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When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing lif...

The book explores and introduces the world of Science Fiction (SF) by women writers, particularly Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butle...

During the last few centuries women writers have considerably widened and deepened the areas of human experience—with their sharp, feminine percept...

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the greatest English Romantic poets, and is regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language, and o...

The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), is an exquisite portrait of village life whose idealization of the countryside, where sentimental moralizing, and me...

A defence of poetry and other essays contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Shelley's argume...

The new series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition of the emerging voice of...

Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associat...

First published in 1912 by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, the book presents studies by Sarah Julie Mary Suddard on the works of Keats,...

This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It id...

Eating a nutritious diet, taking healthy drinks, keeping hygienic environment, exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight, getting eight ho...

One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seri...

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates how music reflects and dee...

Climate change has been fueling migration, and, according to some policy reports, there could more than one billion climate migrants/refugees acros...

An enthralling retelling of Shakespeare's twenty masterpieces, Tales from Shakespeare is a real feast of simple words flavoured with those tasty ti...

Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, o...

Pope to Burney, 1714-1779, Scriblerians to Bluestocking by Moyra Haslett, 113761207X, 9781137612076, Palgr Mac

The Secret Garden is one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children’s literature, which has remained a firm favorite with children th...

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British a...

Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of...

One of the best-known works of Bradley, the present volume consists of lectures delivered during the author’s tenure of the Chair of Poetry (1901-1...

To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley...