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  • av Immanuel Kant
    230,-

    Kant's landmark essay, "On Perpetual Peace," is as timely, relevant, and inspiring today as when it was first written over 200 years ago. In it, we find a forward-looking vision of a world respectful of human rights, dominated by liberal democracies, and united in a cosmopolitan federation of diverse peoples. This book features a fresh and vigorous translation of Kant's essay by Ian Johnston.

  • av Mark Twain
    257,-

    A major scholar of Mark Twain contextualizes one of the most debated novels in American history in this new edition.

  • av Virginia Woolf
    176 - 210,-

    Woolf's 1925 novel, Mrs. Dalloway, is about the casualties of early twentieth-century life, and she explores the gendered forms of mental illness, and the social repercussions of feminism, homosexuality, and colonialism. This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction.

  • - Portraits and Other Poems
    av Augusta Webster
    430,-

    Although Augusta Webster was widely praised in her own time, Webster''s poetry all but disappeared in the early 20th century. This collection brings together a selection of her best work including monologues, lyrics and sonnets.'

  • av Alan Dale
    351,-

    The first novel in English to explicitly explore the subject of male homosexuality. Written by a British emigre to America, the New York theatre critic Alfred J. Cohen, under the pseudonym of ""Alan Dale"", this first-person narrative is told by a young Englishwoman, Elsie Bouverie, who gradually discovers that her new husband, Arthur Ravener, is romantically involved with another man.

  • av Margaret Harkness
    323,-

  • av Arnold Bennett
    294,-

    This novel, out of print for decades, raises serious questions about the possibilities for a truly cosmopolitan world, offering a dazzling picture of what this would look like. The historical appendices to this edition include extensive photographs and documents from the history of the Savoy Hotel (the model for the Grand Babylon) and material on the film version.

  • av Ignatius Sancho
    340,-

    The correspondence of one of the most important writers of African descent in the eighteenth century is gathered in Vincent Carretta's new edition.

  • av William Godwin
    433,-

  • av Oscar Wilde
    281,-

    Salome is Oscar Wilde's most experimental - and controversial - play. None, however, could deny the importance of Wilde's creation. This edition uses the English translation by Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Appendices detail the play's sources and provide extensive materials on its contemporary reception and dramatic productions.

  • av Arthur Conan Doyle
    134,-

    Presents the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year, it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery and human greed.

  • - A Tale
     
    396,-

    The appendices, which include contemporary reviews of the novel, historical documents on race and inheritance in Jamaica, and examples of other women of colour in early British prose fiction, will further inspire readers to rethink issues of race, gender, class, and empire from an African woman's perspective.

  • av Nathaniel Hawthorne
    251,-

    The story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet ""A"" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale. Set in mid-seventeenth- century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, puritanism, and revenge is one of the classics of American literature.

  • av Unca Eliza Winkfield
    294,-

    One of the earliest novelistic efforts to articulate an American identity, and more specifically to investigate what that identity might promise for women. This second edition has been updated throughout and includes a greatly expanded selection of historical materials on castaway narratives and the cultural context of colonial America.

  • - Facing Page Translation
    av Anonymous
    351,-

    R.M. Liuzza's translation of Beowulf, first published by Broadview in 1999, has been widely praised for its accuracy and beauty. The facing-page translation is accompanied in this edition by genealogical charts, historical summaries, and a glossary of proper names. Historical appendices include related legends, stories, and religious writings.

  • av H. G. Wells
    381,-

    Historical documents expand on the novel's autobiographical dimension with letters between Wells and Amber Reeves, the model for Ann Veronica; also included are materials on the suffrage movement, attempts to censor the novel, and the New Woman.

  • - Facing Page Translation
    av Anonymous
    276,-

    The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to contemporary readers. This edition offers the original text together with a facing-page translation. James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal rendering in modern English.

  • - or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World. In a series of letters
    av Frances Burney
    293,-

    The Broadview edition is based on the second edition of the novel (1779), which incorporates Burney's revisions and corrections. Its appendices include contemporary reviews of Evelina as well as eighteenth-century works on the family and on comedy.

  • av Mary Shelley
    450,-

    Originally published in 1823, Valperga is probably Mary Shelley's most neglected novel. Set in 14th-century Italy, it represents a merging of historical romance and the literature of sentiment. Incorporating intriguing feminist elements, this absorbing novel shows Shelley as a complex and intellectually astute thinker.

  • av Eliza Haywood
    224,-

    This collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the well-known novella Fantomina (1725) along with three other short, engaging Haywood works. Also includes an introduction that focuses on Haywood's life and career and on the status of prose fiction in the early eighteenth century, and appendices of contextual materials from the period.

  • av Daniel Defoe
    299,-

    Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote a new fiction, the story of an English pirate whose success eclipsed every buccaneer the Atlantic world had seen. Featuring a haunted, unreliable narrator, Captain Singleton is a tale of loneliness, brotherhood, and the lust for profit.

  •  
    363,-

    A new edition of a fascinating, previously unavailable fantasy of 18th century Pacific exploration.

  • av James Joyce
    267,-

    This group of fifteen brief narratives connected by a place and a time, was written when James Joyce was a young graduate of University College. With great subtlety and artistic restraint, Joyce suggests what lies beneath the pieties of Dublin society and its surface drive for respectability, suggesting the difficulties and despairs that were being endured on a daily basis in homes, pubs, streets, and offices.

  • av Geoffrey of Monmouth
    336,-

  • av Robert Louis Stevenson
    222,-

    This Broadview edition provides a fascinating selection of contextual material, including contemporary reviews of the novel, Stevenson's essay ""A Chapter on Dreams,"" and excerpts from the 1887 stage version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

  • av Charlotte Smith
    468,-

    The novel and appendices. Appendices include primary source material relating to: the novel's reception; women, marriage and work; and landscape in the eighteenth-century fiction. Mary Hays' biographical writing on Smith is also included, as is selected correspondence.

  • - The Major Poetic Works (1784-1807)
    av Charlotte Smith
    351,-

  • - Or, The History of a Young Lady
    av Samuel Richardson
    420,-

    Tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuoso Clarissa Harlowe's pursuit and abduction by the rake Robert Lovelace. The epistolary structure creates layered and fully realized characters, as well as an intriguing uncertainty about the reliability of the various 'narrators'.

  • av Kate Chopin
    257,-

  • av Charlotte Dacre
    393,-

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