2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,A Child's History of England,Paperback,9781847188786,5.99,"Dickens's self-imposed task in A Child's History of England makes it particularly revealing of his attitudes to history, morality (personal and social), children and education. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,A Christmas Carol (and other works),Paperback,9781847189110,9.99,"A Christmas Carol is perhaps Dickens's single best-known and most-loved work. Here, it is coupled with four other short pieces: The Battle of Life, The Cricket on the Hearth, Doctor Marigold and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,A Desert Drama,Paperback,9781847189417,7.99,"A Desert Drama, being the Tragedy of the 'Korosko' is a novel set among late-Victorian tourists in Egypt, and concerning abduction and the then still exotic and unknown peoples of the Upper Nile. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,"A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus",Paperback,9781847189424,9.99,"A Duet is a novel, set in Conan Doyle's own time, written partly in the epistolary form he sought to revive after a century of disuse and which was also related to the self-conscious textuality of the late-Victorian urban Gothic. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,A Footnote to History and Vailima Papers,Paperback,9781847187598,6.99,"This volume contains various historical and descriptive writings concerned immediately with the conditions and international relations Stevenson discovered while a resident in Samoa, including a series of letters to English newspapers which attracted considerable attention at the time. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Thomas Hardy,A Laodicean,Paperback,9781847188519,5.99,"Despite its happy ending, unusual in Hardy's mature novels, A Laodicean is a typically uncompromising examination of the world as Hardy found it, specifically denominational rivalry, medievalism and novelistic attitudes to marriage. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,American Notes,Paperback,9781847188724,7.99,"This account of Dickens' first tour of the United States was deeply, and probably to some extent deliberately, controversial on its first publication. It shifts between specific observation and outspoken general comment on the USA at the time. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,An Autobiography,Paperback,9781847186652,6.49,"Trollope’s autobiography, despite causing him problems with critics after his death for his attitudes to writing, is considered one of the most significant autobiographies of its period. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,An Eye for an Eye and Aaron Trow,Paperback,9781847187000,6.99,"An Eye for an Eye is a grimly realistic yet Gothic-tinged study of social divisions - of class, church and generation. Aaron Trow, also Gothic-tinged, is a disturbingly stark short story. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey,Paperback,9781847187611,5.99,"This volume contains two early pieces of travel writing by Stevenson, both concerning parts of continental Western Europe and describing travels carried out in much more eccentric ways than most of the travel books of the day. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,An Old Man's Love,Paperback,9781847187192,11.99,"An Old Man's Love is a well-observed novelistic exploration of the Victorian social realities of emigration, bereavement and social networks. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,A Tale of Two Cities,Paperback,9781847189219,5.99,"A Tale of Two Cities is unusual among Dickens's novels both for its historical setting and its strong political stance, dealing as it does with the French Revolution. Nonetheless, it has the same qualities as fiction, and popularity, as his other major novels. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Ballads,Paperback,9781847188106,9.99,"Thackeray's production of poetry - both within longer prose works and as independent pieces published in magazines - is often neglected. This volume collects the poems he termed 'Ballads': usually comic, often sharply satiric. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Barchester Towers,Paperback,9781847186737,6.49,"Barchester Towers is the second of the Barchester Chronicles novels which are Trollope's best-known and most popular works, a work containing much sharp commentary on the influence of church politics and media influences in Victorian Britain despite its unassuming tone and reputation. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Barnaby Rudge vol. I,Paperback,9781847188731,6.99,"Barnaby Rudge is unusual among Dickens's oeuvre in being a historical novel; set amidst the 1780 anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, it deals seriously and feelingly with issues of religious division and the death penalty as well as containing a gallery of memorable characters. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Barnaby Rudge vol. II,Paperback,9781847188748,6.99,"Barnaby Rudge is unusual among Dickens's oeuvre in being a historical novel; set amidst the 1780 anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, it deals seriously and feelingly with issues of religious division and the death penalty as well as containing a gallery of memorable characters. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Barry Lyndon,Paperback,9781847188113,9.99,"Barry Lyndon is Thackeray's first novel, already displaying the sharp characterisation and vigorous satire that were to make his later novels so successful. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Bleak House vol. I,Paperback,9781847188755,9.99,"Bleak House has perhaps the widest sweep of any of Dickens's novels, a heartfelt critique along a cross-section of English society, centring on the abuses of the legal system and social prejudice. It is among his greatest novels. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Bleak House vol. II,Paperback,9781847188762,9.99,"Bleak House has perhaps the widest sweep of any of Dickens's novels, a heartfelt critique along a cross-section of English society, centring on the abuses of the legal system and social prejudice. It is among his greatest novels. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Can You Forgive Her? Volume I,Paperback,9781847186829,6.99,"Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the Palliser sequence of politically-oriented novels which are counted among Trollope's greatest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Can You Forgive Her? Volume II,Paperback,9781847186836,6.99,"Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the Palliser sequence of politically-oriented novels which are counted among Trollope's greatest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Castle Richmond,Paperback,9781847186874,11.99,"Castle Richmond was Trollope's return to writing novels set in Ireland after his first two books, a return sadly curtailed by the prejudice of contemporary English readers. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Catherine: a Story and Cox's Diary,Paperback,9781847188144,9.99,"Catherine is a vigorous satire on the Newgate novel, a genre fashionable in the early Victorian period. It is here printed with Cox's Diary, a brief satire on the equally voguish and improbable rags-to-riches stories that also attracted great popular following for a while. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Catriona,Paperback,9781847187505,7.99,"Catriona is Stevenson's sequel (written some years later) to the highly successful Kidnapped. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Collected Poems,Paperback,9781847189806,9.99,"This volume contains all of Conan Doyle's now largely neglected poetry, here collected in one volume for the first time, plus a late, allegorical one-act play, The Journey. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Cousin Henry,Paperback,9781847186904,6.99,"Cousin Henry is a concise dramatic novel of disputed inheritance, multiple wills, gossip and attempted fraud. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Matthew Arnold,Culture and Anarchy and Celtic Literature,Paperback,9781847189882,8.99,"Culture and Anarchy is considered Arnold's masterpiece, a consideration of the idea of culture leading out to sweeping critiques of ninenteenth-century British social, political, ecclesiastical and educational issues. It is here coupled with his essay on Celtic Literature, which extends a principal concern with literature ot touch on philology, national character and education. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Danger! and Other Stories,Paperback,9781847189400,5.99,"The short stories in this volume have perhaps the widest range of any in Conan Doyle's oeuvre, from a prediction of devastating submarine blockade, to Regency bucks, to hunting creatures of the upper atmosphere from aeroplanes. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,David Copperfield vol.I,Paperback,9781847189264,5.99,"David Copperfield is Dickens's most autobiographical novel, revealing of his own early life but also a masterpiece as a novel. It has been highly popular from its first publication. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,David Copperfield vol.II,Paperback,9781847189356,5.99,"David Copperfield is Dickens's most autobiographical novel, revealing of his own early life but also a masterpiece as a novel. It has been highly popular from its first publication. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Detective and Mystery Stories,Paperback,9781847189370,11.99,"This volume contains ones of the sets of linked short stories that Conan Doyle centred on his character of Brigadier Gerard, and six short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. The other is also available in a volume from CSP. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Doctor Thorne Volume I,Paperback,9781847186911,5.99,"Doctor Thorne carries the Barchester Chronicles sequence of novels away from the Church, where the earlier volumes had been set, and towards social commentary and even comedy of manners. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Doctor Thorne Volume II,Paperback,9781847186935,5.99,"Doctor Thorne carries the Barchester Chronicles sequence of novels away from the Church, where the earlier volumes had been set, and towards social commentary and even comedy of manners. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Dombey and Son vol. I,Paperback,9781847189240,5.99,"Dombey and Son is considered Dickens's first mature novel, a carefully-planned whole treating thoughtfully and movingly with pride, family relations and desire for profit. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Dombey and Son vol. II,Paperback,9781847189257,5.99,"Dombey and Son is considered Dickens's first mature novel, a carefully-planned whole treating thoughtfully and movingly with pride, family relations and desire for profit. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Dr. Wortle's School,Paperback,9781847186942,7.99,"Dr. Wortle's School is an outspoken novel for its date, dealing with themes such as bigamy and condemning the gossipy censoriousness of Victorian media and society. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Jane Austen,Emma,Paperback,9781847189950,5.99,"Emma is perhaps the most comic of Austen's novels, lighter than the early novels which made her name and just as intelligent and well-written. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Essays,Paperback,9781847189189,9.99,"This volume contains some miscellaneous essays by Dickens, mostly on social subjects, and transcriptions of speeches at official events across his career. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Essays Literary and Critical,Paperback,9781847187550,5.99,"This volume contains Stevenson's juvenilia, including two scientific papers from his training as an engineer, and essays on literature both in general and in the form of criticism of specific works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Ethical Studies and Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes,Paperback,9781847187673,7.99,"This volume contains Stevenson's distinctive and revealing writings on ethics and morality, collected from various original publications, and a series of descriptions of his native Edinburgh written for magazine publication. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Familiar Studies of Men and Books,Paperback,9781847187574,9.99,"These essays mix the familiar essay that made Stevenson's initial reputation with biography and the then-emergent discipline of literary criticism. They reveal an often-forgotten scholarly side to Stevenson's character. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Framley Parsonage,Paperback,9781847187017,9.99,"Framley Parsonage is the fourth of the Barchester Chronicles sequence of novels which are considered among Trollope's greatest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Great Expectations,Paperback,9781847189233,5.99,"Great Expectations is one of Dickens's most serious novels in intention, yet remains entertaining by its multitude of classically Dickensian memorable comic characters. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Hard Times,Paperback,9781847188793,7.99,"Hard Times is Dickens's version of the Victorian genre of the 'industrial novel', dealing with the social problems of nineteenth-century manufacturing towns and utilitarianism with typical Dickensian sarcasm, sympathy and care for the poor. It has always been thought one of his finest novels. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Harry Heathcote of Gangoil and George Walker at Suez,Paperback,9781847187048,5.99,"Harry Heathcote depicts the struggles of a young Australian sheep-farmer establishing himself. Based on the experiences of Trollope's younger brother, the novel works within the Christmas book conventions established by Dickens in the 1840s. George Walker at Suez is a short story, one of the sub-genre of Victorian writings that reacted against the vogue for travel literature by taking irreverent stances on standard itinerary destinations. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,He Knew He Was Right vol. I,Paperback,9781847187055,7.99,"He Knew He Was Right explores some of Trollope's more socially liberal opinions novelistically in depicting the failure of a marriage caused chiefly by a husband's jealousy. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,He Knew He Was Right vol. II,Paperback,9781847187062,7.99,"He Knew He Was Right explores some of Trollope's more socially liberal opinions novelistically in depicting the failure of a marriage caused chiefly by a husband's jealousy. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,In the South Seas,Paperback,9781847187635,7.99,"In the South Seas is Stevenson's personal, sometimes idiosyncratic, yet honest and sharply-observed account of voyages he undertook in some of the South Sea islands before settling in Samoa. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Island Nights' Entertainments and The Misadventures of John Nicholson,Paperback,9781847187659,6.99,"Island Nights' Entertainments is a set of three of Stevenson's most distinctive and compelling short stories, written out of his own experience living in the South Seas. The Misadventures of John Nicholson is a late contribution to the mid-nineteenth-century Christmas book genre. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,John Caldigate,Paperback,9781847187079,11.99,"John Caldigate concerns intrigue, blackmail and deception around a fortune made in Australian gold. It draws heavily on Trollope's own Post Office career and his brother's experience of Australian social customs. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Thomas Hardy,Jude the Obscure,Paperback,9781847188496,5.99,"Jude the Obscure is the last of Hardy's novels, partly autobiographical in its protrayal of troubled marriage. Its initial negative reception has not stopped it becoming recognised as one of the greatest novels in Hardy's oeuvre and indeed the English language. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Kept in the Dark,Paperback,9781847187093,6.99,"Kept in the Dark is one of his novels in which Trollope is closest to his admired Thackeray, a sharp comedy of manners, specifically late-Victorian ideas and practices of courtship and marriage. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Kidnapped,Paperback,9781847187666,5.99,"Kidnapped is one of Stevenson's best-known novels, a classic example of the romance style he made his own. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices and other stories,Paperback,9781847188809,5.99,"A mixture of memory and fiction, the Lazy Tour is based on a walking tour of England undertaken by himself and Wilkie Collins. It is accompanied here by some of Dickens' less-known short fiction: Bardell v. Pickwick, George Silverman's Explanation, Holiday Romance, The Holly-Tree, and A House to Let. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit vol. I,Paperback,9781847188847,5.99,"Little Dorrit contains some of Dickens's most memorable characters, as well as some of his most pointed satire against social aspiration, financial irresponsibility and government opacity. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit vol. II,Paperback,9781847188854,5.99,"Little Dorrit contains some of Dickens's most memorable characters, as well as some of his most pointed satire against social aspiration, financial irresponsibility and government opacity. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Jane Austen,Mansfield Park,Paperback,9781847189967,5.99,"Mansfield Park is Austen's most controversial and socially outspoken novel, continuing to attract critical discussion despite its constant popularity. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Martin Chuzzlewit vol. I,Paperback,9781847188861,11.99,"Martin Chuzzlewit is one of Dickens's best-loved novels, perhaps his most sheerly comic major work and one of the author's own favourites. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Martin Chuzzlewit vol. II,Paperback,9781847188878,11.99,"Martin Chuzzlewit is one of Dickens's best-loved novels, perhaps his most sheerly comic major work and one of the author's own favourites. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Master Humphrey's Clock,Paperback,9781847188885,6.99,"Master Humphrey's Clock is a series of short stories loosely linked by a common narrative frame, written shortly after The Pickwick Papers and eventually giving rise to The Old Curiosity Shop. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin and Records of a Family of Engineers,Paperback,9781847187840,5.99,"Fleeming Jenkin was one of the men Stevenson most loved and admired; the memoir was written to accompany a posthumous collection of Jenkin's writings. The Records are an incomplete family history. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Memories and Portraits,Paperback,9781847187857,6.99,"This volume contains the more extended of Stevenson's autobiographical writings (more are contained in Further Memories, also available from CSP) and some extracts from his notebooks. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Men's Wives,Paperback,9781847188229,9.99,"Men's Wives is made up of three characteristic pieces of Thackeray's short comic fiction. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Micah Clarke,Paperback,9781847189547,8.99,"Micah Clarke is a historical novel set during the Monmouth rebellion of 1685, and including in the process substantial attempts at narrating history subjectively, an idea which deeply interested Conan Doyle. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Miss Mackenzie,Paperback,9781847187123,11.99,"Miss Mackenzie is an attempt to break free from the conventions of nineteenth-century romantic plotting. While it does eventually include a love interest, it remains unusual for its time in its focus on a middle-aged spinster heroine. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Mr. Scarborough's Family vol. I,Paperback,9781847187130,9.99,"Mr. Scarborough's Family is a suitably convoluted examination of the outdated inheritance system of the English nineteenth century and an equally ethically dubuious effort to thwart them. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Mr. Scarborough's Family vol. II,Paperback,9781847187147,9.99,"Mr. Scarborough's Family is a suitably convoluted examination of the outdated inheritance system of the English nineteenth century and an equally ethically dubuious effort to thwart them. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,New Arabian Nights,Paperback,9781847187895,9.99,"This volume contains several of Stevenson's early short fiction works from the period when he moved from writing essays to stories. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Nicholas Nickleby vol. I,Paperback,9781847188908,7.99,"Nicholas Nickleby is an early novel, but already shows in developed form Dickens's characteristic concern for the poor, children and dependent, and vigorous dislike of materialism and exploitation under the guise of education. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Nicholas Nickleby vol. II,Paperback,9781847188915,9.99,"Nicholas Nickleby is an early novel, but already shows in developed form Dickens's characteristic concern for the poor, children and dependent, and vigorous dislike of materialism and exploitation under the guise of education. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Nina Balatka,Paperback,9781847187154,5.99,"Nina Balatka was published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine as an experiment by Trollope; it marks something of a departure from his usual style which Trollope did not continue for long. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,North America vol. I,Paperback,9781847187161,9.99,"North America is a highly valuable historical document, an assessment of the fractured United States written in the middle of the Civil War and based on first-hand rather than academic research. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,North America vol. II,Paperback,9781847187178,9.99,"North America is a highly valuable historical document, an assessment of the fractured United States written in the middle of the Civil War and based on first-hand rather than academic research. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Jane Austen,Northanger Abbey,Paperback,9781847189974,5.99,"Northanger Abbey is one of Austen's most literary novels, a witty and sardonic attack upon contemporary Gothic novels and the effects of their popularity. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,No Thoroughfare,Paperback,9781847188922,5.99,"No Thoroughfare is Dickens's reworking of a stage play he co-wrote with Wilkie Collins, first published as a Christmas number of his magazine All the Year Round. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Oliver Twist,Paperback,9781847188960,5.99,"Oliver Twist, combining some of Dickens's most memorably comic characters with his well-known vigorous championing of the poor, has long and deservedly been one of the most popular of his novels. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Orley Farm vol. I,Paperback,9781847187208,11.99,"Orley Farm is one of Trollope's legally-themed novels, centring on disputed inheritance and approval or disapproval of marriage connections. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Orley Farm vol. II,Paperback,9781847187239,11.99,"Orley Farm is one of Trollope's legally-themed novels, centring on disputed inheritance and approval or disapproval of marriage connections. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Our Mutual Friend vol. I,Paperback,9781847189011,7.99,"Our Mutual Friend is Dickens's last completed novel, giving one of his most comprehensive accounts of contemporary society as well as perhaps his most sweeping critique of stifling materialism, a theme which pervades the novel. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Our Mutual Friend vol. II,Paperback,9781847189028,7.99,"Our Mutual Friend is Dickens's last completed novel, giving one of his most comprehensive accounts of contemporary society as well as perhaps his most sweeping critique of stifling materialism, a theme which pervades the novel. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Jane Austen,Persuasion,Paperback,9781847189981,5.99,"Persuasion, published posthumously, is Austen's last novel to be written. It is in some ways the quietest of her novels, with an older heroine and less scandal than earlier ones, but nonetheless a moving and at times outspoken novel. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Phineas Finn vol. I,Paperback,9781847187246,9.99,"Phineas Finn is the second of the Palliser series of political novels considered among Trollope's greatest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Phineas Finn vol. II,Paperback,9781847187253,9.99,"Phineas Finn is the second of the Palliser series of political novels considered among Trollope's greatest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Phineas Redux vol. I,Paperback,9781847187277,6.99,"Phineas Redux is the fourth of the political sequence of Palliser novels which are considered some of Trollope's finest work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Phineas Redux vol. II,Paperback,9781847187284,9.99,"Phineas Redux is the fourth of the political sequence of Palliser novels which are considered some of Trollope's finest work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Pictures from Italy,Paperback,9781847189066,6.99,"Pictures from Italy is, broadly speaking, a travel book, but one that carries itself with a refreshing mixture of emphasis on the personal and revisionist attitude to the stale norms of the genre at the time. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Plays,Paperback,9781847187918,9.99,"This volume contains all of Stevenson's works for the stage, three plays written in collaboration with W. E. Henley and one with his wife, all illustrating the now largely forgotten conventions of nineteenth-century drama. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Jane Austen,Pride and Prejudice,Paperback,978-1-4438-0124-9,5.99,"Pride and Prejudice, one of the two novels that made Austen's name and career, is also probably her best-known work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Prince Otto: A Romance,Paperback,9781847187932,7.99,"Prince Otto is in some sense an anti-romance as much as a romance; yet its late-nineteenth-century take on the romance genre is too gentle to become straightforward satire. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Ralph the Heir,Paperback,9781847187314,11.99,"Ralph the Heir contains many of Trollope's recurrent novelistic concerns: inheritance, illegitimacy, engagement, marriage, corrupt elections and parliamentary reform. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Reprinted Pieces,Paperback,9781847189073,9.99,"Dickens wrote a large number of short stories throughout his career, mostly for magazine publication and often undeservedly neglected. This volume collects several short pieces originally written for periodicals. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,R. L. Stevenson: Letters vol. I,Paperback,9781847187819,6.99,"A large number of Stevenson's letters survive, giving valuable insights into his character and working methods. These five volumes, based on the edition by his lifelong friend Sidney Colvin, represent a substantial selection of those that are known to exist. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,R. L. Stevenson: Letters vol. II,Paperback,9781847187833,6.99,"A large number of Stevenson's letters survive, giving valuable insights into his character and working methods. These five volumes, based on the edition by his lifelong friend Sidney Colvin, represent a substantial selection of those that are known to exist. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,R. L. Stevenson: Letters vol. V,Paperback,9781847188021,6.99,"A large number of Stevenson's letters survive, giving valuable insights into his character and working methods. These five volumes, based on the edition by his lifelong friend Sidney Colvin, represent a substantial selection of those that are known to exist. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Rodney Stone,Paperback,9781847189592,5.99,"Rodney Stone is a historical Gothic and boxing novel, set chiefly in London in the time of George III and the Regency. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Roundabout Papers and other works,Paperback,9781847188267,8.99,"This volume contains the Roundabout Papers, a set of essays written for the Cornhill Magazine from its inception until after Thackeray resigned the editorship, and two other pieces full of whimsical observation and reflection, The Second Funeral of Napoleon and The Bedford-Row Conspiracy. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Round the Fire Stories,Paperback,9781847189813,11.99,"This collection of short stories focusses on the broadly Gothic; its areas of concern also reflect some of the non-literary concerns of Conan Doyle's later life, including Spiritualism and miscarriages of justice. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Round the Red Lamp,Paperback,9781847189608,5.99,"This volume contains a varied set of short stories, mostly medical in theme, often with detective or Gothic elements. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Jane Austen,Sense and Sensibility (and Lady Susan),Paperback,978-1-4438-0138-6,5.99,"Sense and Sensibility was one of the two novels that made Austen's name and career. Here, it is coupled with the short novel Lady Susan, in the epistolary form popularised by Samuel Richardson in the 1760s. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Sir Nigel,Paperback,9781847189721,7.99,"Sir Nigel is a historical romance set in the Middle Ages, not without some decidedly nineteenth-century attitudes to some of its subject matter. It was written as a prequel to The White Company. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Sketches by Boz vol. I,Paperback,9781847189080,7.99,"The Sketches by Boz first made Dickens' reputation as a literary writer building on his career as a journalist. These two volumes include the full series and some other pieces by Dickens in the same mode. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,Sketches by Boz Vol. II,Paperback,9781847189097,7.99,"The Sketches by Boz first made Dickens' reputation as a literary writer building on his career as a journalist. These two volumes include the full series and some other pieces by Dickens in the same mode. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,St. Ives,Paperback,9781847187970,8.99,"St. Ives is one of Stevenson's last romances, left unfinished at his death, yet still showing the same key qualities as his earlier works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Thomas Hardy,Tess of the d'Urbervilles vol. I,Paperback,9781847188564,5.99,"Tess of the d'Urbervilles is perhaps Hardy's greatest novel, a stark critique of social relations and aspirations and sexual mores. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Thomas Hardy,Tess of the d'Urbervilles vol. II,Paperback,9781847188571,5.99,"Tess of the d'Urbervilles is perhaps Hardy's greatest novel, a stark critique of social relations and aspirations and sexual mores. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,Thackeray,Paperback,9781847187369,11.99,"Trollope considered Thackeray as his novelistic master; this biography was produced sixteen years after its subject's death and towards the end of its author's life, though his ability remained undiminished. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,Paperback,9781847189387,5.99,"This volume of short Sherlock Holmes cases includes the eventual last story, bringing the character's sphere of action to the verge of the First World War. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Amateur Emigrant and other American works,Paperback,9781847187956,5.99,"This volume contains several autobiographical works concerning Stevenson's experiences travelling to and temporarily settling in America, including some excertps from his diaries. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The American Senator Volume I,Paperback,9781847186669,8.99,"The American Senator is one of Trollope's major mature novels, one of the first British novels to deal seriously with the political life of the United States. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The American Senator Volume II,Paperback,9781847186713,8.99,"The American Senator is one of Trollope's major mature novels, one of the first British novels to deal seriously with the political life of the United States. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The American Senator Volume III,Paperback,9781847186720,8.99,"The American Senator is one of Trollope's major mature novels, one of the first British novels to deal seriously with the political life of the United States. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Belton Estate,Paperback,9781847186775,10.99,"The Belton Estate appears a conventional enough story of romantic decision between social standing and worth of character. Its subplot concerning a divorced woman, however, shows Trollope's progressive tolerance of unconventional social behaviour. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Black Arrow,Paperback,9781847187482,5.99,"The Black Arrow is Stevenson's second novel, a medieval romance visibly influenced by the late-Victorian revival of Gothic and medievalist taste. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Book of Snobs and other works,Paperback,9781847188137,7.99,"The Book of Snobs is a cutting piece of social satire, written in installments for a whole year's editions of Punch. It is accompanied here by two more pieces of satire written for magazines, The Fitz-Boodle Papers and A Shabby Genteel Story. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Captain of the Polestar,Paperback,9781847189394,6.99,"This volume contains ten short stories of various genres, including the early J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement, based on the Mary Celeste incident and widely mistaken at the time for a factual account. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Claverings,Paperback,9781847186898,11.99,"The Claverings is a social novel, but dealing with a more aristocratic social milieu than Trollope's best-known novels, and taking in ideas of engagement, divorce, love and money in its marriage plots. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Duke's Children vol. I,Paperback,9781847186966,5.99,"The Duke's Children is the final instalment of the political Palliser novels, ranked among Trollope's finest work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Duke's Children vol. II,Paperback,9781847186973,6.49,"The Duke's Children is the final instalment of the political Palliser novels, ranked among Trollope's finest work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Dynamiter,Paperback,9781847187512,6.99,"Stevenson's successor to the 'New Arabian Nights' is a set of short stories so closely linked as to almost become a novel. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Ebb-Tide and The Story of a Lie,Paperback,9781847187529,6.99,"The Ebb-Tide starts out appearing to be a typical Stevenson romance, but ends in a much more unexpected way. The Story of a Lie is a delightfully satiric response to the nineteenth-century novel's norms. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Eustace Diamonds vol. I,Paperback,9781847186980,6.99,"The Eustace Diamonds is the third of the Palliser sequence of political novels which are considered among Trollope's greatest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Eustace Diamonds vol. II,Paperback,9781847186997,6.99,"The Eustace Diamonds is the third of the Palliser sequence of political novels which are considered among Trollope's greatest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard,Paperback,9781847189431,5.99,"This volume contains eight short stories featuring Brigadier Gerard not found elsewhere in this series. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Firm of Girdlestone,Paperback,9781847189448,6.99,"The Firm of Girdlestone is a novel of commercial malpractice ultimately come to grief. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Golden Lion of Granpere,Paperback,9781847187031,6.99,"The Golden Lion of Granpere is a novel about boundaries and exclusions, set in a hotel in Alsace and dealing with a forbidden love affair betweena a Catholic and a Protestant. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Great Boer War,Paperback,9781847189455,8.99,"The Great Boer War is the more elaborate of Conan Doyle's two works in defence of British conduct in the Boer War, following on from the highly successful pamphlet The War in South Africa. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Great Shadow and Other Stories,Paperback,9781847189462,5.99,"This volume contains five varied short stories or novellas, 'The Great Shadow,' 'The ""Slapping Sal"",' 'Beyond the City,' 'The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax' and 'The Doings of Raffles Haw'. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Green Flag,Paperback,9781847189479,8.99,"This volume contains eleven short stories, which Conan Doyle subtitled as 'of War and Sport.' ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The History of Pendennis vol. I,Paperback,9781847188182,9.99,"The History of Pendennis is one of Thackeray's greatest novels, a part-satiric, part-serious Bildungsroman with autobiographical elements. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The History of Pendennis vol. II,Paperback,9781847188199,9.99,"The History of Pendennis is one of Thackeray's greatest novels, a part-satiric, part-serious Bildungsroman with autobiographical elements. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Hound of the Baskervilles,Paperback,9781847189486,5.99,"The Hound of the Baskervilles is Conan Doyle's masterpiece, the finest of the Sherlock Holmes cases, a skilful blend of mystery, suspense, deceit and horror. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Kellys and the O'Kellys,Paperback,9781847187086,9.99,"The Kellys and the O'Kellys is Trollope's second novel, drawing on his first-hand experience travelling and working in Ireland. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Last Chronicle of Barset vol. I,Paperback,9781847187109,7.99,"The Last Chronicle of Barset concludes the Barchester chronicles, which form both Trollope's best-known and most popular work and one of the earliest linked novel-series in English. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Last Chronicle of Barset vol. II,Paperback,9781847187116,7.99,"The Last Chronicle of Barset concludes the Barchester chronicles, which form both Trollope's best-known and most popular work and one of the earliest linked novel-series in English. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales,Paperback,9781847189493,7.99,"The subtitle to this book corresponds to an internal division: pictures of the past, 'between actual story and actual history,' and straightforward short stories. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Lost World,Paperback,9781847189509,5.99,"The Lost World is the first and best-known of Conan Doyle's science fiction novels featuring Professor Challenger, a Rider Haggard-esque fantasy of prehistoric creatures surviving in the Amazonian rainforest. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Thomas Hardy,The Mayor of Casterbridge,Paperback,9781847188533,5.99,"The Mayor of Casterbridge is one of Hardy's best and most popular novels, a striking account of rise and fall populated with some of the author's most haunting characters. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush and other works,Paperback,9781847188205,7.99,"The Memoirs of Yellowplush are one of Thackeray's early satiric productions, casting a disrespectful eye at the dissispation of fashionable young aristocrats and the attitudes of their servants as well as contemporary literary fashions. Here it is joined by two other short satiric fictions, Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond and A Little Dinner at Timmins's. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,Paperback,9781847189516,5.99,"This volume of short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes includes 'The Final Problem,' Conan Doyle's attempt to kill of the character to allow him to concentrate on more 'serious' writing, ultimately thwarted by public demand. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Merry Men and other tales,Paperback,9781847187864,8.99,"This volume contains six extended short stories or novellas, mostly displaying Stevenson's interest in a psychological form of the contemporary fashionable Gothic genre. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Mystery of Cloomber,Paperback,9781847189561,5.99,"The Mystery of Cloomber is a Gothic novel drawing on elements of Conan Doyle's notions of Buddhist beliefs. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,The Mystery of Edwin Drood,Paperback,9781847188892,8.99,"Edwin Drood is Dickens's last novel, a murder mystery left tantalisingly unfinished in the middle of its serial publication at his death. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Newcomes vol. I,Paperback,9781847188236,9.99,"Partly autobiographical, The Newcomes is one of Thackeray's greatest novels and in some ways a successor to The History of Pendennis. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Newcomes vol. II,Paperback,9781847188243,9.99,"Partly autobiographical, The Newcomes is one of Thackeray's greatest novels and in some ways a successor to The History of Pendennis. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,The Old Curiosity Shop vol. I,Paperback,9781847188939,5.99,"The Old Curiosity Shop was an instant success on publication, containing some of Dickens's most characteristic pathos as well as a striking attack on compulsive gambling. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,The Old Curiosity Shop vol. II,Paperback,9781847188953,5.99,"The Old Curiosity Shop was an instant success on publication, containing some of Dickens's most characteristic pathos as well as a striking attack on compulsive gambling. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Paris Sketch Book,Paperback,9781847188250,8.99,"The Paris Sketch Book is a collection of Thackeray's short stories, descriptive pieces, art criticism and other short fiction and non-fiction writings concerned with or around Paris and written in the late 1830s. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,The Pickwick Papers vol. I,Paperback,9781847189035,8.99,"The Pickwick Papers was Dickens's first novel and a runaway success on first publication, a picaresque comic romp through delightfully improbable events and characters. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,The Pickwick Papers vol. II,Paperback,9781847189042,8.99,"The Pickwick Papers was Dickens's first novel and a runaway success on first publication, a picaresque comic romp through delightfully improbable events and characters. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Prime Minister vol. I,Paperback,9781847187291,9.99,"The Prime Minister is the fifth and penultimate of the Palliser series of political novels considered among Trollope's greatest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Prime Minister vol. II,Paperback,9781847187307,9.99,"The Prime Minister is the fifth and penultimate of the Palliser series of political novels considered among Trollope's greatest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Refugees,Paperback,9781847189776,11.99,"The Refugees is a historical novel, centring on the fate of the Huguenots during the reign of Louis XIV and the revoking of the Edict of Nantes. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Return of Sherlock Holmes,Paperback,9781847189585,9.99,"This volume contains the short stories in which Conan Doyle felt himself obliged to bring his most famous character 'back from the dead' after attempting to kill him off in order to concentrate on other writing. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Thomas Hardy,The Return of the Native,Paperback,9781847188557,4.99,"The Return of the Native is one of Hardy's most-read works, one of the Wessex novels that formed the peak of his success and are the core of his oeuvre. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Small House at Allington vol. I,Paperback,9781847187338,9.99,"The Small House at Allington is the fifth and penultimate of the Barchester Chronicles sequence of novels which are considered among Trollope's finest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Small House at Allington vol. II,Paperback,9781847187345,9.99,"The Small House at Allington is the fifth and penultimate of the Barchester Chronicles sequence of novels which are considered among Trollope's finest works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Stark Munro Letters,Paperback,9781847189738,5.99,"The Stark Munro Letters is a highly autobiographical novel, in the epistolary form that had long been out of fashion by the time Conan Doyle picked it up. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Three Clerks,Paperback,9781847187376,10.99,"The Three Clerks dates from the same period of writing as the Barchester chronicles, and was considered by Trollope his finest novel up to that point. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan and other works,Paperback,9781847188069,5.99,"This volume contains five of Thackeray's early serialised works for Punch, all more or less satiric of contemporary literary styles and events. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Charles Dickens,The Uncommercial Traveller,Paperback,9781847189226,5.99,"This volume contains a series of lightly fictionalised but sharply observed and often polemical observational sketches published in Dickens's periodical ""All the Year Round"" based on an authorial persona of a traveller at leisure. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Valley of Fear,Paperback,9781847189844,5.99,"The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes novel whose unusually wide sweep takes in the Victorian English countryside and the cut-throat world of noneteenth-century American frontier towns. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Warden,Paperback,9781847187390,11.99,"The Warden gave Trollope his first success as a writer. It is also the first novel of the Barchester Chronicles series, now his best-known works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct,Paperback,9781847189851,7.99,"This is Conan Doyle's first, shorter, work on the Boer War, justifying Britain's role and involvement. He later wrote a longer book, The Great Boer War, on the same theme. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Way We Live Now vol. I,Paperback,9781847187406,11.99,"The Way We Live Now is Trollope's most satirical novel and was considered his finest by many of his contemporaries. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Anthony Trollope,The Way We Live Now vol. II,Paperback,9781847187413,11.99,"The Way We Live Now is Trollope's most satirical novel and was considered his finest by many of his contemporaries. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The White Company,Paperback,9781847189868,6.99,"The White Company is a historical romance set in the Middle Ages, with perhaps a little more cynicism than usual in the Victorian genre. Conan Doyle subsequently wrote a prequel, Sir Nigel. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Wrong Box and The Body Snatcher,Paperback,9781847188045,5.99,"The Wrong Box is that unusual generic combination, a comic detective story; it is here printed with The Body Snatcher, perhaps Stevenson's single best-known short story. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Through the Magic Door and other pieces,Paperback,9781847189820,5.99,"This volume contains, as well as the series of essays on literature after which it is titled, some of Conan Doyle's writings from the Western Front during World War I and The Vital Message, one of the shorter of his late works in defence of Spiritualism. