Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling,

Selected Poetry

As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by turns dramatist,

Selected Poetry

This selection, chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition of Keats's major works, demonstrates the remarkable growth in maturity of his verse, from early poems

Daisy Miller and Other Stories

This volume includes Daisy Miller, Pandora, The Patagonia, and Four Meetings

A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings

Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of

In a Glass Darkly

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

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

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

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

New introduction by Penny Boumelha describes the novel's controversial publication, the figure of Tess,class, and nature, and the female body, in an original and compelling

North and South

North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman,

Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his Rights of Man

Fashion: A Very Short Introduction

This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of communication. From Karl Lagerfeld's

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at his death. Speculation remains rife as to its probably conclusion; evidence suggests that, fascinated

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

`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

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

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

Autobiography and Other Writings

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

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

Selected Writings

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

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

Late Victorian Gothic Tales

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

Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales

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

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

Selected Essays

This is the only one-volume edition of Virginia Woolf's essays to bring together the best of her essays across the span of her career. Woolf's

The Blithedale Romance

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

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'

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

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,

The Female Quixote or The Adventures of Arabella

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

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 Major Works

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 Years

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

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

Major Works

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

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

Major Works

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.

The Major Works

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 Snow Queen YR CD

Part of Young Reading Series 2 for children who are reading more confidently. They use varied sentence lengths and more challenging vocabulary

Little Mermaid YR1 with CD

Part of Young Reading Series 1 for children just starting to read alone. It uses fairly short sentences and everyday vocabulary. Subjects include classic fables

Stories of Witches CD

Part of Young Reading Series 1 for children just starting to read alone. It uses fairly short sentences and everyday vocabulary. Subjects include classic fables

Refresh dein Deutsch! - Raluca Suciu

Refresh dein Deutsch!Exercitii pentru reimprospatarea cunostintelor Imbunatateste-ti cunostintele de limba germana prin exercitii de traducere de la nivelul A1 pana la B2. Exercitiile pe care

Stories of Monsters YR1 CD

Part of Young Reading Series 1 for children just starting to read alone. It uses fairly short sentences and everyday vocabulary. Subjects include classic fables

Pinocchio YR2 CD

Part of Young Reading Series 2 for children who are reading more confidently. They use varied sentence lengths and more challenging vocabulary

Gulliver's Travels YR2 CD

Part of Young Reading Series 2 for children who are reading more confidently. They use varied sentence lengths and more challenging vocabulary

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965: The Lyricism of Architecture in the Machine Age

Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory essays explore the architect's life and work, touching

The Frog Prince YR1 CD

Part of Young Reading Series 1 for children just starting to read alone. It uses fairly short sentences and everyday vocabulary. Subjects include classic fables

The Wizard of Oz YR2 CD

Part of Young Reading Series 2 for children who are reading more confidently. They use varied sentence lengths and more challenging vocabulary

Little Book of London

A handy-sized guide to England’s capital city

The Clumsy Crocodile YR2 CD

Part of Young Reading Series 2 for children who are reading more confidently. They use varied sentence lengths and more challenging vocabulary

Fyt 1st Words Sticker Book English

With over 100 colourful stickers for children to match to the pictures

Beauty and the Beast YR2 CD

Part of Young Reading Series 2 for children who are reading more confidently. They use varied sentence lengths and more challenging vocabulary