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Emma

by Jane Austen

New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's original introduction reinstated Edited with an introduction and notes by Flora Stafford.

The Tempest (Cambridge School Shakespeare)

The Tempest (Cambridge School Shakespeare)

by Tony Buzan, David Bevington, Lisa Fabry, Alan Durband, William-Alan Landes, Frank Kermode, Leon Garfield, Rex Gibson, Roma Gill, Aime?. Ce?saire, Sandra Clark, A. L. Rowse, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Peter Holland, John Russell Brown, Neil Freeman

This new edition of The Tempest is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of The Tempest, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page colour... (more)

Twelfth Night (Cambridge School Shakespeare)

Twelfth Night (Cambridge School Shakespeare)

by David Bevington, Jennifer Mulherin, Leon Garfield, Stanley W. Wells, Rex Gibson, Roma Gill, A. L. Rowse, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

This new edition of Twelfth Night is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of Twelfth Night, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page... (more)

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

The story that became the basis for the hit musical My Fair Lady.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique.

Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts

Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts

by Samuel Beckett

A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."--The London Times.

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Bathsheba Everdene is a strong, confident woman who becomes a powerful farmer. But her emotional life descends into chaos as she becomes involved with three very different men.

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad, John Barnes

One of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels, Lord Jim brilliantly combines adventure and analysis. Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as ‘Tuan Jim.’ Here he finds a measure of serenity and... (more)

Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad

Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the impact of foreign exploitation on a developing nation. As Sulaco, site of an English/American controlled silver mine establishes its independence, its ideals are inevitably compromised.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. This work... (more)

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Chicago in January 2002 and in New York... (more)

Plays Pleasant (The Bernard Shaw Library)

Plays Pleasant (The Bernard Shaw Library)

by George Bernard Shaw

Plays Pleasant (1898) comprises four comedies intended to amuse audiences but also to provoke them. Arms and the Man , set in the Balkan mountains, satirizes the romantic view of war and military heroism. Candida presents the complicated relationship between a vicar, his wife, and her young admirer. You Never Can Tell is a light, witty look at an aging suffragette and her family. The Man of Destiny ... (more)

Beyond Good And Evil

by R. J. Hollingdale, Marion Faber, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Judith Norman, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Helen Zimmern, Walter Kaufmann

New chronology and further reading Translated by R. J. Hollingdale Introduction by Michael Tanner.

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

Vast and crowded, rich in irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character, with two of the era's most enduring characters, Dorothea Brooke, trapped in a loveless marriage, and Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor.

In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

by J. M. Coetzee

A novel set in colonial South Africa, where a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, while his daughter dreams of and executes a bloody revenge. From the author of DUSKLANDS and WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS.

A Stolen Season: An ALex McKnight Novel

by Steve Hamilton

On a freezing night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat plows full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. With Alex McKnight on the rescue mission, the passengers are brought safely to shore. Alex figures the story’s over…but he’s dead wrong. The boat accident’s happy ending turns... (more)

Fear and Trembling

by Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay

Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present his conception of faith. Abraham is portrayed as a great man, who chose to sacrifice his son, Isaac, in the face of conflicting expectations and in defiance of any conceivable ethical standard. The infamous and controversial 'teleological suspension of the ethical' challenged the contemporary views of... (more)

A Cold Day in Paradise (Alex McKnight Mysteries (Paperback))

A Cold Day in Paradise (Alex McKnight Mysteries (Paperback))

by Steve Hamilton

Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him-after all, Maximillian Rose, convicted of the crimes, has been locked in the state penitentiary for thirteen years.But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy... (more)

Winter of the Wolf Moon (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)

Winter of the Wolf Moon (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)

by Steve Hamilton

Ex-cop and sometime P.I. Alex McKnight endures the bitter winter of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in his log cabin with warm fires and cold Molsons. When Dorothy Parrish, a young Ojibwa woman, asks him for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after secreting her in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. McKnight suspects vicious, hockey-playing Lonnie Bruckman of abducting the... (more)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is the fabulously inventive tale of "Hamlet" as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of "Waiting... (more)

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by Jane Austen

by Tony Buzan, David Bevington, Lisa Fabry, Alan Durband, William-Alan Landes, Frank Kermode, Leon Garfield, Rex Gibson, Roma Gill, Aime?. Ce?saire, Sandra Clark, A. L. Rowse, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Peter Holland, John Russell Brown, Neil Freeman

by David Bevington, Jennifer Mulherin, Leon Garfield, Stanley W. Wells, Rex Gibson, Roma Gill, A. L. Rowse, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

by George Bernard Shaw

by James Joyce

by Samuel Beckett

by Thomas Hardy

by Joseph Conrad, John Barnes

by Joseph Conrad

by William Shakespeare

by Eugene O'Neill

by George Bernard Shaw

by R. J. Hollingdale, Marion Faber, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Judith Norman, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Helen Zimmern, Walter Kaufmann

by George Eliot

by J. M. Coetzee

by Steve Hamilton

by Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay

by Steve Hamilton

by Steve Hamilton

by Tom Stoppard