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Treasure Island,Paperback,9781847188007,5.99,"Treasure Island is Stevenson's first novel and still one of his most-read and best-loved works, a classic romance fantasy tale. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire,Paperback,9781847189837,5.99,"Uncle Bernac is one of the historical novels which Conan Doyle considered more important than his more popular Sherlock Holmes stories, and in favour of which he tried to abandon writing the latter. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Vanity Fair vol. I,Paperback,9781847188274,8.99,"Vanity Fair is Thackeray's first great novel and is considered his masterpiece and best-known work, a sweeping comic satire containing some of his most memorable characters. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-11-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Vanity Fair vol. II,Paperback,9781847188281,8.99,"Vanity Fair is Thackeray's first great novel and is considered his masterpiece and best-known work, a sweeping comic satire containing some of his most memorable characters. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-12-01,Robert Browning,Shorter Poems,Paperback,978-1-4438-0062-4,5.99,"Although Browning's reputation in his own lifetime was confirmed by the extended work The Ring and the Book, today it chiefly rests on his shorter poems, especially the dramatic monologues. The majority of these shorter poems are collected here. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2008-12-01,Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Sonnets from the Portuguese,Paperback,978-1-4438-0061-7,5.99,"Sonnets from the Portuguese is considered one of the author's greatest works, a female appropriation of the previously male form of the sonnet cycle. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-01-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,"Christmas Books, Tales and Sketches",Paperback,9781847188151,8.99,"The Christmas Book, created by Dickens, was an important Victorian literary genre. This volume contains all of Thackeray's contributions to it, together with several other short, mostly humorous, prose pieces. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-01-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,From Cornhill to Grand Cairo and The Irish Sketch Book,Paperback,9781847188168,8.99,"A Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo is a delightful anti-travel book, describing a Mediterranean journey of the kind highly fashionable at the time but viewing the famous destinations with human disparagement rather than conventional adoration. The Irish Sketch Book is equally irreverent of contemporary literary fashion but more politically loaded due to its subject. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-01-01,Thomas Carlyle,"The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. I",Paperback,978-1-4438-0072-3,11.99,"Both respected as leading thinkers of the day in their respective countries, Carlyle and Emerson enjoyed a lifelong friendship dating from Emerson's first visit to England in 1832. Their voluminous correspondence is substantially preserved on both sides and available, combined, in these volumes. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-01-01,Thomas Carlyle,The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. II,Paperback,978-1-4438-0073-0,11.99,"Both respected as leading thinkers of the day in their respective countries, Carlyle and Emerson enjoyed a lifelong friendship dating from Emerson's first visit to England in 1832. Their voluminous correspondence is substantially preserved on both sides and available, combined, in these volumes. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-01-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The History of Henry Esmond ,Paperback,9781847188175,11.99,"Henry Esmond is one of Thackeray's greatest novels, a masterly evocation of the period of Queen Anne and the repeatedly defeated Jacobite ambitions to restore the ousted Stuart succession. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Contributions to 'Punch',Paperback,978-1-4438-0181-2,9.99,"This volume contains all of Thackeray's contributions to the famous periodical 'Punch' (with which he was long associated) not found elsewhere in this series, together with some other miscellaneous magazine contributions. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Fables, and other stories",Paperback,978-1-4438-0193-5,4.99,"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of Stevenson's best-known works. Here it is accompanied by some early and rarely-published fragments, and the collection of 'Fables' which accompanied later printings of Jekyll and Hyde. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,Jane Austen,Juvenilia,Paperback,978-1-4438-0166-9,6.99,"This volume contains all of Austen's exant Juvenilia, from the earliest burlesques to near-mature fragments. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,Anthony Trollope,La Vendée,Paperback,9781847187383,11.99,"La Vendée, Trollope's third novel, is set in historical France. It was written between his first two novels, which draw directly on his experience of Ireland, and The Warden, his first success. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Lectures and Criticism,Paperback,978-1-4438-0154-6,6.99,"This volume contains several of Thackeray's lectures and magazine contributions concerning various of the arts, all of which display his characteristic mixture of wit, satire, vigour and sentiment. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,Irena Avsenik Nabergoj with Jason Blake and Alenka Blake (translators),"Longing, Weakness and Temptation: From Myth to Artistic Creations",Hardback,978-1-4438-0185-0,44.99,"The themes of longing, weakness and temptation are relevant to every human and are interwoven with all fundamental ideals and values of the created, rational being. Temptation is all the more dramatic, the broader the perspective of recognition, the power of human longing and the sense of the difference between good and evil. This book is a summary of a study which compares and contrasts Slovenian and European literary works created under the influence of biblical source texts (Adam and Eve, Joseph from Egypt, Samson and Dalilah, etc.) and the works of other known and unknown origins (Homer’s Iliad, Goethe’s Faust, various versions of the myth of the Fair Vida, etc.). The ascribing of a text to a genre provides the interpreter of the text with a key intertextual framework and with a system of references to other books, other texts, other literary statements. The intertextual approach is obviously appropriate to the study of contents, symbols and forms of literary works. It shows how the source text continues to speak through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source text. Later writers use important themes with a historical sense, when aiming toward a better understanding of authenticity of human existence. ","“This book is a first intertextual presentation of central texts of world literature containing the motif of longing, weakness and temptation. With a wealth of illuminating examples showing mutual interdependence between the Bible, folk literature and culture this volume is a major contribution to culture studies and will prove invaluable for any student of literature and culture.” —Seizo Sekine, Professor of Biblical Studies & Ethics, Tokyo University, Japan ""This long-awaited study is a powerfully persuasive reading of most popular tales that appear in the Bible and folklore of many peoples and cultures, in many different eras, including ancient Egypt, Classical Greece, post-Biblical Jewish literature and Koran. The author touches on varying constructions of male-female relationships and explores interrelationships between longing, weakness and temptation of broad relevance in later European and especially in Mediterranean cultural area. Irena Avsenik Nabergoj has made a major contribution in helping us to understand the structures, genres, and formal strategies of widely scattered texts and to bring diverse and complex units into a meaningful whole. "" —Jože Krašovec, Professor of Biblical Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenian and European Academies of Sciences and Arts ",Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009-02-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Lovel the Widower and Two Lecture Series,Paperback,978-1-4438-0182-9,12.99,"The late novel Lovel the Widower, first published in the opening numbers of the Cornhill Magazine, is here accompanied by two of the lecture series which made Thackeray's reputation in that field. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,Henry Fielding,Plays Vol. III,Paperback,978-1-4438-1925-1,15.99,"Fielding had a successful though controversial career as a playwright, which was cut short by the introduction of theatre censorship, preventing him continuing his most successful line of writing, political satire and burlesque. These three volumes collect his entire output for the stage. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,Jane Austen,Sanditon and The Watsons,Paperback,978-1-4438-0167-6,5.99,"This volume contains the two novels Austen wrote as an adult, but left unfinished at her death. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,Charles Dickens,The Major Works of Charles Dickens in 29 volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-1772-1,289.99,"There are few authors whose names can be as immediately identified by a large international public as that of Charles Dickens. Indisputably, to both his own time and all since, he is the greatest literary figure of Victorian England. To many readers, he is equally the English novelist par excellence. Indeed, part of the general significance of Dickens is that he, more than anyone else in the English-speaking world, ensured the triumph of the novel as the most highly regarded and widely read of literary genres, a position it has retained ever since. This edition of Dickens' major works includes, as a matter of course, all the novels and the most significant shorter fiction (Christmas books and stories, Sketches by Boz, etc.). It also includes two volumes of travel writing, considerable selections from Dickens' periodical writing, and his entire output of verse. CSP are particularly pleased to include in this edition, by permission of the editor's estate, the entirety of Prof. Ken Fielding's edition of Dickens's speeches, acknowledged as the standard edition but which has now been out of print for over twenty years. The contents of the volumes are as follows: Volume 1 (606 pp.): Introduction to the Works by Prof. Michael Hollington; Sketches by Boz and other sketches Volume 2 (707 pp.): The Pickwick Papers Volume 3 (774 pp.): Nicholas Nickleby Volume 4 (101 pp.): Master Humphrey's Clock Volume 5 (507 pp.): The Old Curiosity Shop Volume 6 (600 pp.): Barnaby Rudge Volume 7 (737 pp.): Martin Chuzzlewit Volume 8 (398 pp.): Oliver Twist Volume 9 (754 pp.): Dombey and Son Volume 10 (736 pp.): David Copperfield Volume 11 (758 pp.): Bleak House Volume 12 (255 pp.): Hard Times Volume 13 (746 pp.): Little Dorrit Volume 14 (344 pp.): A Tale of Two Cities Volume 15 (376 pp.): Great Expectations Volume 16 (749 pp.): Our Mutual Friend Volume 17 (237 pp.): The Mystery of Edwin Drood Volume 18 (362 pp.): complete Christmas books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain Volume 19 (631 pp.): complete Christmas stories (including collaborative material) Volume 20 (197 pp.): Reprinted Pieces Volume 21 (232 pp.): Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Bardell v. Pickwick, George Silverman's Explanation, Holiday Romance Volume 22 (216 pp.): American Notes Volume 23 (148 pp.): Pictures from Italy Volume 24 (341 pp.): A Child's History of England Volume 25 (301 pp.): The Uncommercial Traveller Volume 26 (660 pp.): Miscellaneous Papers Volume 27 (416 pp.): Uncollected Writings from Household Words Volume 28 (503 pp.): Speeches (ed. Ken Fielding) Volume 29 (72 pp.): Poems and Verses All the texts have been newly typeset for this edition. ","""Any new edition of Dickens's works is to be welcomed, especially one that includes, along with all the novels and stories, less familiar material such as Master Humphrey's clock, Dickens's poems and songs, his speeches, and Harry Stone's 'Uncollected Writings' from Household Words. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, in their 'Classic Texts' series, have produced a 29-volume editionof the 'Major Works' of Dickens, in a handsomely bound paperback form. It has vigorous a vigorous and deft introductory essay by Michael Hollington"" Malcolm Andrews, The Dickensian, Winter 2010 ",CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Virginians vol. I,Paperback,978-1-4438-0155-3,11.99,"The Virginians is one of Thackeray's last great novels, a historical novel touching both sides of the Atlantic and giving a sweeping account of the mid-eighteenth century. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Virginians vol. II,Paperback,978-1-4438-0157-7,11.99,"The Virginians is one of Thackeray's last great novels, a historical novel touching both sides of the Atlantic and giving a sweeping account of the mid-eighteenth century. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-02-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Wrecker,Paperback,978-1-4438-0241-3,8.99,"The Wrecker is one of Stevenson's longest and most complicated novels, holding back explanation for much of the course of the book. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,"A Wonder-book, Tanglewood Tales and Grandfather's Chair",Paperback,978-1-4438-0214-7,9.99,"This volume contains Hawthorne's three highly successful volumes of tales for children, two based on classical myth and one on New England history. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Henry Fielding,Henry Fielding: The Complete Works in 10 Volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-1912-1,99.99,"Henry Fielding is a figure of great significance in English literature and in the history of his own time. A hard-working Justice of the Peace in London, he was involved in establishing England's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, and worked tirelessly to counter social and criminal abuses both on the bench and by writing on legal cases. He was also highly involved in politics, editing three political journals in turn and writing satires and burlesques for the stage which were only cut short by the introduction of theatre censorship. It is, however, Fielding's novels which have preserved his name and reputation. They include between them almost all the range of his personality: classical learning, irreverent wit, desire to expose and counter social abuses, impatience with hypocrisy and pretension, knowledge of the dark undersides of English society and a typically eighteenth-century delight in high living. This edition is a facsimile of Leslie Stephen's 1882 edition of the Works. Alongside the complete novels and plays are less well-known prose works such as A Journey from This World to the Next and A Voyage to Lisbon, as well as Fielding's poetry, essays, writings on legal matters and political journalism. The contents of the volumes are as follows: Volume 1 ( pp.): Introduction to the Works by Prof. Alan Downie; Tom Jones, vol. I Volume 2 (558 pp.): Tom Jones, vol. II Volume 3 (646 pp.): Amelia Volume 4 (500 pp.): Joseph Andrews; A Journey from This World to the Next Volume 5 (479 pp.): Jonathan Wild; articles in The Champion Volume 6 (439 pp.): The Covent-Garden Journal; The True Patriot; The Jacobite's Journal; non-political essays; legal cases of Elizabeth Canning and Bosavern Penlez Volume 7 (426 pp.): A Voyage to Lisbon; A Charge to the Grand Jury; An Inquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers; writings associated with David Simple; classical translations; complete poetry Volume 8 (489 pp.): plays, 1728-1731 Volume 9 (501 pp.): plays, 1731-1734 Volume 10 (504 pp.): plays, 1734-1737 and the late The Fathers Alan Downie, Professor of English and head of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmith's, University of London and an authority on Fielding and the early modern novel, has written a new critical introduction to the Works as a whole, printed in volume 1. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Jane Austen,Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes,Hardback,978-1-4438-0540-7,239.99,"Jane Austen’s novels remain among the best-loved works of English literature, both in her native Britain and throughout the world. They have inspired numerous sequels, prequels and spin-off volumes, and have been widely adapted for film and television. For generations of readers, Austen’s novels have come to represent the essence of the Regency period, epitomising wit, elegance, and a vanished world of politeness and privilege, and harking back to a time of greater moral and social coherence. Austen is also a gentle satirist, justly celebrated for her ironically mocking depictions of the fashions and foibles of her age, and a moralist, known for the clarity of her moral vision and her penetrating psychological insight. For many readers, however, Austen’s novels are quite simply the most delightful and satisfying love stories of all time, and her characters the most believable of literary creations. This edition, from Cambridge Scholars Publishing, makes available the complete text of all Jane Austen’s works, including her juvenilia and unfinished later works, in an affordable and accessible format. Each volume features a very brief introduction, covering the historical context in which the work or works were written, Austen’s own views of the text(s), relevant responses from later readers, and helpful suggestions for further reading. The edition also includes a longer general introduction to Austen’s life and works, by a Jane Austen scholar, Dr Katie Halsey of the University of London. Publisher's Note to the Complete Works of Jane Austen This edition of the Works contains Austen's six completed mature novels, plus all the known surviving juvenilia, the early epistolary novel Lady Susan, and the two late novels left incomplete at Austen's death. The contents of the volumes are: Volume 1 (368 pp.): Critical introduction to the Works by Dr. Katie Halsey; Sense and Sensibility and Lady Susan (an early epistolary novel) Volume 2 (304 pp.): Pride and Prejudice Volume 3 (185 pp.): Northanger Abbey Volume 4 (347 pp.): Mansfield Park Volume 5 (365 pp.): Emma Volume 6 (188 pp.): Persuasion Volume 7 (205 pp.): Juvenilia Volume 8 (93 pp.): The Watsons and Sanditon (the incomplete novels) All of the Works have been newly typeset for this edition. The texts of The Watsons and Lady Susan are based on those published with J. E. Austen Leigh's memoir of Austen (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883). The juvenilia are based on the first editions, in three volumes, printed from the manuscripts: Volume the First (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933); Love and Freindship (London: Chatto & Windus, 1922); Volume the Third (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951). The text of Sanditon is based on the first edition from the manuscript (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925). The texts of the published novels have been based on those available online from Project Gutenberg, with reference to Richard Bentley's 1833 collected edition. Dr. Katie Halsey (Institute of English Studies, University of London) has contributed both an introduction to the Works as a whole, printed in volume 1, and a separate brief introduction to each volume. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Jane Austen,Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-0211-6,79.99,"Jane Austen’s novels remain among the best-loved works of English literature, both in her native Britain and throughout the world. For generations of readers, they have come to represent the essence of the Regency period, epitomising wit, elegance, and a vanished world of politeness and privilege, and harking back to a time of greater moral and social coherence. Austen is also a gentle satirist, justly celebrated for her ironically mocking depictions of the fashions and foibles of her age, and a moralist, known for the clarity of her moral vision and her penetrating psychological insight. For many readers, however, Austen’s novels are quite simply the most delightful and satisfying love stories of all time, and her characters the most believable of literary creations. Austen is thus most unusual in appealing to both scholarly and popular audiences. As well as the completed novels in their canonical form, this edition includes all of Austen's surviving juvenilia, the early novel Lady Susan and the two fragments discovered incomplete at the author's death. The texts have all been completely retypeset for this edition. Each volume is accompanied by a reading list and brief introduction dealing with context (within and beyond Austen's oeuvre) and reception; the edition as a whole has a new critical introduction and up-to-date bibliography. These have been written specially for this edition by Austen scholar Katie Halsey, of the University of London Institute of English Studies. Publisher's Note to the Complete Works of Jane Austen This edition of the Works contains Austen's six completed mature novels, plus all the known surviving juvenilia, the early epistolary novel Lady Susan, and the two late novels left incomplete at Austen's death. The contents of the volumes are: Volume 1 (368 pp.): Critical introduction to the Works by Dr. Katie Halsey; Sense and Sensibility and Lady Susan (an early epistolary novel) Volume 2 (304 pp.): Pride and Prejudice Volume 3 (185 pp.): Northanger Abbey Volume 4 (347 pp.): Mansfield Park Volume 5 (365 pp.): Emma Volume 6 (188 pp.): Persuasion Volume 7 (205 pp.): Juvenilia Volume 8 (93 pp.): The Watsons and Sanditon (the incomplete novels) All of the Works have been newly typeset for this edition. The texts of The Watsons and Lady Susan are based on those published with J. E. Austen Leigh's memoir of Austen (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883). The juvenilia are based on the first editions, in three volumes, printed from the manuscripts: Volume the First (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933); Love and Freindship (London: Chatto & Windus, 1922); Volume the Third (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951). The text of Sanditon is based on the first edition from the manuscript (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925). The texts of the published novels have been based on those available online from Project Gutenberg, with reference to Richard Bentley's 1833 collected edition. Dr. Katie Halsey (Institute of English Studies, University of London) has contributed both an introduction to the Works as a whole, printed in volume 1, and a separate brief introduction to each volume. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Mosses from an Old Manse,Paperback,978-1-4438-0204-8,5.99,"This volume marked Hawthorne's return to serious writing after periods as a hack-writer, editor, customs surveyor and commune inhabitant. It consists mostly of short stories, with some descriptive sketches. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Our Old Home and English Note-books,Paperback,978-1-4438-0320-5,11.99,"This volume contains Hawthorne's book of essays on life in England, and the first half of the published selections from his diaries while living in Liverpool as American Consul. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Sketches and Travels in London and other works,Paperback,978-1-4438-0191-1,11.99,"This volume gathers numerous travel and descriptive writings not found in Thackeray's other travel books, together with the short comic serial 'The Fatal Boots' and the little-known play 'The Wolves and the Lamb,' which Thackeray later used as the basis for his novel 'Lovel the Widower'. