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Ibsen's classic drama followed by three essays especially written for students of the play and exploring its most central themes. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. 'A Cool Million', written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes. Less well-known is Martin Hewitt, who uses logic and deduction to solve crimes. Arthur Morrison is more down-to-earth, more realistic than the world of Sherlock Holmes and Martin Hewitt is worthy of renewed interest.

Robert Graves was with Siegfried Sassoon when Sassoon threw his medal for bravery into the River Mersey in Liverpool to begin his protest at the tactics of the British Army in the First World War. Graves's own reputation as a war poet has waned, but at his best he matches the gruesomeness of Owen and the bitter sarcasm of Sassoon, while adding his own brand of mordant and sardonic wit. This book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the poetic response to the First World War. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

First published in 1917, this collection is full of typical Hardy poems, including several which record his response to the First World War. Thomas Hardy wrote in a great variety of poetic forms including lyrics, ballads, satire, dramatic monologues, and dialogue, and though in some ways a very traditional poet, because he was influenced by folksong and ballads, he "was never conventional," and "persistently experiment[ed] with different, often invented, stanza forms and metres and made use of "rough-hewn rhythms and colloquial dic-tion".

The companion volume to Will Jonson's first novel 'Keep it Dark'.

'Keep It Dark' might change the way you look back on the past. It is certainly a novel which defies genre. In 1964 when he is seven, Tommy sees his Uncle Jack sobbing copiously - and, as he grows up, spends the rest of his life finding out the reasons for Uncle Jack's tears. Tommy's odyssey takes him to Scotland, to Spain, to Poland and to Russia as he gradually peels away the layers of the past and discovers all that has been kept dark. He also learns about himself and copes with a tumultuous private life while piecing together his uncle's wartime experiences. This novel juxtaposes scenes from modern life in the UK with horrific descriptions of war in Spain, in Stalingrad during the Second World War, the Holocaust and then the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But it is not a war story: it's about lost love, the past, politics, fatherhood, betrayal, memory and even language itself. The strength and endurance of the human spirit shines through. It is an ambitious pan-European novel packed with literary allusions, but it tells a very simple human story about love and loss, suffering and redemption, and human resilience in the face of evil. It's a serious novel, but full of humour and jokes, and is an emotive story of lives blighted by history and separation which works on different levels. The juxtapositions of the chapters from Tommy's life with those from the past throw up some interesting and unexpected parallels. The structure of the whole novel is unique - reminiscent of 'Catch 22' and 'Small Island' - but very different from either. As Tommy himself might put it, "If you wanna get technical, and believe me, sunshine, I always DO wanna get technical, this is a bildungsroman that turns out to be a kunstlerroman. Un-bleeding-believable!" Nominated for the Goldsmiths Prize 2013. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Probably the greatest prose work of the English Romantic movement! De Quincy shows the extreme pains and exquisite pleasures of opium and being addicted to it.

This edition prints all three parts of Mark Rutherford's autobiographical writings together. The ''Early Life', 'Autobiography' and 'Deliverance' of 'Mark Rutherford' are a fictionalized autobiography (in three parts) by the Victorian civil servant and writer W. H. White. White wrote to help people with personalities like his own - self-educated intellectuals, lonely, oversensitive, depressive, and with poor self-esteem. Fortunately, he never descends into self-pity or sermonizing. His writing has long been admired for its extraordinary precision, poignancy and economy. This makes him one of the best of the late Victorian novelists, and a writer who rewards repeated re-reading.

Not a lot happens in D H Lawrence's 'A Collier's Friday Night' which is one of its chief glories. Eschewing the neat plot-turns and engineered debates of the writers he called the 'rule and measure mathematical folk' (Shaw, Galsworthy, Barker), the 24-year-old Lawrence effectively threw away the rulebook, and created out of the habitual Friday night activities of a miner's family (counting out the pay, courting, baking bread, etc) a lovely sense of the inconsequential drift of ordinary experience. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

The ''Early Life', Autobiography' and 'Deliverance' of 'Mark Rutherford' are a fictionalized autobiography (in three parts) by the Victorian civil servant and writer W. H. White. White wrote to help people with personalities like his own -- self-educated intellectuals, lonely, oversensitive, depressive, and with poor self-esteem. Fortunately, he never descends into self-pity or sermonizing. His writing has long been admired for its extraordinary precision, poignancy and economy. This makes him one of the best of the late Victorian novelists, and a writer who rewards repeated re-reading. George Orwell described 'Mark Rutherford's Deliverance' as 'one of the best novels written in English'.

