Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America s post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the h
London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution are the setting of this suspense-filled classic focusing on the physical resemblence of Sidney Carton and Charles Darney & their love for Lucy Manette.
The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Virginia Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent.
Moby Dick ; The Confidence Man ; The Piazza Tales ; Billy Budd
This unique critical text is taken from the Clarendon edition, based on the manuscript and collated with Hardy's later. revisions. -;'She looked absolutely pure.
Tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene as she is courted and married to three different men and relates the consequences that result when Michael Merchard sells his wife and daughter
This novel uses the hero, Deronda, to come to terms with the English Jews, a society-within-a-society.
Hardy's novel about the trials of a poor stonemason excoriates convention -- particularly the institutions of marriage, religion, and education -- in a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.