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Alan B. Howes
R8,629 Discovery Miles 86 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

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