Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Fierce Bad Rabbits
£14.99Fierce Bad Rabbits
‘Fierce Bad Rabbits’ takes us on an eye-opening journey in a pea-green boat through the history of picture books. From Edward Lear through to Beatrix Potter and contemporary picture books like ‘Stick Man’, Clare Pollard shines a light on some of our best-loved childhood stories, their histories and what they really mean. Because the best picture books are far more complex than they seem – and darker too. Monsters can gobble up children and go unnoticed, power is not always used wisely, and the wild things are closer than you think. Sparkling with wit, magic and nostalgia, ‘Fierce Bad Rabbits’ weaves in tales from Clare’s own childhood, and her re-readings as a parent, with fascinating facts and theories about the authors behind the books. Introducing you to new treasures while bringing your childhood favourites to vivid life, it will make you see even stories you’ve read a hundred times afresh.
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Moby-Dick
£7.99Moby-Dick
This edition of Herman Melville’s monumental novel includes a new introduction that is attentive both to the rich literary history of Moby-Dick, and to the book’s sharp relevance to issues of environmentalism, disability, power, race, and sexuality today.
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Sense and Sensibility
£4.99Sense and Sensibility
In Jane Austen’s first published novel, her portrait of two heroines’ parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope offers a powerful analysis of how women were shaped by the claustrophobic society they had to survive. This new edition includes a new introduction, and revised notes and bibliography.
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The Anna Karenina Fix
£9.99The Anna Karenina Fix
A literary self-help memoir about using the Russian classics to find the answer to life’s most important questions. Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels: from not being sure what to do with your life to being in love with someone who doesn’t love you back enough, or being socially anxious about your appearance. This is a literary self-help memoir, with examples from the author’s own life that reflect the lessons of literature, only in a much less poetic way than Tolstoy probably intended, and with an emphasis on being excessively paranoid about having an emerging moustache on your upper lip, just like Natasha in ‘War and Peace’.
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The Novels of Jane Austen
£10.99The Novels of Jane Austen
This is one of a complete set of Jane Austen’s novels collating the editions published during the author’s lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts. The books are illustrated with 19th-century plates and incorporate revisions by experts in the light of subsequent research.;The set consists of “Pride and Prejudice”, “Sense and Sensibility”, “Mansfield Park”, “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion”, “Emma” and “Minor Works”.
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The Three-Cornered Hat
£4.99The Three-Cornered Hat
Each book in the “Everyman” series has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology of life and times of the author, plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response.
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William Blake Vs the World
£10.99William Blake Vs the World
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ‘Jerusalem’, William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition and he worked without reward, mocked, dismissed, and misinterpreted. Yet from his ignoble end in a pauper’s grave, Blake now occupies a unique position – an artist that unites and attracts people from all corners of society, and a rare inclusive symbol of English identity. Blake famously experienced visions, and it is these that shaped his attitude to politics, sex, religion, society, and art. In ‘William Blake vs the World’ we return to a world of riots, revolutions, and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics, and comparative religion.
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