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Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, thismasterpiece of his final period relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the sense ofisolation that his position imposes, the captain crosses the shadow-line between youth and adulthood.It is the qualities, both individual and collective, needed to confront the ship's crisis that symbolize the qualities needed by humanity, not only to face evil and destruction but also to come to terms with life.

'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.'In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed fromantiquity until the eighteenth century, and replaced metaphysics with psychology and even physiology as the basis for the subject. Burke's theory of beauty encompasses the female form, nature, art, and poetry, and he analyses our delight in sublimeeffects that thrill and excite us. His revolution in method continues to have repercussions in the aesthetic theories of today, and his revolution in sensibility has paved the way for literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel throughRomanticism, twentieth-century painting, and beyond.In this new edition Paul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke's Enquiry, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from Kant and Schiller to Ruskin andNietzsche.

A The Time szerint az év egyik legjobb angol regényét tarthatja kezében az olvasó. A Peculiar Ground (Különleges föld) Lucy Hughes-Hallett lélegzetelállító, ambiciózus, gyönyörű és időtlen regénye vadőrökről és kurtizánokról, agitátorokról ésarisztokratákról, szerelmi zsengékről és az erő, az idős kor pátoszáról és nem mellesleg arról, hogyan építünk falakat magunk köré, hogy kizárjunk másokat és ezzel abba a hamis illúzióba ringatjuk magunkat, hogy megoldottuk a problémát és a kívülrőljövők nem jelentenek majd fenyegetést.Wychwood egy zárt világ. Még a messzi 17. században épült egy nagy ház, melyet fallal vettek körül. Ez lett az alapja annak a városnak, melyet Mr. Norris tervezett. Egy mesterséges település dísztavakkal, hatalmas sugárutakkal. Egy világ, ahol mindenkimenedéket találhat, akinek van valami rejtegetni valója. Van, aki évtizedekkel a polgárháború után húzta itt meg magát, ahol az erdőben törvényen kívüliek bujkálnak és a titkos kerti zugokban, csalitosokban szerelmesek időznek a kíváncsi szemek elől. Avárosnak időről időre meg kell küzdenie a kívülről behatolókkal, mint a nagy járványok idején a városokból menekülőkkel...Évszázadokkal később egy újabb falat emelnek, amely az egész világot megváltoztatja. Felépítik a berlini falat, amely kettészakítja a német fővárost. Mindeközben Wychwoodban, egy forró, bágyadt hétvégén erotikus eseményeket árnyékol be a történelmi hír.Egy kislány Nell, azonban mindent megfigyel és feljegyez.Nell felnő és a várost ellepik a kívülállók. Zenei fesztivált rendeznek a tóparton, a tévések ellepik az étkezőt és a Great Storm (így nevezik azt az 1987-es trópusi vihart, mely a Vizcaya-öböltől kiindulva végigsöpört Franciaországon aCsatorna-szigeteken és Nagy Britannián, több halálos áldozatot követelve) csak készülődik... Ám egy fal sem áll örökké. A berlini falat is ledöntötték. Felhangzik a fatva hangja is. Újabb probléma. Wychwoodban ismét menekültek keresnek oltalmat...It is the 17th century and a wall is being built around a great house. Wychwood is an enclosed world, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, landscape-maker. A world where everyone has something to hide after decades of civilwar, where dissidents shelter in the forest, lovers linger in secret gardens, and migrants, fleeing the plague, are turned away from the gate.Three centuries later, another wall goes up overnight, dividing Berlin, while at Wychwood, over one hot, languorous weekend, erotic entanglements are shadowed by news of historic change. A little girl, Nell, observes all.Nell grows up and Wychwood is invaded. There is a pop festival by the lake, a TV crew in the dining room and a Great Storm brewing. As the Berlin wall comes down, a fatwa signals a different ideological faultline and a refugee seeks safety in Wychwood.From the multi-award-winning author of The Pike comes a breathtakingly ambitious, beautiful and timely novel about game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats, about young love and the pathos of aging, and about how those who wall others out riskfinding themselves.

