Joyce: Ulysses (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) Vincent Sherry combines a detailed study of Ulysses with new critical arguments. He provides a useful guide to the episodic sequence of Joyce's novel and presents an inquisitive interpretation of this master work, re-addressing major issues in Ulysses criticism. Demonstrating how Joyce's modernist
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The Complete Greeks and Romans (Penguin Classics Complete Collections) The epics of Homer; the great dramas of Aristophanes and Aeschylus; the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates; Thucydides' magnificent account of the Peloponnesian War; the fables of Aesop; and many other works of the ancient Greeks and Romans are represented in this extraordinary
Moby Dick (Graphic Classics) A world-famous classic novel is the basis for this brand-new, dramatically illustrated book. Transformed from Herman Melville’s original text into a graphic novel, this and other Graphic Classics editions make good introductions for young readers to the imaginative riches of literature. These
At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to
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The Ladies' Paradise (Oxford World's Classics) The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and
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War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha
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Pride and Prejudice (Courage Literary Classics) Elizabeth Bennet is at first determined to dislike Mr. Darcy, who is handsome and eligible. This misjudgment only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.