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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare'S Julius Caesar

by Andrew James Hartley

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 Andrew Hartley analyses one of Shakespeare's most popular plays - one which is full of famous lines - and tells what critics have made of it through the ages.
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The Connell Guide To Mary Shelley'S Frankenstein

by Josie Billington

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 The shocking story of Frankenstein seems as relevant today as it was when it was written nearly 200 years ago. Josie Billington tells us why.
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The Connell Guide To Jane Austen'S Mansfield Park

by John Sutherland e Jolyon Connell

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 John Wiltshire, one of the most original critics of Jane Austen, argues not only that Mansfield Park is one of the great 19th century novels but that it has been completely misunderstood by most critics.
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The Connell Guide To Emily Bronte'S Wuthering Heights

by Graham Bradshaw

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 Wuthering Heights is traditionally seen as being about the timeless romance between Heathcliff and Catherine. Bradshaw takes issue with the conventional view, arguing that this in this novel the characters are driven by forces and passions they don't understand, and that Bronte's dark, violent world is much more complex than most critics allow.
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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare'S Second Tetralogy

by Cedric Watts

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 An entertaining and erudite guide to Shakespeare's great sequence of history plays, culminating in Henry V, and to what the plays tell us about the public and private lives of politicians.
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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare'S King Lear

by Valentine Cunningham

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 King Lear appalled Dr Johnson and exasperated AC Bradley yet, like subsequent critics,they could not deny the play's greatness. With his customary eloquence and passion, Cunningham shows what it is that Shakespeare is driving at in Lear and how this extraordinary tragedy about a foolish king leads directly to Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd.
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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare'S A Midsummer Night'S Dream

by Tom Bishop

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 This play is a revolutionary masterpiece, argues Tom Bishop. Held together by a lyrical energy, it is about love and the role of the imagination in love. Human folly, Shakespeare suggests, is also a blessing: the paradox at the heart of the play is that the source of all that is most destructive in the world is also the source of all that is best.
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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare'S Antony And Cleopatra

by Adrian Poole

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 In this study the eminent Shakespearean Adrian Poole explains why this play is so different from the four widely regarded as Shakespeare's greatest: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth. Poole shows that while Shakespeare is dramatising the most famous love affair in the ancient world, his handling of sex and politics is strikingly modern.
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The Connell Guide To Jane Austen'S Emma

by John Sutherland e Jolyon Connell

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 Through the innovative and wonderfully flexible use of free indirect speech, Austen enables us to see the world through Emma's eyes and to understand her faults and share her delusions. Austen creates a world which seems as real as the one we inhabit, and in making us understand Emma's limitations, the author instils a greater awareness of our own.
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The Connell Guide To Harper Lee'S To Kill A Mockingbird

by Stephen Fender

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 Harper Lee's novel has sold over 30 million copies in many languages. Yet the novel has often been misunderstood. It is much more than a "period piece", in Professor Harold Bloom's phrase, about racial prejudice in the Deep South in the 1930s. In this compelling guide, Stephen Fender explains the secret of this novel's enduring appeal.
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The Connell Guide To John Milton'S Paradise Lost

by Caroline Moore

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 While many readers have been carried away by Milton's sublimity, others have been daunted by his scope and learning. In this brilliantly concise book, Moore shows what makes Milton's verse so powerful, making it as she does so more accessible to the reader. This poem, Moore argues, is the most profound study ever written of the human act of choice.
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The Connell Guide To Thomas Hardy'S Tess Of The D'Ubervilles

by Cedric Watts e Jolyon Connell

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 Few novels have caused more controversy than Hardy's tragic tale of a fallen woman. This incisive study draws on the best of the novel's critics to show why Hardy's story has such power, and to explain the angry and uncompromising vision contained within its pages. This short guide is essential for anyone who wishes to understand Hardy's fiction.
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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare'S Romeo And Juliet

by Simon Palfrey

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 Shakespeare's play about doomed young love has attracted less serious critical attention than it deserves. Palfrey, a leading Shakespearean scholar, shows us why the play is an extraordinary work of art, why Juliet is such an unusual and captivating heroine, and what Shakespeare is really saying about her passion for Romeo and the nature of love.
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The Connell Guide To Joseph Conrad'S Heart Of Darkness

by Graham Bradshaw

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 In this authoritative and engaging study, Graham Bradshaw - who has lectured and written about Conrad for 30 years - draws on the most interesting critics to present his own vision of Heart of Darkness and to show why the novel's peculiarly dark and intense vision of life has been so frequently misunderstood.
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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare'S Macbeth

by Graham Bradshaw

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 For much of the 20th century Macbeth was seen by critics as a deeply unsettling play but one in which Good vanquishes Evil. In this guide Bradshaw puts these arguments in perspective. He shows that the play is much more terrifying than traditional critics allow and, drawing on more than 30 years of studying Shakespeare offers his own incisive view.
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The Connell Guide To Charles Dickens'S Great Expectations

by John Sutherland e Jolyon Connell

12,16€ + 10% CARD

 'Great Expectations' continues to raise profound questions about society and human character. This guide draws on the leading critics to offer a compelling interpretation of the novel. Entertaining and accessible, the guide is essential reading for students of literature and for anyone interested in Dickens's extraordinary vision of the world.
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The Connell Guide To Jane Austen'S Pride And Prejudice

by Janet Todd

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 Pride and Prejudice has sometimes been seen as petty, provincial and passionless. Leading Austen scholar Todd draws on a range of critical opinions to argue that not only is Elizabeth Bennet one of literature's most engaging heroines but that in her portrait of Darcy, Austen comes as near to representing sexual infatuation as she could at the time.
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The Connell Guide To Anglo-Norman England 1035-1189

by Daniel Gerrard

12,16€ + 10% CARD
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The Connell Guide To William Golding'S Lord Of The Flies

by John Carey

12,16€ + 10% CARD
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The Connell Guide To Charlotte Bronte'S Jane Eyre

by Josie Billington

12,16€ + 10% CARD
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The Connell Guide To F. Scott Fitzgerald'S The Great Gatsby

by John Sutherland e Jolyon Connell

12,16€ + 10% CARD
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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare'S The Merchant Of Venice

by Michael Neill

12,16€

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 In this short but comprehensive study, Michael Neill draws on a dazzling array of critics to tell us what Shakespeare's most controversial play is really about and what it tells about the world.
The Connell Guide To Jane Austen'S Persuasion

by John Wiltshire

12,16€

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 John Wiltshire, one of the best and most thoughtful modern critics of Jane Austen, shows why her last novel, Persuasion, is rated so highly by readers and academics alike.
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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare'S Hamlet

by Graham Bradshaw

12,16€

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 This short guide, written by one of the greatest modern critics of Shakespeare, analyses the play and shows why it is so complex and disturbing.
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