The Portrait of a Lady (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

The Portrait of a Lady (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) PDF

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Royal Classics

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9781774761878

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The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who in affronting her destiny, finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. The story follows the free-spirited Isabel as she loses her freedom, despite suddenly coming into a great deal of money, and becomes ground in the very mill of the conventional. The Portrait of a Lady is one of James's most popular long novels, and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. Like many of James's novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of James's early period, this novel reflects James's continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, and betrayal. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

Jane Eyre (100 Copy Collector's Edition)

Jane Eyre (100 Copy Collector's Edition) PDF

Author: Charlotte Bronte

Publisher: Royal Classics

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781772268553

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Jane Eyre follows the emotions of its heroine and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action, the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry.

Wuthering Heights (100 Copy Limited Edition)

Wuthering Heights (100 Copy Limited Edition) PDF

Author: Emily Bronte

Publisher: SF Classic

Published: 2019-09-20

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781772267099

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Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront�'s only novel. When the novel was first released, it was considered controversial because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty was unusually stark, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day, including religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality.

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights PDF

Author: Emily Bronte

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature. A fiend of a book -- an incredible monster... The action is laid in hell, -- only it seems places and people have English names there. --Dante Gabriel Rossetti A monument of the most striking genius that nineteenth-century womanhood has given us. --Clement Shorter The greatest work of fiction by any man or woman Europe has produced to date. --Anthony Ludovici There is no "I" in 'Wuthering Heights'. There are no governesses. There are no employers. There is love, but it is not the love of men and women. Emily was inspired by some more general conception. The impulse which urged her to create was not her own suffering or her own injuries. She looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book. --Virginia Woolf

Hamnet

Hamnet PDF

Author: Maggie O'Farrell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-10-24

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1350455512

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'She's like no one I've ever met... She's like fire and water all at once.' Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. As William moves to London to discover his place in the world of theatre, Agnes stays at home to raise their three children but she is the constant presence and purpose of his life. When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born. This new play based on Maggie O'Farrell's best-selling novel and adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn), pulls back a curtain on the imagined family life of the greatest writer in the English language. Hamnet is a love letter to passion, birth, grief and the magic of nature. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the West End transfer of the original RSC production in October 2023.