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,"Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers",Paperback,978-1-4438-0337-3,11.99,"This volume contains various short prose pieces, both fiction and non-fiction, written by Hawthorne mostly for magazines or anthologies but not collected or republished within his lifetime, of which the most significant is the Life of Franklin Pierce. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Adventures of Philip vol. I,Paperback,978-1-4438-0195-9,11.99,"The Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World: showing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him and Who Passed Him By is a late novel, first published in the Cornhil Magazine in the two years before Thackeray's death, but showing his habitual comic sharpness of observation. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Adventures of Philip vol. II,Paperback,978-1-4438-0200-0,11.99,"The Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World: showing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him and Who Passed Him By is a late novel, first published in the Cornhil Magazine in the two years before Thackeray's death, but showing his habitual comic sharpness of observation. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,The American Note-books,Paperback,978-1-4438-0323-6,11.99,"This volume contains selections from Hawthorne's journals from 1835 to 1853, shortly before his departure for England, as well as some extracts from his letters within the same period. They contain many initial ideas which were to become stories and parts of romances, as well as meticulous observations of people and nature. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in 27 volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-0352-6,259.99,"This edition of the Works contains all of Thackeray's known works intended for publication, including the novels, travel books, serial and separate contributions to various periodicals, texts of lectures, and the play The Wolves and the Lamb. The contents of the volumes are: Volume 1 (275 pp.): Critical introduction to the Works by Prof. Micael Clarke; Barry Lyndon. Volume 2 (300 pp.): Vanity Fair, volume I. Volume 3 (346 pp.): Vanity Fair, volume II. Volume 4 (398 pp.): The History of Pendennis, volume I. Volume 5 (355 pp.): The History of Pendennis, volume II. Volume 6 (386 pp.): The Newcomes, volume I. Volume 7 (371 pp.): The Newcomes, volume II. Volume 8 (395 pp.): The History of Henry Esmond. Volume 9 (390 pp.): The Virginians, volume I. Volume 10 (361 pp.): The Virginians, volume II. Volume 11 (363 pp.): Lovel the Widower (this and all preceding volumes are novels); The Four Georges (lectures); The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (lectures) Volume 12 (258 pp.): The Adventures of Philip, volume I. Volume 13 (225 pp.): The Adventures of Philip, volume II (a novel) Volume 14 (298 pp.): Denis Duval (the last, incomplete, novel); Morning Chronicle contributions (journalism) Volume 15 (393 pp.): From Cornhill to Grand Cairo; The Irish Sketch-book (travel books) Volume 16 (250 pp.): The Paris Sketch-book (a travel book) Volume 17 (277 pp.): Sketches and Travels in London; The Fatal Boots (fiction); Little Travels and Roadside Sketches (travel writing); The Wolves and the Lamb (a play) Volume 18 (198 pp.): Catherine (fiction); Cox's Diary (fiction) Volume 19 (146 pp.): Men's Wives (fiction) Volume 20 (279 pp.): The Memoirs of Charles J. Yellowplush (fiction); The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond (fiction); A Little Dinner at Timmins's (fiction) Volume 21 (288 pp.): The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan (fiction); Novels by Eminent Hands (satire); The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche (fiction); The History of the Next French Revolution (fiction); A Legend of the Rhine (fiction) Volume 22 (393 pp.): Christmas Books; Sketches (magazine contributions) Volume 23 (198 pp.): Charity and Humour (a lecture); Critical Reviews (artistic and literary criticism) Volume 24 (337 pp.): The Book of Snobs (comic essays); The Fitz-Boodle Papers (fiction); A Shabby Genteel Story (fiction) Volume 25 (328 pp.): Roundabout Papers (magazine editorial pieces); The Second Funeral of Napoleon (journalism); The Bedford-Row Conspiracy (fiction) Volume 26 (305 pp.): Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History; Papers by the Fat Contributor; miscellaneous contributions to 'Punch' Volume 27 (260 pp.): Ballads All of the Works have been newly typeset for this edition. The texts have been mostly taken from the London Edition of the works (London: The Caxton Publishing Company, undated, 12 vols.). Some of the more widely available texts, chiefly the major novels, have been taken from e-texts available through Project Gutenberg, checked against and collated with the London Edition with the more inclusive version being preferred in any cases where the two texts differ. The Wolves and the Lamb, which is not found in the London Edition, has been based solely on a Project Gutenberg text. Professor Micael Clarke (Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago) has contributed an introduction to the Works as a whole, printed in volume 1. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,"The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, Septimius Felton and The Ancestral Footstep",Paperback,978-1-4438-0324-3,11.99,"This volume contains the early romance Fanshawe, which Hawthorne withdrew from publication after poor sales; and three of the four romances left unfinished at his death, all in different stages of draft and all based on related ideas, though developing them in different directions, plots, characters and settings, which are published in the form Hawthorne had brought them to. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,The English Note-books,Paperback,978-1-4438-0322-9,11.99,"This volume contains the concluding half of the published selections from Hawthorne's diaries while living in England (the preceeding sections are published together with Our Old Home elsewhere in this series). ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,The French and Italian Note-books,Paperback,978-1-4438-0338-0,11.99,"This volume contains the published selections from Hawthorne's journals during his family's tour of France, Italy and a part of Switzerland, including substantial observations on Italian and Roman art and architecture as well as the ways of life and culture he observed. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,The House of the Seven Gables and other tales,Paperback,978-1-4438-0205-5,5.99,"The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's greatest novels. This volume also includes the short story collectionThe Snow-Image and other Twice-Told Tales, from the same highly productive period. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,The Marble Faun,Paperback,978-1-4438-0318-2,5.99,"The Marble Faun is a semi-Gothic romance set in nineteenth-century Italy, delicately and deliberately avoiding definitely inserting the supernatural while suggesting it throughout the book. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Master of Ballantrae,Paperback,978-1-4438-0217-8,4.99,"The Master of Ballantrae is one of Stevenson's last novels, a sweeping half-Gothic tale set chiefly in Scotland in the troubled period after the 1745 rebellion. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance,Paperback,978-1-4438-0319-9,5.99,"The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne's first mature full-length novel, is his undisputed masterpiece. It is coupled here with The Blithedale Romance, based partly on Hawthorne's own experience of the communal experiment at Brook Farm. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Twice-Told Tales,Paperback,978-1-4438-0201-7,5.99,"This volume is Hawthorne's own collection of early short stories and sketches, initially published separately in periodicals and magazines. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-03-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Weir of Hermiston and other fragments,Paperback,978-1-4438-0325-0,6.99,"Stevenson himself believed Weir of Hermiston would have been his masterpiece, had he finished it before his death. Here, it is presented with seven other fragments and notes on what is known of Stevenson's intentions beyond what he wrote by Sidney Colvin. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Autobiography Of a Pocket-Handkerchief,Paperback,978-1-4438-0490-5,16.99,"This short novel is one of Fenimore Cooper's more scathing social satires, and also one of his more daring experiments in fictional form; for perhaps both reasons, it has always been hard to find in print. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Further Memories,Paperback,978-1-4438-0449-3,8.99,"This volume contains all of Stevenson's more or less autobiographical writings not contained in Memories and Portraits (also available from CSP), many of them not published, and some not completed, by Stevenson's death. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Home as Found,Paperback,978-1-4438-0504-9,11.99,"This is one of Fenimore Cooper's more political novels, an attempt at depiction of the state of American society in his own time as it would appear to an outsider - a kind of travel writing in reverse. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Homeward Bound,Paperback,978-1-4438-0451-6,13.99,"Homeward Bound is an unusual mixture of sea-going romance and social commentary which grew out of Fenimore Cooper's project for its sequel, Home as Found (also available in this series). ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Jack Tier,Paperback,978-1-4438-0495-0,16.99,"Jack Tier is one of Fenimore Cooper's later novels, and as often with his later work uses the basic outline of a form he had often used - seagoing romance - as a setting for an unusual subject of thought - here transvestism, in effect. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,Lord Byron,Letters and Journals vol. I,Paperback,978-1-4438-0507-0,9.99,"Byron's letters form a vital insight into the man and the writer. This edition contains, in addition to the journals and other prose (including translations), the fullest selection of letters so far available in any popular edition of his works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Ned Myers,Paperback,978-1-4438-0509-4,11.99,"Ned Myers is a pioneering text, usually referred to as a biography of an ordinary seaman, but in fact presented as a ghost-written autobiography. It is also a near-unique historical document, full of insights and dramatic incidents. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Poems Volume I,Paperback,978-1-4438-0362-5,4.99,"Stevenson, while best known as a writer of prose fiction, also has a considerable reputation as a poet. This volume contains, among other works, his poetic masterpiece, A Child's Garden of Verses, and the Scots collection which raised that dialect to previously unattempted heights. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Poems Volume II,Paperback,978-1-4438-0363-2,4.99,"Stevenson, while best known as a writer of prose fiction, also has a considerable reputation as a poet. This volume includes some late narrative poems written out of his South Sea experiences, and a large number of poems (some unfinished) discovered after his death and edited by his stepson. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Precaution,Paperback,978-1-4438-0349-6,10.99,"Precaution is Fenimore Cooper's first novel, a social commentary of manners set in Napoleonic England in imitation of Jane Austen and quite different from the author's characteristic style. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,R. L. Stevenson: Letters vol. III,Paperback,978-1-4438-0489-9,6.99,"A large number of Stevenson's letters survive, giving valuable insights into his character and working methods. These five volumes, based on the edition by his lifelong friend Sidney Colvin, represent a substantial selection of those that are known to exist. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,R. L. Stevenson: Letters vol. IV,Paperback,978-1-4438-0492-9,6.99,"A large number of Stevenson's letters survive, giving valuable insights into his character and working methods. These five volumes, based on the edition by his lifelong friend Sidney Colvin, represent a substantial selection of those that are known to exist. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 35 volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-0351-9,349.99,"Robert Louis Stevenson has always been a writer’s writer. Contemporaries like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry James were awed by his kaleidoscopic invention and the flawless “English” of his prose, while later authors like Somerset Maugham and Robertson Davies, drawn to the physical and psychological exotica of his subject, introduced him into their own writing—a quasi-postmodernist way of elevating their own status by alluding to his achievement and doffing their hats at the same time. Yet Stevenson was also, and perhaps foremost, a reader’s writer, a phrase that has less currency but far greater reach. Jorge Luis Borges offered it as his belief that Stevenson brought happiness to more people than any other author, although the observation was admittedly made before the age of the megamarket paperback. The great Argentinean, who late in life could refer to details from Stevenson’s earliest short stories with astonishing accuracy, clearly derived immense pleasure in conjuring up ficciones that he read as a young man. His example illuminates an experience shared by all sorts and conditions of Stevenson readers: they remember him, or come to him, from the profusion of his compositions, and even from forms, like cinema, that his work was subsequently incorporated into. One reader might have a dim memory of a line or two that was read to her when she was a small child (“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me”). Another recalls the dark and searching N.C. Wyeth illustration of Blind Pew, his tapping stick motionless as he hovers, crook-backed, before the “Admiral Benbow.” For countless numbers Stevenson emerged from chiaroscuro images of Spencer Tracy or Frederick March as the eponymous Jekyll/Hyde, or more recently from John Malkovich and Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin’s revision of filmdom’s favorite doppelganger movie. These bit examples barely convey Stevenson’s ubiquity in general culture. The name has more popular recognition than most other authors (Shakespeare, Austen, Twain always excepted) yet people are continually surprised when they discover how widely the writer is quoted, indeed how proverbial he has become (“Home is the sailor, home from sea,/ And the hunter home from the hill”; “Marriage…is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses”; “Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary”; “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest / Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”). Stevenson was the first modernist writer to systematically experiment with grafting serious matter onto popular forms. He virtually invented the twentieth century short story; he breathed new life into a tired and tedious Victorian essay without stripping it of its importance; he brought psychological realism into historical fiction, and adapted the mode as well in his studies of contemporary life in the South Seas. As for language, he did for English what Goethe did for German, and elevated his own Scots tongue to a level of art that had not been matched since Walter Scott. Stevenson’s work—short and long fiction, travel writing, poetry, essays, and letters (he was one of the great letter writers of the nineteenth century) will ensorcell readers with a writer who, like Ernest Hemingway, is that rare figure whose prose at its best is dateless, and one whose intellectual theories of art and culture are perhaps more compelling today because we are better prepared to understand them. This edition of the Works contains all of Stevenson's known works, including the novels, short stories, essays, plays and a substantial collection of letters, plus both the version of 'The Beach of Falesá' originally published and the unexpurgated version only discovered in the 1980s. This includes some material written in collaboration. The contents of the volumes are: Volume 1 (237 pp.): Critical introduction to the Works by Dr. Barry Menikoff; New Arabian Nights Volume 2 (171 pp.): Treasure Island Volume 3 (158 pp.): The Dynamiter Volume 4 (144 pp.): Prince Otto Volume 5 (157 pp.): Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Fables; other stories and fragments Volume 6 (175 pp.): Kidnapped Volume 7 (218 pp.): Catriona Volume 8 (165 pp.): The Merry Men and other stories Volume 9 (195 pp.): The Black Arrow Volume 10 (288 pp.): The Wrecker Volume 11 (154 pp.): The Wrong Box; The Body-Snatchers Volume 12 (180 pp.): The Master of Ballantrae Volume 13 (205 pp.): Island Nights' Entertainments; The Beach of Falesá (unexpurgated); The Misadventures of John Nicholson Volume 14 (155 pp.): The Ebb-Tide; The Story of a Lie Volume 15 (286 pp.): St. Ives Volume 16 (189 pp.): Weir of Hermiston; some unfinished stories Volume 17 (179 pp.): An Inland Voyage; Travels with a Donkey Volume 18 (187 pp.): The Amateur Emigrant; The Old and New Pacific Capitals; The Silverado Squatters; The Silverado Diary (excerpts) Volume 19 (224 pp.): Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin; Records of a Family of Engineers Volume 20 (222 pp.): In the South Seas Volume 21 (249 pp.): Vailima Papers including Letters from the South Seas and A Footnote to History; An Object of Pity Volume 22 (244 pp.): Poems, volume I. Volume 23 (306 pp.): Poems, volume II. Volume 24 (239 pp.): Plays Volume 25 (146 pp.): Virginibus Puerisque Volume 26 (137 pp.): Ethical Studies; Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Volume 27 (178 pp.): Familiar Studies of Men and Books Volume 28 (146 pp.): Essays Literary and Critical Volume 29 (138 pp.): Memories and Portraits and other fragments Volume 30 (139 pp.): Further Memories Volume 31 (176 pp.): Letters, volume I. Volume 32 (245 pp.): Letters, volume II. Volume 33 (243 pp.): Letters, volume III. Volume 34 (192 pp.): Letters, volume IV. Volume 35 (139 pp.): Letters, volume V. All of the Works have been newly typeset for this edition. The texts have been taken from the Tusitala Edition prepared by Lloyd Osborne with Stevenson's widow (London: William Heinemann, Ltd., inter alia, 1923, 35 vols.), with the exception of the unexpurgated version of The Beach of Falesá, which has been taken from the 1987 Stanford University Press (edited by Barry Menikoff) by permission of Stanford University Press, and An Object of Pity, which has been taken from the 1900 New York Dodd, Mead edition. Dr. Barry Menikoff (University of Hawaii) has contributed an introduction to the Works as a whole, printed in volume 1. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Crater,Paperback,978-1-4438-0491-2,16.99,"The Crater is a political fable, set on a fictional Pacific island colony and expressing Cooper's opinions of the directions American democracy took in his later life in particularly direct fashion. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Deerslayer,Paperback,978-1-4438-0496-7,15.99,"The Deerslayer is the first in plot order, though the fifth in order of writing, of the series of Leatherstocking Tales which Cooper himself and posterity have tended to consider his greatest work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Pioneers,Paperback,978-1-4438-0364-9,11.99,"The Pioneers is the first to be written, but the fourth in reading order, of the Leatherstocking Tales which Fenimore Cooper considered (and posterity has tended to agree) to be his most enduring work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Spy,Paperback,978-1-4438-0359-5,10.99,"The Spy is the earliest of Fenimore Cooper's characteristic adventure novels, set during the American War of Independence. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish,Paperback,978-1-4438-0361-8,10.99,"The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish is one of Fenimore Cooper's characteristic romances of the Native American wars, but set as far back as the Puritan colonies of the late seventeenth century. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-04-01,Robert Louis Stevenson,Virginibus Puerisque and other essays,Paperback,978-1-4438-0443-1,4.99,"Stevenson's revival and renewal of the Romantic 'familiar essay' first made his literary reputation. This volume contains the first of these ssays to be published in book form, including those written and published while he was a student. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,William Makepeace Thackeray,Denis Duval and Morning Chronicle Contributions,Paperback,978-1-4438-0536-0,7.99,"Denis Duval is Thackeray's last novel, left incomplete at his death. This volume also includes reviews and articles written by Thackeray for the Morning Chronicle, one of the most respected daily papers of the day, in the 1840s. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,Lord Byron,Letters and Journals vol. II,Paperback,978-1-4438-0518-6,9.99,"Byron's letters form a vital insight into the man and the writer. This edition contains, in addition to the journals and other prose (including translations), the fullest selection of letters so far available in any popular edition of his works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,Lord Byron,Letters and Journals vol. III,Paperback,978-1-4438-0522-3,9.99,"Byron's letters form a vital insight into the man and the writer. This edition contains, in addition to the journals and other prose (including translations), the fullest selection of letters so far available in any popular edition of his works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,Lord Byron,Letters and Journals vol. IV,Paperback,978-1-4438-0529-2,9.99,"Byron's letters form a vital insight into the man and the writer. This edition contains, in addition to the journals and other prose (including translations), the fullest selection of letters so far available in any popular edition of his works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,Lord Byron,Letters and Journals vol. V,Paperback,978-1-4438-0530-8,9.99,"Byron's letters form a vital insight into the man and the writer. This edition contains, in addition to the journals and other prose (including translations), the fullest selection of letters so far available in any popular edition of his works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,Lord Byron,Letters and Journals vol. VI,Paperback,978-1-4438-0531-5,9.99,"Byron's letters form a vital insight into the man and the writer. This edition contains, in addition to the journals and other prose (including translations), the fullest selection of letters so far available in any popular edition of his works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Mercedes of Castile,Paperback,978-1-4438-0553-7,16.99,"Mercedes of Castile is a historical romance based around the events of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas and the Caribbean natives he brought back to Spain with him. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Miles Wallingford,Paperback,978-1-4438-0556-8,13.99,"This is the second half (the first, Afloat and Ashore, is also available from CSP) of one of Fenimore Cooper's novelistic diptychs. Like many of his later novels, the forms of his eary fiction are preserved but with a strong undercurrent of social commentary on the America of his time. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Satanstoe,Paperback,978-1-4438-0547-6,16.99,"This is the first volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century. The other volumes are also available from CSP. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Monikins,Paperback,978-1-4438-0538-4,15.99,"The Monikins is Fenimore Cooper's most notorious political novel, a fully-developed satire written under the perceptible influence of Gulliver's Travels. