Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Hardy was born before the invention of the car, the telephone, and th[...]
This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work.[...]
Mark Twain once derided the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print." Long and complicated, written in the language of the King James version of the Bible, it boggles the minds of many. Yet it is unquestionably one of the most influential books ever written. With over 140 million copies in print, it [...]
Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's pote[...]
This stimulating study takes a fresh look at Hardy's poetry and key themes. Part I uses carefully selected extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines Hardy's life and works and a sample of criticism. The volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying Hardy's poems [...]
Sima Qian (c. 100 B.C.E.) was China's first historian -- he was known as Grand Astrologer at the court of Emperor Wu during the Han dynasty -- and, along with Confucius and the First Emperor of Qin, was one of the creators of imperial China. His Shiji (published for Columbia in a translation by Bur[...]
A Hardcover Classics edition of Thomas Hardy's impassioned novel of courtship in rural life, soon to be a movie starring Carey Mulligan and Michael Sheen In Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a [...]
Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband but a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized [...]
The first biography of one of America's most brilliant civil engineers
Love in free fall...Adrenalin-junkie aristocrat George Somers is used to relationships as short and as sweet as the thrills he seeks. But when an accident puts him in the care of physiotherapist and single mom Serena James, being bed-bound suddenly seems more than appealing! George may be a risk tak[...]
Breakfast at Giovanni's Working for darkly handsome Giovanni Mazetti is fantastic - until Francesca discovers her new job comes with a tantalising caveat: pretending to be his adoring girlfriend! Purchased for Pleasure When Kate Hyden is sold to the highest bidder at a charity auction, she never exp[...]
The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works
In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett creates a unique anthology of works by six well-loved poets. Freely admitting his own youthful bafflement with poetry, Bennett reassur[...]
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained, from 1927 to the present day, the screen's most famous and popular comedy double act, celebrated by legions of fans. But despite many books about their films and individual lives, there has never been a fully researched, definitive narrative biography of t[...]
Skinheads: A Guide to An American Subculture is an insider's look at the history of skinheads in the United States, from their emergence from the U.S. hardcore underground in the 1980s in New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, to the current scene that thrives in many major metropo[...]
Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide: is an introductory Android book for programmers with Java experience. Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular Android Bootcamp course, this guide will lead you through the wilderness using hands-on example apps combined with clear explanations of key concepts[...]
The texts in the Stories to Remember series are abridged and simplified but as much as possible of the author's original style and storyline has been retained. This work tells the story of Tess and her relationship with Angel Clare.[...]
One kiss is never enough
Claire Stewart thinks her day can't get any worse--but she's wrong As if losing her best friend's wedding dress isn't enough, she's now faced with the ultra-handsome, ultra-successful brother of the bride, Sean Farrell... Oh, and she's had a crush on him for years
With an Introduction by Patrick Gardiner. Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality made available, in the months before the author's death, an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the n[...]
Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy?s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned[...]
This second edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition. It is accompanied by more than 500 editorial footnotes providing essential historical background and glossing of dialect words, as well as contemporary reviews and modern essays.[...]
This text reprinted in this volume is based on Thomas Hardy's final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition and includes his preface and postscript. "Backgrounds and Contexts" traces the textual history of "Jude the Obscure" through selections from Hardy's poems, autobiography, letters and journlistic [...]