Literary studies books

Atonement

Ian McEwan · 2009

Lord of the Flies

William Golding · 2003

2001: a Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey Series)

Arthur C. Clarke · 2000

The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien · 2012

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)

C. S. Lewis · 2008

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie · 2011

1984

George Orwell · 1983

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

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Dubliners

James Joyce · 1993

The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)

Sylvia Plath · 2005

<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 2003

Story of an Hour (Tale Blazers)

Kate Chopin · 2000

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Mark Twain · 2018

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw · 2018

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea first presented in 1871. Shaw also would have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and the film of that name.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 2021

Treasure Island (Signet Classics)

Robert Louis Stevenson · 2016

Alices Adventures In Wonderland

Lewis Carroll · 2020

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Vol. 1

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 1986

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 2017

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

Hard Times

DICKENS CHARLES · 2018

Agnes Grey

Anne Bronte · 2012

Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)

Emily Brontë, Pauline Nestor · 2002

<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.

Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs

Charlotte Bronte · 2015

Moby Dick (Chartwell Classics)

Herman Melville · 2021

El Corazon Delator (Spanish Edition)

Edgar Allan Poe · 2016

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson · 2021

Daffodils ..

· 2016

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Mansfield Park (Wordsworth Classics)

Jane Austen · 1998

Persuasion: Jane Austen (Classic Jane Austen)

Jane Austen · 2017

Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)

Sir Walter Scott · 2000

Frankenstein

Mary Shelly · 2020

Gullivers Travels

Jonathan Swift · 2002

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe · 2023

The Pilgrim´s Progress

John Bunyan · 2023

Oroonoko

Aphra Behn · 2019

Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)

John Milton · 2003

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes · 2024

<p>"Leviathan," a seminal work by Thomas Hobbes, delves into the essence of political philosophy and the social contract. Written during a time of political upheaval, Hobbes presents a pioneering argument for a strong, centralized government as a solution to human nature's inherent brutishness. This treatise explores the dynamics between liberty and authority, and the necessity of societal structures for peace and protection. 'Leviathan' remains a cornerstone in understanding modern political theory and its impact on both historical and contemporary governance.</p><p><br></p>

Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare · 2004

Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare · 1992

Dr. Faustus (Dover Thrift Editions)

Christopher Marlowe · 1994

Utopia

Thomas More · 1992

The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics)

Margery Kempe · 2000

Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer · 1990

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien · 2014