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  • The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain

    Victorian and Edwardian Inflections

    Edited by Maria Bachman, Albert Pionke ...
    Series series Among the Victorians and Modernists
    At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between literary studies and sociology in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. During the ongoing emergence of what Thomas Carlyle, in "Signs of the Times" (1829), pejoratively labeled a new "Mechanical Age ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • National Service and Volunteerism

    Achieving Impact in Our Communities

    by Maria-Elena Augustin, Emily Bachman, Koen P. R. Bartels, Jodi Benenson, Valerie Beynon, Julia Carboni, Guido Cozzi, Na’eem H. Crawford-Muhammad, Todd Joseph Currie, Deborah Jospin, Jay D. Jurie0, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg1, Jessica Kleinberger2, Karen Kopera-Frye3, Stephanie Krick4, Myung J. Lee5, Katharine Leonberger6, Peter Levine7, Noemi Mantovan8, Rita Massey9, Sarah Maxwell0, Connie L. McNeely1, Tadar Muhammad2, Alice Neira3, Dorothy Norris-Tirrell4, Shelby Olson5, Jarrad Plante6, Cristian Pliscoff7, Shirley Sagawa8, Sara Strickhouser9, Dennis O. Torbett0, Norma Winston1, James D. Wright2, Thomas A. Bryer3 ...
    National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national service and volunteer programs with the risk of defunding and/or the risk of not investing ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Woman in White

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    As the inscription on his tombstone reveals, Wilkie Collins wanted to be remembered as the "author of The Woman in White," for it was this novel that secured his reputation during his lifetime. The novel begins with a drawing teacher's eerie late-night encounter with a mysterious woman in white, and then follows his love for Laura Fairlie, a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Blind Love

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Blind Love is Wilkie Collins’s final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this absorbingly plotted novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an independent young woman who marries the “wild” ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The Haunted Hotel

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1878. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus ... Read more

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  • The Moonstone

    A Romance

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Series series Classic Sensation
    "The Moonstone: A Romance" by Wilkie Collins is a classic mystery novel that is considered to be one of the first modern detective stories. Set in England in the mid-19th century, the novel revolves around the theft of the Moonstone, a valuable diamond belonging to Rachel Verinder, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy English landowner. The theft of the Moonstone creates a stir in the community and ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Murder on the Links

    by Agatha Christie ...
    When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course. Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's wife Eloise, his son Jack, Renauld's immediate ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: 'Or is this a professional call?''

    by Agatha Christie ...
    Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on the 15th September 1890 in Torquay, Devon.She was primarily home schooled and developed an early passion for both reading and music.During the horrors of World War I she served as a nurse and later a pharmacy assistant. These experiences, especially the deep and technical knowledge of poisons, became a later trademark of her detective storiesIn 1920 she ... Read more

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  • The Secret of Chimneys

    by Agatha Christie ...
    The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. It introduces the characters of Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen Bundle Brent. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. At the request ... Read more

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  • The Man in the Brown Suit

    by Agatha Christie ...
    After her father's death, young Anne Beddingfeld moves to London with her meagre inheritance, hopeful and ready to meet adventure. She witnesses a fatal accident at a Tube station and picks up a cryptic note dropped by the anonymous doctor who appeared on the scene. When Anne learns of a murder at the estate that the dead man was on his way to visit, it confirms her suspicion that the man in the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Canterville Ghost (Mobi Classics)

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    The Canterville Ghost is a popular 1887 novella by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. "The Canterville Ghost" is a parody featuring a dramatic spirit named Sir Simon and the United States minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. James's, Hiram B. Otis. Mr. Otis travels to England with his family and moves into a haunted country house. Lord Canterville, the previous owner of the ... Read more

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