This time the fiction is founded upon facts' stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status o ... 続きを読む

Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband' ... 続きを読む

Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society. *ABOUT THE ... 続きを読む

Willa Cather's best-known novel, this new edition provides a critically up-to-date, contextualizing introduction and notes Includes both Cather's original and revised introductions to her novel ... 続きを読む

The only complete text in paperback, including all the marginal notes of the original, in original spelling. The first edition to include all the original illustrations to appear in edi ... 続きを読む

I have heard the supreme mystery, yoga, from Krishna, from the lord of yoga himself.' Thus ends the Bhagavad Gita, the most famous episode from the great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. In its eighte ... 続きを読む

A new edition of Alcott's highly autobiographical novel. Introduction gives a fascinating history of the Alcotts. Provides a biographical history of Louisa Alcott's own struggles as a writer. ... 続きを読む

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarr ... 続きを読む

It was not so much his great height that marked him ...it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.' Set against the bleak winter ... 続きを読む

Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for ... 続きを読む