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Oak Openings,Paperback,978-1-4438-0539-1,13.99,"The Oak Openings is one of the last of Cooper's frontier novels, and is notable for the shift in views of native Americans and Christianity it displays compared with the early novel The Pioneers. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Sea Lions,Paperback,978-1-4438-0543-8,13.99,"This, one of Fenimore Cooper's last novels, contains both a remarkable description of Antarctic exploring and one of the author's most direct discussions of religion - a subject which increasingly claims importance in his later fiction. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Two Admirals,Paperback,978-1-4438-0545-2,16.99,"The Two Admirals is a naval tale, but one arguably as much concerned with the nature of political, familial and personal allegiance as with battles at sea. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Water-Witch,Paperback,978-1-4438-0544-5,13.99,"The Water-Witch is a typical example of Fenimore Cooper's naval romances, combining the hinted-at supernatural element that he often included in such novels. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Ways of the Hour,Paperback,978-1-4438-0549-0,16.99,"This is Fenimore Cooper's last and in some ways bitterest novel, an outspoken examination of contemporary American legal practices and marriage law. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Wing-and-Wing,Paperback,978-1-4438-0554-4,14.99,"The Wing-and-Wing is a double-edged novel; a nautical romance with a vein of religious dispute running through it which is brought to the fore by the author's preface, written for an early collected edition and reprinted here. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-05-01,Margaret J-M Sönmez and Mine Özyurt Kılıç,Winterson Narrating Time and Space,Hardback,978-1-4438-0514-8,39.99,"In this book, scholars, students and aficionados of Jeanette Winterson will find ten analyses of time, space and narrative in her works. From her very first novel, Jeanette Winterson has made her characters move in time and in space, and she has always shown a sophisticated interest in narrative forms, and this is the first book to focus entirely on these central concerns. The writers of the essays provide different perspectives on the three subjects, from postmodernism to quantum physics, queer theory to genre studies and the uncanny to stylistics. In its section on time and narrative, the volume offers a fresh approach to Winterson's works, with a concentration on autobiographical elements, love, desire, the language of quantum physics, and the queer uncanny. The next section, space and narrative, pursues the motifs of journeys, utopic spaces, cyberspace and labyrinths, and includes a chapter on the shorter fiction. The last section, which comprises essays that cover all three elements of time, space and narrative equally, examines these themes as they affect Winterson's representation of voices and corporeality, and her use of romance narrative in the children's fiction. The volume covers Winterson's major fiction, with the Introduction connecting the images of huts, rivers and fire-gazing that are found extensively in her works to the themes of time and space, and bringing the discussion up to Winterson's latest novel, The Stone Gods. A mixture of established and new scholars presents in this book an exciting array of the latest ideas on this respected and popular writer. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Afloat and Ashore,Paperback,978-1-4438-0572-8,16.99,"This is the first half (the second, Miles Wallingford, is also available from CSP) of one of Fenimore Cooper's novelistic diptychs. Like many of his later novels, the forms of his eary fiction are preserved but with a strong undercurrent of social commentary on the America of his time. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,Roderick S. Speer,Byron and Scott: The Waverley Novels and Historical Engagement,Hardback,978-1-4438-0587-2,34.99,"Literary historians have repeatedly observed that while Scott as a poet was the first British literary lion of the nineteenth century, his fame was supplanted by Byron as a poet starting in 1812. But that is as far as they take the relationship seriously, for the two writers are traditionally thought of as very different, even as political and temperamental opposites. But in fact, the two writers met each other in 1815, liked each other, and cherished their friendship the rest of their lives. The story of their relationship in personal terms was not over. Nor was the literary relationship, this study ventures. Scott embarked on an entirely new career in 1814, inventing the historical novel. Byron was swept away by these “Waverley novels,” and in his years of exile to the Continent from 1816 on, repeatedly beseeched his publisher to send Scott’s latest novels. The position here is that those novels were important to Byron’s development in both literary and existential respects. Byron’s historical dramas, his Don Juan, The Island, and his final fling, into the Greek Revolution, show an evolution of both the Byronic Hero and Byron himself in a context his friend Scott had opened up for him. ","“Longer than anyone else, Roderick Speer has thought about and lived with the interactions both personal and literary of the Byron-Scott relationship. This rich and ever-fascinating subject has demanded a comprehensive study for decades. Here it is at last.” —John Clubbe ""A much-needed revision of the standard view of the Scott-Byron relationship, in life as well as in art. Speer's insights are new, and should cause us to read both authors afresh."" —Peter Cochran ",Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009-06-01,Charles Dickens,Christmas Stories,Paperback,978-1-4438-1106-4,9.99,"This volume contains all Dickens' writing for Christmas numbers of his periodicals, including frame narratives, collaborative pieces and indications of the positions of other authors' contributions to multiple-author numbers. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,History of the Navy of the United States,Paperback,978-1-4438-0599-5,13.99,"Cooper had a keen and considerably academic interest in naval affairs, probably springing in part from his naval service as a young man. This resulted in several minor works and a few major ones, of which this, tracing the American force from pre-Revolutionary origins to the end of the war of 1812, is the most significant. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Lionel Lincoln,Paperback,978-1-4438-0588-9,21.99,"Lionel Lincoln is set during the American War of Independence, and is interesting for being by an American but narrated chiefly from the British point of view of that conflict. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Memories and Adventures and Western Wanderings,Paperback,978-1-4438-1003-6,5.99,"This volume brings together Memories and Adventures, Conan Doyle's full-length autobiography vieiwing his life chiefly from the Spiritualist perspective of his later years, and Western Wanderings, a series of sketches of America and Canada which form his only significant pre-WWI autobiographical work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Naval Biographies,Paperback,978-1-4438-0560-5,17.99,"This set of nine lives of US naval officers who served during the period from the Revolution to the war of 1812 were first written for magazine publication, but subsequently revised as a volume. They provide fascinating comparison to the more political concerns of the author's Histoy of the Navy of the United States. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Tales for Fifteen,Paperback,978-1-4438-0589-6,11.99,"Tales for Fifteen consists of a pair of short stories, one lightly satiric, the other sentimental, published under a female pseudonym before Fenimore Cooper found success with his first adventure novel. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Bravo,Paperback,978-1-4438-0581-0,16.99,"The Bravo is one of the first products of Fenimore Cooper's extended stay in Europe, a novel set in Venice but with heavily political aspects that caused controversy in his native United States. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Chainbearer,Paperback,978-1-4438-0569-8,14.99,"This is the second volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century. The other volumes are also available from CSP. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Coming of the Fairies,Paperback,978-1-4438-0612-1,4.99,"This volume is the upshot of Conan Doyle's high-profile championing of the authenticity of the Cottingley photographs, purporting to be of fairies; it touches on the author's belief in Spiritualism and contains much reference to the related but distinct creed of Theosophism. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Heidenmauer,Paperback,978-1-4438-0564-3,16.99,"The Heidenmauer is based on a German legend Fenimore Cooper heard while travelling in Europe, and is in part a reflection upon the Lutheran Reformation. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The History of Spiritualism,Paperback,978-1-4438-0605-3,11.99,"This is one of the most extended of Conan Doyle's works advocating Spiritualism, to which he became a convert after the death of several relatives in World War I. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Last of the Mohicans,Paperback,978-1-4438-0574-2,5.99,"The Last of the Mohicans is by far the best-known of Fenimore Cooper's works, and the most famous fictional incarnation of the native American peoples. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Pathfinder,Paperback,978-1-4438-0586-5,16.99,"The Pathfinder is the third, in reading order, of the Leather-Stocking Tales, which Fenimore Cooper considered (and posterity has tended to agree) his most enduring work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Prairie,Paperback,978-1-4438-0573-5,13.99,"This is the last, in reading order, of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" series of novels which Fenimore Cooper and posterity have tended to consider his most enduring work. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Red Rover,Paperback,978-1-4438-0559-9,8.99,"The Red Rover is a seagoing, indeed piratical, romance set in the mid-eighteenth century. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Redskins,Paperback,978-1-4438-0563-6,11.99,"This is the last volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century. The other volumes are also available from CSP. This novel is notable for being one of Cooper's most straightforward polemics, concerning contemporary unrest over property laws. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Waterloo and The Speckled Band,Paperback,978-1-4438-0608-4,11.99,"This volume contains two plays by Conan Doyle based on his own short stories. Also included, and giving valuable insight into Edwardian theatre practice, are the stage managers's props and lighting plots from the professional premiere of the second script. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-06-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Wyandotté,Paperback,978-1-4438-0583-4,17.99,"This is one of Fenimore Cooper's later military romances, and contains some daring reflections on different levels and kinds of loyalty set in the context of the American War of Independence. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-07-01,Lord Byron,Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,Paperback,978-1-4438-0966-5,6.99,"Childe Harold made Byron's reputation, and remains one of his greatest work. As well as the established text, this edition contains stanzas cancelled by Byron during the composition process or at the request of friends, and Byron's and Hobhouse's notes on the poem, incorporated into the text. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-07-01,Lord Byron,Don Juan,Paperback,978-1-4438-0970-2,7.99,"Don Juan is perhaps Byron's greatest single work, a huge mock-epic that draws together many of the abiding concerns of his life and was one of the last poems he completed. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-07-01,Lord Byron,Hours of Idleness and other Early Poems,Paperback,978-1-4438-0965-8,19.99,"This volume contains all of Byron's poems written before Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: the lyrics and imitations published in his first volumes and not published by the author at all, and the satires written around the Mediterranean tour which was to result in Childe Harold, which between them brought Byron to the notice of the literary and critical community. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-07-01,Lord Byron,Late Plays and Poems,Paperback,978-1-4438-0969-6,12.99,"This volume contains Byron's major works of the last few years of his life, apart from Don Juan (printed in a separate volume in this series) including the ""regular"" dramas, the Biblical ""mysteries"" and the satire The Age of Bronze. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-07-01,Lord Byron,Lord Byron: The Complete Works in 13 volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-0602-2,129.99,"Lord Byron remains, as he was to many of his contemporaries, the defining personality of his age and time, the quintessential late-Romantic: one whose life matched the freedom of imagination and possibility of his poetry, charismatic, irresistible and shocking. The full range of his work, however, reveals a less straightforward and less stereotypical writer than this: a thinker as well as a feeler, a poet rather than merely a sensationalist, someone who justifies his towering literary reputation as much as his scandalous one. This edition of the Works contains Byron's entire poetical output, including dramas and material omitted or censored from early editions. It also presents around half of the known letters, the journals and other prose writings. The contents of the volumes are: Volume 1 (386 pp.): Introduction to the poetical works by Dr. Peter Cochran; Fugitive Pieces; Poems on Various Occasions; Hours of Idleness; Poems Original and Translated; other early poems; English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; Hints from Horace; The Curse of Minerva; The Waltz. Volume 2 (295 pp.): Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, including stanzas excluded from the early editions and all Byron's and Hobhouse's notes and appendices. Volume 3 (426 pp.): Poems 1809–1813; The Giaour; The Bride of Abydos; The Corsair; Lara; Hebrew Melodies; Poems 1814–1816; The Siege of Corinth; Parisina; Poems of the Separation. Volume 4 (509 pp.): The Prisoner of Chillon; Poems of July–September, 1816; Manfred; The Lament of Tasso; Beppo; Ode on Venice; Mazeppa; The Prophecy of Dante; The Morgante Maggiore; Francesca of Rimini; Marino Faliero; The Vision of Judgment; Poems 1816–1823; The Blues. Volume 5 (685 pp.): Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain; Heaven and Earth; Werner; The Deformed Transformed; The Age of Bronze; The Island. Volume 6 (689 pp.): Don Juan. Volume 7 (87 pp.): minor poems and jeux d'esprit. Volume 8 (204 pp.): Introduction to the prose works by Dr. Peter Cochran; letters, to August 1811. Volume 9 (352 pp.): letters, August 1811 to December 1813; journal, November 1813 to April 1814; articles from the Monthly Review; Parliamentary speeches. Volume 10 (266 pp.): letters, January 1814 to November 1816; journal for Augusta, September 1816; a fragment of a novel. Volume 11 (355 pp.): letters, November 1816 to March 1820; translations from Armenian; unfinished skit on Sotheby's Tour; letter to the editor of ""My Grandmother's Review""; reply to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Volume 12 (358 pp.): letters, April 1820 to December 1821; extracts from journal, January to February 1821; ""My Dictionary""; Detached Thoughts; the two letters on Bowles and Pope; draft of an address to the Neapolitan insurgents; notes on Bacon's apophthegms and Voltaire. Volume 13 (261 pp.): letters, January 1822 on; two late prose fragments; additional letters; undated letters to Lady Melbourne. All of the Works have been newly typeset for this edition. The basis of the texts is Ernest Hartley Coleridge's edition of the poetry and Rowland E. Prothero's edition of the prose (as published uniformly, London: John Murray, 1898). Further letters have been added from the texts in John Murray, ed., Lord Byron's Correspondence (London: John Murray, 1922, 2 vols.), Ralph, Earl of Lovelace, Astarte (London: Scribner's, 1921), and material supplied by Peter Cochran drawing on the B.L. Loan 70 collection and other sources, and incorporated silently into the chronological sequence and numbering of the series. Additional poems and portions of Childe Harold initially suppressed have been supplied from the online edition by Peter Cochran (www.internationalbyronsociety.org) and incorporated into the sequence. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-07-01,Lord Byron,Manfred and other poems,Paperback,978-1-4438-0968-9,8.99,"This volume includes among other poetical works Manfred, Byron's first experiments with Italian verse-forms and his first closet dramas. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-07-01,Lord Byron,Minor Poems,Paperback,978-1-4438-0971-9,9.99,"This volume contains minor poems, fragments, verse-epistles and jeux d'esprit, mostly unpublished in Byron's lifetime, which are not found elsewhere in this series. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-07-01,Lord Byron,The Giaour and other poems,Paperback,978-1-4438-0967-2,4.99,"This volume contains all of Byron's short and medium-length poems from the period 1808-1816, including ""The Giaour"" and ""The Corsair"" which further bolstered his fame after the publication of the first part of Childe Harold. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-08-01,Charles Dickens,Miscellaneous Papers,Paperback,978-1-4438-1122-4,5.99,"This volume collects a large selection of Dickens's occasional writing, some of it written for volumes or as one-off contributions to periodicals, but mostly for The Examiner and the two periodicals he edited himself. These short pieces, including journalistic comment, fictional satire, book and theatre reviews, and other less generically idenitifiable writings, present Dickens's views and concerns in a direct and vigorous way, giving insights often only hinted at in his novels. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-09-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Complete Works in 13 volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-1316-7,129.99,"Nathaniel Hawthorne is an author who continues to present contradictions to the reader and scholar. He was a meticulous observer and recorder of everyday life, yet his fiction tends deliberately towards the fantastical and grotesque. He always identified himself strongly with the early history of New England, yet spent several years in Britain and Europe, and remained fascinated by modern social and technological innovation. Contemporaries praised his sentiment and moral purity, but it is his psychological penetration, verging at times on surreal allegory, which has attracted modern appreciation. Not least surprisingly, The Scarlet Letter has become a staple of the novelistic canon, while much of the rest of Hawthorne’s oeuvre goes almost unnoticed–a situation which is surely ripe for correction. This edition contains all the works (fiction and essays and sketches) published by Hawthorne which it has proved possible to reproduce. It also includes the unfinished novels, and the selections from Hawthorne’s diaries and letters published by his widow after his death. All of the works have been newly typeset for this edition. Prof. Nick Lawrence (University of Warwick) has written a new critical introduction to Hawthorne’s oeuvre, including a chronology of the author’s life, contexts for reading his work, an overview of contemporary and subsequent reception, and a brief bibliography. This edition contains all the works (fiction and essays and sketches) published by Hawthorne which it has proved possible to trace. It also includes the unfinished novels, and the selections from Hawthorne's diaries and letters published by his widow after his death. The contents of the volumes are: Volume 1 ( pp.): Introduction to the works by Prof. Nick Lawrence; Twice-Told Tales Volume 2 (314 pp.): Mosses from an Old Manse Volume 3 (356 pp.): The House of the Seven Gables; The Snow Image and other Twice-Told Tales Volume 4 (373 pp.): A Wonder-book; Tanglewood Tales; Grandfather's Chair Volume 5 (336 pp.): The Scarlet Letter; The Blithedale Romance Volume 6 (307 pp.): The Marble Faun Volume 7 (313 pp.): Our Old Home; extracts from English Note-books (first part) Volume 8 (330 pp.): extracts from English Note-books (remainder) Volume 9 (242 pp.): extracts from American Note-books Volume 10 (302 pp.): extracts from French and Italian Note-books Volume 11 (293 pp.): The Dolliver Romance; Fanshawe; Septimius Felton; The Ancestral Footstep Volume 12 (262 pp.): tales and sketches not published elsewhere; Biographical Stories; Biographical Sketches; Alice Doane's Appeal; Chiefly about War Matters; Life of Franklin Pierce Volume 13 (201 pp.): Dr. Grimshaw's Secret (as edited by Julian Hawthorne) All of the works have been newly typeset for this edition. The basis of the texts is the Riverside edition (12 vols., London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883), except for 'The Haunted Quack,' 'A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather,' and 'A Good Man's Miracle,' in vol. 12, which are based on the online Eldritch Press editions (ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/hawthorne.html), and Dr. Grimshaw's Secret, which is based on Julian Hawthorne's edition (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882). ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-09-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Our African Winter,Paperback,978-1-4438-1336-5,11.99,"Our African Winter is one of Conan Doyle's late memoirs, of a trip to South Africa and bordering countries to the north, chiefly in order to lecture upon Spritualism, in 1929. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-09-01,"Claude Maisonnat, Josiane Paccaud-Huguet and Annie Ramel",Rewriting/Reprising in Literature: The Paradoxes of Intertextuality,Hardback,978-1-4438-1254-2,39.99,"This volumes includes a series of 17 selected essays, preceded by a methodological introduction, whose purpose is to offer a fresh outlook on the question of rewriting-reprising. The argument, taking for granted the phenomenon of intertextuality, develops along three main axes: the first one reconsiders the already debated issue of authority on post-structuralist premises, arguing that the origin of a text is untraceable. The second looks at a phenomenon often associated with reprising, especially in a post-colonial context: trauma, whether individual or historical, in relation to creative repetition. The third axis offers a re-reading of the question of voice, introducing the notion of the textual voice, understood as that part of the enunciative act over which the author has no control. When writers make of reprising a deliberate practise, we are tempted to believe that their position, between homage and pillage, presupposes the existence of a traceable source of the literary Word. We must however face the problematic nature of enunciation, the void on which is is founded. Which leads us to the proposition that the act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: a certain mode of organisation around that void. Besides, in a century of major man-made traumas, whose effect was the tearing up of social fabrics, reprising will assume a more complex significance: the symptomatic, repetitive stitching of what is being constantly ripped up. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009-09-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Edge of the Unknown and The New Revelation,Paperback,978-1-4438-1368-6,9.99,"The New Revelation is one of Conan Doyle's earlier and shorter works of apologetics for Spiritualism. The Edge of the Unknown is a series of essays on the same subject, several of them duplicating arguments made in other Spiritualist works available from CSP. