The celebrated Amores, comprising the four poems The Loves, The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love are the product of Ovid's late youth and jaunty middle age. In these verses...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Tolstoy Leo
ISBN:9781847491428
A brand-new translation of Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy Tolstoy's first published work, completed in 1856, recounts his early life up to his university days. These are not memoirs in the strict sense of the word...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:364
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Cavalcanti Guido
ISBN:9781847491404
""With all his gravity, he has the secret of lightness." --Italo Calvino" Guido Cavalcanti is best known to English readers through the essays...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Parini Giuseppe
ISBN:9780714543352
One of the most studied and popular works of Italian literature, Giuseppe Parini's "The Day" has been unjustly neglected in the English-speaking countries. This edition reissue of Herbert Morris Bower's beautiful verse translation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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FlaubertGustave
ISBN:9781847491657
An insightful and playful look at nineteenth-century values and talking points, this dictionary will provide enduring entertainment and prove relevant in any age"" A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:123
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Pushkin Alexander
ISBN:9781847491602
Addressing fundamental themes such as the conflicts between art, reality, and social convention, "Eugene Onegin" was the founding text of modern Russian literature When the Romantic and world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St. Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:413
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O'Brien Fitz-James
ISBN:9780714543369
In the field of supernatural and fantastic literature, certain names come readily to mind--E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft--but the name of Fitz-James O'Brien has been unjustly overlooked and nearly forgotten since his premature death in 1862 during the Civil War. "The Diamond Lens...more details Format:Paperback Pages:152
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Turgenev Ivan
ISBN:9781847491459
""Turgenev to me is the greatest writer there ever was." --Ernest Hemingway" Arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:235
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Dickens Charles
ISBN:9781847491411
Hard-biting satire, moving drama, and exuberant comedy find a very succinct and powerful expression in Dickens' critique of industrial society Dickens illustrates the condition of England through his depiction of the fictional northern city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:283
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Renard Jules
ISBN:9781847491701
""Directly, or indirectly, Renard is at the origin of contemporary literature." --"Jean-Paul Sartre A delightful variation on the long tradition of bestiary writing...more details Format:Hardback Pages:144
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Dostoevky Fyodor
ISBN:9781847491503
A new translation of one of the most brilliant achievements of Russian literature's Golden Age "Only beauty can save the world," proclaims the hero of "The Idiot...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:640
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Alighieri Dante
ISBN:9781847491398
A prize-winning translator presents a new verse translation of one of the most popular books of all time Dante's dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption--and his encounter with devils...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:391
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PucciniGiacomo
ISBN:9781847495402
Puccini's masterpiece is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception...more details Format:Paperback Pages:235
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DickensCharles
ISBN:9781847491664
An unusual children's classic from the author of "A Christmas "Carol gives a retelling of the Christ story in an accessible and amusing manner...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:95
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Lawrence DH
ISBN:9781847491626
A classic Lawrence novel of sensual awakening and the yearning for freedom and winner of the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize The daughter of well-to-do trades people in the fictional mining town of Woodhouse...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:450
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Austen Jane
ISBN:9781847491367
Published in 1814, this nuanced examination of the social hierarchy of Jane Austen's day contains more than enough wit, charm, and human drama to enchant readers of any era Born into a poor family...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:402
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Ovid
ISBN:9780714543314
One of the greatest and most influential texts of antiquity, the Metamorphoses is universally regarded as Ovid's highest poetical achievement. Divided into 15 books dealing with the creation of the world...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Baudelaire Charles
ISBN:9781847491497
A brand new translation, with dual text, of one of the founding texts of literary modernism Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:103
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Pirandello Luigi
ISBN:9781847491442
The first volume of the complete theatrical works by one of the greatest and influential Italian authors of the 20th century "Whatever is a reality today...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:586
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ConstantBenjamin
ISBN:9781847491640
A spirited look at life on the eve of the nineteenth century and Romantic sensibilities Published posthumously, "The Red Notebook" is an autobiographical account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel "Adolphe." It eloquently relates both Benjamin Constant's European travels and readings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:68
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Various
ISBN:9780714543666
Collecting writings from well-known figures such as John Knox and James VI through to the many lesser-known authors who flourished towards the end of the 17th century...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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von Grimmelshausen HJC
ISBN:9780714543581
The towering achievement of the earliest novelist in the German language, this novel charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through the horrors of battle...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN:9781847491572
Partly autobiographical, and the prototype for many later Romantic works in its depiction of the sensitive, tortured Romantic hero, Goethe's seminal classic is a timeless masterpiece of world literature Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:153
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Powys Llewellyn
ISBN:9781847491695
Combining poignancy and sincerity with irony and subversiveness, a selection of essays--including one published for the first time here in more than 60 years This new selection of Llewelyn Powys's essays attempts to illustrate both the evolution of the author's thought and writing and the incredible breadth and variety of his interests...more details Format:Paperback Pages:202
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Dickens Charles
ISBN:9780714543338
Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection gathers them together in one volume...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Stevenson Robert Louis
ISBN:9780714543611
This volume contains all of Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural short stories, showcasing both his mastery of the genre and his interest in the otherworldly and the strange ways the human brain can distort reality. They include "The Body Snatchers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:184
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Scott Walter
ISBN:9780714543635
One of the main forces in early 19th century literature, Sir Walter Scott was not only among the greatest novelists of his time, but influenced generations of writers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Giacomo Puccini
ISBN:9781847495389
"Tosca," one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthrall the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:166
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de La Motte-Fouque FHK
ISBN:9780714543550
When the knight Huldbrand finds shelter at an old fisherman's cottage outside a haunted forest, he encounters and falls in love with his host's adopted daughter...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128