Best of
Classics
1839
Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher
Robert Lanier - 1839
He finds himself a solitary guest in the foreboding, inscrutable Usher mansion. A mysterious ailment has possessed Roderick Usher, lord of the manor, which has resisted all medical treatment and threatens to extinguish the line of Usher forever. Yet a darker enigma faces Powell, and the further he probes the more obscure and horrifying seems the truth. Building to its heart-stopping climax this classic tale of the macabre by the great American author Edgar Allan Poe has been faithfully adapted for the stage preserving much of the beloved text in the script. It is sure to delight all Poe fans and to convert the uninitiated.
The Complete Poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839
Percy Bysshe Shelley endures today as the great Promethean bard of the High Romantic period who is best remembered for extolling the sublime and affirming the possibility of transcendence.From the Hardcover edition.
Tales Of The Grotesque and Arabesque
Edgar Allan Poe - 1839
Many of the stories deal with the familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and passion, but this volume also contains many often-overlooked tales of the fantastic and comic, parodies and hoaxes, including ‘The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall’, ‘Mesmeric Revelation’, ‘Hop-Frog’, and & ‘The Imp of the Perverse’.The book includes a section in colour, and contains useful essays from notable scholars: an introduction by Kevin J. Hayes and Benjamin F. Fisher on Poe and the gothic.engaging biography of Edgar Allen Poethe complete text in a modern, readable typefacean illustrated publishing history of the talestimeline in colour of Poe’s worldcolour map of Poe’s America
Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin - 1839
It was to last five years and transform him from an amiable and somewhat aimless young man into a scientific celebrity. Even more vitally, it was to set in motion the intellectual currents that culminated in the arrival of The Origin of Species in Victorian drawing-rooms in 1859. His journal, reprinted here in a shortened version, is vivid and immediate, showing us a naturalist making patient observations, above all in geology. As well as a profusion of natural history detail, it records many other things that caught Darwin’s eye, from civil war in Argentina to the new colonial settlements of Australia. The editors have provided an excellent introduction and notes for this Penguin Classics edition, which also contains maps and appendices, including an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin’s friend and captain of the Beagle.
The Works of P B Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839
Also includes full text of The Cenci.Cannot beat Shelley for trying for bigger things than the quotidian. How drab are our writers now!