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In this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr. Samuel
Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is
determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come
to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the
Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel
Winkle, the portly innocent embarks on a series of hilariously
comic adventures. But can Pickwick retain his good will towards his
fellow humans once he discovers the evils of the world?
Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, "The Pickwick Papers,"
catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first
serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the
members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting
into all sorts of mischief.
Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also
reveals Dickens's burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system,
lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors' prisons.
As G. K. Chesterton noted, "Before Dickens] wrote a single real
story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns,
thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns,
strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick."
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Learning to think is a complex process made up of reading, writing
listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. The aim of
this topical book is to encourage practical educational reform in
the Humanities by taking the emphasis away from the reception of
texts to their production. Adapting rhetorical teaching methods,
the authors encourage students to participate in the activities of
thinking giving them short written and verbal exercises to develop
conceptual competences and linguistics skills. It is argued that
these methods can be implemented successfully across a wide number
of humanities subjects and that they encourage the development of
practical transferable skills, both cognitive and linguistic.
The authors have used these methods successfully in class, and the
book includes sample exercises, the initial results, and feedback
from their students.
Learning to think is a complex process made up of reading, writing
listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. The aim of
this topical book is to encourage practical educational reform in
the Humanities by taking the emphasis away from the reception of
texts to their production. Adapting rhetorical teaching methods,
the authors encourage students to participate in the activities of
thinking giving them short written and verbal exercises to develop
conceptual competences and linguistics skills. It is argued that
these methods can be implemented successfully across a wide number
of humanities subjects and that they encourage the development of
practical transferable skills, both cognitive and linguistic.
The authors have used these methods successfully in class, and the
book includes sample exercises, the initial results, and feedback
from their students.
Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written
all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity,
technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This
collection brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese writers
from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, with modern examples
from Europe and America. In addition, there is a selection of poems
influenced by haiku, and a section devoted to haiku-like passages
from traditional English poets. The book is dominated by four great
masters - Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki - who between them compress
the gamut of human experience into the limits of seventeen
syllables.
The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.
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Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most
intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, "The Mystery of
Edwin Drood" foreshadows both the detective stories of Conan Doyle
and the nightmarish novels of Kafka.
As in many of Dickens's greatest novels, the gulf between
appearance and reality drives the action. Set in the seemingly
innocuous cathedral town of Cloisterham, the story rapidly darkens
with a sense of impending evil. Central to the plot is John Jasper:
in public he is a man of integrity and benevolence; in private he
is an opium addict. And while seeming to smile on the engagement of
his nephew, Edwin Drood, he is, in fact, consumed by jealousy,
driven to terrify the boy's fiancee and to plot the murder of Edwin
himself. Though "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is one of its author's
darkest books, it also bustles with a vast roster of memorable-and
delightfully named-minor characters: Mrs. Billikins, the landlady;
the foolish Mr. Sapsea; the domineering philanthropist, Mr.
Honeythunder; and the mysterious Datchery. Several attempts have
been made over the years to complete the novel and solve the
mystery, but even in its unfinished state it is a gripping and
haunting masterpiece.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)"The Age of Innocence," one of Edith
Wharton's most renowned novels and the first by a woman to win the
Pulitzer Prize, exquisitely details the struggle between love and
responsibility through the experiences of men and women in Gilded
Age New York.The novel follows Newland Archer, a young,
aristocratic lawyer engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May
Welland. When May's disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe,
fleeing her marriage to a Polish Count, her worldly, independent
nature intrigues Archer, who soon falls in love with her. Trapped
by his passionless relationship with May and the social conventions
that forbid a relationship with Ellen, Archer finds himself torn
between possibility and duty. Wharton's profound understanding of
her characters' lives makes the triangle of Archer, May, and Ellen
come to life with an irresistible urgency. A wry, incisive look at
the ways in which love and emotion must negotiate the complex rules
of high society, "The Age of Innocence" is one of Wharton's finest,
most illuminative works.With an introduction by Peter Washington
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Les Miserables - A Novel (Hardcover)
Victor Hugo; Translated by Charles E. Wilbour; Introduction by Peter Washington
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Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
From the Paperback edition.
