James Joyce has been hailed as one of the great literary rebels of our time. He rebelled against social and literary conventions, against Catholicism, and against Dublin, the city at the center of this magnificent collection of stories.
James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life.
Published in 1939, 'Finnegans Wake' is Joyce's final masterpiece. Seventeen years in the writing, it represents the culmination of his experiments with literary form and language.
A modernist classic, 'Ulysses' is without doubt one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century. Loosely modelled on the wanderings of Homer's Ulysses as he journeyed toward wife, son and home in Ithaca, the novel follows the interwoven paths of..
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition.
Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and sacrifice builds a successful business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter.
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution; a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
Seit dem Unfalltod ihres Mannes hat sich die Journalistin Jennifer völlig von der Welt zurückgezogen. Erst die Nachricht, dass ihre geliebte Großmutter Sam im Koma liegt, reißt sie aus ihrer Erstarrung.
I Jan Guillous Ondskan beskrivs valdet i den svenska vardagen. Vi far följa huvudpersonen Eriks fostran i ondska fran hemmet med den sadistiske fadern till skolgarden med dess gängbildningar.
Une veuve spirituelle et jolie, mais sans un sou, trouve refuge chez son beau-frere, un riche banquier. Est-elle sans scrupules, prete a tout pour faire un beau mariage, ou juste une coquette qui veut s'amuser ?
Nebolshoj po obemu roman "Ljubov i druzhba", napisannyj Osten v pjatnadtsatiletnem vozraste, predstavljaet soboj parodiju na mnogoslovnye romanticheskie sochinenija, stol populjarnye v XVIII veke.
This edition of Persuasion provides depth and context for A Level students, with the complete novel in an easy to read format, and a detailed introduction and bespoke glossary written by an experienced A Level teacher with academic expertise in the area.
Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and amusement.
Was im Leben wichtig istAls der 14-jährige Pierre Anthon seine Klasse mit den Worten verlässt »Nichts bedeutet irgendetwas, deshalb lohnt es sich nicht, irgendetwas zu tun«, stehen seine Mitschüler unter Schock.