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Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.
De Profundis is Wilde’s eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde’s literary executor.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ‘heroine whom no one but myself will much like’, but Emma is irresistible. ‘Handsome, clever, and rich’, Emma is also an ‘imaginist’, ‘on fire with speculation and foresight’. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere’s Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his...
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy’s novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue.
A Room of One’s Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury.
‘Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings…’
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys.
‘My name is Sherlock Holmes. it is my business to know what other people don’t know’.
’The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant detective the readers of The Strand Magazine.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
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.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
"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.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole, with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous ‘No Popery’ riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.
The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling’s early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations,...
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Edited and introduced by Linden Peach, Professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of Wales, Cardiff.
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World...
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
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.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury.
In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull.
The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell’s shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis
In this famous story of seduction, two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young married woman and a fifteen year old girl who has only just emerged from the convent.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher.
George Eliot’s final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: ‘Of all my books I like this the best’. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author’s own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its...
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Michael Irwin, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kent, Canterbury.
The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a ‘sensation novel’ in the mode of Wilkie Collins.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.
Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole.
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous,...
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Karl Ashley Smith, University of St Andrews.
Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad’s shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University.
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits – her clothes, her charities and her gambling.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
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; ...
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury.
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction by Petr Barta, University of Kent.
An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of ‘the great Father of Waters’.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.
With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens’ working title for the novel, Nobody’s Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
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.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.,
Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. His stories of evolving American society are unflinchingly realistic and shrewdly ironic.
Livres Anglais - English Books
Livres Anglais - English Books
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele.
Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens’ comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author’s development as he began to delve deeper into the ‘springs of character’.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue.
Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century.