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-09-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Maracot Deep and other stories,Paperback,978-1-4438-1373-0,11.99,"This volume was one of Conan Doyle's last fictional publications, the year before his death, and shows the significant influence of the Spiritualist religion to which he devoted most of his later years. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Anthony Trollope,Anthony Trollope: The Major Works in 53 Volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-1337-2,399.99,"Anthony Trollope was one of the most popular writers of his generation, the one between Dickens and Thackeray on the one hand and such late Victorians as Stevenson and Wilde on the other which saw the greatest popularity and social standing of the Victorian literary novel. However, his posthumous reputation suffered at the hands of fellow novelists who thought him pedestrian, and critics after his death who presumed that no-one so prolific, and able to work to so rigid a schedule, could be inspired. Yet he is now undergoing a critical revival, revealing a daringly progressive thinker on social issues and a fearless and pointed satirist, as well as the well-known masterful and loving drawer of character. The contemporary comparisons with Austen, and Trollope's own proclamation of Thackeray as his master, are being belatedly rejustified. This edition collects all of Trollope's major novels and a selection of his short stories, plus his autobiography, his substantial work on the USA written from first-hand research during the Civil War and the biography and critical appreciation of the writer he most revered, Thackeray. All the texts have been newly typeset for this edition. The contents of the volumes are as follows: Volume 1 (201 pp.): An Autobiography Volume 2 (396 pp.): The Kellys and the O'Kellys Volume 3 (384 pp.): La Vendée Volume 4 (170 pp.): The Warden Volume 5 (378 pp.): Barchester Towers Volume 6 (254 pp.): Doctor Thorne Vol. I Volume 7 (261 pp.): Doctor Thorne Vol. II Volume 8 (383 pp.): Framley Parsonage Volume 9 (305 pp.): The Small House at Allington Vol. I Volume 10 (275 pp.): The Small House at Allington Vol. II Volume 11 (367 pp.): The Last Chronicle of Barset Vol. I Volume 12 (397 pp.): The Last Chronicle of Barset Vol. II Volume 13 (397 pp.): The Three Clerks Volume 14 (400 pp.): Castle Richmond Volume 15 (354 pp.): Orley Farm Vol. I Volume 16 (357 pp.): Orley Farm Vol. II Volume 17 (360 pp.): Can You Forgive Her? Vol. I Volume 18 (348 pp.): Can You Forgive Her? Vol. II Volume 19 (300 pp.): Phineas Finn Vol. I Volume 20 (304 pp.): Phineas Finn Vol. II Volume 21 (309 pp.): The Eustace Diamonds Vol. I Volume 22 (311 pp.): The Eustace Diamonds Vol. II Volume 23 (293 pp.): Phineas Redux Vol. I Volume 24 (292 pp.): Phineas Redux Vol. II Volume 25 (318 pp.): The Prime Minister Vol. I Volume 26 (325 pp.): The Prime Minister Vol. II Volume 27 (256 pp.): The Duke's Children Vol. I Volume 28 (298 pp.): The Duke's Children Vol. II Volume 29 (320 pp.): Miss Mackenzie Volume 30 (360 pp.): The Belton Estate Volume 31 (400 pp.): The Claverings Volume 32 (170 pp.): Nina Balatka Volume 33 (394 pp.): He Knew He Was Right Vol. I Volume 34 (381 pp.): He Knew He Was Right Vol. II Volume 35 (398 pp.): Ralph the Heir Volume 36 (157 pp.): The Golden Lion of Granpere Volume 37 (107 pp.): Harry Heathcote of Gangoil; George Walker at Suez Volume 38 (395 pp.): The Way We Live Now Vol. I Volume 39 (394 pp.): The Way We Live Now Vol. II Volume 40 (180 pp.): The American Senator Vol. I Volume 41 (171 pp.): The American Senator Vol. II Volume 42 (173 pp.): The American Senator Vol. III Volume 43 (393 pp.): John Caldigate Volume 44 (182 pp.): An Eye for an Eye; Aaron Trow Volume 45 (164 pp.): Cousin Henry Volume 46 (171 pp.): Dr. Wortle's School Volume 47 (174 pp.): Kept in the Dark Volume 48 (236 pp.): Mr. Scarborough's Family Vol. I Volume 49 (258 pp.): Mr. Scarborough's Family Vol. II Volume 50 (171 pp.): An Old Man's Love Volume 51 (271 pp.): North America Vol. I Volume 52 (264 pp.): North America Vol. II Volume 53 (135 pp.): Thackeray ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four,Paperback,978-1-4438-1317-4,5.99,"This volume contains the first two novel-length Sherlock Holmes cases: A Study in Scarlet, which to a large extent made Conan Doyle's literary reputation, and The Sign of Four. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle and J. M. Barrie,Jane Annie,Paperback,978-1-4438-1334-1,11.99,"Jane Annie is a comic opera, written for the Savoy Opera House. It was commenced by J. M. Barrie, but Conan Doyle was asked to complete the libretto when Barrie's ill health prevented him continuing work on it. This edition presents the libretto of the entire operetta, together with the humorous notes added by the authors for publication. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Our American Adventure,Paperback,978-1-4438-1378-5,11.99,"This is the second of three memoirs by Conan Doyle describing lecture tours in support of Spiritualism in Australia and New Zealand, and on two occasions in the US and Canada. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Our Second American Adventure,Paperback,978-1-4438-1382-2,11.99,"This is the third of Conan Doyle's trilogy of memoirs of lecture series, in Australia and New Zealand and twice in the US and Canada, in support of Spiritualism. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. I: 1914,Paperback,978-1-4438-1397-6,11.99,"Conan Doyle's six-volume history of the Western Front was written over the period 1916 to 1921; it is this very near contemporaneity of writing, partly under wartime censorship conditions, that is at the same time its main handicap as a study and its main interest as a document. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. II: 1915,Paperback,978-1-4438-1403-4,11.99,"Conan Doyle's six-volume history of the Western Front was written over the period 1916 to 1921; it is this very near contemporaneity of writing, partly under wartime censorship conditions, that is at the same time its main handicap as a study and its main interest as a document. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. IV: 1917,Paperback,978-1-4438-1406-5,11.99,"Conan Doyle's six-volume history of the Western Front was written over the period 1916 to 1921; it is this very near contemporaneity of writing, partly under wartime censorship conditions, that is at the same time its main handicap as a study and its main interest as a document. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. V: January–July 1918,Paperback,978-1-4438-1407-2,11.99,"Conan Doyle's six-volume history of the Western Front was written over the period 1916 to 1921; it is this very near contemporaneity of writing, partly under wartime censorship conditions, that is at the same time its main handicap as a study and its main interest as a document. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes,Paperback,978-1-4438-1428-7,5.99,"This is the last collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories, containing cases written up to the late 1920s. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Cases of Edalji and Slater,Paperback,978-1-4438-1431-7,11.99,"This volume contains Conan Doyle's statements in the two cases where he took it upon himself to apply detective methods to counter errors of justice, together with supporting documents of which he made use. Both are key documents in understanding Conan Doyle's personal relationship with the methods of his most dfamous literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,José Maria Gutiérrez Arranz,The Cycle of Troy in Geoffrey Chaucer: Tradition and “Moralitee”,Hardback,978-1-4438-1307-5,34.99,"The aim of the author of this book is to bring home not only to researchers, but to every kind of audience the repercussions of a literary topic that was an essential part of Classical education and, even more, a crucial subject in and outside the academic world. In ancient Greece and Rome, the Cycle of Troy was viewed as an essential compilation of information and educational models which was a vivid testimony throughout the history of Greek and Roman influence. Yet in the middle Ages, Trojan myths, just as with those concerning other characters like Hercules or Jason, were transformed into models of human behaviour, i.e. underwent the process of “moralization”. We say “Moralitee” to point out how Geoffrey Chaucer recreates those myths. Although we will extensively discuss how Chaucer recreates the Trojan myths in his works, we can anticipate what the reader will find. Chaucer manipulates his material from a multifold point of view: first of all, Chaucer was a man of his times, an unquiet mind and personality who always plays different games with that material. We might consider heroic the fact that Chaucer would pour out on his work the great background that the European writers (mainly Boccaccio, Dante, and Petrarch) supplied him (we will remember how difficult collecting information was in a period of vast lack of what we might call “media”). Come what may, he projects his wisdom to stress the most surmounting aspects of the formal characterization of the myths, and integrates them into the proper contexts of his works, as one of the key forces that the audience is expected to revive with the knowledge that it is supposed to own. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Parasite and other stories,Paperback,978-1-4438-1332-7,9.99,"This volume contains a number of Conan Doyle's short stories not available elsewhere in this series. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Pilot,Paperback,978-1-4438-1412-6,11.99,"This is the first of Fenimore Cooper's numerous successful sea-going romances, and its initial popularity was formative in his career. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Wanderings of a Spiritualist,Paperback,978-1-4438-1376-1,11.99,"This is first of Conan Doyle's trilogy of memoirs of lecture tours advocating Spiritualism carried out in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada in the 1920s (the others are also available in this series). ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Charles Dickens,Uncollected Writings from Household Words vol. I,Paperback,978-1-4438-1383-9,11.99,"Dickens wrote many small pieces for the journals he edited, often taking something of the character of the sketch or familiar essay, now a Victorian genre largely neglected. These two volumes collect those he wrote for his first journal; many are collaborative but all are here presented entire. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-01,Charles Dickens,Uncollected Writings from Household Words vol. II,Paperback,978-1-4438-1384-6,11.99,"Dickens wrote many small pieces for the journals he edited, often taking something of the character of the sketch or familiar essay, now a Victorian genre largely neglected. These two volumes collect those he wrote for his first journal; many are collaborative but all are here presented entire. This second volume also includes two samples of his commissioning letters to collaborators on multi-author projects for Household Words. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-10,Arthur Conan Doyle,The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. III: 1916,Paperback,978-1-4438-1404-1,11.99,"Conan Doyle's six-volume history of the Western Front was written over the period 1916 to 1921; it is this very near contemporaneity of writing, partly under wartime censorship conditions, that is at the same time its main handicap as a study and its main interest as a document. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-10-10,Arthur Conan Doyle,Uncollected Short Stories,Paperback,978-1-4438-1411-9,11.99,"This volume contains all the known short stories by Conan Doyle which were not collected into volumes for publication during his life. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-11-01,Nathan Waddell,"Modern John Buchan: A Critical Introduction ",Hardback,978-1-4438-1370-9,34.99,"This book offers an introduction to the breadth and diversity of the literary and non-literary work of John Buchan (1875–1940). It stakes a claim for him as an engaged interpreter of twentieth-century modernity, and provides evaluative readings of his output. In addition to demonstrating how Buchan’s work complicates the reductive view of early twentieth-century literature as neatly cordoned-off into “low” and “high” forms of production, this book discusses his theories of empire and imperialism, his account of historiography, and his response to the First World War. In addition to his many roles as a journalist, propagandist, war reporter, editor, civil servant, and statesman, Buchan was a committed literary critic, philosopher, and writer of history. This book explores the many connections between his work and such modernists as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis, and it situates Buchan as an intellectual figure who provided a distinctive set of readings of his modern times. Running throughout is a consideration of Buchan’s fascination with binaries, doubles, and duality, which his work variously upholds and investigates. It ends with a discussion of Buchan’s most famous work—The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)—in relation to paranoia and pathology. ","He gives his subject measured and detailed attention, ensuring a balanced and authoritative approach that consolidates Buchan studies into an accepted discipline within literature and history. I envisage this book being required reading on any of the many undergraduate courses studying Buchan, and it will become a necessary part of the corpus of criticism on Buchan’s work. —Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent, Belgium Waddell presents a lucid introduction to Buchan’s writings, while at the same time presenting an original and persuasive thesis: that Buchan can and should be read in the company of his modern contemporaries, not as a “modernist” novelist, but as an identifiably modern writer whose fictions demonstrate his awareness of and reaction to the aesthetic and political currents of his day. —Scott Klein, Wake Forest University, USA He has clearly done a lot of reading and thinking and his book is a welcome addition to Buchan studies – a piece of lit crit written lucidly and full of good sense. He has a fresh angle on Buchan’s response to modernity and I like the way he has captured the richness and complexity of Buchan’s writing. —Andrew Lownie, author of John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier ",Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. VI: July–November 1918,Paperback,978-1-4438-1408-9,11.99,"Conan Doyle's six-volume history of the Western Front was written over the period 1916 to 1921; it is this very near contemporaneity of writing, partly under wartime censorship conditions, that is at the same time its main handicap as a study and its main interest as a document. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Crime of the Congo,Paperback,978-1-4438-1438-6,11.99,"This volume is one of Conan Doyle's appeals to public opinion, in this case calling for international intervention over the running of the Belgian Congo (modern-day DRC), which he called ""the greatest crime in history."" ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-11-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The German War and To Arms!,Paperback,978-1-4438-1439-3,11.99,"This volume contains a collection of Conan Doyle's essays on WWI written at or shortly before the time, most notably the prophetic ""Great Britain and the Next War,"" and his recruiting pamphlet written in the early months of the war at government request. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-12-01,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Dr. Grimshaw's Secret,Paperback,978-1-4438-1658-8,11.99,"Much of the last few years of Hawthorne's life was given to working on versions of a last romance, set partly in England, which he never completed. This version was edited into publishable form by his son a few years after his death; while legitimate objections exist to Julian Hawthorne's edition, it is the version which has been known to readers and formed part of Hawthorne's oeuvre for most of its history. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-12-01,Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury ,European Stevenson,Hardback,978-1-4438-1436-2,39.99,"Edinburgh, late 1860s. Two young gentlemen, their heads buzzing with ideas and artistic ambitions, hang over North Bridge “watching the trains start southward and longing to start too,” the Walter Scott Monument a short way behind them, but their eyes fixed on the tracks leading South, to London and the Continent. In their Introduction the editors see this scene with his painter cousin as symbolically significant for Robert Louis Stevenson’s writing career. Through his connection with Europe, and especially France, he participated in an international exchange of ideas on art which led him in the 1870s to reinvent his relationship with his national literary tradition by exploring a variety of essayistic forms. He would eventually confront the shadow of the Scott Monument when he turned to novel writing in the ‘80s, but the nature of his innovations as a novelist cannot be understood without taking into account the lessons he learned in France. The papers that follow first explore the way Stevenson’s world-view and cultural background interacted with European landscape, literature and painting in that key early decade. Later chapters examine the influence of Stevenson on European writers (Proust, Cocteau, Brecht and Calvino) and on other creative artists. The volume aims to show how European culture contributed to Stevenson’s greatest achievements and then to explain why, with Stevenson ignored by Anglo-American critics for most of the twentieth century, he still remained an admired model for Europeans. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009-12-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Family Writings,Paperback,9781443817615,11.99,"This volume contains various personal and family writings, though Cooper never wrote any autobiographical works as such. They are: his account (written long afterwards) of a total solar eclipse he witnessed as a young man home from the sea; two sets of excerpts from his fragmentary diary published by his daughter Susan after his death; his preface to Susan's first novel; and the history he wrote of Cooperstown, his home village, founded by and named after his family. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-12-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Gleanings in Europe: Italy,Paperback,978-1-4438-1710-3,13.99,"Cooper published, eventually, five volumes of travel writings in epistolary form on his journeys around western Europe, all now available from CSP. This volume describes his travels and observations with his family in large parts of Italy. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-12-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine,Paperback,9781443817097,13.99,"Cooper published, eventually, five volumes of travel writings in epistolary form on his journeys around western Europe, all now available from CSP. This volume (first published with the ""Switzerland"" volume) relates in part to a journey along the Rhine to Switzerland (Cooper's second visit) but is also much concerned with his friendship with Lafayette. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-12-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,Spiritualist Pamphlets,Paperback,978-1-4438-1659-5,11.99,"This volume contains three of Conan Doyle's shorter Spiritualist works, one a record of family seances and the other two in defence of the evidence for the religion. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2009-12-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle in 56 volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-1335-8,399.99,"The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other figure of the period. In his autobiography, he wrote: ‘I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded.’ He was not wrong. But Conan Doyle was also a Victorian with a twist, a man of tensions and contradictions. He was fascinated by travel, exploration, invention, and indeed all things modern and technological; yet at the same time very traditional, voicing support for values such as chivalry, duty, constancy, and honour. By the time of his death he was a celebrity, achieving worldwide fame for his creation of the rationalist, scientific super-detective Sherlock Holmes; but his later decades were taken up with advocacy of the new religion of Spiritualism, in which he became a devoted believer. The new Complete Works of Conan Doyle embodies all of the excitement and vitality of this extraordinary man’s life, ranging from the Sherlock Holmes stories to philosophical and spiritual works, taking in science fictions and historical comedies, grand histories and criminological investigations. The contents of the volumes are as follows: Volume 1 (204 pp.): Introduction to the works by Dr. Neil McCaw; A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of Four Volume 2 (150 pp.): The Hound of the Baskervilles Volume 3 (148 pp.): The Valley of Fear Volume 4 (378 pp.): Micah Clarke Volume 5 (283 pp.): Sir Nigel Volume 6 (336 pp.): The White Company Volume 7 (304 pp.): The Refugees Volume 8 (209 pp.): Rodney Stone Volume 9 (140 pp.): Uncle Bernac Volume 10 (169 pp.): The Lost World Volume 11 (265 pp.): The Poison Belt; The Land of Mist Volume 12 (121 pp.): The Mystery of Cloomber Volume 13 (332 pp.): The Firm of Girdlestone Volume 14 (163 pp.): The Stark Munro Letters Volume 15 (110 pp.): A Desert Drama Volume 16 (188 pp.): A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Volume 17 (244 pp.): The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volume 18 (206 pp.): The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Volume 19 (262 pp.): The Return of Sherlock Holmes Volume 20 (198 pp.): The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes Volume 21 (179 pp.): The Captain of the Polestar Volume 22 (309 pp.): The Great Shadow and other stories Volume 23 (167 pp.): Round the Red Lamp Volume 24 (176 pp.): The Green Flag Volume 25 (161 pp.): The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Volume 26 (221 pp.): Round the Fire Stories Volume 27 (171 pp.): The Last Galley Volume 28 (139 pp.): Danger! and other stories Volume 29 (284 pp.): Detective and Mystery Stories Volume 30 (137 pp.): The Maracot Deep and other stories Volume 31 (101 pp.): The Parasite and Other Stories Volume 32 (441 pp.): Uncollected Short Stories Volume 33 (268 pp.): complete poetry; The Journey (play) Volume 34 (98 pp.): Waterloo; The Speckled Band (plays) Volume 35 (79 pp.): Jane Annie (an opera, libretto by Conan Doyle in collaboration) Volume 36 (185 pp.): Through the Magic Door; A Glimpse of the British Army; A Glimpse of the Italian Army; A Glimpse of the French Line; The Vital Message Volume 37 (98 pp.): The Story of Mr. George Edalji; The Case of Oscar Slater Volume 38 (132 pp.): The War in South Africa Volume 39 (448 pp.): The Great Boer War Volume 40 (114 pp.): The Crime of the Congo Volume 41 (81 pp.): The German War; To Arms! Volume 42 (199 pp.): The British Campaign in France and Flanders, vol. I (1914) Volume 43 (142 pp.): The British Campaign in France and Flanders, vol. II (1915) Volume 44 (193 pp.): The British Campaign in France and Flanders, vol. III (1916) Volume 45 (178 pp.): The British Campaign in France and Flanders, vol. IV (1917) Volume 46 (195 pp.): The British Campaign in France and Flanders, vol. V (January–June 1918) Volume 47 (181 pp.): The British Campaign in France and Flanders, vol. VI (July–November 1918) Volume 48 (85 pp.): The Coming of the Fairies Volume 49 (210 pp.): The Edge of the Unknown; The New Revelation Volume 50 (160 pp.): Pheneas Speaks; Psychic Experiences; Spiritualism and Rationalism Volume 51 (194 pp.): The History of Spiritualism Volume 52 (127 pp.): Our African Winter Volume 53 (159 pp.): The Wanderings of a Spiritualist Volume 54 (108 pp.): Our American Adventure Volume 55 (129 pp.): Our Second American Adventure Volume 56 (329 pp.): Memories and Adventures; Western Wanderings The Works have all been newly typeset for this edition. In the absence of an even nearly complete edition of Conan Doyle's works which is in the public domain, the texts for this edition have had to be sourced piecemeal from available public-domain versions. The majority of these have been relatively early editions; a few have been modern reprints of the original texts unedited; a number have been etexts reproducing in their turn editions now in the public domain. Due to their number and variety, it is impossible to list them all here. Neil McCaw, Reader in English Literature at the University of Winchester and Academic Director of The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Lancelyn Green Bequest, has written a new introduction to the Works, in volume 1, which covers biographical background, critical reception, influence, and a brief bibliography. