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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England’s national identity.
9,500 TNDPrix
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College.
Based on Charlotte Brontë’s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.
17,500 TNDPrix
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger.
9,900 TNDPrix
Translated by P. A. Motteux. With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork
Cervantes’ tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard...
17,500 TNDPrix
With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London.
The product of more than a decade’s continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman’s translation of Homer’s great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad.
9,900 TNDPrix
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury.
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas’ celebrated foursome of D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers.
9,900 TNDPrix
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.
9,900 TNDPrix
Dostoevsky’s fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out.
17,500 TNDPrix
Livres Anglais - English Books
9,900 TNDPrix
Livres Anglais - English Books
9,900 TNDPrix
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
‘Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes’ – The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective’s faithful chronicler.
9,900 TNDPrix
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage.
17,500 TNDPrix
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time.
17,500 TNDPrix
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‘tenant’ of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband.
17,500 TNDPrix
The Professor is Charlotte Brontë’s first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth.
17,500 TNDPrix
"I am who I am and that's who I am."
Translated by Constance Garnett
Notes and Introductions by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottawa
Gogol’s works constitute one of Russian literature’s supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely.
9,900 TNDPrix
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Jonathan Swift’s classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal).
9,900 TNDPrix
With an Introduction by Pat Righelato, University of Reading
Maisie Farange is the child of divorced parents who remarry and engage in adulterous affairs. Despite the sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupt adult world, this novel is one of Henry James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behavior of the characters on the seedy fringes of the English upper class is...
9,500 TNDPrix
With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the “roaring twenties”, and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’.
9,900 TNDPrix
Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents – sieges, ambushes and combats – and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; ...
9,500 TNDPrix
Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University.
‘Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security’.
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen that explores the themes of respectability, manners, and societal expectations.
The story follows the two sisters Elinor and...
9,900 TNDPrix
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself"
With an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.
Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages.
9,900 TNDPrix
With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Homer's epic tale of the journey of the Greek warrior Odysseus has been captivating readers for 2800 years.
It tells of his many adventures and enduring love for his family as he tries to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War...
9,900 TNDPrix
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Few works of American fiction have proved as enduringly popular as Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills.
Wright's novel, first published in 1907, was an instant best seller; by 1918 the book had sold over two million copies...
9,500 TNDPrix
Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton’s greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the ‘eternal triangle’ of love.
9,500 TNDPrix
"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"
From the rain forests of Almayer's Folly to the Mediterranean coast of The Rover, Conrad's first and final completed novels are played out against contrasting backgrounds.
9,500 TNDPrix
With an Introduction, Notes and Glossary by Mandy Green, University of Durham.
Translated by Michael J. Oakley.
The Aeneid is Virgil’s Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome’s legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion.
9,500 TNDPrix
The Wings of the Dove is a tale of desire and possession, of love and death. It is in essence a simple story, but one that opens up the great subject of art: life itself.
To tackle this, James moves between fairytale storylines and the startlingly modern techniques of his testing late style. An unspeakable subtext lies beneath the silence.
9,900 TNDPrix
Livres Anglais - English Books
9,900 TNDPrix
Livres Anglais - English Books
9,900 TNDPrix
With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
‘Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’
In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned.
9,900 TNDPrix