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Heart of Darkness (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 0333657071
ISBN-13: 9780333657072
Published: 1996-04-22
Publisher: Non Basic Stock Line
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Now in its second edition, this popular case-study of Conrad's classic short novel reprints an authoritative text together with five essays (four of which are newly-commissioned or revised) written from a range of contemporary critical perspectives.
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The Extraordinary Journeys: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Oxford World's Classics)
Author: Jules Verne
ISBN-10: 0192836757
ISBN-13: 9780192836755
Published: 1998-09-17
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Now available in a new translation, this classic of nineteenth century French literature has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater toward a sunless sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man. Exploring the prehistory of the globe, this novel can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Verne's distinctive combination of realism and Romanticism has marked figures as diverse as Sartre and Tournier, Mark Twain and Conan Doyle.
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The Mysterious Island (Early Classics of Science Fiction)
Author: Jules Verne
ISBN-10: 0819565598
ISBN-13: 9780819565594
Published: 2002-02-01
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
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Book Description:
At a time when Verne is making a comeback in the US as a mainstream literary figure, Wesleyan is pleased to publish a new translation of one of his best-known novels, The Mysterious Island. Although several editions under the same title are in print, most reproduce a bowdlerized nineteenth-century translation which changes the names of the characters, omits several important scenes, and ideologically censors Verne's original text.The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has secretly been helping the settlers. A marvelous adventure story, The Mysterious Island is also notable for its modern retelling of the utopian deserted-island myth, with repeated echoes of Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar William Butcher, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Author: Muriel Barbery
ISBN-10: 1933372605
ISBN-13: 9781933372600
Published: 2008-09-02
Publisher: Europa Editions
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Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manuela, Renee lives resigned to her lonely lot with only her cat for company. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the pampered and vacuous future laid out for her, and decides to end her life on her thirteenth birthday. But unknown to them both, the sudden death of one of their privileged neighbours will dramatically alter their lives forever. By turn moving and hilarious, this unusual novel became the top-selling book in France in 2007 with sales of over 900,000 copies to-date.
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Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
Author: Alexandre Dumas père
ISBN-10: 0192838431
ISBN-13: 9780192838438
Published: 1998-10-22
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Two decades have passed since the famous swordsmen triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady in The Three Musketeers. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is the titanic struggle with the son of Milady who wears the face of evil.
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Intentions
Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN-10: 1449564070
ISBN-13: 9781449564070
Published: 2009-10-21
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Book Description:
First published in 1891, Intentions contains four groundbreaking critical essays by the famous poet, playwright and raconteur. The Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist, and The Truth of Masks delineate Wilde's aesthetic philosophy, and mark the beginning of a Modernist manifesto in literature and art. Entertaining and very readable, Intentions casts a bright light on Wilde's own work and life.
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The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
Author: Albert Camus
ISBN-10: 0679420266
ISBN-13: 9780679420262
Published: 1993-02-23
Publisher: Everyman's Library
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a parable and the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller, The Stranger is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century. Translated by Matthew Ward
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Les Fleurs du Mal (French Edition)
Author: Charles Baudelaire
ISBN-10: 1589770706
ISBN-13: 9781589770706
Published: 2010-08-19
Publisher: European Masterpieces
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Preface par Henry Frichet
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The Vicomte de Bragelonne (World's Classics)
Author: Alexandre Dumas (pï¿1/2re)
ISBN-10: 0192823906
ISBN-13: 9780192823908
Published: 1995-12-07
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de La Valli�re and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. This new edition of the classic translation presents a key episode in the Musketeers saga, fully annotated and with an introduction by a leading Dumas scholar.
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Cyrano De Bergerac
Author: Edmond Rostand
ISBN-10: 185754028X
ISBN-13: 9781857540284
Published: 1992-11-12
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
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