Charles Dickens - Fiction, Non-fiction and Letters (65 books)
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Charles Dickens - Fiction, Non-fiction and Letters (65 books)
The novels and stories are available in many editions, most of which are simple undistinguished reprints. To keep the size of this collection within manageable limits, only those editions containing a significant scholarly apparatus (primarily Penguin Classics or Oxford World's Classics), with their excellent introductions and explanatory notes have been included.
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (with explanatory notes)
A consumately skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.
Added by: babakinfos | Karma: 2211.42 | Fiction literature | 1 December 2016
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The Wind in the Willows (with explanatory notes)
One of the best-known classics of children's literature, a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age, The Wind in the Willows began originally in Kenneth Grahame's letters to his young son, where he first recounted the adventures of Rat and Badger, of Mole and Toad--all narrated in virtuoso language ranging from lively parody to elaborate fin-de-si�cle mysticism. Yet for a children's book, it is concerned almost exclusively with adult themes: fear of radical changes in political, social, and economic power...