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Walter Scott

de Robin Mayhead

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 Mr Mayhead examines Scott's contemplation of the detribalization of Scotland after the Jacobite rebellions, and the political and social stresses this brought about. He also picks out a vein of shrewd moral wisdom within his works, focusing on Waverley, Heart of Midlothian, Guy Mannering and The Abbot as the works which embody these interests.
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E.M. Forster - The Endless Journey

de John Sayre (University Of Calgary) Martin

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 Taking into account his posthumous works, this book views E. M. Forster as an essentially modern writer attempting to negotiate the gulf between man's spiritual needs and the demands and pressures of society. Professor Martin considers the importance of the travel theme in Forster's writing and the impact of his homosexuality on the content of his fiction.
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Andrew Marvell

de R. Wilcher

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 This introductory study provides a comprehensive and coherent account of all Andrew Marvell's poetry for those with no specialised knowledge of seventeenth-century literature and history.
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Alfred Tennyson

de Elaine Jordan

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 This book provides a valuable introduction for students and other readers of Tennyson's poetry and presents an account of its major themes and concerns.
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Henry Fielding

de Simon Varey

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 This concise and lucid study provides an ideal introduction to the major work of Henry Fielding for all students. Fielding's stature as a great comic novelist is assured, but as Professor Varey illustrates, he was a remarkably versatile writer. In his day Fielding was one of England's leading dramatists and also pursued a career in law.
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George Eliot

de R. T. Jones

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 Mr Jones treats the main novels in chronological sequence examining with the aid of extensive quotation George Eliot's means of description and characterisation and the moral purpose of her fiction.
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John Dryden

de David Hopkins

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 This book, with its emphasis on Dryden as a poet - as opposed simply to topical commentator or controversialist - will prove an ideal introduction for students of his work.
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Alexander Pope

de Yasmine Gooneratne

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 Professor Gooneratne shows how Pope's best and most deeply-felt verse expresses the living values of the Age of Enlightenment.
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John Keats

de Mayhead

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 The poems of Keats are discussed in broadly chronological order, with liberal quotation and much detailed analysis. This straightforward and businesslike study is also sensitive and sympathetic; it establishes more firmly in the reader's mind the nature of Keats's true achievement: the quality of the poetry.
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Ben Jonson - To The First Folio

de Richard Dutton

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 Richard Dutton focuses on the greatest landmark of Jonson's career, the 1616 folio collection of his works with which he crowned his growing reputation as a man of letters, collecting together the majority of his most enduring works - including Every Man in his Humour, Volpone, The Alchemist; the tragedies Sejanus and Catiline; and the major masques and poems.
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William Wordsworth

de Geoffrey Durrant

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 Most people agree that Wordsworth is 'great'; it is not easy to say why. Professor Durrant sets out to show this with detailed reference to particular poems. He accepts that the great creative period of Wordsworth's life was from 1798 to 1805; that in those few years he produced the poems in which his genius was realised; that these poems express a particular vision, which later faded.
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Samuel Richardson

de Jocelyn Harris

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 This book provides a concise introduction to Richardson, by combining a close reading of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Gerandison with a discussion of their central themes.
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William Blake

de Bill Gillham

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 A critical introduction to William Blake's poetry, which concentrates on the most accessible of Blake's writings, but which also gives careful consideration to the longer prophetic works. Professor Gillham maintains that The Songs should be viewed as a dramatic unity and that their interpretation is not aided by a study of the later prophetic works as has so often been maintained.
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Joseph Conrad - The Major Phase

de Jacques Berthoud

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 Jacques Berthoud attempts a full demonstration of the clarity, consistency, and depth of thought evident in the novels of Joseph Conrad. This book will be of interest to specialists in English studies and any reader looking for guidance through the complexities of the major novels.
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James Joyce

de Patrick Parrinder

63,54€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book is an original and well-informed survey of the whole of Joyce's work. It offers close readings of his early writings such as Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an extended examination of his masterpiece, Ulysses.
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John Keats

de John Barnard

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 This book offers a revaluation of Keat's major poetry. It reveals how Keat's work is both an oblique criticism of the dominant attitudes to literature, sexuality, religion, and politics in his period, and a powerful critique of the claims of the imagination.
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Thomas Hardy

de Lance St John Butler

41,90€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Thomas Hardy now seems a more important novelist and poet than at any previous time. This study provides a substantial introduction to his six major novels and his poems. Foregrounding his ability to universalise his tragic material, it also sets out to counter the proposition that Hardy 'wrote badly'.
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D. H. Lawrence - The Novels

de Alistair Niven

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 In this new study of D. H. Lawrence's major fiction, Alistair Niven revalues all the novels, tracing Lawrence's development through them, both as an artist and as a thinker. This study confirms Lawrence as not only a great novelist, but a central figure in the development of the modern mind.
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Henry James - The Major Novels

de Judith Woolf

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This introduction to Henry James' major novels of explores his central theme, the betrayal of innocence, discussing it in a way which offers fresh interpretations. It communicates the excitement rather than the difficulty of reading James. The book includes a short account of James' life, a list of his works and a guide to further criticism.
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Samuel Beckett

de Andrew Karpati Kennedy

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 In this study the author links Beckett's vision of a diminished humanity with his art of formally and verbally diminished resources, and traces the fundamental simplicity and coherence of Beckett's work beneath its complex textures.
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T. S. Eliot: The Poems

de Martin (University Of Kent, Canterbury) Scofield

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book provides an introduction to T.S.Eliots poetry. The poems, as well as some of the poetic drama and sections of the prose criticism, are discussed and placed in relation to the development of Eliot's oeuvre, to his life and to a wider context of philosophical and religious enquiry.
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African Regional Organizations

de Domenico Mazzeo

43,94€

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ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Originally published in 1984, this collection of essays is a comprehensive study of African intergovernmental organizations.
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Libertarian Conflicts In Social Choice

de John L. Wriglesworth

47,32€

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 This book provides a systematic and comprehensive survey and evaluation of the problems of incorporating individual and group rights and values into social procedures and judgements, and examines the solutions that have been proposed.
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Samuel Richardson

de Jocelyn Harris

47,32€

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ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 This book provides a concise introduction to Richardson, by combining a close reading of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Gerandison with a discussion of their central themes.
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