Twentieth Century Onwards
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Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts£18.99 Jacqueline Fay
9780198757566 Provides a new way of understanding how people became English during the Anglo-Saxon period by tracing the links between Englishness and the body in the texts and culture of this time. |
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Jacob's RoomSecond Edition £7.99 Virginia Woolf, Urmila Seshagiri
9780192857392 Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. |
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Kew Gardens and Other Short FictionSecond Edition £6.99 Virginia Woolf, Bryony Randall, David Bradshaw
9780198838135 Essential to Virginia Woolf's development as a novelist, these short stories are among the most interesting and accomplished fictions she wrote. |
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The Origins of Science Fiction£16.99 Michael Newton
9780198853619 Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy. |
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Jonathan F. S. Post
9780198851417 Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and draws out key themes of the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss. |
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James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Colin MacCabe
9780192894472 James Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short stories, and analyses the literary traditions and social factors influencing his distinctive complex style. Interweaving Joyce's life and history with his books, it also shows how Joyce celebrated his own experiences in Dublin. |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four£8.99 George Orwell, John Bowen
9780198829195 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period. |
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Animal Farm£8.99 George Orwell, David Dwan
9780198813736 When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. |
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Coming Up for Air£9.99 George Orwell, Marina MacKay
9780198804819 Set at the beginning of the Second World War, Coming Up for Air describes suburban insurance agent George Bowling's return to his birthplace, a sedate Oxfordshire village. This new edition of one of George Orwell's early pre-war works explores the historical and political context of the novel. |
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying£9.99 George Orwell, Benjamin Kohlmann
9780198858317 "Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather than compromise with the 'money god'. Disgusted by society's materialism, he leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet. |
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A Clergyman's Daughter£10.99 George Orwell, Nathan Waddell
9780198848424 The most formally experimental of all of George Orwell's novels, A Clergyman's Daughter charts the course of a young woman's voyage out of a small town in East Anglia and her eventual homecoming. This new edition of the novel is the first in over 30 years. |
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Burmese Days£9.99 George Orwell, Rosinka Chaudhuri
9780198853701 Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel is set during the end days of British colonialism, when Burma is ruled from Delhi as part of British India. |
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Homage to Catalonia£7.99 George Orwell, Lisa Mullen
9780198838418 Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books. |
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Down and Out in Paris and London£8.99 George Orwell, John Brannigan
9780198835219 This new edition of Orwell's 1933 text comes with an authoratative introduction, explanatory notes, and a select bibliography to help first-time readers situate the novel in it's contexts and offer a fresh new re-evaluation of the work to returning readers. |
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Selected Essays£7.99 George Orwell, Stefan Collini
9780198804178 Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. |
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The Road to Wigan Pier£9.99 George Orwell, Selina Todd
9780198850908 The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England. |
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Exiles£8.99 James Joyce, Keri Walsh
9780198800064 James Joyce's only surviving play has divided Joyceans for a century. Illuminating the themes of performance that are so prominent throughout Joyce's fiction, Exiles sees Joyce staking his claim definitively within the European theatrical tradition. |
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C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 James Como
9780198828242 The writings of C.S. Lewis have a universal appeal. His Chronicles of Narnia are by far the best known, but he was also a prolific literary scholar, essayist, broadcaster, novelist, poet, and Christian apologist. Following the chronology of Lewis's life, James Como draws out the core themes of his writings, showing how his ideas evolved. |
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Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Laura Marcus
9780199669240 Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. Laura Marcus defines what autobiographies are, considering their relationship with similar literary forms, and analysing the core themes in autobiographical writing. She also discusses how autobiography offers the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world. |
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge£9.99 Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Vilain
9780199646036 A landmark in the development of the twentieth-century novel, the Notebooks is the story of a young Danish aristocrat , told in a series of notes that explore Malte's life in Paris, childhood memories and reflections in highly crafted poetic prose. A radical departure from literary realism, it is an archetypal confrontation with the modern. |
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