Pages: 256

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 14 mm

Publication Date: 01-03-1992

This book includes an introduction and notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.

Pages: 224

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 13 mm

Publication Date: 01-05-1992

Pages: 288

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 13 mm

Publication Date: 01-09-1995

This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyam. Fitzgerald's masterful translation was first published as an anonymous pamphlet in 1859. Its colourful, exotic and remote imagery greatly appealed to the Victorian age's fascination with the Orient, while its luxurious sensual warmth acted as a striking counterpoint to the growth of scientific determinism, industrialisation and the soulless Darwinian doctrine of the survival of the fittest. Greatly praised by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin and William Morris, the romantic melancholy of the poem anticipates the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy, while its epicurean motifs link it to the Aesthetic Movement.

Pages: 112

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 6 mm

Publication Date: 01-08-1997

Pages: 176

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 6 mm

Publication Date: 01-02-1996

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 13 mm

Publication Date: 01-05-2001

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 13 mm

Publication Date: 01-09-1995

Pages: 288

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 17 mm

Publication Date: 01-11-1994

Pages: 192

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 9 mm

Publication Date: 01-01-1998

Pages: 288

Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 15 mm

Publication Date: 01-10-1995