Publicado por Brand: WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD, 1997
ISBN 10: 1853263680 ISBN 13: 9781853263682
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Good. This text includes all the names a classical studies student is likely to encounter and the mythological entries are illustrated by line drawings It covers the geography myths legends and characters of the classical world.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
ISBN 10: 1840225513 ISBN 13: 9781840225518
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. alternative cover edition, ISBN 1853260533 M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror.As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, Stories I Have Tried To Write, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are Casting the Runes, Oh, Whistle and Ill come to you, My Lad, The Tractate Middoth, The Ash Tree and Canon Alberics Scrapbook.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
ISBN 10: 1853263958 ISBN 13: 9781853263958
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly written overview of British monarchs from Cerdic, First King of Wessex, to George VI, is an invaluable guide to the regal chronology of Britain, and contains many insights into the foibles of one of the world's most interesting and resilient constitutional monarchies - through the vagaries of war, pestilence, regicide, civil wars and marriage.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Edition, 1999
ISBN 10: 1853267538 ISBN 13: 9781853267536
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition in this form. Book by Kohn, George C.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 1853260924 ISBN 13: 9781853260926
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. This work is a sometimes violent and brutal tale of love and betrayal, separation and reconciliation, set in the familiar Bronte landscape of bleak houses in moorland settings.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 1840223030 ISBN 13: 9781840223033
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Uncle Joe's ashes baked in a cake (Delicious!); Granny's corpse stolen along with the family car; sewers alive with alligators. all these alleged occurrences - and many, many others - are the stuff of urban legend; the extraordinary things that you're told happen to that elusive 'friend of a friend' (foaf); someone whom you can never pin down, however hard you try.Rodney Dale started collecting Urban Legends half a century ago - long before they were identified as such. This rich collection, with its introduction to the sorts of tales we tell, will enthral and amuse both casual browsers and students of contemporary lore.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Edition, 1998
ISBN 10: 1853264229 ISBN 13: 9781853264221
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. In his lifetime Longfellow was recognized as one of the America's great poets, though he became temporarily less fashionable after his death. A great admirer of the European tradition, he contributed greatly to the American intellectual life against the contemporary grain of isolationalism.
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Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
ISBN 10: 1853263842 ISBN 13: 9781853263842
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Book by Rogozinski, J.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2007
ISBN 10: 1840222476 ISBN 13: 9781840222470
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Although the Crimean War is best-known for the Charge of the Light Brigade and other disasters, the author of this work concentrates on the lessons learned by the British army and the successful responses made to the difficult conditions encountered during the campaign.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998
ISBN 10: 1853264903 ISBN 13: 9781853264900
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. While no collection of limericks can claim to be complete', The Wordsworth Book of Limericks contains an astonishing collection of over 1,800 verses - all of them comical, and a great number so far from cleanliness as to verge on the obscene. This is not a book for the prurient, but it will give enormous pleasure to all who relish the unique art-form of the limerick. Whether this book is kept by the bed or by the loo, perhaps buyers should ask themselves the question that Mervyn Griffith-Jones QC put to the Lady Chatterly jury in 1960: 'Is this a book you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?'
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 185326217X ISBN 13: 9781853262173
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Book by Galsworthy, J.
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Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Lt, 2006
ISBN 10: 1840225270 ISBN 13: 9781840225273
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Good. It is the autumn of 1888 Following the successful conclusion of the investigation into the affair of the Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have returned from Dartmoor little realising that fate will see them back in Devon before the year is out Holmes receives a potentially lethal package the first strand in the tangled skein which he will need to unravel before this new adventure is resolved A threat to Holmes life murders on Hampstead Heath and a strange phantom lady lead Holmes and Watson into the most dangerous investigation they have ever undertaken an encounter which brings them face to face with evil itself embodied in Count Dracula the Lord of the Undead.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
ISBN 10: 1840222115 ISBN 13: 9781840222111
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. This book concentrates on the English struggle to control French territory, the numerous battles, and the obscure, but important leaders who figured in them.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 1840220651 ISBN 13: 9781840220650
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. A richly entertaining and exciting collection of mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth who only had his own intelligence to rely on rather than a battery of scientific devices and procedures employed by the modern crime solver.<br /> Within these pages you will meet such fascinating sleuths as G.K. Chesterton's Mr Pond, Ernest Bramah's remarkable blind detective, Max Carrados, who can read newspapers by allowing his sensitive fingers to run over the print, Craig Kennedy, 'the American Sherlock Holmes' created by Arthur B. Reeve, and Jacques Futrelle's Professor S.F.X. Van Dusen, 'The Thinking Machine' amongst others. Tales by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle will thrill and puzzle you.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 1840225378 ISBN 13: 9781840225372
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. New edition. Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and ungrateful family. We are lucky that she did so, since among the results were these short stories of rare quality. In their use of dreams, ancient anecdote, and ruined or dilapidated buildings ('Florence Flannery', 'The Fair Hair of Ambrosine') they are at times in the finest tradition of The Castle of Otranto and the Gothic revival which had chilled the blood of the British public a hundred and fifty years earlier. But her stories are more subtle in their construction, and often use simple materials ('The Crown Derby Plate', Elsie's Lonely Afternoon'), interweaving their terror and mystery with the commonplace of everyday life. Their mastery of detail, sureness of expression and acute reading of human nature give them a sinister force, which is realistic and unnerving, yet at the same time tinged with pity and compassion.