It is a selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversityof Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here arestories lyrical and savage

This is a unique collection of plays from the early modern or English Renaissance period, bringing together four key examples of 'domestic' drama, inaugurated in about 1590 by The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham. Each of the plays sheds fascinating light on contemporary English society in their handling of issues such as marriage, crime, and property, involving adultery, murder, witchcraft and the obligations of friendship. All the texts are edited to modern standards from the earliest surviving copies, with explanatory notes and a glossary. A critical introdution outlines the ways in which all four plays raise complex questions about the English society in which their tragic events unfold. A chronology details the history of the plays and their genre from sources to recent stage history. Two appendices supply new analysis of scholarly issues relating to two of the plays: who wrote Arden of Faversham and when did Heywood write The English Traveller.Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English TravellerIn about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic'drama, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage, crime, and property rather than war and power. Arden dramatizes a notorious murder case of forty years earlier, in which a wealthy husband was killed by his wife and herlover.In Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, a wife is caught by her husband in bed with his best friend, only to find that he takes unusual reprisals. The Witch of Edmonton combines a true-life story of witchcraft with a fictitious tale of bigamyand wife-murder, and The English Traveller deals with the unexpected and unwelcome changes people find when they return home after a lengthy absence.Part of the Oxford English Drama series, this edition has modern-spelling texts

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.'Dramatic and powerful in its scope, Othello explores the perils of suspicion and jealousy and the ensuing breakdown of relationships and disaster that can arise from such emotions. Othello, a revered soldier, secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of aVenetian senator, but is led to believe that she has been unfaithful to him by his ensign, Iago, leading to tragic events.

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.'For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune norconnections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerouslysusceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men.Through her heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, Jane Austen offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive.

Senalada como ®catedral gótica del lenguaje¯, este clásico del siglo XX es el enorme y espléndido tapiz de la saga de la familia Buendía, en la mítica aldea de Macondo.

The Pastoral verse steeped in wit and nostalgia, from one of ancient Rome's greatest poets.

Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride overVictorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage

The face was quite unfamiliar to her, and yet not strange. She had not known till this moment what face to expect'.A Clergyman's Daughter is George Orwell's least well-known, most unappreciated novel. Drawing on his experiences as a hop-picker, teacher,and urban vagrant, it tells the peculiar story of Dorothy Hare, the daughter of the Rector of St Athelstan's in thefictional town of Knype Hill. Unacknowledged by her absent-minded father and gossiped about by his rheumatic parishioners, Dorothy issuddenly and traumatically catapulted into the unknown. She wakes up in London, her memory temporarily gone

Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novelsupervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect.

*A new edition of a much-loved classic, Elizabeth Gaskell's comic portrayal of a Victorian small town dominated by women.*Dinah Birch's introduction reflects recent revaluations of Gaskell's work, focusing on Gaskell's response to social change as it transformed the lives of provincial women, and the growing recognition that Cranford is much more than the gently charmingcomedy that is was once taken to be.*Includes two related short stories, 'The Cage at Cranford' and 'The Last Generation in England'.*An appendix includes a selection of extracts from Dickens, Dinah Craik, Wilkie Collins, Ruskin and other contemporary novelists and social commentators on the coming of the railway, banking failures, household management, fashion, Oriental entertainersand the novel's first reviewers to ilustrate the diverse contexts in which Cranford took its place.*Up-to-date bibliography and expanded notes.New to this edition*Introduction by Dinah Birch.*Up-to-date bibliography.*Revised chronology.*Explanatory Notes by Dinah Birch.*Appendix of contemporary responses to the novel and contemporary comment on household management, costume, financial and commercial controversies relevant to the text.*Reset Gaskell text.'A man ... is so in the way in the house!'A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by the railway andby new commercial practices, the ladies of Cranford respond to disruption with both suspicion and courage. Miss Matty and her sister Deborah uphold standards and survive personal tragedy and everyday dramas

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.'After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first, things soon descend into chaos and Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to stopHyde. Stevenson's quintessential novella of the Victorian era epitomizes the conflict between psychology, science and religious morality, but is fundamentally a triumphant study of the duality of human nature.

Better mad with the crowd than sane all aloneIn these witty Machiavellian aphorisms unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracian shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion Introducing Little BlackClassics 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden ofblossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16thcentury California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage poems epic and intimate essays satirical and inspirational and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsA seventeenth-century Spanish priest's shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.'When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon, and Queen Titania, are feuding over ownership of a young Indian prince. Seeking his revenge on Titania, Oberon and hisservant Puck begin a magical, yet farcical chain of events where all become interwoven in a comedic and mischievous play about the difficulties of love.

The most up-to-date critical edition availableBleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's laternovels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed.Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of theearliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket. And it is a fable about redemption, in which a bleak house is transformed by the resilience of human love.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Students of English Literature from A-level through to postgraduate level.

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride overVictorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...'Victor Frankenstein's monster is stitched together from the limbs of the dead, taken from 'the dissecting room and the slaughter-house'. The result is a grotesque being who, rejected by his maker and starved of human companionship, sets out on a journeyto seek his revenge. In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness.Begun when Mary Shelley was only eighteen years old and published two years later, this chilling tale of a young scientist's desire to create life - and the consequences of that creation - still resonate today.