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Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1909. It has been called "arguably his most artistic book."
Tono-Bungay is narrated by George Ponderevo, who is persuaded by his uncle to help develop the business of selling...
Editeur : Atlântico Press
Parution : 2013-11-01
Format(s) : ePub
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This is the first edition for fifty years of one of the greatest of English lyric poets. Volume I concentrates on Herrick's large printed collection, Hesperides, published in 1648, and the product of nearly four decades of writing. The text is based on a collation of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-11-01
Format(s) : PDF
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An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-10-25
Format(s) : PDF
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Freewomen and Supermen adds to the comparatively recent body of research which has sought to re-evaluate the literature and culture of the 'long' Edwardian period (1900-1914). It singles out the editors of two of the most important magazines for the history of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-10-24
Format(s) : PDF
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An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-10-23
Format(s) : ePub
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This innovative book comprises nine essays from leading scholars which investigate the relationship between fiction, censorship and the legal construction of obscenity in Britain between 1850 and the present day. Each of the chapters focuses on a distinct historical...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-09-26
Format(s) : PDF
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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-09-12
Format(s) : ePub
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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-09-12
Format(s) : PDF
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The Virgin and the Gypsy is a short story by English author D. H. Lawrence, about personal and sexual liberation. It was written in 1926 and published posthumously in 1930.
The Virgin and the Gypsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence’s most vibrant short novels....
Editeur : Atlântico Press
Parution : 2013-04-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Written by experienced A-level examiners and teachers who know exactly what students need to succeed, and edited by a chief examiner, Philip Allan Literature Guides (for A-level) are invaluable study companions with exam-specific advice to help you to get the grade you...
Editeur : Philip Allan
Parution : 2012-12-07
Format(s) : ePub
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Philip Allan Literature Guides (for GCSE) provide exam-focused analysis of popular set texts to give students the very best chance of achieving the highest grades possible. Designed to be used throughout the course or as revision before the exam, this full colour text...
Editeur : Philip Allan
Parution : 2012-12-07
Format(s) : ePub
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Philip Allan Literature Guides (for GCSE) provide exam-focused analysis of popular set texts to give students the very best chance of achieving the highest grades possible. Designed to be used throughout the course or as revision before the exam, this full colour text...
Editeur : Philip Allan
Parution : 2012-12-07
Format(s) : ePub
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John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer. He set his novels in places he...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-02-23
Format(s) : ePub
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John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer. He set his novels in places he...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-02-23
Format(s) : PDF
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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid contributes to our understanding of the Roman poet Ovid, the Renaissance writer Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions through history. It examines the ways in whichMilton drew on Ovid's...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-02-02
Format(s) : PDF
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An original and wicked first novel set in the post-War years, by an author shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize.Ambrose Feeney has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others' influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is an old siege city of walls, both real and...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-11-10
Format(s) : ePub
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The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-09-29
Format(s) : PDF
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The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-09-29
Format(s) : ePub
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Conversable Worlds addresses the emergence of the idea of 'the conversation of culture'. Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. Conversation became increasingly important as a model and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-09-15
Format(s) : PDF
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The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William Congreve for more than twenty years, until his sudden death in 1999. This was a task he had taken over from Herbert Davis, to whom this...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-04-07
Format(s) : PDF
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