The ''Early Life', Autobiography' and 'Deliverance' of 'Mark Rutherford' are a fictionalized autobiography (in three parts) by the Victorian civil servant and writer W. H. White. White wrote to help people with personalities like his own -- self-educated intellectuals, lonely, oversensitive, depressive, and with poor self-esteem. Fortunately, he never descends into self-pity or sermonizing. His writing has long been admired for its extraordinary precision, poignancy and economy. This makes him one of the best of the late Victorian novelists, and a writer who rewards repeated re-reading.

This anthology is likely to appeal to all lovers of poetry, but will be of particular interest for students of AQA A Level English Literature A, containing as it does a wealth of wider reading and all the pre-1900 poets set for study and many others. Perfect for immersing yourself in pre-1900 love poetry.

Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867 - 23 February 1900) was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer, often associated with the Decadent movement. The poems collected here contain many poems full of fi-de-siècle world-weariness and melancholic pessimism. Dowson's work clearly shows the influence of the poetry of the French poets - Verlaine, Rimbaud and Baudelaire.

Set in Europe during the Protestant Reformation, 'St. Leon' relates the travails of an impoverished French aristocrat, Count Reginald de St. Leon, who obtains the philosopher's stone and the elixir of immortality, elixir vitae, from a mysterious stranger named Francesco Zampieri. In this philosophical fable, endless riches and immortal life prove to be curses rather than gifts and transform St. Leon into an outcast. St. Leon becomes an alchemist who can create gold and who possesses immortal life. As a result, his son Charles rejects him, he is separated from his daughters, and his wife Marguerite de Damville becomes impoverished and dies. He is the target of German authorities and the Spanish Inquisition. He also encounters a Hungarian misanthrope named Bethlem Gabor. William Godwin's second Gothic novel explores the predicament of a would-be philanthropist whose attempts to benefit humanity are frustrated by superstition and ignorance. The novel explores the themes of immortality, the domestic affections, and alchemy. The novel is a radical experiment in fictional genres. Into a historical novel of vast range and violence Godwin melded elements of the domestic novel, the philosophical novel, and the scientific fantasy. More relentlessly than the earlier 'Caleb Williams', this novel tests Godwin's philosophical premises to destruction, showing the importance-and failure-of family affections and the disintegration of effective social responsibility. Please note that this is NOT a facsimile but a modern edition of this great novel.

Il Canzoniere ('Rime Sparsi') consta di 366 componimenti (il primo proemiale, poi uno per ogni giorno dell'anno) attraverso i quali il Petrarca ricostruisce la sua biografia sentimentale, poetica e spirituale. Ruolo essenziale nell'opera ha Laura, la donna amata dal poeta, dapprima viva, poi dopo la morte trasfigurata in una dimensione soprannaturale. Il poeta muove dalla Vita nuova dantesca per superare lo stilnovismo da un lato recuperando l'esperienza della poesia latina, dall'altro irrobustendo il linguaggio lirico duecentesco alla luce delle soluzioni stilistiche ed espressive offerte dalla Commedia di Dante. Al motivo amoroso si intreccia strettamente quello morale e religioso, dallo stato di dispersione iniziale alla ricomposizione finale nel nome della Vergine, tra stati di angoscia e di speranza, di prostazione e di esaltazione. Per il carattere selettivo della lingua, l'uniformità delle soluzioni stilistiche e metriche, la varietà delle situazioni amorose descritte, il Canzoniere petrarchesco diverrà già nel corso del Quattrocento e poi nei secoli avvenire il modello di tutta la tradizione lirica italiana e europea. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

This edition contains all Blake's shorter poems which were not included in 'Poetical Sketches' or 'The Songs of Innocence and of Experience'. Most were found in his notebooks and papers after his death. Togther they offer a fascinating insight into his radical views and his, often scathing, opinions about his contemporaries. All the poems from the famous Pickering manuscript and from the Rossetti manuscript are included.

In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the "divine right" of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems as a mystic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Tolstoy's stories embody this principle.

Para su primer libro poético, Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) poda ramas y follaje de su frondoso árbol lírico, como él gustaba decir, y entrega a la imprenta la colección más amplia de las que publicó El sentimental, vehemente, irónico Libro de poemas' (1921) registra los mundos de introspección del joven poeta con plasticidad metafórica y desgarrado acento elegíaco

Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In 'Captain Brassbound's Conversion', an expedition in Morocco is saved from disaster by a lady explorer's skilful manipulation of the truth.

