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  • In Their Own Words

    Practices of Quotation in Early Medieval History-Writing

    by Jeanette Beer ...
    In Their Own Words examines early medieval history-writing through quotation practices in five works, each in some way the first of its kind. Nithard’s Historiae de dissensionibus filiorum Ludovici Pii is extraordinary for its quotation of vernacular oaths, the first recorded piece of French. The Gesta Francorum is the first eye-witness account of the First Crusade. Geoffrey of Villehardouin’s La ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

    Edited by Janet Beer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 1

    Henry James, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde by their Contemporaries

    by Ralph Pite, Janet Beer, Jane Spirit, Elizabeth Nolan, Sarah Annes ...
    Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 2

    Henry James, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde by their Contemporaries

    by Ralph Pite, Elizabeth Nolan, Janet Beer, Sarah Annes, Jane Spirit ...
    Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • House Of Mirth

    by Janet Beer, Pamela Knights, Elizabeth Nolan ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by the success of recent film adaptations, it is also an enduring tale of love, ambition and social ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The House of Mirth

    by Edith Wharton ...
    One of Edith Wharton’s most accomplished social satires, this novel tells the story of the beautiful but impoverished New York socialite Lily Bart, whose refusal to compromise in her search for a husband leads to her exclusion from polite society. In charting the course of Lily’s life and downfall, Wharton also provides a wider picture of a society in transition, a milieu in which old certainties, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • How to Suppress Women's Writing

    by Joanna Russ ...
    Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • House of Mirth

    by Edith Wharton ...
    In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis. ... Read more

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  • Selected Novels Of Edith Wharton

    The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Madame de Treymes

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Immerse yourself in the lives of the social elite with Edith Wharton’s timeless stories. The Selected Novels of Edith Wharton includes the best-known of the author’s works: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and Madame de Treymes.A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Wharton drew on her experiences as part of society to critique its inner workings and the conflict between personal ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Summer

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Can't you see that I don't care what anybody says?' Charity Royall lives in the small New England village of North Dormer. Born among outcasts from the Mountain beyond, she is rescued by lawyer Royall and lives with him as his ward. Never allowed to forget her disreputable origins Charity despises North Dormer and rebels against the stifling dullness of the tight-knit community surrounding her. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Susan Sellers ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes ... Read more

    $28.69 USD