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Gleanings in Europe: England,Paperback,978-1-4438-1740-0,13.99,"Cooper published, eventually, five volumes of travel writings in epistolary form on his journeys around western Europe, all now available from CSP. This volume relates to his first stay (on this occasion - he had previously visited the country as a sailor) in England, but also contains more general reflections on the country and its relationship with his own. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Gleanings in Europe: France,Paperback,978-1-4438-1713-4,13.99,"Cooper published, eventually, five volumes of travel writings in epistolary form on his journeys around western Europe, all now available from CSP. This volume relates to his and his family's arrival in Europe and their initial stay of two years in Paris, in 1826-8. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland,Paperback,978-1-4438-1715-8,13.99,"Cooper published, eventually, five volumes of travel writings in epistolary form on his journeys around western Europe, all now available from CSP. This volume relates to his first visit to Switzerland, in 1828. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,Vasilis Papageorgiou,"Here, and Here: Essays on Affirmation and Tragic Awareness",Hardback,978-1-4438-1676-2,34.99,"Important to the essays here is the possibility of using logos without the negative, restricting and violent aspects of logos. In this respect I speak about affirmation and about tragic awareness rather than about the tragic itself or tragic conflict, as I read texts of a literary democracy that is already here, texts by Don DeLillo, Tomas Tranströmer, John Ashbery and Thanasis Valtinos, or see arrangements by Lo Snöfall. Indeed it is all about arrangements, about knowing how to affirm and doing it rather than using language and its codes in order to transcribe, however accurate this might be. Arrangements say yes, since they do not raise any absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: it is a cosmos, where affirming is a tragically aware cosmetics. Cosmos is neither the world nor any ordering or embellishment of this world, but an openness as the incalculable accumulation of arrangements that say yes in their awareness that they do not amount to an ontology. ","“Vasilis Papageorgiou writes about my work with outstanding sharpness and brilliant analytical understanding that unearths unexpected dimensions in my texts. Moreover he does that within a theoretical context that I find unique and inspiring, a very substantial and groundbreaking way for affirming texts.” —Thanasis Valtinos, writer, member of the Academy of Athens “In this rich, eclectic and impassioned volume, ranging from Euripides to John Ashbery and Tomas Tranströmer (with constant but never merely dutiful reference to Jacques Derrida), Vasilis Papageorgiou opens up new and provoking ways of thinking about the tragic, loss and affirmation, translation and hospitality, democracy and the cosmetic.” —Professor Nicholas Royle, School of English, University of Sussex ",Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010-01-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Notions of the Americans,Paperback,978-1-4438-1718-9,13.99,"Notions of the Americans, in its mixture of description of places and events with political analysis, is essentially a travel book; but Cooper, perhaps due to the rarity of such books about the author's own country at the time, or perhaps to claim greater objectivity, published it under the framing fiction of being written by a European nobleman visiting the United States. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,Henry Fielding,Plays Vol. I,Paperback,978-1-4438-1739-4,15.99,"Fielding had a successful though controversial career as a playwright, which was cut short by the introduction of theatre censorship, preventing him continuing his most successful line of writing, political satire and burlesque. These three volumes collect his entire output for the stage. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,Henry Fielding,Plays Vol. II,Paperback,978-1-4438-1752-3,15.99,"Fielding had a successful though controversial career as a playwright, which was cut short by the introduction of theatre censorship, preventing him continuing his most successful line of writing, political satire and burlesque. These three volumes collect his entire output for the stage. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,Charles Dickens,Poems and Verses,Paperback,978-1-4438-1782-0,9.99,"This volume collects all of Dickens's little-known excursions into verse, some included in better-known works and some produced for collaborations or private purposes which are almost impossible to find in print. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The American Democrat,Paperback,9781443817172,5.99,"This is the most clear, concise and comprehensive statement Cooper made of his views on political and social principles as they existed following his return to the United States from Europe. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,James Fenimore Cooper,The Headsman,Paperback,978-1-4438-1447-8,10.99,"The Headsman is a revealing mixture of the progressive, in its distaste for capital punishment, and the markedly conservative, in its affirmation of the inheritance of character traits. It belongs to the group of Cooper's later, more politically-motivated novels. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Poison Belt and The Land of Mist,Paperback,9781847189745,5.99,"This volume contains two of Conan Doyle's late novellas centring on the character of Professor Challenger. The Land of Mist is closely linked to Conan Doyle's advocacy of Spiritualism. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-01-01,Charles Dickens,The Speeches of Charles Dickens,Hardback,978-1-4438-1731-8,39.99,"Dickens was known as one of the best after-dinner speakers of his day. It was a period when elaborate formal dinners were the standard fundraising method for charities and other institutes, and the speeches at such occasions were printed by newspapers from shorthand reports on the occasion. Dickens himself did not use notes, but these eyewitness reports allow the reader to gain a very close idea of what he actually said on hundreds of public occasions throughout his career. The organisations he was involved with - here elaborated by extensive headnotes on his participation in each body - give key insights into his activities and thinking beyond literature which are much enriched by reading what he said about them to their members and supporters. As the editor states in his introduction, the speeches are in their own way as important an insight into Dickens as his letters. The late Prof. K. J. Fielding's edition of the Speeches is universally acknowledged as the academic standard version. Each speech was carefully collated from the original reports and any other available sources. Copious notes describe variations, suggested corrections, the context of each speech and further factual information where necessary to understand references made by Dickens. All of this has been preserved in this reprint, which makes the whole edition available for the first time since 1988. This edition is necessary reading for any serious scholar of Dickens or Victorian oratory, and will also be of great interest to anyone studying issues connected with Dickens such as nineteenth-century philanthropy, the 'dignity of literature' debates, transatlantic relations of the period or the changing statuses of novels, drama and journalism. ","""Long since out of print, and now not altogether easy to find secondhand, it is a treat to have Ken Fielding's magisterial edition of Dickens's speeches readily available again. These 'occasional writings' contain a wealth of pointers to vital aspects of Dickens's mind and art, and no Dickens lover should be without them."" -Michael Hollington, formerly Professor of English, University of New South Wales ""Celebrated as novelist, journalist, actor and reader, Dickens was in addition an acclaimed public speaker. Delivered primarily in support of charitable institutions, his speeches expound his deepest social convictions with wit, passion and spontaneity. Professor Fielding’s edition, first published half a century ago and long out of print, is a monument to scholarship of the highest order. Judiciously assembled from eyewitness accounts – Dickens never used a script – the speeches add a revealing dimension to his stature as a private man and public figure and give eloquent testimony to his deepest social convictions."" -Dr. Paul Schlicke, University of Aberdeen, Editor, Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens ",Cambrige Scholars Publishing 2010-01-10,Myron Stagman,The Mystery of Hamlet: A Solution,Hardback,978-1-4438-1440-9,34.99,"Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why? Hamlet, angry, tells Ophelia: “Take thee to a nunnery!” [nunnery: Renaissance slang for brothel] “There [in Heaven] is no shuffling; there the action lies in his true nature, and we ourselves compelled, even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, to give in evidence.” —King Claudius “Why does Hamlet attend the German university at Wittenberg? Why study at a university at all? An incorrigible symbolist, Shakespeare must secretly import what he does not openly impart.” Contrast resolute avenger Laertes, who would “cut [Hamlet’s] throat i’ the church”! Shakespeare understood the Freudian slip centuries before Dr. Freud in Vienna. Twice he employs it to give us hints. Queen Gertrude to her son Hamlet: “What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? ... Alas, he’s mad!” “Prince Hamlet is a disillusioned idealist, a vital key to his generous, passionate, and tragically conscientious character.” Camelot—“Shakespeare specifically ties the assassination of Hamlet to the death of King Arthur and the collapse of the fellowship of the Round Table.” ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010-01-15,Myron Stagman,Metaphoric Resonance in Shakespearean Tragedy,Hardback,978-1-4438-1444-7,34.99,"An occasional prefigurement and echo was hardly unknown before Shakespeare. But the vast echoism—continuing forward and backward references—utilized in certain Shakespearean tragedies, was rare if unknown before him. Who, even now, does this? Two examples of messages conveyed via metaphoric resonance: (1) an element of the weight metaphoric trail in Coriolanus: The protagonist says scornfully to the Citizens in the first Act: He that depends upon your favours swims with fins of lead. In the second Act, Coriolanus more cautiously, deceptively, remarks to the plebeians' tribune Brutus: Your people, I love them as they weigh. The full import of this statement would be lost without knowledge of the metaphoric resonance, which tells us he is not impartial. (2) Richard II, Act II, scene 1: John of Gaunt begins his famous prophesying-and-punning speech to King Richard: “O, how [my] name fits my composition! ... gaunt in being old. ... and therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt. Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave.” Shakespeare set up other prophesies in the play with this one by John of Gaunt. Thus, in the fourth scene of Act II, a Captain declares, “And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change.” The playwright has been criticized for having Gaunt pun at such a time, but name a better way for the playful Shakespeare to tip off the audience to a shrewdly resonant “lean-look'd prophets” two scenes away. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010-02-01,Henry Fielding,Amelia,Paperback,978-1-4438-1769-1,11.99,"Amelia is Fielding's last novel, his darkest and least comic but also his most autobiographical, drawing on his own experience of London society and continuing the vein of social critique of his earlier novels in a more serious mode. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-02-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Contributions to Nautical History,Paperback,978-1-4438-1931-2,11.99,"This volume contains various short pieces, most of them now very hard to find, by Cooper concerned with nautical affairs. Some of these overlap in subject with the book-length naval works available from CSP; others of them examine separate subjects. All are characteristic of the writer. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-02-01,Henry Fielding,Essays and Legal Cases,Paperback,978-1-4438-1851-3,11.99,"Fielding worked tirelessly as a Justice of the Peace for Westminster and Middlesex, being partly responsible for the founding of the Bow Street Runners, England's first police force, and also labouring to make the public aware of social and criminal problems. The legal cases here, published by Fielding, represent his efforts in the latter field, while the other essays show the same serious analytical side of his mind applied to other issues. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-02-01,Madelena Gonzalez and Marie-Odile Pittin-Hédon,Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel,Hardback,978-1-4438-1732-5,39.99,"Contemporary aesthetics is characterized by generic mixing on the level of both form and content. The barriers between different media and different genres have been broken down in all literary art forms, whether it be theatre, poetry, or the novel. While the publishing industry is increasingly keen to label novels according to genre or sub-genre (“Chick Lit”, “Lad Lit”, “Gay fiction”, “Scottish fiction”, “New Historical Fiction”, “Crime fiction”, “Post-9/11 Fiction”), the novel itself (and novelists) persist in resisting generic categorizations as well as inviting them. Is this a move towards a new artistic liberty or does it simply testify to a confusion of identity? The “aesthetic supermarket” evoked by Lodge in 1992 does indeed seem to sum up the variety of choices open to writers of fiction today and a literary landscape characterized by crossover and hybridization. The familiar dialectic of realism versus experimentation has segued into a middle ground of consensus which is neither radical nor populist, but both at the same time. The techniques of postmodernism have become selling points for novels, and the Postmodern Condition itself seems little more than a narrative posture marketed for an increasingly wide audience. Whether they have recourse to a “repertoire of imposture” (Amis, Self, Winterson), as Richard Bradford would have it (The Novel Now, 2007), in other words “the abandonment of any obligation to explain or justify their excursions from credulity and mimesis”, or, like the New Puritans, make use of narrative minimalism in order to foreground their own peculiarities, contemporary novelists consistently draw attention to the fundamental instability of narrative process and genre. The much-feared apocalypse of the novel has failed to take place with the arrival of the new millennium, but generic game-playing and flickering, narrative hesitation and uncertainty continue to pose the question of what constitutes a novel today and to challenge its identity in a world where all culture is increasingly public, increasingly contested and increasingly multifarious. Thanks to theoretical approaches as well as analyses of specific works, this collection of essays aims to examine the concepts of generic instability and cross-fertilization, of narrative postures and impostures, and their constant redefinition of identity, which contaminates the very concept of genre. It demonstrates the diversity of generic practices in the novel today and furnishes us with undeniable evidence of how generic instability is fundamentally constitutive of the contemporary novel’s identity. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010-02-01,Robert Browning,Robert Browning: The Complete Poetical Works in Two Volumes,Paperback,978-1-4438-1902-2,79.99,"Robert Browning is one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century English poetry. The dramatic monologue form, which he practically invented and of which he remains the leading exponent, allowed him to write poetry of a psychologically revealing quality which can be seen as laying the foundations not only for late Victorians whom he directly influenced such as the Pre-Raphaelites, but ultimately for Modernist poetry. The Ring and the Book, an ambitious and demanding verse-novel told from ten different viewpoints, won him popular acclaim and retains its reputation as one of the great poems in English, though it is now little read compared with some of Browning's shorter poems. This edition is a facsimile of Augustine Birrell's 1901 edition, itself following the order and contents of the edition prepared by Browning himself in 1888. All of the published poetical works are printed, including Browning's early verse-dramas, some staged and some intended only for print, the various volumes of shorter poetry, The Ring and the Book and the translation of Aeschylus's Agamemnon among the other works. The contents of the volumes are as follows: Volume 1 ( pp.): Introduction to the Poetical Works by Dr. Jennifer McDonell; Pauline; Paracelsus; Strafford; Sordello; Pippa Passes; King Victor and King Charles; Dramatic Lyrics; The Return of the Druses; A Blot in the 'Scutcheon; Colombe's Birthday; Dramatic Romances; Luria, A Soul's Tragedy; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day; Men and Women; In a Balcony; Dramatis Personæ; Balaustion's Adventure; Aristophanes' Apology Volume 2 (777 pp.): The Ring and the Book; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau; Fifine at the Fair; Red Cotton Nigh-Cap Country; The Inn Album; Pacchiarotto; The Agamemnon of Æschylus; La Saisiaz; The Two Poets of Croisic; Dramatic Idyls; Jocoseria; Ferishtah's Fancies; Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day; Asolando Dr. Jennifer McDonell, Lecturer at the University of New England and a specialist in Robert Browning, has written a new critical introduction to the Poetical Works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-02-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Shorter Fictions and Literary Essays,Paperback,978-1-4438-1932-9,11.99,"This volume presents several literary pieces by Fenimore Cooper almost impossible to locate elsewhere in print, including two early novel reviews, the surviving fragment of his only play, and the only piece of fiction he wrote in French. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-02-01,Henry Fielding,"Voyage to Lisbon, Legal Papers, and Poems",Paperback,978-1-4438-1924-4,7.99,"The Voyage to Lisbon is Fielding's last work, a piece of travel writing depicting his journey, for his health, to the place where he died. The other writings here represent the breadth of Fielding's thought, from free translations of classical poetry to legal judgments in his capacity as a JP. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-02-01,James Fenimore Cooper,Writings on Places and Politics,Paperback,978-1-4438-1933-6,11.99,"This volume brings together several writings, mostly only previously published in pamphlets or periodicals, from the range of Fenimore Cooper's career which deal in one way or another with places or politics, including his involvement in controversies over public finance and law. They provide valuable insight into his thinking and access to texts otherwise virtually unobtainable. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-03-01,James Fenimore Cooper,James Fenimore Cooper: The Complete Works,Paperback,978-1-4438-1366-2,399.99,"James Fenimore Cooper is chiefly known to posterity as the author of The Last of the Mohicans, focussing on the friendship between a Native American chief and a white hunter. Cooper himself acknowledged that it was his “Leatherstocking Tales” which were the most likely to endure of his work; yet this estimate understates Cooper’s significance as the most prolific and internationally-read American author of the first half of the nineteenth century. Fenimore Cooper developed a distinctive style well adapted to handling frontier, military and nautical romances, which won him great popularity and gave him entry to the leading figures in post-Napoleonic Europe. In consequence he also became one of the most sophisticated political and environmentalist thinkers of his time. His explicitly political writings and politically-involved novels won him both considerable influence and formidable social rejection. His environmental worries, perceptible in many of his works, anticipate today’s concerns. Cooper was also a significant historian, and broke new literary ground in writing a biography of an ordinary sailor when such works were always concerned with the “great and the good”. The breadth and significance of his output remains widely under-recognised, and too many of his works hard to find. This edition of the Complete Works of Fenimore Cooper not only includes the well-known novels, but obscure early fictional works and the significant non-fictional works, including the naval histories and biographies, the pioneering biography Ned Myers, travel writing, and the political pamphlets which were of great importance in Cooper’s time. The contents of the volumes are as follows: Volume 1 (333 pp.): Precaution; Introduction to the Works by Dr. Bob Lawson-Peebles Volume 2 (335 pp.): The Spy Volume 3 (94 pp.): Tales for Fifteen Volume 4 (417 pp.): The Deerslayer (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 1) Volume 5 (316 pp.): The Last of the Mohicans (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 2) Volume 6 (378 pp.): The Pathfinder (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 3) Volume 7 (367 pp.): The Pioneers (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 4) Volume 8 (348 pp.): The Prairie (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 5) Volume 9 (342 pp.): The Pilot Volume 10 (324 pp.): Lionel Lincoln Volume 11 (351 pp.): The Red Rover Volume 12 (312 pp.): The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish Volume 13 (336 pp.): The Water-Witch Volume 14 (325 pp.): The Bravo Volume 15 (310 pp.): The Heidenmauer Volume 16 (334 pp.): The Headsman Volume 17 (309 pp.): The Monikins Volume 18 (370 pp.): Homeward Bound Volume 19 (343 pp.): Home as Found Volume 20 (374 pp.): Mercedes of Castile Volume 21 (375 pp.): The Two Admirals Volume 22 (349 pp.): The Wing-and-Wing Volume 23 (346 pp.): Wyandotté Volume 24 (117 pp.): Autobiography Of a Pocket-Handkerchief Volume 25 (387 pp.): Afloat and Ashore Volume 26 (329 pp.): Miles Wallingford Volume 27 (356 pp.): Satanstoe (Littlepage Manuscripts vol. 1) Volume 28 (340 pp.): The Chainbearer (Littlepage Manuscripts vol. 2) Volume 29 (374 pp.): The Redskins (Littlepage Manuscripts vol. 3) Volume 30 (340 pp.): The Crater Volume 31 (350 pp.): Jack Tier Volume 32 (343 pp.): The Oak Openings Volume 33 (331 pp.): The Sea Lions Volume 34 (347 pp.): The Ways of the Hour Volume 35 (94 pp.): Point de Bateaux à Vapeur, The Lake Gun, Upside Down, reviews of Sedgwick's ""A New-England Tale"" and Irving's ""Bracebridge Hall"" Volume 36 (455 pp.): Notions of the Americans Volume 37 (138 pp.): The American Democrat Volume 38 (215 pp.): Review of ""An Examination of the New Tariff"", Slavery in the United States, Letter to General Lafayette, A Letter to His Countrymen, writings on the Three Mile Point controversy, American and European Scenery Compared, New York Volume 39 (124 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland Volume 40 (220 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine Volume 41 (238 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: France Volume 42 (248 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: England Volume 43 (239 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: Italy Volume 44 (551 pp.): History of the Navy of the United States Volume 45 (274 pp.): Naval Biographies Volume 46 (178 pp.): Ned Myers Volume 47 (294 pp.): Reviews of Clark's ""Naval History of the United States"", Scoresby's ""Account of the Arctic Regions"" and Parry's ""Journal of a Voyage of Discovery"", Comparative Resources of the American Navy, Hints on Manning the Navy, The Edinburgh Review on James's Naval Occurrances and Cooper's Naval History, The Cruise of the Somers, Old Ironsides, The Battle of Plattsburg Bay Volume 48 (82 pp.): The Eclipse, Preface to Elinor Wyllys, diary extracts, The Chronicles of Cooperstown The Works have all been newly typeset for this edition. Most of the texts (Ned Myers and the novels except Tales for Fifteen and Autobiography Of a Pocket-Handkerchief) have been taken from the ""Iroquois Edition"" (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, not dated, 33 vols.). The remainder are chiefly from print editions now in the public domain, except for ""A Letter to my Countrymen,"" ""The Chronicles of Cooperstown,"" ""Pas de Bateaux à Vapeur―Une Vision,"" ""Review of the Somers Mutiny Courtmartial,"" ""Upside Down; or the World in Petticoats,"" ""The Lake Gun,"" ""New York"" and ""Old Ironsides,"" for which the source texts are the electronic versions kindly provided by the James Fenimore Cooper Society. Dr. Bob Lawson-Peebles, Senior Lecturer at Exeter University and a leading authority on American literature and Fenimore Cooper in particular, has written a new critical introduction to the Works. