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The Daily Charles Dickens - A Year of Quotes (Paperback): Charles Dickens The Daily Charles Dickens - A Year of Quotes (Paperback)
Charles Dickens; Edited by James R. Kincaid; Foreword by James R. Kincaid
R392 R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Save R42 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, The Daily Charles Dickens is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James R. Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved novels and Christmas stories as well as his lesser-known sketches and letters for "an around-the-calendar set of jolts, soothings, blandishments, and soarings." A bedside companion to dip into year round, this book introduces each month with a longer seasonal quote, while concise bits of wisdom and whimsy mark each day. Hopping gleefully from Esther Summerson's abandonment by her mother in Bleak House to a meditation on the difficult posture of letter-writing in The Pickwick Papers, this anthology displays the wide range of Dickens's stylistic virtuosity-his humor and his deep tragic sense, his ear for repetition, and his genius at all sorts of voices. Even the devotee will find between these pages a mix of old friends and strangers-from Oliver Twist and Ebenezer Scrooge to the likes of Lord Coodle, Sir Thomas Doodle, Mrs. Todgers, and Edwin Drood-as well as a delightful assortment of the some of the novelist's most famous, peculiar, witty, and incisive passages, tailored to fit the season. To give one particularly apt example: David Copperfield blunders, in a letter of apology to Agnes Wickfield, "I began one note, in a six-syllable line, `Oh, do not remember'-but that associated itself with the fifth of November, and became an absurdity." Never Pecksniffian or Gradgrindish, this daily dose of Dickens crystallizes the novelist's agile humor and his reformist zeal alike. This is a book to accompany you through the best of times and the worst of times.

Economic and Policy Foundations for Growth in South East Europe - Remaking the Balkan Economy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): A.... Economic and Policy Foundations for Growth in South East Europe - Remaking the Balkan Economy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
A. Bennett, R. Kincaid, P. Sanfey, M. Watson
R2,099 Discovery Miles 20 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume argues that a renewed commitment to sound macroeconomic policies and structural reforms is needed for countries in South East Europe, or 'the Balkans' achieve to sustainable prosperity, along with enhanced support from the international community. New fiscal and financial architecture has valuable lessons for policymakers in SEE.

My Secret Life (Paperback): Anonymous My Secret Life (Paperback)
Anonymous; Introduction by James R. Kincaid; Afterword by Paul Sawyer 1
R343 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R52 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his "amatory career," an adventurous Victorian known only as "Walter" records a breathtaking carnal epic through hundreds of sexual encounters with one or more nursemaids, prostitutes, cousins, actresses, workingmen, and other men's wives. In ruling everything sexual within the realm of possibility, Walter reveals "varied delights...whims and fancies normal and abnormal," sexual violence, fetishes--and sometimes, surprisingly, love. From his many escapades, he learns an invaluable lesson: "One can never know too much concerning human nature." Portraying an era of notorious repression, in which the appearance of propriety had to be strictly maintained, "My Secret Life" provides a rare look at the hidden side of Victorian life: the upstairs and downstairs encounters where nothing is "proper"--or forbidden. First published in London around 1900, this landmark work freshly illuminates the complex sexual dynamics of a society strictly divided between rich and poor, male and female, sexual and chaste. In James Kincaid's abridgment, Walter and his world come to vivid life in new and often surprising ways.
Edited and with an Introduction by James Kincaid and with an Afterword by Paul Sawyer

Taking Life Unfurnished (Paperback): James R. Kincaid Taking Life Unfurnished (Paperback)
James R. Kincaid
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Court Martial of Lt. Calley (Paperback): James R. Kincaid The Court Martial of Lt. Calley (Paperback)
James R. Kincaid
R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vidth and Visdom (Paperback): James R. Kincaid Vidth and Visdom (Paperback)
James R. Kincaid
R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Joys of Pummeling (Paperback): James R. Kincaid The Joys of Pummeling (Paperback)
James R. Kincaid
R233 Discovery Miles 2 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Looking Backward (Paperback): James R. Kincaid Looking Backward (Paperback)
James R. Kincaid
R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of the African-American People (Paperback): Percival Everett, James R. Kincaid History of the African-American People (Paperback)
Percival Everett, James R. Kincaid
R569 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R96 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Presents a fictitious chronicle of a former senator Strom Thurmond's efforts to write a history of African Americans, revealing the antics of Congressional office workers, publishing house interns, editors, and rival editors.

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