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Author: Frances Gray
Publisher: Pearson UK
Published: 2014-07-23
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 144797784X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPacked full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, 'York Notes' will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel.
Author: F. R. Leavis
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-11-03
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0571280803
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author's inclusion in any list of the finest novelists. In the course of his argument he adds D. H. Lawrence to the pantheon, and singles out Hard Times as Dickens' one 'completely serious work of art'; while Lawrence Sterne, Henry Fielding, and James Joyce are among those weighed in the balance and found wanting. '[Leavis] gave one a new idea of what it meant to read... the whole business of criticism acquired a new and exhilarating quality.' Frank Kermode, London Review of Books
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0674057929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited, heralding the end of a repressive era. Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, Wilde’s uncensored typescript is published here for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition.
Author: Karl Beckson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0415159520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOscar Wilde (1854-1900). British dramatist whose works and wit often attracted scandalized protest. Writings include: The Happy Prince, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Author: Meera Syal
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0007378521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNine-year-old Meena can’t wait to grow up and break free from her parents. But, as the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the mining village of Tollington, her struggle for independence is different from most.
Author: Robert Browning
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-11
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Bishop Blougram's Apology" is a long poem by the English poet Robert Browning. It takes the form of a sermon spoken by Bishop Blougram to his son, Gerald, on the importance of religion in their daily lives. It also powerfully illustrates a sense of duty and morality that is seen as being more valuable than reason.
Author: Peter Raby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-10-16
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521479875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the twentieth century. Part One places Wilde's work within the cultural and historical context of his time and includes an opening essay by Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland. Further chapters also examine Wilde and the Victorians and his image as a Dandy. Part Two looks at Wilde's essential work as playwright and general writer, including his poetry, critiques, and fiction, and provides detailed analysis of such key works as Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest among others. The third group of essays examines the themes and factors which shaped Wilde's work and includes Wilde and his view of the Victorian woman, Wilde's sexual identities, and interpreting Wilde on stage. This 1997 volume also contains a detailed chronology of Wilde's work, a guide to further reading, and illustrations from important productions.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1438131054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an examination of the use of the taboo in classic literary works.
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2006-10-17
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0307264882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.
Author: Graham Hough
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-02-26
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1000581233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1947, The Last Romantics elucidates on the major preoccupations of the leaders of thought in late Victorian times such as the arts and their relation to religion and the social order. The aim is to trace their thoughts and feelings and study the relevance of the thoughts to the author's time. This leads author to examine some aesthetic theories of Ruskin, Rosetti, Morris, Pater and finally Yeats, and includes discussions on art and French literature. This book will be of interest to students of Romantic literature.
