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"The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition" is an extensive collection that showcases the early works of the celebrated British author, Rudyard Kipling. Best known for iconic creations like "The Jungle Book," "Kim," and the "Just So Stories," Kipling's broader oeuvre, often overshadowed, is rich with detailed depictions of colonial India and acute observations of the British Empire's complex social and political fabric.
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An excellent introduction to the history of English literature, this volume is organized by century-beginning with the Anglo-Saxon period and ending with the Victorian poets Tennyson and Browning-examining the important literary movements of each period. Simonds also gives a comprehensive survey of the forces and influences which initiated and modified literary movements.
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This 1833 follow-up to Lamb's popular Essays of Elia (1823) collects more of the essays that established his reputation as one of the supreme English masters of the form. Included is what many critics consider to be his best short work, "Old China," as well as the essays "Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago," "A Chapter on Ears," and "A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People."
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First published in 1902, this volume contains a detailed history of English literature beginning in the Anglo-Saxon Period and ending with contemporary literature. "A History of English Literature" is highly recommended for all students of literature, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Contents include: "The Anglo-Saxon Period", "The Norman-French Period", "The Age of Chaucer", "The Renaissance: Non-Dramatic Literature to...
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This 1898 survey evaluates English literature on its own merits, including the earliest Anglo-Saxon poems such as Beowulf, the early and late romances, the innovations of Chaucer and the Scottish poets, the genius of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, Milton, Dryden, Pope, as well as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-with a section on Victorian literature.
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Part of the Handbooks of English Literature series, this comprehensive overview, first published in 1899, provides stimulating discussions of essayists and critics (Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith), authors of memoirs and letters (Lord Chesterfield, Horace Walpole), political writers (Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine), economists (David Hume), novelists (Richardson, Fielding, Sterne), dramatists, poets, and more.
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This 1897 volume is a survey of British literature from 1830 to 1870. Of this period, Walker writes: "Next to the eighteenth century, the age of Tennyson has been the most critical in our literature." Includes studies of the works of Carlyle, Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray, the Bröntes, Macaulay, and Arnold among others.
8) Age of Pope
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Master of the heroic couplet, Alexander Pope is widely considered the greatest English verse satirist. This insightful volume examines Pope's life and work alongside the work of his contemporaries-Matthew Prior, William Somerville, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Addison, and many other poets and prose writers.
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This volume, published in the year of the author's death, collects some of Lowell's most intellectually stimulating pieces. Included are studies of Walter Savage Landor, Milton's "Areopagitica," Shakespeare's "Richard III," modern languages, and the world's progress, among others. The editor also includes lectures given by Lowell in 1887 on the Old English Dramatists-"Marlowe," Webster," "Chapman," "Beaumont and Fletcher," and "Massinger and Ford."...
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First published in 1895, Collected Impressions is Saintsbury's lively and individual evaluation of the great Victorian writers from Thackeray through Ruskin. His study of Matthew Arnold is for many the definitive account of the figure who loomed largest in the minds of late Victorian literarati. Saintsbury approached his survey with the premise that the "substance" of literature must "always be life," without undue concern with beliefs, convictions...
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A collection of essays from the acclaimed author of Mrs. Dalloway on such subjects as Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, and her own literary philosophy.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Not written for scholars or critics, these essays are a collection of Virginia Woolf's everyday thoughts about literature and the world-and the art of reading...
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Published in 1912, this scholarly exploration of meter and rhythm begins with ancient Greece and Rome; moving through Old and Middle English; Chaucer; the ornate and plain styles; Edmund Burke; the great novelists of the nineteenth century such as Austen, Dickens, and Thackeray; the lyrical prose of John Ruskin; and more. It is one of the very few full-length studies of prose rhythm.
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Shakespeare, Our Contemporary is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare. More than that, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions.
Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage conceptions. Shakespeare,...
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This 1919 study considers the English village as an object of nostalgia and escape, but also as a place which has a history compelling the people of villages to become very much involved in the Great War and other world events in the years preceding the book's publication. The author considers the rich history of the village, in medieval to modern history, and its place in poetry and prose.
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Whether following the obsessions of Henry James, marveling at the "indispensible" Beatrix Potter, or exploring the Manichean world of Oliver Twist, Graham Greene revisits the books and authors of his lifetime. Here is Greene on Fielding, Doyle, Kipling, and Conrad; on The Prisoner of Zenda and the "revolutionary . . . colossal egoism" of Laurence Stern's epic comic novel, Tristram Shandy; on the adventures of both Allan Quatermain and Moll Flanders;...
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The Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty sailor; and Festus Derriman, the cowardly nephew of the local squire. Unusually for a Hardy novel, the ending is not entirely tragic; however, there remains an ominous element...
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C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insight into some of the greatest writers of the age, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, John Knox, Dr. Johnson, Richard Hooker, Hugh Latimer, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, and Thomas Cranmer.
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century is an invigorating overview of English literature...
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In this collection of literary criticism, West undertakes the question of art's value, examining the works of her contemporaries and their places in history. "The Strange Necessity," one of the twelve essays collected here and first published in 1928, anchors West's quest to understand why art matters and how aesthetics of every caliber can not only inspire but reveal the author's inner world. Whether juxtaposing Ulysses's prose with Pavlov's research,...
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Each letter of the alphabet plays a unique role in the English language. The Easy as ABC series features 26 engaging titles that invite beginning readers to discover where each letter is found in the alphabet, how each letter sounds, and much more.
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