The Island of Sheep (1936), John Buchan's last thriller, features the return of Richard Hannay, the hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, and The Three Hostages. A long-lost comrade, a key to buried treasure, and a blood-feud jolt Hannay out of his comfortable but boring retirement. Remembering an oath sworn long ago under an African moon, he agrees to help the son of a former acquaintance seek refuge from a diabolical conspiracy. The action moves from England through the Scottish Borders to the Island of Sheep in the remote Norlands, where Hannay and his friends turn at last to confront the villains. Memorable for its vivid evocations of place, the novel reflects upon its own position at the end of Buchan's career, and at the end of a modern Scottish tradition of adventure romances. This is the first critical edition of The Island of Sheep, with extensive notes and an introduction exploring the novel's themes and preoccupations in relation to Buchan's previous works.

The Island of Sheep (Oxford World's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Duncan, Ian

Buchan, John.

Classics

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Canadian Investigations: Civics and Citizenship is an invitation to rich discoveries inside and outside of school. Your inquiry into the thought-provoking questions and ideas in this resources will help to uncover a new understanding of Canada and what is means to be a Canadian citizen.\nThere are two resources: the Student book and the Investigations Online Website. These are the tools you can use to ask questions; gather, analyze, and evaluate resources; and draw your own evidence-based conclusions.

Civics and Citizenship Student Book

Politics & Social Sciences

Bolotta, Angelo

Donaldson, Chelsea

Keirstead, Marc

Sociology

Oxford University Press

Civics and Citizenship Course Guide

Civics and Citizenship Student Bundle: Student Book + 1-Year Single-User Student Website License

'Your bed shall be the moorcock's, and your life shall be like the hunted deer's, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.' Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. Their unlikely friendship is put to the test as they dodge government troops across the Scottish Highlands. Set in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, Kidnapped transforms the Romantic historical novel into the modern thriller. Its heart-stopping scenes of cross-country pursuit, distilled to a pure intensity in Stevenson's prose, have become a staple of adventure stories from John Buchan to Alfred Hitchcock and Ian Fleming. Kidnapped remains as exhilarating today as when it was first published in 1886. This new edition is based on the 1895 text, incorporating Stevenson's last thoughts about the novel before his death. It includes Stevenson's 'Note to Kidnapped', reprinted for the first time since 1922. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Kidnapped (Oxford Worlds Classics)

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

Humor & Satire

Modern Romance examines the relationship between the revival of romance form and the ascendancy of the novel in British literary culture, from 1760 to 1850. The revival of romance as the literary embodiment of a national cultural identity provided a metaphor for the 'authenticity' of the novel itself, set against the changing formations of modern life. The material conditions, cultural status and formal repertoire of prose fiction were given a canonical transformation, leading to the form's nineteenth-century heyday, in Scott's Waverley novels. Ian Duncan's illuminating and innovative study begins with the first identification of modern prose fiction with romance form in the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel, and moves through Scott's highly influential dialectical blend of romance and history, to his relations with his successor in the role of national author, Charles Dickens.

Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of national historical life.
 Duncan traces the rise of a cultural nationalist ideology and the ascendancy of Scott's Waverley novels in the years after Waterloo. He argues that the key to Scott's achievement and its unprecedented impact was the actualization of a realist aesthetic of fiction, one that offered a socializing model of the imagination as first theorized by Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume. This aesthetic, Duncan contends, provides a powerful novelistic alternative to the Kantian-Coleridgean account of the imagination that has been taken as normative for British Romanticism since the early twentieth century. Duncan goes on to examine in detail how other Scottish writers inspired by Scott's innovations--James Hogg and John Galt in particular--produced in their own novels and tales rival accounts of regional, national, and imperial history.
 Scott's Shadow illuminates a major but neglected episode of British Romanticism as well as a pivotal moment in the history and development of the novel.

Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Literature in History)

Princeton University Press

Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of national historical life.  Duncan traces the rise of a cultural nationalist ideology and the ascendancy of Scott's Waverley novels in the years after Waterloo. He argues that the key to Scott's achievement and its unprecedented impact was the actualization of a realist aesthetic of fiction, one that offered a socializing model of the imagination as first theorized by Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume. This aesthetic, Duncan contends, provides a powerful novelistic alternative to the Kantian-Coleridgean account of the imagination that has been taken as normative for British Romanticism since the early twentieth century. Duncan goes on to examine in detail how other Scottish writers inspired by Scott's innovations--James Hogg and John Galt in particular--produced in their own novels and tales rival accounts of regional, national, and imperial history.  Scott's Shadow illuminates a major but neglected episode of British Romanticism as well as a pivotal moment in the history and development of the novel.

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science
The 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature to one that changes over time. In Human Forms, Ian Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses―even as the two were separating into distinct domains.
Duncan focuses on several crisis points: the contentious formation of a natural history of the human species in the late Enlightenment; the emergence of new genres such as the Romantic bildungsroman; historical novels by Walter Scott and Victor Hugo that confronted the dissolution of the idea of a fixed human nature; Charles Dickens's transformist aesthetic and its challenge to Victorian realism; and George Eliot's reckoning with the nineteenth-century revolutions in the human and natural sciences. Modeling the modern scientific conception of a developmental human nature, the novel became a major experimental instrument for managing the new set of divisions―between nature and history, individual and species, human and biological life―that replaced the ancient schism between animal body and immortal soul.
The first book to explore the interaction of European fiction with "the natural history of man" from the late Enlightenment through the mid-Victorian era, Human Forms sets a new standard for work on natural history and the novel.

Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution

History & Criticism

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The Island of Sheep (Oxford World's Classics)

Civics and Citizenship Student Book

Civics and Citizenship Course Guide

Civics and Citizenship Student Bundle: Student Book + 1-Year Single-User Student Website License

Kidnapped (Oxford Worlds Classics)

Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens

Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens

Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Literature in History)

Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Literature in History)

Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution