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English Not Spoken
Christopher Moncrieff
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R446
Discovery Miles 4 460
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When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning
transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension
are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to
reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the
following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence
confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and
sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that
their attitudes towards him are changing and he feels increasingly
alienated. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world
literature, 'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a
selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as
'The Judgement', 'In the Penal Colony' and 'A Country Doctor' - all
presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher
Moncrieff.
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Madame Bovary (Paperback)
Gustave Flaubert; Translated by Christopher Moncrieff
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R192
Discovery Miles 1 920
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Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after their marriage, Emma soon becomes frustrated with the boredom of provincial life and finds herself seeking escape and contemplating adultery. As Emma's efforts to make a reality of her fantasies become more dangerous, both she and those around her must face the shattering consequences of her actions.
Alma Classics Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus and extra reading material, including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.
A first-person diary of a prisoner's final day before being
executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo's poignant tale
vividly conveys the mental anguish of a man confronted with the
intransigent mechanism of justice, as his mind seeks refuge in
recollections from his past and philosophical musings on his
inevitable fate. As relevant today as when it was first published
in 1829, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is an eloquent plea for
compassion and a masterpiece of realist fiction. This edition
includes the Preface to the 1832 edition of the book, a manifest of
Hugo's personal opinions, 'A Comedy about a Tragedy' and 'Claude
Gueux', an early example of "true crime" fiction.
Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fear that the lawyer
Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his
house to conduct alchemical experiments with his father - the
latter dying as a consequence of one of these sessions - was none
other than the Sandman, a mythical figure who was said to steal the
eyes of children who refused to go to sleep. When a mysterious
Italian salesman comes to town, Nathanael's suspicions are
reawakened, pushing him to the brink of madness as extraordinary
events unfold. First published in 1816, this classic of German
Gothic fiction has enthralled generations ever since, and has
spawned countless interpretations by critics intrigued by its
powerful symbolism. Sigmund Freud famously examined the novella in
relation to his concept of the "Uncanny", and an extract from this
analysis is included in this volume.
As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters
buried in Poets’ Corner, is helping her mother write the
biography of their illustrious progenitor, she becomes engaged to
William Rodney, a budding writer with an exaggerated opinion of his
own poetical talent. Meanwhile, the suffragette Mary Datchet is in
love with Ralph Denham, a lawyer and reviewer from a lowly
background, who in turn feels more attracted to Katharine. As the
stories and the romantic interests of these four young people
evolve and intertwine, a picture emerges of a society still
obsessed with class and hung up on the social mores of the
Victorian era. By far the most accessible and traditional of all
Virginia Woolf’s novels, Night and Day is a powerful evocation of
a fast-changing world, and, though conventional in style, addresses
many of the author’s recurring preoccupations, such as the role
of women in society and the difficulties in reconciling love and
marriage.
Musil's limpid, psychological evocation of adolescent sexuality and
its often sadistic eroticism which anticipates the carnage of both
World Wars. As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young
Toerless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the
nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to
his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self-doubt of
adolescence. He is confronted with desire and love, but also his
own cruelty, as he finds himself participating in his fellow
pupils' bullying campaigns. A dark Bildungsroman which shocked its
readership at the time, Robert Musil's first novel is a fresco of
psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and
schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained
desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.
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