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Verlag: Alma Books Ltd. Nov 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1847497748ISBN 13: 9781847497741
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer.'Under the pseudonyms of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins set off on a walking tour of the north-west of England, reporting back on their adventures for Dickens's magazine Household Words.A unique insight into the friendship of two of the towering figures of Victorian literature, and featuring a pair of chilling ghost stories from the leading exponents of the genre, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices is a charming evocation of the adventures they experienced on their trip and the gently mocking nature of their relationship. 128 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Alma Books Ltd. Nov 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1847497756ISBN 13: 9781847497758
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing littérateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of self-delusion, spurred on by Gaia's succession of ruses.In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo - who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age - parodies elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological portrait of a person who has lost touch with reality. 128 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Alma Books Ltd. Nov 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1847497276ISBN 13: 9781847497277
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the beautiful and enigmatic woman who has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. He is swift to befriend her and steadfastly refutes the local gossip calling her character and behaviour into question, yet he soon has cause to regret his infatuation, and grave doubts and misgivings begin to arise in his mind. It is only when Helen presents Gilbert with her diary and instructs him to read it that the shocking truth about her past life becomes clear.The first edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was so successful that it sold out in weeks, yet the novel was mired in controversy for its fierce defence of women's rights and what many contemporary critics viewed as its shocking and immoral subject matter. 429 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Alma Books Ltd Nov 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1847497489ISBN 13: 9781847497482
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'There was an Old Derry down Derry,Who loved to see little folks merry;So he made them a Book,And with laughter they shookAt the fun of that Derry down Derry.'First published in 1846 under the pseudonym 'Old Derry down Derry', A Book of Nonsense is a collection adapted from the limericks and illustrations Edward Lear created to amuse the grandchildren of Lord Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, while he was staying with the family at Knowsley Hall. Embodying Lear's passion for nonsense, the limericks, each accompanied by one of Lear's beguiling original illustrations, are fun, lyrical, lively and hilarious, and have enchanted children and adults since their first appearance in the middle of the nineteenth century. 128 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Alma Books Ltd Nov 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1847497470ISBN 13: 9781847497475
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In response to the dire economic conditions in eighteenth-century Ireland, A Modest Proposal ironically exhorts the poor to provide their offspring as food to the rich. Skilfully applying a wealth of classical rhetorical techniques, Swift's satirical tour de force takes a savage swipe at the selfishness of the ruling classes and the heartlessness of the various utilitarian solutions put forward by contemporary thinkers.In addition to this seminal piece, this volume includes other humorous and polemical writings - which, taken together, provide an invaluable introduction to Swift as a master satirist and pamphleteer. 128 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Alma Books Ltd Nov 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1847497632ISBN 13: 9781847497635
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on 'subtle and mighty opium'. At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater hauntingly evokes frightful scenes and phantasmagorical night-time wanderings, while reality, dream and memory blur and intertwine in a nebulous and protean haze.Published anonymously in The London Magazine, the Confessions were an immediate success, and soon speculation was rife as to the identity of the mysterious Opium-Eater. The work, which introduced the literary world to De Quincey's unique 'impassioned prose', is now widely deemed to be De Quincey's masterpiece. 160 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Alma Books Ltd Nov 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0714548510ISBN 13: 9780714548517
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on the eve of his execution by a firing squad, who is told he will be spared if he can betray the whereabouts of a fellow Republican. This leads him to question his cause and his loyalty, as the mental torment that he and two other inmates endure unfolds in unflinching detail.This collection, which also includes 'The Bedoom', 'Herostratus' and 'Intimacy' - short psychological tales in which individuals grapple with questions of madness, sexuality and death - as well as 'The Childhood of a Leader', the extended chronicle of a young man's emotional deterioration and embrace of Fascism, provides a fascinating and accessible introduction to the author who would become the figurehead of Existentialism. 224 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Alma Books Ltd Nov 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1847497624ISBN 13: 9781847497628
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family's fall from grace and loss of status, the narrative focuses on his love for Liza, the daughter of a senior civil servant, his rivalry with the dashing Prince N. and his ensuing humiliation. These pages helped establish the archetype of the 'superfluous man', a recurring figure in nineteenth-century Russian literature.First published in 1850, 'The Diary of a Superfluous Man' was initially censored by the authorities, as some of its passages were deemed too critical of Russian society. This volume also includes two other masterly novellas, also touching on the theme of disappointed love: 'Asya' and 'First Love'. 224 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Alma Books Ltd Nov 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0714548596ISBN 13: 9780714548593
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Robbe-Grillet's first novel, written in 1949 and published in 1979, is a satirical and avant-garde political thriller paving the way for the Nouveau Roman. 224 pp. Englisch.