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  • Selected Poems

    One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', 'Tintern Abbey' ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • William Wordsworth

    A Life

    by Stephen Gill ...
    In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Bleak House

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Wordsworth's Revisitings

    by Stephen Gill ...
    Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence that affinities had been preserved between all the stages of the life of man. In this beautifully written and thoughtful book Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the ways in which the poet attempted as an artist to maintain such continuities and shows how revisitings of various kinds are at the heart of his ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership

    Edited by Stephen Gill ...
    This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • New Constitutionalism and World Order

    This path-breaking collection analyses the dialectic between legal and constitutional innovations intended to inscribe corporate power and market disciplines in world order, and the potential for challenges and alternative frameworks of governance to emerge. It provides a comprehensive approach to neo-liberal constitutionalism and regulation and limits to policy autonomy of states, and how this ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Nether World

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870s. But this is not just a novel of documentary realism. It is one man's mordant vision - shaped by bitter personal experience of poverty - of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Eustace Diamonds

    Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from her husband, but the Eustace lawyers insist she give it up, and while her cousin Frank takes her side, her new lover Lord Fawn states that he will only marry her if the necklace is surrendered. As gossip and scandal ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

    Edited by Stephen Gill ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, while other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Series series Timeless Classic
    "Can You Forgive Her?" by Anthony Trollope is the first of the Palliser series, weaving a complex tapestry of relationships and societal expectations in Victorian England. The novel explores the dilemmas of its heroine, Alice Vavasor, who must choose between following her ambitions and succumbing to societal pressures. Caught between two suitors, her safe, predictable cousin George and the daring, ... Read more

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  • The Duke's Children

    Love, Duty, and Privilege in Victorian Society

    In "The Duke's Children," Anthony Trollope delves into the intricate dynamics of familial relationships amidst the rigid social structures of Victorian England. This novel, the last in the Palliser series, employs a rich narrative style characterized by its sharp social commentary and psychological depth. Trollope meticulously explores the lives of the Duke of Omnium's children as they navigate ... Read more

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  • David Copperfield [illustrated]

    David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: "Therewere never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood ... Read more

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