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Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2005
ISBN 10: 1840220600 ISBN 13: 9781840220605
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Revised. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Bront's heroine is outwardly plain, she possesses an indomitable spirit, and great courage. Forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order which circumscribes her life when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic Mr Rochester.Villette is based on Charlotte Bront's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and cruel circumstances borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above the confinement of a rigid social order, it is also a story of a woman's right to love and be loved.Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront's wild, passionate tale 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, he leaves Wuthering heights. When he returns years later as a wealthy man, he proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.Agnes Grey, Ann Bront's deeply personal novel, is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall shows Ann Bront's bold, naturalistic and passionate style. It is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious 'tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Edition, 1995
ISBN 10: 1853262781 ISBN 13: 9781853262784
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. These two novels contain characters who are either representative types, or thinly veiled caricatures of Peacock's contemporaries, who gather in country houses to eat, drink and discuss. These tales poke fun at contemporary attitudes and ideas, such as the Romantic literary movement.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Edition, 1999
ISBN 10: 1840221070 ISBN 13: 9781840221077
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. In English-speaking countries, Rabelias has been seen as a forerunner of Swift, whose buffoonery masks incisive criticism of contemporary politics, religion and society. Sir Thomas Urquhart's 1635 translation does full justice to Rabelias' inventiveness and comic genius, and to the patchwork of style, tone and register which for a time alienated French readers conditioned by principles of clarity, precision and decorum. No such prejudice need deter the modern reader. Though of Renaissance France, these romances are extraordinarily modern in their parody of epic and chivalric tales, their blend of reality and surreal fantasy, their experimentation with fictional form, and their exuberant delight in the power of language to do more than tell a story. <i>Gargantua</i> and <i>Pantagruel</i> are not just bywords for comedy of disproportion and bawdiness. They are a challenge to received taste and a new departure in prose fiction.<br /><br />The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to everyone at an extremely affordable price.
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Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 1840225408 ISBN 13: 9781840225402
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. New Ed. Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948. She eloped at the age of nineteen, took up writing against her husband's wishes, and after his death became a protegee of Ambrose Bierce, whose influence can be seen here in those stories, The Dead and the Countess, Death and the Woman and The Striding Place, which have an overtly supernatural element. The Striding Place was rejected by one editor as 'far too gruesome', but was in Atherton's view 'the best short story I ever wrote' Elsewhere, The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number, The Tragedy of a Snob, and A Monarch of a Small Survey the psychological takes precedence over the supernatural. And in The Bell in the Fog (reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw, and dedicated to Henry James) the supernatural and psychological combine to brilliant effect: an angelic child bears a striking resemblance to an old portrait. Is she a reincarnation of her ancestor? And will she turn out as unangelic in adulthood as that distant ancestor turned out before her?.
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Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 1840222662 ISBN 13: 9781840222661
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. For hundreds of years, the public house in its many guises, from urban gin palace to wayside coaching inn, has been a charming and quintessential feature of British life, and hence the names and signs associated with pubs are a constant reminder of our history, cultural heritage, folklore and local identity. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pub Names is a fascinating compilation containing nearly five thousand absorbing entries and can be dipped into for fun or consulted on a serious level for intriguing and amusing information not readily available elsewhere.The local pub is an institution unique to the British Isles, but since English literature abounds with references to hostelries past and present, real and imagined, and no tourist's itinerary is complete without a visit to one or several on their route, its virtues are celebrated worldwide and readers everywhere will enjoy an affectionate and, perhaps, nostalgic browse through the pages of this entertaining dictionary.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
ISBN 10: 184022200X ISBN 13: 9781840222005
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. This book seeks to bring to life the heroic figure behind the age of Blenheim. The emphasis throughout is on the character and personality of John Churchill rather than on the general historical events of his life. Originally published by Eyre Methuen in 1974.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 1840224924 ISBN 13: 9781840224924
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. New Edition. May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. In her Uncanny Stories (1923), Sinclair combines the traditional ghost story with the discoveries of Freud and Einstein. The stories shock, enthral, delight and unsettle.Two lovers are doomed to repeat their empty affair for the rest of eternity. A female telepath is forced to face the consequences of her actions. The victim of a violent murder has the last laugh on his assailant. An amateur philosopher discovers that there is more to Heaven than meets the eye.Specially included in this volume is The Intercessor (1911), Sinclair's powerful story of childhood and abandoned love, a tale whose intensity compares with that of the Bronts.
