Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Cliffsnotes TM On Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
£2.95Cliffsnotes TM On Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
A groundbreaking book when it was first published, <b><i>Sister Carrie</i></b> is about a young woman who runs to the big city in search of adventure. She finds it aplenty, and her transgressions are numerous. This was one of the books that began the group of writers known as the Realists. .
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Selected stories
£24.95Selected stories
Selected Stories by Franz Kafka offers new renderings of the author’s finest work. Mark Harman’s English translations convey the uniqueness of Kafka’s German-the wit, irony, and cadence. Expert annotations illuminate Kafka’s cultural allusions and wordplay, while a biographical introduction places the man and his work in historical context.
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The Penguin book of elegy
£40.00The Penguin book of elegy
Elegy is among the world’s oldest forms of literature: a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. In perhaps the purest instance of art’s fundamental ‘impulse to preserve’ (Philip Larkin), it gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate for long, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In ‘The Penguin Book of Elegy’, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, selecting the best and most significant poems and poets from the Classical roots of elegy, and from its Renaissance revival down to the present day.
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