Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Dale Kramer

• Hardcover | Landmarks of World Literature
• This book offers a fresh approach to Hardy's novel, highlighting its modern qualities. Lees meer

James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

Greg Clingham

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and... Lees meer

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night

John Sturrock

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to... Lees meer

Conrad: Nostromo

Ian Watt

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this rea... Lees meer

Mann: Buddenbrooks

Hugh Ridley

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to... Lees meer

Constant: Adolphe

Dennis Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• Dr Wood traces in detail the frequently paradoxical development of themes and situations introduced in the opening chapters and lays stress on the nov... Lees meer

Sterne: Tristram Shandy

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• Without a beginning and without an end, Tristram Shandy moves in many different directions, defying the conventional expectations of its readers. Wolf... Lees meer

Eliot: Middlemarch

George Eliot

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• A comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch, offering both general information and an original interpretation. It pays considerable attention to the i... Lees meer

Racine: Phèdre

Edward D James, Gillian Jondorf

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This introductory study presents Racine's Phèdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its historical, literary and ... Lees meer

Byron: Don Juan

Anne Barton

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• In her introduction to this brilliant and outrageous literary landmark, Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron's life and reading, an... Lees meer

Rousseau, Confessions

Peter France

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This new textbook series is ambitious in scope. It will provide concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical anti... Lees meer

Swift: Gulliver's Travels

Howard Erskine-Hill

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in i... Lees meer

Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

Anthony Thorlby

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• Professor ThorIby offers a close reading of this classic novel and explores the subtle psychology in Tolstoy's characterisation. He avoids complex ter... Lees meer

The Bible

Stephen Prickett, Robert Barnes

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This study focuses on the Bible as a landmark of literature, showing both how it has influenced writers through the ages and how it in turn has been i... Lees meer

Gottfried Von Strassburg: Tristan

Mark Chinca

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This concise introduction to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan approaches the work both through its context and through a close reading of key passag... Lees meer

Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin

A D P Briggs

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This is a lively and readable guide to Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a landmark of European Romanticism, and arguably the best of ... Lees meer

Marcel Proust: Swann's Way

Sheila Stern

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• Swann's Way, published in 1913, is the first part of Proust's seven-part novel A la Recherche du temps perdu. The author's expansion, revision and cor... Lees meer

Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Michael Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967... Lees meer

Dickens: Bleak House

Graham Storey

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• Graham Storey explores Dickens's vital engagement with some of the most intractable social and political issues of his day, and shows how these are re... Lees meer

Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Dale Kramer

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• This book offers a fresh approach to Hardy's novel, highlighting its modern qualities. Dale Kramer reexamines the main characters and investigates Har... Lees meer

Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta

Harriet S Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands ... Lees meer

Wordsworth: The Prelude

Stephen Gill

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• An introduction to Wordsworth's greatest poem, its creation, historical context, structure and reception history. Stephen Gill places The Prelude in t... Lees meer

Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Swales Martin Swales

• Hardcover | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• Werther was an extraordinary and immediate bestseller both in Germany and abroad. Lees meer

Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Martin Swales

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks of World Literature
• The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse... Lees meer