The first new edition of A Clergyman's Daughter in over 30 years
Features a 10,000-word introduction exploring the novel's main themes and setting it in historical context.
Extensivel ... 続きを読む
Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great Plague of 1665 which continues to exert ... 続きを読む
'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.'
James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published i ... 続きを読む
Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.' Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began ... 続きを読む
Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.'
Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlas ... 続きを読む
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of t ... 続きを読む
Elizabeth Inchbald; J. M. S. Tompkins; Jane Spencer
ページ
384 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
129 x 195 mm
刊行日
2009年05月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of 'proper' womanly behaviour. Her love ... 続きを読む
The very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. His two creations, Holmes, the master of the science of detection and Watson, the gr ... 続きを読む
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A ... 続きを読む
Eliot's first full-length novel, Adam Bede paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, and redemption. This is the first edition based on Eliot's final revision of the nov ... 続きを読む