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-03-01,Henry Fielding,Jonathan Wild and Articles in the Champion,Paperback,978-1-4438-1901-5,6.99,"The History of Jonathan Wild the Great is a fictionalised biography of the historical thief and thief-taker of the title, a masterful ironic satire pretending to conflate greatness with goodness. Also presented here are Fielding's pseudonymous articles in the comic-political journal The Champion, which he edited. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-03-01,Henry Fielding,Joseph Andrews and A Journey from This World to the Next,Paperback,978-1-4438-1903-9,6.99,"Joseph Andrews is Fielding's first and funniest novel, a mostly comic parodic response to the huge success of Richardson's Pamela, which it directly references. A Journey from This World to the Next is a Lucianic satire, but with the irreverent distancing element that is characteristic of Fielding's neoclassical writings. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-03-01,Henry Fielding,Tom Jones Vol. I,Paperback,978-1-4438-1906-0,5.99,"Tom Jones is Fielding's masterpiece, and a turning point in the development of the English novel, bringing with it both the seriousness of intention and inclusiveness of content that have come to characterise the form. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-03-01,Henry Fielding,Tom Jones Vol. II,Paperback,978-1-4438-1923-7,5.99,"Tom Jones is Fielding's masterpiece, and a turning point in the development of the English novel, bringing with it both the seriousness of intention and inclusiveness of content that have come to characterise the form. ",,CSP Classic Texts 2010-04-01,L. Adam Mekler and Lucy Morrison,Mary Shelley: Her Circle and Her Contemporaries,Hardback,9781443818681,39.99,"This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the age we call “Romantic,” wherein her texts converse with those of her family, her circle, and her contemporaries. Several essays address particularly how her texts interact with those of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, revealing new depth and breadth to their literary partnership. Others investigate interdisciplinary perspectives, such as her pieces in The Liberal or the ways in which the figure of Scheherezade haunts her works, while several essays also consider Mary Shelley’s textual relationships with contemporaries such as Thomas Moore and John Polidori. Still others tackle topics such as geopolitical relationships and the growth of opera as an art form, considering Mary Shelley’s commentary upon such contemporary issues, while William Godwin’s textual relationship with his daughter is further investigated. This collection suggests Mary Shelley’s texts merit further investigation not only for what they reveal about their author and her oeuvre, but for the ways in which they illuminate our understanding of the contexts in which they were composed. ","“The essays in this collection paint a rich and heterogeneous picture of Shelley's importance to and engagement with the Romantic public sphere. This volume clearly moves us beyond seeing Shelley as merely the author of Frankenstein or the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Morrison, Mekler, and their contributors do Mary Shelley and Romantic scholarship a great service.” —Joel Faflak, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada ",Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010-08-01,Ethan Lewis,Modernist Image,Hardback,978-1-4438-2232-9,39.99,"This text will “make one see something new [by granting] new eyes to see with,” as Ezra Pound remarked of Imagism. Still he soon dissociated himself from the movement he helped found, to which T. S. Eliot never belonged. Why, then, study Pound and Eliot as Imagists? As the former phrased it, to offer “language to think in” regarding their shared premium on precision; and to explicate differing reasons for this emphasis. Pound plies accuracy to carve distinctions. By carving, he sought to delineate components of a model culture. Conversely, and paradoxically, severances renderable through apt language enabled Eliot to intuit a divine “amalgamation”—which would displace inevitable confusions among objects, and between subject and object: turmoil dramatized in Eliot’s early work. A book focusing this opposition requires concrete manifestations. Imagist poetics of the nineteen teens and twenties, as our authors understood it, informs exploring their disparate tendencies; and provides examples of that contrast. Because they transcended it, Imagism initiates Pound’s and Eliot’s development. Poets wed to Imagism necessarily treat “small things” (Dasenbrock), due to their “poetic of stasis” (Kenner). Imagist techniques, however—presenting interactive “complexes”; creating illusions of spatio-temporal freedom—set the course for the Modernist long poem. Our subjects extend a tradition, limned by several scholars, principally Sir Frank Kermode. Romantic Imag[ism] “animates ... the best writing between Coleridge and Blake ... and Pound and Eliot.” A parallel critical inheritance this study will humbly continue. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010-09-01,Geoffrey Baker and Eva Aldea,Realism’s Others,Hardback,978-1-4438-2319-7,44.99,"For at least a century, scholarship on realist narrative, and occasional polemics against realist narrative, have assumed that realism promotes the values of sameness against those of otherness, and that it does so by use of a narrative mode that excludes certain epistemologies, ideologies, and ways of thinking. However, the truth is more complex than that, as the essays in this volume all demonstrate. Realism’s Others examines the various strategies by which realist narratives create the idea of difference, whether that difference is registered in terms of class, ethnicity, epistemology, nationality, or gender. The authors in this collection examine in detail not just the fact of otherness in some canonical realist and canonical magical-realist and postmodern novels, but the actual means by which that otherness is established by the text. These essays suggest that neither realist narrative nor narratives positioned as anti-realist take otherness for granted; rather, the texts discussed here actively create difference, and this creation of difference often occasions severe difficulties for the novels’ representational schema. How does one represent different types of knowledge, other aesthetic modes or other spaces, for example, in texts whose epistemology has long been seen as secular and empirical, whose aesthetic mode has always been approached as pure descriptive mimesis, and whose settings are largely domestic? These essays all begin with a certain collision—of nationalities, of classes, of representational matrices, of religions—and go on to chart the challenges that this collision presents to our ideas or stereotypes of realism, or to the possibilities of writing against and beyond realism. This question motivates examination of key realist or social-realist texts, in some of these essays, by Honoré de Balzac, George Eliot, Franz Grillparzer, Theodor Storm, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, Wilhelm Raabe, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Charles Chesnutt, Theodore Dreiser, H. T. Tsiang, Alan Sillitoe, and Richard Yates. However, it is no less central a question in certain non-realist texts which engage realist aims to a surprising degree, often to debate them openly; some of these essays discuss, in this light, fantastic, magical realist, and postmodern works by Abram Tertz, Paul Auster, Alejo Carpentier, Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, and A. S. Byatt. Realism becomes more than an aesthetic aim or narrative mode. It becomes, rather, a value evoked and discussed by all of the works analyzed here, in order to reveal its impact on fiction’s treatment of ethnicity, nationality, ideology, space, gender, and social class. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010-10-01,Myron Stagman,The Mystery of Hamlet: A Solution,Paperback,978-1-4438-2387-6,19.99,"Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why? Hamlet, angry, tells Ophelia: “Take thee to a nunnery!” [nunnery: Renaissance slang for brothel] “There [in Heaven] is no shuffling; there the action lies in his true nature, and we ourselves compelled, even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, to give in evidence.” —King Claudius “Why does Hamlet attend the German university at Wittenberg? Why study at a university at all? An incorrigible symbolist, Shakespeare must secretly import what he does not openly impart.” Contrast resolute avenger Laertes, who would “cut [Hamlet’s] throat i’ the church”! Shakespeare understood the Freudian slip centuries before Dr. Freud in Vienna. Twice he employs it to give us hints. Queen Gertrude to her son Hamlet: “What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? ... Alas, he’s mad!” “Prince Hamlet is a disillusioned idealist, a vital key to his generous, passionate, and tragically conscientious character.” Camelot—“Shakespeare specifically ties the assassination of Hamlet to the death of King Arthur and the collapse of the fellowship of the Round Table.” ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010-11-01,Jørgen Bruhn,Lovely Violence: Chrétien de Troyes’ Critical Romances,Hardback,978-1-4438-2492-7,34.99,"In Lovely Violence: Chrétien de Troyes’ Critical Romances, Jørgen Bruhn rereads the well-known but still intriguing chivalric novels of the medieval French author Chrétien de Troyes (from the second half of the twelfth century, probably in northern France). Jørgen Bruhn—who is trained in modern comparative literature and literary theory—engages in a meeting with the medieval texts where the “strange” medieval contexts and texts are played up against more familiar contemporary concerns around textuality, gender and in particular the vexed question of violence. After an introduction and an attempt to construct a useful context around the texts of Chrétien de Troyes, Bruhn discusses the five chivalric novels which are normally known under the names of the more or less heroic heroes: Erec, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The medieval characters turn out to behave in ways that are both shockingly strange and “medieval,” and at the same time resassuringly recognisable. The Middle Ages may not be so unmodern after all. ","""Chrétien de Troyes is a medieval author about whose works libraries have been written. Jørgen Bruhn provides a clear and attractive path through earlier research and sees him in terms of the richness and variety of twelfth-century European culture. This is a book which I think will become a landmark not only in Chrétien studies but in broader interpretations of what it is that makes the twelfth century so important in the formation of European identity."" —Professor Brian Patrick McGuire ",Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010-11-01,Myron Stagman,Metaphoric Resonance in Shakespearean Tragedy,Paperback,978-1-4438-2423-1,24.99,"An occasional prefigurement and echo was hardly unknown before Shakespeare. But the vast echoism—continuing forward and backward references—utilized in certain Shakespearean tragedies, was rare if unknown before him. Who, even now, does this? Two examples of messages conveyed via metaphoric resonance: (1) an element of the weight metaphoric trail in Coriolanus: The protagonist says scornfully to the Citizens in the first Act: He that depends upon your favours swims with fins of lead. In the second Act, Coriolanus more cautiously, deceptively, remarks to the plebeians' tribune Brutus: Your people, I love them as they weigh. The full import of this statement would be lost without knowledge of the metaphoric resonance, which tells us he is not impartial. (2) Richard II, Act II, scene 1: John of Gaunt begins his famous prophesying-and-punning speech to King Richard: “O, how [my] name fits my composition! ... gaunt in being old. ... and therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt. Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave.” Shakespeare set up other prophesies in the play with this one by John of Gaunt. Thus, in the fourth scene of Act II, a Captain declares, “And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change.” The playwright has been criticized for having Gaunt pun at such a time, but name a better way for the playful Shakespeare to tip off the audience to a shrewdly resonant “lean-look'd prophets” two scenes away. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011-02-01,Kenneth B. Newell,Conrad’s Destructive Element: The Metaphysical World-View Unifying Lord Jim,Hardback,978-1-4438-2667-9,34.99,"This book presents a new interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim based on readings from not only its published text but also its principal manuscript text. Extensive use of the manuscript text has not been a feature of any other work on Lord Jim, and such use helps bring into focus a fixed pattern of meaning and an implicit unity that Conrad said the novel has. This result controverts not only postmodern critics, who say that the novel lacks any fixed pattern of meaning, but almost all critics since its publication, who have said that it lacks unity—specifically, that it separates into two halves, the Patna half and the Patusan half. However, with the help of the manuscript text, a detailed interpretation extending over the whole of Lord Jim shows it to be a unified whole. As Conrad wrote to his publisher four days after completing the novel, it is “the development of one situation, only one really from beginning to end.” Most recent Lord Jim criticism discusses the novel from a standpoint critical of the author and in political or epistemological terms, whereas the present book discusses it from a standpoint sympathetic to the author and in symbolic and metaphysical terms. The metaphysical question that pervades the novel and helps unify it is whether the “destructive element” that is the “spirit” of the Universe has intention—and, beyond that, malevolent intention—toward any particular individual or is, instead, indiscriminate, impartial, and indifferent. Depending (as a corollary) on the answer to that question is the degree to which the particular individual can be judged responsible for what he does or does not do. Variant responses to the question or its corollary are provided not only by several characters and voices in Lord Jim but also by a letter of Conrad’s and by excerpts from works by Arthur Schopenhauer, Thomas Hardy, James Thomson (“B. V.”), and John Stuart Mill. The present book is written in a lay vocabulary free of the diction of postmodern theory and so would be understandable to non-academic as well as academic readers. It is intended for anyone interested in gaining a coherent nonpolitical understanding of Lord Jim. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011-03-01,Kenneth B. Newell,New Conservative Explications: Reasoning with some Classic English Poems,Hardback,978-1-4438-2715-7,34.99,"Because of the triumph of postmodern studies, explication of classic poems by great dead white male English poets of preceding centuries has greatly declined in the last several decades, even though many of the poems may still be puzzling to interested readers, young and old. This book is addressed to both audiences in the hope that new explications of twelve classic poems (or sections of these poems) by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hardy, Yeats, and Auden may help sustain interest in the poems. Although the explication procedure is now unpopular in theory and held to be as subjective as interpretation, the procedure is based on the experience that, if a puzzling poem is reasoned with, it can often be found to make sense on a basic level of understanding—a sense perhaps complex, ambiguous, or ambivalent but not self-contradictory. In essence, then, this is a book of poetry explications having esthetic aims but written in an era of unesthetic political and cultural studies. The term conservative in the title refers to explicatory rather than political conservatism as well as to critical and literary conservation—i.e., to conserving the practice of explication whether upon literary works old or new, and so also conserving esthetic interest in the old works themselves. The book also attempts to show that new conservative explications are still possible and can be still useful—even in the postmodern era and even on classic poems already much explicated—and that therefore explication still has much to do in the work of literary studies in the postmodern era. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011-06-01,Gypsey Elaine Teague,Presentations of the 2010 Upstate Steampunk Extravaganza and Meetup,Hardback,978-1-4438-2940-3,34.99,"In November 2010, a small but growing group of Victorian Alternate Historians, often referred to as Steampunk, met for the first conference of its kind. There was music, fashion, merchants, and all the other trappings of the Victorian time period set in a venue of “what if.” What set this conference apart was the academic nature of the presentations. Utilizing the internet and scholarly publications, a call for papers was sent out and the response was impressive. Faculty, graduate students, specialists, and general interest writers wrote, prepared, and presented on a wide array of subject matters. This publication is the culmination of those presentations. Before, during, and after the conference, Steampunk became a much debated and discussed subject on our list servers and emails. While some had no idea what Steampunk was and others had an idea that they thought was correct, there was no “one size fits all” definition to this new genre. It was at that point that a number of us that had been at the conference sat down and tried to describe the phenomenon. This is what we came up with: Steampunk is a juxtaposition of science fiction, fantasy, and Victorian alternate history. Its roots are in the literature and architecture of the late 19th century while having its branches reach into the future. It is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the music of Abney Park, the engineering of Nikola Tesla, and the aviation of helium and hot air. In the 1980s a subculture of science fiction found a foothold in literature and science fiction conventions. These “paths not taken” alternative histories gave the cyberpunk and Goth followers at the conventions a new path to follow. There were the works of H. G. Wells, the undersea submersible of Captain Nemo in Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and the Victorian work of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to start with. Add to that the architecture of the Victorian age as a gentrification in many of the inner cities of America and England, and you have a breeding ground for something not quite realized but possibly attainable. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011-11-01,Kenneth Craven,Hamlet of Morningside Heights,Hardback,978-1-4438-3343-1,34.99,"This book reveals the remarkable life of a Renaissance New Yorker sustained by the play Hamlet. Craven’s detective work finds for the first time Apostle Paul’s ethical principles integrated throughout the play. The insights that emerge from this discovery reverberate throughout American culture today, explaining dramatic shifts in values that have cascaded down the generations. These dynamics reflect Craven’s lineage: a fascinating mix of genial humanists, fiery ideologues, and effective, business-minded Yorkers traced back to Shakespeare’s London. Craven melds groundbreaking literary insight with reflection on his own life, a continuing search for and demonstration of executive power. ","“Nobody beside Dr Craven ever studied the way that Paul’s Epistle to the Romans affects the play Hamlet. It has staggeringly wide-ranging implications, many of which are identified in this account of how and when these thoughts resounded in Dr Craven’s mind.” – Andrew Gurr, Director of the Renaissance Texts Research Centre “I’ve just finished reading the magisterial conclusion to your autobiography. It is an astonishing tale of discoveries personal, scholarly, and of the origins and nature of modern culture. Of course it would be preposterous to expect such discoveries from anyone, but somehow as I read it seemed right that you would be the person to see these things. I feel privileged to be among your readers. Thank you for this.” – Frank T. Boyle, English Professor, Fordham University ",Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011-11-01,Rodney Symington,Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain: A Reader’s Guide,Hardback,978-1-4438-3357-8,44.99,"Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosophical and metaphysical dilemmas facing people in the modern age. In the years leading up to the First World War, the fundamental elements of human nature were thrown into sharp relief by the political tensions that resulted in the ultimate metaphor for the innate destructiveness of humankind: the War itself. If such a war is the true expression of human tendencies, what hope is there for the future? Through the figure of the main character of the novel, Thomas Mann explores the alternative philosophies of life available to human beings in the modern age, and invites the reader to undertake a personal odyssey of discovery, with a view to adopting a positive approach in an era that seems to offer no clear-cut answers. This book is a comprehensive commentary on Thomas Mann’s seminal novel, one of the key literary artefacts of the 20th century. The author has taken upon himself the task of explaining all the references and allusions contained in the novel, and of providing readers who know little or no German with enough explanatory comment to enable them to understand the novel and extract the maximum reading pleasure from it. ",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing