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Longman Annotated Texts eBook Series

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  • The Dunciad in Four Books

    Edited by Valerie Rumbold ...
    Series series Longman Annotated Texts
    The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this authoritative edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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  • The Lives of the Poets

    A Selection

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • English Literature, Its History and Its Signi the English-Speaking World

    This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has three specific aims. The first is to create or to encourage in every student the desire to read the best books, and to know literature itself rather than what has been written about literature. The second is to interpret literature both personally and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Milton

    A Biography

    by Neil Forsyth ...
    John Milton has usually been regarded as 'the other great poet' in English literature, after Shakespeare. He is the only one of the world's great poets also to have been actively engaged in politics. A radical Protestant and staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. After the restoration of Charles II, his life was probably saved by his fame as a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • English Literature

    This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has three specific aims. The first is to create or to encourage in every student the desire to read the best books, and to know literature itself rather than what has been written about literature. The second is to interpret literature both personally and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 25 July 1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria." ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Areopagitica

    Including the Biography of the Author

    by John Milton ...
    "Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye." Areopagitica - A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England is a prose polemic against the licensing and censorship ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford English Literary History

    Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century

    Series series Oxford English Literary History
    The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • John Skelton

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Anthony Edwards ...
    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • A History of Elizabethan Literature

    According to Wikipedia: "George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (23 October 1845 - 28 January 1933), was an English writer and critic.... His first book, A Primer of French Literature (1880), and his Short History of French Literature (1882), were followed by a series of editions of French classics and of books and articles on the history of French literature, which made him the most prominent English ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jonathan Swift

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Kathleen Williams ...
    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Julius Caesar (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare

    This carefully crafted ebook: “Julius Caesar (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Written around 1599, Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play is based on historical events surrounding the conspiracy against the ancient Roman leader Julius Caesar (c.100-44B ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD