Products In Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 (Total Products 300, Showing: 1 -> 50)
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The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth ...
During her stay in Worthing in late 1805 Jane Austen became friends with Edward Ogle, who was the driving force behind the chaotic little town's trans...
***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most form...
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he ...
What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage?
What do the characters call each other, and why?
And which important Austen characters never sp...
Level: KS2Subject: EnglishIncluding a combination of activities, examples and illustrations, this KS2 English activity book makes learning more enjoya...
Johannes Brahms's much-loved solo songs continue to be enjoyed in recordings and on recital stages all over the world. This book provides a wealth of ...
Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron wrote one wet summer in Switz...
In their celebration of 'little matters' - the regular round of visiting, dining out, drinking tea, of reading and walking to the shops and sending to...
Rufus Hallmark's book explores Robert Schumann's beloved yet controversial song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on ...
Pray, pray be composed, cried Elinor, and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.
For Elinor Dash...
Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When writer Eilert Loevborg, an...
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of title...
Exam Board: AQA A, AQA B, OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Enable students to achi...
In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we...
Modernism is the movement which attempts to redefine the relationship between art and life, seeking to establish a mode of thought to account for new ...
By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had create...
The Communist Manifesto,is the most influential political call-to-arms ever written. In the century and a half since its publication the world has bee...
This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India...
Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age.Edward Lea...
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...these fictional masterpieces are all recognised as landmarks of English Literature. Still ...
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories is the ...
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Just as gripping as the original...
A Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two ...
Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Con...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely studied works of English literature, and Frankenstein's creature is a key figure in the popular ...
A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939...
'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' Rebecca Stott, author of In t...
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions the...
From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambitious historical f...
Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the Penguin Classics edition of The Count o...
'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.'
Sharpe's London Magazine (Ju...
'he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked - Mamma, why are you so wicked? '
The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark secret...
Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animal...
The nineteenth century was one of the most remarkable periods in the history of philosophy and a period of great intellectual, social, and scientific ...
`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alon...
A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justif...
This text traces the evolution of the Romantic approach to literary criticism and compares it to the other methods which prevailed in the early 19th century.
'I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind ...'
Discovered on the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff is rescued by Mr Earnshaw and taken to the ...
Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle...
Perhaps no figure better embodies the transi...
In this comprehensive assessment of Kant's metaethics, Frederick Rauscher shows that Kant is a moral idealist rather than a moral realist and argues t...
This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontės commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontė's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensi...
'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.'
Gabriel Oak is on...
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. ...
Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of th...
'The only English utopia since More's that deserves to be remembered as literature.'
News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William...
Everything you need to know about Persuasion to succeed in your A Level or undergraduate studies.
Whether you're an A Level student or an undergraduat...
In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed an...
'I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage to shock people.'
Elizabeth Gaskell's second novel challenged contemporary so...
Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword.'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog know...