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  • av John Stuart Mill
    243,-

    John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defence of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863.

  • av Christopher Marlowe
    355,-

  • av Bram Stoker
    212,-

    To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is ""nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance."" In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns.

  • av Mary Elizabeth Braddon & Natalie M. Houston
    279,-

    The novel exemplifies "sensation fiction" in featuring a beautiful criminal heroine, an amateur detective, blackmail, arson, violence, and plenty of suspenseful action. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a broad selection of primary source material.

  • av Horatio Alger Jr.
    296,-

  • av Virginia Woolf
    193 - 206,-

    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
    470,-

    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 Herman Melville
    351,-

    A story of atmospheric Gothic horror and striking political resonance, Benito Cereno represents Herman Melville's most profound and unsettling engagement with the horrors of New World slavery.

  • av Alan Dale
    368,-

    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
    355,-

  • 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
    365,-

    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
    406,-

  • 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
    130,-

    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
     
    425,-

    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.

  • - Facing Page Translation
    av Anonymous
    279,99

    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.

  • av Nathaniel Hawthorne
    243,-

    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
    382,-

    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 Christopher Marlowe
    355,-

  • av H. G. Wells
    393,-

    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.

  • - or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World. In a series of letters
    av Frances Burney
    282,-

    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
    415,99

    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
    251,-

    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.

  •  
    381,-

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

  • av Geoffrey of Monmouth
    351,-

  • av Robert Louis Stevenson
    253,-

    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 Kate Chopin
    266,99

  • av Charlotte Dacre
    409,-

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