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Donne contains Songs and Sonnets, Letters to the Countess of Bedford, The First Anniversary, Holy Sonnets, Divine Poems, excerpts from Paradoxes and Problems, Ignatius His Conclave, The Sermons, Essays and Devotions, and an index of first lines.
Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their
ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of
a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in
extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to the
bitter comedy of political chaos, this collection of poems covering
two centuries includes work by Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet,
Annensky,Mayakovsky, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva,
Pasternak, Brodsky and others less celebrated but no less
extraordinary. The text is divided into six sections. Russian poets
constantly reflect on their art, so the first section is
appropriately entitled 'The Muse'. Their other great topic is
Russia herself, explored in parts two and three. Part four presents
the inner world, parts five and six traditional themes of love and
mortality. Poetry has often been a matter of life and death in
Russia, where Mandelstam was not the only poet to perish in the
Gulag. The comfortable private domain familiar to many English and
American writers barely exists in a country where political
realities are exigent - one reason for the fierce intensity found
in so many of these poems.
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Rumi Poems (Paperback)
Peter Washington
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It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the
most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new
world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer
was even born has been achieved with extraordinary speed in less
than thirty years.The main key to Rumi's success is the spiritual
appeal of his work. It combines lyrical beauty with philosophical
profundity, a sense of rapture and an acute awareness of human
suffering in ways which speak directly to contemporary audiences.
Like the metaphysical poets, Donne, Vaughan and Herbert, Rumi yokes
together everyday images with complex ideas. He talks about divine
love in vivid human terms. As a religious teacher of the Dervish
order, he expounds the mystical doctrines of Sufism which focus on
the notion of union with the Beloved to whom many of the poems are
addressed. Persian poetry of this period is not easy to translate.
In order to give the greatest possible access to a wonderful poet
this selection draws on avariety of translations from the early
20th century to the present, ranging from scholarly renderings to
free interpretations.
Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver
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Rumi: Poems (Hardcover)
Jalal al-Din Rumi; Edited by Peter Washington
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The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical
beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute
awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to
contemporary audiences.
Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founded
the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance
and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Many of Rumi's poems
speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved. But
his images bring the sacred and the earthy together in startling
ways, describing divine love in vividly human terms.
This volume draws on a wide variety of translations--from the
early twentieth century to the present--of Rumi's deeply moving,
sensually vibrant poetry.
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship. This collection presents the Brownings' work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth's death. Both in shorter poems such as Elizabeth's "Hector in the Garden” and Robert's "Natural Magic," or in extracts from longer works such as Aurora Leigh and Pauline, the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature.
Elizabeth's famous Sonnets from the Portuguese, based on their love affair, is included in its entirety. The poems are augmented with a generous selection of the marvellous letters the Brownings wrote to each other.
Still little known in the West, Persian poetry offers extraordinary
riches. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about
love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday
life, Persian poetry set these themes in the wider religious and
philosophical context of Islam. Omar, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar,
Hafez and Jami - the great lyric and didactic poets of medieval
Persia - are all represented in this selection of translations
spanning almost two hundred and fifty years.
Poe's poems have been memorized and recited by millions. Among his best-loved works are "The Raven" with its hypnotic chant of "nevermore, " and the sensuous and lyrical "Annabel Lee." This collection includes all of Poe's most popular rhymes.
These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Keats contains a full selection of Keats's work, including his lyric poems, narrative poems, letters, and an index of first lines.
A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her
resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova--denounced by the Soviet
regime for her "eroticism, mysticism, and political
indifference"--is one of the greatest Russian poets of the
twentieth century.
Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet
who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement
of poets whose ideal was "beautiful clarity"--in her deeply
personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with
passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and
fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for
many years and was expelled from the Writers' Union--condemned as
"half nun, half harlot." Despite this censorship, her reputation
continued to flourish underground, and she is still among Russia's
most beloved poets.
