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Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on defoe's experience of the topography and social co...

Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novels. It gained popularity among children and adul...

Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English no...

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, published in 1858 in is R.M. Ballantyne’s most famous novel. It is one of the pioneer works of juven...

The book is a pioneering attempt to study Indian Botany, The author is a well known authority on the subject. The book will be found of great inter...

James Joyce was and remains unique among novelists for whatever he published was a masterpiece. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a key wo...

For nearly 200 years, Americans have pinned the democratic character of their system on elections. In many ways, we have become an election-crazed ...

The seventeen essays that constitute this volume cover a wide range of authors across space and time. Starting chronologically with Christopher Mar...

Modern American literature is too vast and varied to be studied between the covers of a single book. Although limited by space, a sincere effort ha...

Since its first publication in February 1897 Herford’s The Age of Wordsworth has remained and continues to remain a basic book on European Romantic...

Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical though...

One of the world's most famous philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores difficult questions in this important and engaging book. Is it still possibl...

Scott’s most beloved and exciting adventure, Ivanhoe is a vivid recreation of Norman-Saxon conflict in 12th century England. Framing a royal myth o...

Dr. Faustus is not only the masterpiece of Marlowe, it is one of the most influential of Elizabethan plays. In it, Marlowe has taken one of the bes...

... The Most Exhaustive And Important In Its Field... Thus, The Judgment Of An Outstanding 19Th Century Literary Figure (See Below On Ward S Master...

Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To the Lighthouse, was widely praised and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is considered among the...

With a new introduction by Andrew Roberts. 'A penetrating interpretation...No one with a serious interest in the Napoleonic period can afford to ig...

A great novelist, a learned and wise critic, and a charming short-story writer—can these three reside in a single person? Yes, but, of course, in a...

REVIEWS FROM HARDBACK EDITION: 'A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past....