Persuasion

Jane, Austen

Signet Classics

Gulliver's Travels

Literature & Fiction

Jonathan, Swift

Classics

1st edition Corgi 1977 paperback, vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Again Dangerous Visions Book 1

Ellison, Harlan (editor)

Short Stories & Anthologies

It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds. Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It would seem that they could take up the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it though, the pair are summoned to the Old Bailey to testify against a young Frenchman — Charles Darnay — falsely accused of treason. Strangely enough, Darnay bears an uncanny resemblance to another man in the courtroom, the dissolute lawyer's clerk Sydney Carton. It is a coincidence that saves Darnay from certain doom more than once. Brilliantly plotted, the novel is rich in drama, romance, and heroics that culminate in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”, those days in which your English Literature professor ordered you to read “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. You were immediately confounded by the perplexity of the story and confused by the language of the times. In your despair, you struggled, endeavored and persevered to reach the conclusion of the classic novel. Having satisfactorily completed the requirements of that difficult semester, you vowed to never again read classic English literature. As the years accumulated, you garnered wisdom and spirituality as you aged and you gathered far greater literary acumen. Your mind was transformed and you began to yearn for the great stories that could only be told by the true masters. Anon, you found yourself immersed in the incredible classic writings of Charles Dickens. For no one could so completely transport you to the mean filthy streets of Oliver Twist’s London or the horror and dread of The Reign of Terror in that unfortunate tale of London and Paris in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. No other writer could place you so deeply into the mind of a tyrannical boss such as Ebenezer Scrooge or imbue the viciousness of a violent revolutionary the likes of Madame Defarge. Contemporary writers only wish they had the amazing ability to create magnificent unlikely heroes and fantastic characters whose flame of eternal hope burned against an all consuming darkness.

A Tale of Two Cities

Dickens, Charles and Frederick Busch

Genre Fiction

David Copperfield

Children's Books

DICKENS., CHARLES

100 American Poems

Shakespeare., William

Dramas & Plays

A Good copy of ""a literary jewel...an unusual dramatic story of the black experience in America...of unrequited loves and bitter hates, of truths and revenges, of intense loyalties."--Fort Wayne Gazette" Creasing to front cover. Spine has five creases from top to bottom. Signet ID AE 2933. Crease on front cover along the length of the spine. Sunning inside both covers. Small ding to side page edging of front flyleaf. Small spotting to bottom edging. Inside back cover is a pen mark in blue ballpoint. Page numbers are circled in blue ballpoint on pages: 28, 55, 62, 63, 108, 163, 180, 207, 223, 237, 238, 279, 280, 304, 320. 341 pages. From verso:"First Signet Printing, November, 1978" The novel is in 2 Parts and 15 Chapters. From inside back cover:""A Novel Written With Literary Distinction and Emotional Power!" John Barkham Reviews"

Song of Solomon

MORRISON, Toni.

United States

Dish

Jeannette Walls

Back when New York was still young, so was heiress Catherine Sloper. A simple, plain girl, she grew up in opulence with a disappointed father and a fluttery aunt in a grand house on Washington Square. Enter Morris Townsend, a handsome charmer who assures Catherine he loves her for herself and not for her money. But Catherine’s revered father sees in Townsend what she cannot. Now, with her tearful aunt Penniman as his amusingly melodramatic ally, Townsend will present Catherine with the hardest choice of her young life.… With a New Introduction and an Afterword by Michael Cunningham, Author of The Hours

Washington Square

JAMES,HENRY

Benjamin Constant participated in the tumultous political life of France during the French Revolution and its aftermath. As an intimate of Germaine de Stael, he encountered international writers and thinkers influential in the early intellectual development of European Romanticism. Adolphe is a seminal Romantic novel, probably autobiographical, published in 1816. It analyses the interior states of the young protagonist who has fallen in love with an older woman. The Red Notebook is a posthumously published first-person autobiographical narrative of Constant's youth.

Adolphe and The Red Notebook

CONSTANT, BENJAMIN

Contemporary

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