When a handsome stranger arrives at the family orchard, Tatyana’s world is turned upside-down. It’s been ages since she’s felt an attraction like this. And yet, when she confesses her love, the enigmatic Eugene Onegin rips her heart to shreds. Years later, when they meet again, will Eugene surrender to his long-buried emotions? Or will a tragic coolness be his downfall? A Modern Adaptation of the Verse Novel “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin.
This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed, tracing sources and genealogies which inform even contemporary descriptions of the subcontinent. Using idolatry as a concept-metaphor, the book traverses an ambitious path through the works of William Jones, James Mill, Friedrich Max Müller, John Ruskin, Alice Perrin, E. M. Forster, Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee. It reveals how religion and paganism, history and literature, Oriental thought and Western metaphysics, and social reform and education were unfolded and debated by them. The author underlines how idolatry, irrationality and social disorder came to be linked by discourses informed by Enlightenment, missionary rhetoric and colonial reason. This book will appeal to scholars and researchers in history, anthropology, literature, culture studies, philosophy, religion, sociology and South Asian studies as well as anyone interested in colonial studies and histories of the Enlightenment.
One of the most celebrated authors of his time, E. M. Forster produced significant novels that examined the social divide in early 20th-century British society. This comprehensive eBook presents the most complete collection possible of E. M. Forster’s works in the US, with almost all of the fiction, rare stories and essays, numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 3) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Forster’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 5 novels available to US readers, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for short stories * A generous selection of Forster’s non-fiction, including seminal essays on literary themes * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with 4 short stories, many essays and 2 travel books CONTENTS: The Novels Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) The Longest Journey (1907) A Room with a View (1908) Howards End (1910) A Passage to India (1924) The Shorter Fiction The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories (1911) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Alexandria: A History and Guide (1922) Pharos and Pharillon (1923) Miscellaneous Essays
In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a variety of narratives from the eras of Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and the Contemporary period, and including new theories to explain the interactions that occur between legalistic courtroom justice and the vigilante variety, Revenge versus Legality analyzes some of the main obstacles to justice, ranging from judicial corruption, to racism and imperialism. The book culminates in a consideration of that form of crime or lawlessness that poses the most serious threat to the rule of law: vigilante justice masquerading as legality. With its mixture of politics, literature, law, and film, this lively and accessible book offers a timely reflection on the enduring phenomenon of revenge.
The setting of A Passage to India is the British Raj, at a time of racial tension heightened by the burgeoning Indian independence movement. Adela Quested, a young British subject, is visiting India to decide whether to marry a suitor who works there as a city magistrate. During her visit, a local physician, Aziz, is accused of assaulting her. His trial brings tensions between the British rulers and their Indian subjects to a head. The novel is a complex exploration of colonialism, written at a time when the popular portrayal of the Indian continent was of mystery and savagery. Forster humanized the Indian people for his at-home British audience, highlighting the damage that colonialism caused not just to interpersonal relationships, but to society at large. On the other hand, some modern scholars view the failure of the human relationships in the book as suggesting a fundamental “otherness” between the two cultures: a gulf across which the disparate cultures can only see each other’s shadows. In any case, the novel generated—and continues to generate—an abundant amount of critical analysis. A Passage to India is the last novel Forster published in his lifetime, and it frequently appears in “best-of” lists of literature: The Modern Library selected it as one of its 100 great works of the 20th century, Time magazine included it in its “All Time 100 Novels” list, and it won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
The English fiction writer and essayist E. M. Forster is noted for his novels that examine class difference and hypocrisy. Famous masterpieces such as ‘A Room with a View’, ‘Howards End’ and ‘A Passage to India’ were recognised for their brilliance of perception and penetrating social commentary, winning Forster great success and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 separate years. In addition to a large body of essays and short stories, Forster wrote a biography of his great-aunt, Marianne Thornton, a vivid documentary account of his Indian experiences, ‘The Hill of Devi’, and ‘Maurice’, a novel with a homosexual theme, published posthumously, but written many years before. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Forster’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Forster’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All the novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting * Rare short story collections, digitised here for the first time * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Rare non-fiction works available in no other collection * Forster’s complete travel writing, including the seminal ‘The Hill of Devi, charting the author’s Indian adventures — first time in digital print * The author’s biography of his beloved great-aunt, Marianne Thornton * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: a few minor posthumous essays, published many years after Forster’s death, cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. CONTENTS: The Novels Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) The Longest Journey (1907) A Room with a View (1908) Howards End (1910) A Passage to India (1924) Maurice (1971) The Shorter Fiction The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories (1911) The Eternal Moment and Other Stories (1928) The Life to Come and Other Stories (1972) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Alexandria: A History and Guide (1922) Pharos and Pharillon (1923) Aspects of the Novel (1927) Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1934) Abinger Harvest (1936) Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) The Hill of Devi (1953) Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography (1956)
Patrick Parrinder traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the contemporary novels of immigration. He provides both a comprehensive survey and a new interpretation of the importance of the English novel.
Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.