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Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions, 2001
ISBN 10: 1840222492 ISBN 13: 9781840222494
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. First Thus. '"Scharnhorst" sunk by British naval forces 60 sea miles NW of North Cape, 26th December, 1943 at 19 hours 45' So ran the radio announcement that told the world of the end of the German battleship "Scharnhorst" The implications of this short message, in terms of human experience, remained unknown until the end of the war when the story was told by the few German survivors and the officers and men of the British Navy. While the epic of the final battle forms the core of his narrative, Fritz-Otto Busch also depicts life aboard the 32,000-ton warship and records her short, eventful history from her launching in 1939 to her fateful demise. He relates how "Scharnhorst" sank the British aircraft carrier "Glorious" in 1940, menaced Allied shipping in the Atlantic throughout 1941, and made her impudent, flaunting dash up the channel to the safety of the Norwegian fjords in 1942. Considered by her crew to be a "lucky ship", her luck ran out in 1943 when she found herself outnumbered in Arctic waters by superior Allied naval forces. The British ships were equipped with Radar, the "Scharnhorst" was not - a fatal disadvantage that was to prove decisive.
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Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 1853264466 ISBN 13: 9781853264467
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Good. Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd Date of Publication 1995 Binding soft cover Edition Condition Good Description 1853264466.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 1840221283 ISBN 13: 9781840221282
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Good. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled shot through the head and thrown into a pond His crime A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries from which he had become alienated Dostoevsky takes this reallife catastophe as the subject and culmination of Devils a title that refers to the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people in Russian society at the time The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries with their naivety ludicrous singlemindedness and readiness for murder and destruction might seem exaggerated until we consider their alltoorecognisable descendants in the real world ever since The key figure in the novel however is beyond politics Nikolay Stavrogin another product of rationalism run wild exercises his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime in a chapter long suppressed by the censor This prophetic account of modern morals and politics with its fiftyodd characters amazing events and challenging ideas is seen by some critics as Dostoevskys masterpiece.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2005
ISBN 10: 1840220619 ISBN 13: 9781840220612
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Lord Jim, first published in 1900, confirmed Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters. Set in the Malay Archipelago, not only does the novel provide a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental Province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressure?The Secret Agent, Conrad's story of espionage and anarchists, tells of Winnie Verloc and her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie. Its savagely witty themes of human absurdity and misunderstanding are written in an ironic style that provokes both laughter and unease.This volume also includes a selection of Conrad's matchless short stories - Youth, Typhoon, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether and The Shadow-Line.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 1840225289 ISBN 13: 9781840225280
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 'On top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: The Dead Travel Fast' In this rich collection of thirteen macabre tales, Bram Stoker, creator of the Gothic masterpiece, Dracula, and one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative, presents us with a weird and chilling variety of unsettling stories. Stoker's dramatic scenarios, from the opening tale of vampires, Dracula's Guest, which was omitted from the final version of Dracula, will thrill and engage the modern reader. In these pages you will encounter the devilishly dangerous haunted room in The Judge's House, the fatalistic tragedy in The Burial of the Rats, the terror of revenge from beyond the grave in The Secret of Growing Gold and the surprising twist in the tail in The Gypsy's Prophecy, amongst other strange and frightening episodes. This unique collection of Stoker's short fiction provides a feast for those who like to be unnerved as well as entertained.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2007
ISBN 10: 1840226110 ISBN 13: 9781840226119
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: new. With an Introduction by MJ ElliotThe sixteenthcentury Puritan Solomon Kane has a thirst for justice which surpasses common reason Sombre of mood clad in black and grey he never sought to analyse his motives and he never wavered once his mind was made up Though he always acted on impulse he firmly believed that all his actions were governed by cold and logical reasonings A hunger in his soul drove him on and on an urge to right all wrongs protect all weaker things and avenge all crimes against right and justiceImmune to the attractions of the opposite sex he seems drawn by some psychological distress beacon to places where he knows only that he will be called upon to defend the helpless or more often exact retribution on their behalf Himself a Christian possessed of enormous strength and skill in swordplay he yet has little hesitation in calling upon the assistance of his Voodoopractising friend N Longa when strength skill and Christian belief are not enough.
Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 1840225599 ISBN 13: 9781840225594
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Originally published as a biography of Thomas Hardy by Florence, his widow, this 'Life' is now known to have been essentially the work of Hardy himself. There has been much critical discussion of its hybrid status, and of Hardy's motives for contriving what some have seen as a deception.This controversy has tended to obscure a much more important issue - the oddity, attractiveness and diversity of the work in question. It does give an account of Hardy's life, from the very moment of birth when he was 'thrown aside as dead' till rescued by the midwife. But more than that it offers a wonderful miscellany of reminiscences, anecdotes, folk-tales, personal insights, diary entries and intriguing reflections on art in general and fiction and poetry in particular. It reveals a good deal about Hardy the man, and still more about Hardy the writer. No lover of his novels or poems should be without it.
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Publicado por Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
ISBN 10: 1853267864 ISBN 13: 9781853267864
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Book by Shakespeare, William.