Keeping Their Marbles | Tiffany Jenkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.66/5 (3) The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft.Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects, and Aboriginal human remains.In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the demands for return. Contrary to the arguments of campaigners, she shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve the desired social change nor repair the wounds of history Verifica stoc
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion ♡ 12 83 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.70/5 First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906-15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and his
The Major Works ♡ 12 83 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.70/5 This collection represents the best of Coleridge's poetry from every period of his life, particularly his prolific early years, which produced The Rime of the Ancient
The Major Works ♡ 8 83 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.69/5 Milton's influence on English poetry and criticism has been incalculable, and this edition covers the full range of his poetic and political output. It includes Paradise
Major Works ♡ 10 78 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.71/5 In his tragically short life Keats wrote an astonishing number of superb poems his stature as one of the foremost poets of the Romantic movement
The Major Works ♡ 22 78 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.74/5 Byron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose name has entered the language to describe a man of brooding passion. Although his private life
The Major Works ♡ 12 78 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.71/5 Browning's work ranges from the beguiling magic of 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive
The Major Works ♡ 9 78 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.71/5 Although he had a distinguished career as a lawyer and statesman, Francis Bacon's lifelong goal was to improve and extend human knowledge. In The Advancement
Major Works ♡ 13 78 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.72/5 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature.
Finnegans Wake ♡ 11 78 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.71/5 Introduction by Finn Fordham anchors the work in conventional novelistic terms of plot and characters, identifying themes, discussing the work's origins and composition, its linguistic
The Years ♡ 10 71 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.74/5 As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the `present day' of the
The Major Works ♡ 8 71 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.73/5 Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to
Principles of Political Economy and Chapters on Socialism ♡ 16 65 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.78/5 His answers to those questions have considerable relevance today, and they serve to illustrate the enduring power and imagination of his distinctive liberal utilitarian philosophy.
The Major Works ♡ 10 65 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.76/5 Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to think that the Christian religion is true? What is truth,
The Major Works ♡ 10 65 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.76/5 Tennyson was acclaimed in his own day as the chief poetic voice of his age, and he remains one of the most highly regarded masters
The Forsyte Saga ♡ 8 65 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.76/5 The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920.
The Major Works. Including poems, plays, and critical prose ♡ 8 65 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.76/5 W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound
The Major Works ♡ 12 65 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.77/5 William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the
The Golden Pot and Other Tales ♡ 9 65 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.76/5 Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground
Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales ♡ 18 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.81/5 This selection of twenty of Hawthorne's tales is the first in paperback to present his most important short works with full annotation in one volume
Evolutionary Writings including the Autobiographies ♡ 10 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.79/5 This unique anthology brings together a collection of Darwin's most accessible and significant writings to give the best fully rounded picture of his ideas in
The Wings of the Dove ♡ 13 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.80/5 ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
The Blithedale Romance ♡ 11 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.79/5 Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin
Typhoon and Other Tales ♡ 17 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.81/5 The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon'
Sartor Resartus ♡ 13 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.80/5 This edition is the first to present the text as it originally appeared, indicating the changes Carlyle made to later editions. Appendices contain Carlyle's own
The Life of Charlotte Brontë ♡ 13 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.80/5 This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions,
Barry Lyndon ♡ 12 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.79/5 Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After service in Germany he deserts
Selected Essays ♡ 12 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.79/5 From `Of Essay Writing' to `Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences' Hume embraces a staggering range of social, cultural, political, demographic,
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life ♡ 16 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.80/5 In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated
The Female Quixote or The Adventures of Arabella ♡ 10 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.79/5 Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent
The Marble Faun ♡ 13 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.80/5 The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories ♡ 11 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 From Mrs Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by
Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, The Guilty River ♡ 10 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.81/5 Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here.
Collected Ghost Stories ♡ 18 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.83/5 Includes a lively introduction that explores James's conservative, donnish background and the character traits that contributed to the extraordinary power of his closely focused tales,
The Alchemist and Other Plays ♡ 12 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in
An Essay on the Principle of Population ♡ 16 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.83/5 Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus remains a byword for concern
French Decadent Tales ♡ 12 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 Includes well-known writers such as Maupassant, Lorrain, Mirbeau, and Villiers as well as lesser known figures such as Leon Bloy, Jean Richepin, and the Belgian
The Professor ♡ 15 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.83/5 The Professor (1845-6), written before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections ♡ 12 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of
Troilus and Criseyde ♡ 15 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 `Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays ♡ 11 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories ♡ 12 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of
Le Morte Darthur. The Winchester Manuscript ♡ 11 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner'. In a resonant
Autobiography and Other Writings ♡ 14 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women.
Tom Brown's Schooldays ♡ 13 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from
The Old Curiosity Shop ♡ 12 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 `Little Nell' cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the grotesque
Selected Writings ♡ 11 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 This is the only general anthology of Ruskin's writing currently available.Growing status of Ruskin as a major Victorian writer his centenary in 2002 prompted a
Lyrical Ballads. 1798 and 1802 ♡ 11 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 Lyrical Ballads is one of the most important collections of poetry ever published, and includes poems such as 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Lines written a
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ♡ 10 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.81/5 This revised edition of Sterne's extraordinary comic novel retains the text based on the first editions of the original nine volumes, with Sterne's later changes,
The Pickwick Papers ♡ 12 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born:
On the Origin of Species ♡ 14 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 Charles Darwin revolutionized our ideas about the natural world and our place in it by introducing the concepts of natural selection and survival of the
Leviathan ♡ 11 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications
Tales of the Elders of Ireland ♡ 13 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 The first complete translation of the late Middle Irish Acallam na SenorachComplements Thomas Kinsella's translation of the Tain, OUP,1970Relevant to all Celtic and Irish Studies
Tom Jones ♡ 8 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.81/5 Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico ♡ 10 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.81/5 Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640),
Late Victorian Gothic Tales ♡ 10 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.81/5 The only mainstream anthology to bring together the defining Gothic tales of the 1890sComplements and deepens the context for the most enduring Gothic fiction of
In a Glass Darkly ♡ 11 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.84/5 Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince'
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories ♡ 10 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.83/5 This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ♡ 12 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.84/5 Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality
The Woman in White ♡ 16 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.85/5 The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into