Here are poems from all her major works--including the magnificent
"Requiem" commemorating the victims of Stalin's terror--and some
that have been newly translated for this edition.
Celebrated in their time and still popular over a century after
their deaths, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett had a unique
relationship which is reflected in their work. Both were
distinguished as poets before they met, and they learnt from one
another without ever sacrificing their individuality. If Elizabeth
recognized that Robert's talent was the greater of the two, Robert
understood that his wife's voice was unique. All the great themes
they shared are represented in this collection of their shorter
poems - love, marriage, poetry, religion, England and Italy, the
natural world - and the poems are accompanied by a selection from
the marvellous letters they wrote to one another, especially in the
years of their courtship. Among the items included are extracts
from Aurora Leigh and Pauline, and the whole of Sonnets from the
Portuguese, together with many lyrics and narrative poems by both
poets.
Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and
music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might
well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered
with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen traverse a
surprisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy,
resignation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest
power and beauty . All the major verse forms of mourning are
represented here: epitaph, requiem and lament. Three great elergies
by Milton, Whitman and Rilke are surrounded by a wide variety of
shorter poems. Naturally, the pathos of death predominates, but its
comedy has not been neglected, whether in the savage poems of World
War I or the gentle teasing of seventeenth-century satire. Poets
include: Akhmatova, Auden, Bishop, Brodsky, Browning, Carew, Cory,
Cowley, Dickinson, Donne, Dryden, Dyer, Fletcher, Graves, Gurney,
Hardy, Harrison, Herrick, Hopkins, Horace, King, Leopardi, Lowell,
MacCaig, Mandelstam, Milosz, Philips, Propertius, Roethke, Smith,
Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas and Wordsworth.
The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most
compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but
also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory,
at a banquet or at a public festival. With a freshness that belie
the nearly two thousand years that separate us Virgil, Ovid,
Horace, Propertius and Catullus write movingly of the pleasures of
love, of wine, of nature and the joys of pastoral life, a city and
its contrasts, of friendship and of death. This edition brings
together an exceptional selection with translations by Christpoher
Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Robert Herrick, John Dryden,
Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Alfred Tennyson, A. E. Houseman and
Rudyard Kipling. This edition is illustrated with the magnificent
classical engravings of Johannes Pine's great edition of Horace of
1737. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his
own; He who, secure within, can say Tomorrow do thy worst for I
have lived today. Horace's ode iii, tr. by John Dryen
There are many anthologies of love poems but friendship has proved
a more elusive theme. Yet it is no less important. Like the
Everyman Love Poems and Erotic Poems, to which it is a companion,
the present selection draws on the literature of many periods and
languages to illuminate aspects of friendship, ranging from social
acquaintance through personal devotion to estrangement and
antipathy. The tone ranges from comic to elegiac and there is
certainly something here for everyone. The volume is divided
thmatically into sections: What are Friends?; The Pleasure of
Friendship; Good Neibours; Social Life; Dumb Chums; Portraits;
Poets Together; Strangers; Absent Friends and Looking Back
Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost
story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As traditional
religions declined in the West during those years, people looked
for new ways of describing the spiritual realities explained by
religion. The ghost story is a literary expression of this need,
its rise corresponding to the growing popularity of Spiritualism.
Ghost stories balance the increasingly powerful scientific
materialism of the age with intimations that there are other orders
of experience which we cannot define and only glimpse. The Everyman
selection of ghost stories includes examples from this period by
major writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant,
Henry James and Edith Wharton. M. R. James is featured as a
specialist in the genre. Later writers include Elizabeth Bowen,
Penelope Lively and Ray Bradbury. One feature of this collection is
to show that there is more to the ghost story than the thrill of
horror, important though that is. These stories include comedy and
tragedy, pathos, drama and even poetry. Each is a masterpiece in
its own right, irrespective of whether or not we believe in the
realm of spectres.
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