Archive For The “British Literature” Category
By George Eliot
ISBN-10: 1443425427
ISBN-13: 9781443425421
The Lifted Veil's sickly narrator, Latimer, believes himself to be cursed having the ability to see the long run and experience the techniques and emotions of these round him. Disgusted by means of what he sees within the minds of others, he accepts that he'll lead an unobtrusive existence, always overshadowed by way of his extra energetic elder brother. that's, till he meets and turns into thinking about Bertha, his brother's attractive and coquettish fiancée.
The Lifted Veil sits along works resembling Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson's The unusual Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a definitive piece of Victorian-era horror fiction, and used to be a departure for writer George Eliot who as a rule keen on realism in her writing. still, via The Lifted Veil Eliot proves expert at incorporating the mysterious issues of the horror fiction style into her distinct writing style.
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By William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN-10: 0553902202
ISBN-13: 9780553902204
Vainness reasonable is the tale of Becky Sharp, the most attractive, willful, and resourcefully fascinating pleasure-seekers in literature.
With finishing-school credentials and correct connections, Becky starts as a governess, wins the hearts of the moneyed old and young, and, within the gentle of presentation at court docket and calculated scandals, emerges a full-fledged courtesan at the Continent, residing unusually way past her skill.
Thackeray's maximum novel is an ethical tapestry of early nineteenth-century English manners, and his power topic is the folly of the good-at-heart, the evil of these endowed with grace and wit.
Anthony Trollope known as Thackeray "...one of the well-known stars of the literary heaven." V.S. Pritchett unearths Thackeray "...the first of our novelists to capture lifestyles visually and really because it passes in fragments sooner than us...he is particularly a very good impressionist - maybe our greatest." With an Afterword by means of V.S. Pritchett
By Emily Brontë
ISBN-10: 0141398485
ISBN-13: 9780141398488
'... ever-present, phantom thing;
My slave, my comrade, and my king'
Some of Emily Brontë's such a lot striking poems
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Emily Brontë (1818-1848). Brontë's Wuthering Heights and The whole Poems are available Penguin Classics
By Charlene Lunnon, Lisa Hoodless, Gill Paul
ISBN-10: 0141042176
ISBN-13: 9780141042176
In 1999, on the soft age of ten, Charlene Lunnon and Lisa Hoodless have been snatched as they walked to college. Over the subsequent week, they have been held captive, tortured, raped and nearly killed. information of the girls' disappearance ruled the headlines, and the complete state held its breath, praying for his or her secure go back as a huge police hunt did not take place any clues. yet then a miracle occurred. the ladies have been stumbled on alive, their abductor used to be arrested and the case used to be closed.
But there has been to be no such closure for Charlene and Lisa. Over the arriving years, their friendship was once strained to verge of collapse, as they struggled to reconcile themselves to their painful thoughts and to every other.
Abducted is their superb first-hand, insider account of the way it feels to be abducted, how they survived their terrible ordeal and the way they've got came upon the energy to maneuver on and rebuild their lives.
By G. K. Chesterton
ISBN-10: 0486115224
ISBN-13: 9780486115221
Six well-plotted and suspenseful stories through the famous British critic, writer and debunker extraordinaire characteristic the "little cleric from Essex" in "The Blue Cross," "The Sins of Prince Saradine," "The signal of the damaged Sword," "The guy within the Passage," "The Perishing of the Pendragons" and "The Salad of Colonel Cray."
By J. G. Farrell
ISBN-10: 1590171365
ISBN-13: 9781590171363
Singapore, 1939: existence at the eve of global struggle II simply isn't what it was for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and strongest enterprise. regardless of how forcefully the police holiday one strike, the natives pass on strike in different places. His daughter retains entangling herself with the main improper beaus, whereas her meant fit, the son of Blackett's companion, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of countries and a vegetarian. company should be booming—what with the warfare in Europe, the Allies are determined for rubber and helpless to withstand Blackett's price-fixing and marketplace manipulation—but anything is inaccurate. nobody suspects that the realm of the British Empire, of fastened barriers among periods and international locations, is ready to return to a negative end.
A love tale and a struggle tale, a tragicomic story of a urban lower than siege and a demise lifestyle, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy” that started with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.
By William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 1443443344
ISBN-13: 9781443443340
Spanning nearly fifty years starting with the coronation of the king upon the loss of life of Henry V and concluding with the autumn of the home of Lancaster, William Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy unearths the king’s struggles lower than the pressures of lengthy wars together with his overseas territories in France and eire, and the civil battle that threatens his reign.
Strife in the English courtroom escalates into the battle of the Roses in Henry VI, half II. because the king proves not able to unravel the variations among his noblemen, the Earl of Suffolk hopes to steer the king during the king’s fresh marriage to Margaret of Anjou. because the earl and the Duke of Gloucester develop into embattled in ever-more risky plots, the king now faces open uprising as Richard, Duke of York, makes a declare for his throne.
Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the best English-language author recognized. significantly well known in the course of his lifestyles, Shakespeare’s works proceed to resonate greater than 3 centuries after his loss of life, as has his impression on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s leading edge use of personality, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a origin for later playwrights and dramatists, and a few of his most famed strains of debate became a part of daily speech.
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By William Blake
ISBN-10: 0486132242
ISBN-13: 9780486132242
As soon as considered as a super eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English artwork and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is at the present time famous as an immense poet, a profound philosopher, and the most unique and fascinating English artists. Nowhere is his wonderful poetic and pictorial legacy extra obtrusive than in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, which many give some thought to his such a lot encouraged and unique work.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is either a funny satire on faith and morality and a piece that concisely expresses Blake's crucial knowledge and philosophy, a lot of it printed within the 70 aphorisms of his "Proverbs of Hell." this gorgeous version, reproduced from an extraordinary facsimile, invitations readers to benefit from the wealthy personality of Blake's personal hand-printed textual content with his deeply stirring illustrations, reproduced on 27 full-color plates. A typeset transcription of the textual content is integrated.
By Muriel Spark
ISBN-10: 0811223043
ISBN-13: 9780811223041
In past due Fifties London, anything uncanny besets a bunch of aged associates: an insinuating voice at the cellphone reminds every one: Remember you need to die. Their geriatric feathers are quickly completely ruffled, and plenty of an previous unsavory key's dusted off.
By Iris Murdoch
ISBN-10: 1101494263
ISBN-13: 9781101494264
Set in London and within the South of France, this brilliantly established novel facilities on ladies: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the new loss of life of her husband, but awakening to ardour; and Anne Cavidge, who has back unsure from decades in a nunnery, simply to come across her own Christ. a desirable array of guys and ladies hover in pressing orbit round them: the "Count," a lonely Pole obsessively reliving his émigré father's patriotic agony; Tim Reede, a seedy but beautiful artist, and Daisy, his mistress; the manipulative Mrs. Mount; and lots of different magically drawn characters relocating among hope and legal responsibility, guilt and pleasure. This version of Nuns and Soldiers contains a new creation via popular non secular historian Karen Armstrong.