First published in book form in 1885, William Dean Howells'stimeless epic of a self-made man, The Rise of Silas Lapham was thefirst important novel to center on the American businessman-and thefirst to treat its theme with a realism that was to foreshadow thework of modern writers.
Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. This book is a collection of stories, including - "A Scandal in Bohemia", "A Case of Identity", "The Red-Headed League" and "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". 作者简介 SIR ARTHUR CONAN COYLE(1859-1930).Best known as the creator of the brilliant amateur sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his side-kickn Dr Watson,Conan Doyle's stories,with their ingenious plots and wonderful sense of late-Victorian England ,are read the world over.
This title is compiled and introduced by M.J. Elliot. From theunsurpassed imagination of the creator of Conan, Robert E. Howard,here are twenty-one tales of suspense, high adventure andLovecraftian horror. Foul sacrifices are made to a reptilian God inHungary, a werewolf prowls the corridors of a castle in strife-tornAfrica, criminal masterminds on both sides of the Atlantic vie forworld domination, an enchanted ring exerts a terrible influenceupon its wearer...And, as written in the pages of the accursedNecronomicon and Unaussprechlichen Kulten, the Great Old Ones watchour world from beyond the void - and wait...
The love of a young British woman named Lucy Honeychurch for aBritish expatriate living in Italy is condemned by her stuffy,middle-class guardians, who prefer an eligible man of their ownchoosing. Publisher Comments: This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim proprietyamong an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italianpensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming youngEnglish woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellowBritisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza.Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitableand whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war withthe snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back inEngland she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor,and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that willdecide the course of her future: she is forced to choose betweenconvention and passion. The enduring delight of this tale ofromantic intrigue is rooted in
Harold Bloom begins his introduction to this text by claiming that nothing in language goes beyond The Tragedy of King Lear. This text includes a brief biography of William Shakespeare, thematic and structural analysis of the play, as well as a host of critical essays by some of the most prominent experts on the text. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer.
