Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab’s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of ..
virginia woolf's 1925 novel, mrs dalloway, is a landmark in modernist/feminist writing, and this worldview critical edition provides the opportunity to make its reading a complete experience. along with annotated text, it offers a wide range of supporting material so that the student/scholar can si..
This book has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's popular comedies. It describes the central relationship, between benedick and Beatrice, which is combative until love prevails.AuthorWilliam ShakespeareBindingPaperbackPublicationWordsworth ClassicsPublication Year1995Book Language Engl..
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. 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 ..
At twenty, seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each ot..
pride and prejudice, 'my own darling child' of jane austen has retianed its popularity with the reading public over the years. the novel examines the paradigm of courtship romance in the context of the social changes that overtook england following the french revolution. elizabeth's bennet's with an..
It gives immense pleasure to the author that this book has been highly appreciated by those for whom it has been bought out in the second edition to meet the growing requirements of the students from all over the country. It has rendered the purpose for which it has been written and published. ..
This reader introduces six American poets and short Story writers whose works span five centuries from the seventeenth to the twenty-first. The short stories and poems are supplemented with additional readings as well as critical and contextual essays. The critical introductions for the poetry and t..