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  • The Waves

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York TimesTracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Rainbow

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity This is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from her family and her surroundings on the brink of womanhood and the modern world. In The Rainbow (1915) Lawrence challenged the customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structure of his prose the ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Hard Times

    'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism centres on Coketown, where Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success, feeds his pupils and his family with facts, banning fancy and wonder from young minds. As a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Diary of a Nobody

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a `Somebody' - why my diary should not be interesting.' The Diary of a Nobody (1892) created a cultural icon, an English archetype. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to be seen as the epitome of English ... Read more

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  • The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Compact Edition, Volume A – Second Edition

    by Joseph Black ...
    Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its extraordinarily high quality, for its breadth, and for the deep attention it pays to literature’s historical and cultural contexts. The Broadview is structured to meet the needs of today’s students, with an unparalleled selection of illustrations and contextual materials, accessible and engaging ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Compact Edition, Volume B – Second Edition

    by Joseph Black ...
    Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its extraordinarily high quality, for its breadth, and for the deep attention it pays to literature’s historical and cultural contexts. The Broadview is structured to meet the needs of today’s students, with an unparalleled selection of illustrations and contextual materials, accessible and engaging ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: One-Volume Compact – Second Edition

    by Joseph Black ...
    Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its breadth and its deep attention to literature’s historical and cultural contexts. The Broadview is structured to meet the needs of today’s students, with an unparalleled selection of illustrations and contextual materials, accessible and engaging introductions, and full explanatory annotations.The ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Jacob's Room

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    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. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Pictures from Italy

    'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his experiences there. He presents the country like a magic-lantern show, as vivid images ceaselessly appear before his - and his readers' - eyes. Italy's ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • British Literature: A Historical Overview, Volume B

    In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930

    by Kate Flint ...
    This book takes a fascinating look at the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination from the Revolutionary War to the early twentieth century, and examining how Native Americans regarded the British, as well as how they challenged their own cultural image in Britain during this period. Kate Flint shows how the image of the Indian was used in English literature and ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature

    Edited by Kate Flint ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of English Literature
    This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD