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  • The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde

    The Floating Press 1895; US$ 5.95

    The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular. It makes fun of social graces in the late Victorian era. Two seemingly unrelated parties are thrown into ridiculous entanglement when their fake identities, maintained in order to escape social responsibilities, grow ever more complicated to uphold. more...

  • The Importance of Being Earnestby Susan Van Kirk

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 7.49

    The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on The Importance of Being Earnest offers a concise look at this Victorian farce, which tweaks the complacency and aristocratic attitudes prevalent among the wealthy upper class of the time. Hidden identities, fierce repartee, underlying passions, and surprises punctuate this lively play. This study guide shows, through its expert commentaries, just how three sets of lovers clear up mishap and misunderstandings and end up happily ever after. Other features that help you figure... more...

  • Selected Works of RD Laingby RD Laing

    Routledge 1998; US$ 250.00

    The patterns delineated here have not yet been classified by a Linnaeus of human bondage. They are all, perhaps, strangely, familiar. In these pages I have confined myself to laying out only some of those I actually have seen. Words that come to mind to name them are: knots, tangles, fankles, impasses, disjunctions, whirligogs, binds. more...

  • Men of Letters, Writing Livesby Trev Lynn Broughton

    Routledge 1998; US$ 41.95

    An in-depth look at developments within Victorian auto/biography, asking what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. more...

  • Plato and the English Romanticsby E. Douka Kabitoglou

    Routledge 1990; US$ 125.00

    Tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect (Apollo) and the emotions (Dionysus). It concentrates on the daemonic `mania' which the author sees as originating both. more...

  • James Joyce. Volume Iby Robert Deming

    Routledge 1997; US$ 55.95

    Writings include: Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, Dubliners . 2 Volumes cover 1906-1964. Extras: Appendices include a list of the early editions of Joyce's writings. more...

  • D.H. Lawrenceby R. P. Draper

    Routledge 1997; US$ 380.00

    Controversial English novelist, notorious for the explicitness of his writings. Writings include: Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Women in Love . Volume covers the period 1909-1931 (grouped by novels/poems). more...

  • Evelyn Waughby Martin Stannard

    Routledge 1997; US$ 380.00

    Popular English comic novelist. Key themes: Catholicism and decline of the aristocracy. Writings include: Sword of Honour, Brideshead Revisited, Black Mischief . Volume covers the period 1926-1980. more...

  • W.H. Audenby John Haffenden

    Routledge 1997; US$ 395.00

    W.H. Auden (1907-1973). Born in Britain, later bacame a US citizen, hailed as a prophetic genius, brilliant satirist and lyricist. Writings inlcude: Poems, The Orators, Look Stranger . Volume covers the period 1930-1977. more...

  • Exploring the Language of Dramaby Jonathan Culpeper; Mick Short; Peter Verdonk

    Routledge 1998; US$ 48.95

    This collection introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors employ a variety of language analysis techniques. more...