As a diplomat in Renaissance Europe, and a luminary at the court of Henry VII, Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote in an incestuous world where everyone was uneasily subject to the royal whims and rages. Wyatt had himself survived two imprisonments in the Tower as well as an alleged love affair with Anne Boleyn, and his poetry - that of an extraordinarily sophisticated, passionate and vulnerable man - reflects these experiences, making disguised reference to current political events. Above all, though, Wyatt is known for his love poetry, which often dramatizes incidents and remembered conversations with his beloved, with an ear acutely sensitive to patterns of rhythm and colloquial speech. Conveying the actuality of betrayal or absence, and the intense pressure of his longing for a love that could be trusted, these are some of the most haunting love poems in the English language.

Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms - Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story - to turn received wisdom upside down. Set during the American War of Inde-pendence, 'The Devil's Disciple' exposes fake Puritanism and piety.

This early work by Lebanese-American Poet Kahlil Gibran contains a collection of beautiful verse and prose in the romantic style for which he is famed. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for all those interested in the poetry of the human condition and the wonders of being alive. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

'Birds, Beasts and Flowers' (1923) was the volume that Lawrence himself described as his best collection of poetry. Composed in various locations during his exile - in Italy, France, Germany and the United States-this long collection occupies a crucial place in the development of his poetry and is that most unusual of creations: a masterpiece of modernist nature writing and a masterful exploration of the possibilities of free verse.

A brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition, 'The Europeans', one of James's most popular and optimistic novels, has at its center an expatriated American raised in Europe who, determined to find a new husband, flees from her crumbling marriage and travels to Boston with her younger brother. James presents the clash between European sophistication and New World innocence perfectly.

Davidson is hardly remembered today and part of the thinking behind this slim collection of his very best poems is to try to make his work available to readers in the 21st century. His poetry is often classified as fin de siècle and, as a result, his work often finds its way into anthologies alongside Oscar Wilde. There is a world-weary tone to some of his poems, but, as a label, fin de siècle does not really do justice to his best work - which influenced many avowedly modernist poets. At their best his poems display a sensitivity to ordinary life and a consciousness of class and a compassion for ordinary people, delivered in a fresh and arresting voice. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Chekhov is renowned as the greatest short story writer the world has ever known. Here is the first volume of an exciting project to print all Chekhov's stories in the order in which they were originally published in Russia. This edition should prove fascinating for the general reader, and an invaluable aid for scholars seeking to trace the development of Chekhov as a short story writer

Un nobile del primo '900 prende parte ad una mascherata in costume nella quale impersona Enrico IV; alla messa in scena prendono parte anche Matilde Spina, donna di cui è innamorato, ed il suo rivale in amore Belcredi. Quest'ultimo disarciona Enrico IV che nella caduta batte la testa e si convince di essere realmente il personaggio storico che stava impersonando. La follia dell'uomo viene assecondata dai servitori che il nipote di Nolli mette al suo servizio per alleviare le sue sofferenze; dopo 12 anni Enrico guarisce e comprende che Belcredi lo ha fatto cadere intenzionalmente per rubargli l'amore di Matilde, che poi si è sposata con Belcredi ed è fuggita con lui. Decide così di fingere di essere ancora pazzo, di immedesimarsi nella sua maschera per non voler vedere la realtà dolorosa. Dopo 20 anni dalla caduta, Matilde, in compagnia di Belcredi, della loro figlia e di uno psichiatra vanno a trovare Enrico IV. Lo psichiatra è molto interessato al caso della pazzia di Enrico IV, che continua a fingersi pazzo, e dice che per farlo guarire si potrebbe provare a ricostruire la stessa scena di 20 anni prima e di ripetere la caduta da cavallo. La scena viene così allestita, ma al posto di Matilde recita la figlia. Enrico IV si ritrova così di fronte la ragazza, che è esattamente uguale alla madre Matilde da giovane, la donna che Enrico aveva amato e che ama ancora. Ha così uno slancio che lo porta ad abbracciare la ragazza, ma Belcredi, il suo rivale, non vuole che sua figlia sia abbracciata da Enrico IV e si oppone. Enrico IV sguaina così la spada e trafigge Belcredi ferendolo a morte: per sfuggire definitivamente alla realtà "normale" (in cui tra l'altro sarebbe stato imprigionato e processato), decide di fingersi pazzo per sempre. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

The most famous sonnet cycle in world literature now in a French prose translation. Le plus célèbre cycle de sonnet dans la littérature mondiale maintenant dans une traduction en prose française.

Sidney's sonnet cycle, consisting of 100 sonnets, followed by 11 Songs, is, after Shakespeare's, the finest sonnet cycle in the English language. Sidney explores all the aspects of what it means to be in love and does so in language that is memorable and striking. All lovers of poetry will enjoy exploring this classic work from the Elizabethan era. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk