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  • A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot

    Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker

    Edited by Constance M. Fulmer, Margaret E. Barfield ...
    Series series Literature and Society in Victorian Britain
    The Autobiography is the personal journal of an independent Victorian woman who describes her day-to-day activities as a businesswoman, social reformer, scholar, and journalist; makes many insightful observations on gender issues; and provides intriguing details of her relationships with many of the leading political and literary figures of her day, particularly the novelist George Eliot, whom she ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

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    by C. S. Lewis ...
    A repackaged edition of the revered authors collection of personal letters-a curated selection of the best of his correspondence with family, friends, and fans-and a short biography by his brother Warren Lewis.Letters of C. S. Lewis reveals the most intimate beliefs of the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Mystery of Charles Dickens

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A "marvelous exploration" of Dickens's life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • De Profundis and Other Prison Writings

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín.At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, An Ideal Husband. But by May of the same year, Wilde was in Reading prison sentenced to hard labour. 'De Profundis' is an epistolic ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Modern English Books Of Power

    by George Hamlin Fitch ...
    This edifying book analyzes the most memorable classics of English Literature in a befitting and gracious manner. Fitch studies and discusses several celebrated authors and their brilliant masterpieces in a manner that is guaranteed to arouse any readers interest in them. A fascinating treasure trove of information! ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD

  • The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob

    by George Eliot ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Lifted Veil (1859) is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works. - ;`She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Maisie Ward ...
    Maisie Ward's biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has long been a cornerstone in Chesterton studies, as well as in the publishing house she and her husband, Frank Sheed, founded in 1926. Originally published in 1943, this book combines Ward's unique perspective as the author's friend and publisher with an examination of his personal correspondence and interviews with his closest friends and ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • George Eliot

    A Critic's Biography

    by Professor Barbara Hardy ...
    Series series Writers Lives
    'a genuinely interesting contribution to George Eliot scholarship by one of the leading postwar critics of Victorian fiction. The conception is bold and arresting... it reads excellently but its clarity is also vivid, effective and engaging. It wears its evident deep learning, and informed familiarity with Eliot's world, lightlyàIt manages to integrate three achievements: to give an animated sense ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Modern English Books of Power

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Influence of Literary Classics on Society and Culture

    by George Hamlin Fitch, Logan Barrett ...
    In "Modern English Books of Power," George Hamlin Fitch presents a compelling exploration of influential English literature from the late 19th to early 20th century. Fitch's literary style is characterized by its keen analysis and engaging prose, which deftly weaves biography with critical commentary. He dissects a wide range of authors and their seminal works, emphasizing how these texts shaped ... Read more

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  • The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5

    1929 - 1932

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Fiction was the core of Virginia Woolf's work. But she took her essay writing very seriously, spending a great deal of time on each essay and finding they provided a refreshing diversion from fiction. Her essays informed her fiction, and vice versa; this volume shows her thinking about the possibility of poeticising the novel (The Waves was the result) and in some of these pieces ('Women and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Galway Of The Races

    Selected Essays

    by Robert Lynd ...
    Born of a Belfast manse, ROBERT LYND (1879-1949) became one of the most graceful and favoured writers of the early century, and had some thirty books published in his lifetime. The essays in Galway of the Races represent his writings on Ireland (Protestant and Papish, with accounts of Connolly, Kettle, Griffith, Shaw, Yeats and Joyce), on literature (from Donne to Hazlitt, Keats, Turgenev and ... Read more

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  • Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself

    by Frances Power Cobbe ...
    "Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself" is an autobiographical account that delves into the life of Frances Power Cobbe, a prominent 19th-century feminist, social reformer, and animal rights advocate. Cobbe's narrative provides a vivid portrayal of her experiences, thoughts, and the societal challenges she faced as a woman in a male-dominated world. Through her eloquent prose, she ... Read more

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