The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and William Liston, Ball State University, respectively.

    For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology, and his methods of conveying it were integral to its meaning. There is no comparison with reading books such as Jerusalem, America, and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in Blake's own medium, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colors. Tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction, and liberation. Blake's hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies and none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now, for the first time, the plates from the William Blake Trust's Collected Edition have been brought together in a single volume, with transcripts of the texts and an introduction by the noted scholar David Bindman. Includes: Jerusalem; Songs of Innocence and of Experience; All Religions are One; There is No Natural Religion; The Book of Thel; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Visions of the Daughters of Albion; America a Prophecy; Europe a Prophecy; The Song of Los Milton a Poem; The Ghost of Abel; On Homers Poetry and] On Virgil; Laocoon; The First Book of Urizen; The Book of Ahania; The Book of Los.

    Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

    For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence’s writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.

    Annotations in this edition are keyed both to the reading text of the new critical edition of Ulysses published in 1984 and to the standard 1961 Random House edition and the current Modern Library and Vintage texts.Gifford has incorporated over 1,000 additions and corrections to the first edition. The introduction and headnotes to sections provide general geographical, biographical and historical background. The annotations gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, explain religious nomenclature and practices, trace literary allusions and references to other cultures.The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail is a most important aspect of his literary method. The annotations in this volume illuminate details which are not in the public realm for most of us.

    The book is blue, with a paper ring around the cover. It has the title stamped on the title page and attributes itself to "Train Bridge Recluse" as a publisher. Supposedly, 1000 copies were made. This book contains twenty short stories and two novellas that have never before been collected or published outside of their original magazine appearences due to the wishes of the author who has declined to publish any of his work since 1965. Stories collected here for the first time include two 30,000 word novellas (The Inverted Forest & Hapworth 16, 1924), two stories featuring Holden Caulfield in expanded scenes from The Catcher in the Rye (I'm Crazy & Slight Rebellion Off Madison), and the Babe Gladwaller and Vincent Caulfield series (Last Day of the Last Furlough, This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise & The Stranger). This collection includes all known works by Salinger not already widely available.

    A complete collection of Anne Frank's known writings -- different versions of her diary (as well as five recently discovered diary pages), fables, personal reminiscences and her unfinished novel, Cady's Life. Also includes a summary of the document examination and handwriting identification analysis completed in 1986 by the Netherlands State Forensic Science Laboratory. Every aspect of the diary--including Anne's handwriting and the paper used--is examined. This book allows readers to compare the three versions of the diary itself: Anne's original entries; the diary as she herself edited it in the hiding place of the "Secret Annex"; and the version most popularly known, as edited by Anne's father, Otto Frank, and a Dutch publishing house after World War II, when they removed certain family and sexual references. The book also includes biographical information on the Frank family and a summary of critical events during and after the family's arrest--including how the Nazi authorities learned about the Franks and their secret hiding place.First published in Dutch in 1986 as De Dagboeken van Anne Frank, by Staatsuitgeverij.

    Mitford's most famous novels, "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate," satirize British aristocracy in the '20s and '30s through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modeled on Mitford's own.

    Writing at a time when Athens was undergoing a crisis in its social attitudes, Aristophanes was undergoing a crisis in its social attitudes, Aristophanes was an eloquent opponent of the demagogue and the sophist, and his comedy reveals a deep sympathy and longing for the return of a peaceful and honest way of life.

    In the slum known as the Ape Yard, hope's last refuge is a boardinghouse where a handful of residents dream of a better life. Earl Whitaker, who is white, and Tio Grant, who is black, are both teenagers, both orphans, and best friends. In the same house live two of the most important adults in the boys' lives: Em Jojohn, the gigantic Lumbee Indian handyman, is notorious for his binges, his rat-catching prowess, and his mysterious departures from town. Jayell Crooms, a gifted but rebellious architect, is stuck in a loveless marriage to a conventional woman intent on climbing the social ladder.Crooms's vision of a new Ape Yard, rebuilt by its own residents, unites the four-and puts them on a collision course with Doc Bobo, a smalltown Machiavelli who rules the community like a feudal lord. Jeff Fields's exuberantly defined characters and his firmly rooted sense of place have earned A Cry of Angels an intensely loyal following. Its republication, more than three decades since it first appeared, is cause for celebration.

    The intellectual emigrated for political reasons, the worker to find work ...

    Including Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Cinderella, Thumbelina, and Hansel and Gretel, as well as many others, this collection provides a historical introduction for each tale and a general Introduction which traces the history of fairy tales collected in Asia and Europe long before they appeared in English.

    This volume presents the complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (3MB Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Shelley's life and works* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the poems* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry* Easily locate the poems you want to read* Includes Shelley's novels and essays - spend hours exploring the author’s prose works* Also includes Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, which some critics believe was a collaboration between husband and wife* Features a bonus biography - discover Shelley's literary life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genresPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titlesCONTENTS:The Poetry CollectionsORIGINAL POETRY BY VICTOR AND CAZIREPOSTHUMOUS FRAGMENTS OF MARGARET NICHOLSONPOEMS FROM ST. IRVYNE; OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN.THE DEVIL’S WALK: A BALLADQUEEN MABINDIVIDUAL POEMSALASTORTHE REVOLT OF ISLAMROSALIND AND HELENJULIAN AND MADDALO: A CONVERSATIONPETER BELL THE THIRDTHE MASK OF ANARCHYTHE WITCH OF ATLASEPIPSYCHIDIONADONAISTHE DAEMON OF THE WORLDPRINCE ATHANASELETTER TO MARIA GISBORNETHE TRIUMPH OF LIFETRANSLATIONSThe PoemsLIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERThe Poetic DramasTHE CENCIPROMETHEUS UNBOUNDOEDIPUS TYRANNUSHELLASFRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMACHARLES THE FIRSTThe NovelsZASTROZZIST IRVYNE; OR, THE ROSICRUCIANFRANKENSTEIN by Mary ShelleyThe Non-FictionLIST OF ESSAYSThe BiographyPERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY by John Addington SymondsPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

    The narrator, Peder Jensen, is both competent second mate and unworldly philosopher. Esther Greenleaf Muerer has previously translated other works by Jens Bjorneboe, including Moment of Freedom.

    It includes all of the full page illustrations in the manuscript and a representative sample of the ornamentation that is to be found on the text pages. In all 93 pages and 6 half pages are reproduced complete. In every case a recto of the original manuscript has been kept as a right-hand page and a verso as a left-hand page. In addition to the reproductions there are 30 plates of greatly enlarged details of the illustrations." "The Book and its Decoration," a study of the manuscript by François Henry, is also included.

    Includes "The Ugly Duckling," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Little Mermaid," "The Red Shoes," 68 more. Ages 9-14

    Then, slowly, it began to turn skywards. Och, no, he thought before the end, not ma brain... not ma brain... anything but ma brain...please don't slice ma brain... no, no... not the brain...och, no...'Never before had there been a book about a flying knife, and, although Marenghi would ink three sequels*, Slasher, R.I.P.P.E.R., and Slicer IV: The Blade is Back, Slicer is our first novel-length taste of the Marenghian terrors to come. The themes are all here: blood, redemption, fear of cutlery, distaste for body hair, and the question of Man's place (mis-place?) in Romford. Its influence can be seen in a host of imitators, notably Fork! by Herbert G. Samson.Much has been written about Slicer's psychological implications (try either Dan Britten's essay in 'Bending Spoons and Stabbing Knives: the Psychic Phenomena of Spiritual Cutlery' (New York, 1985) or Muriel Carter's Slash Me, Slay Me - Post-Modern Carve-ups in 20th Century Horror Fiction (New York, 1988) ), but most significantly it gave a much needed kick in the arm of an elitist publishing industry obsessed by literary 'classics'. And, as Hard Gore's Neil Nichols has opined: 'One can only be thankful that our bi-annual Marenghi shock treatments continue to prevent the genre slipping into postmodern somnambulism.' Marenghi evidently concurs with the renowned splatter fiction aficionado : 'I see my life as being a single-handed pump. And that can get lonely.'*Marenghi prefers to think of them as a 'self-integral cycle''It really doesn't get any better' The Observer'A cut above the rest of the so-called "dangerous implement horror" sub-genre' The Sunday Times

    As he dies, his kingdom also dies. His armies suffer defeat, the young emigrate, the seasons change overnight, and his kingdom’s borders shrink to the outline of his throne. At last, as the curtain falls, the king himself dissolves into a gray mist.

    

    Six weeks after they met, he wrote "The Judgment" for her in one night of feverish activity. Kafka always inferred to the traumatic, public breaking-off of their engagement as his "tribunal," and indeed he began work on The Trial within a month of that event.Kafka's letters to Felice offer rare insights into the writer's life and art. Elias Canetti's brilliant and sensitive examination of this moving correspondence to shows is the origins of Kafka's voice as a writer and his torment as a man.

    A note on how to interpret the information given in an apparatus criticus is also included.

    Contents: Foolish Frances The rich and poor widow The elf boy The forest prince The rain woman The glass box The three oranges Mrs Luck and Mr Money The magic thread The prince's pilgrimage

    

    Now renowned as the Persian poet who created the Rubayyat, Omar Khayyam was known in his time as an astronomer and mathematician. He created his famous poem as a personal answer to the great questions of life. The poem extended through more than 750 stanzas, many of which are now permanently lost."Though partial copies survived the ravages of time, the Rubayyat was virtually unknown outside the Middle East until the 19th century, when the battered manuscripts aroused the interest of Western scholars. But it took the Englishman Edward FitzGerald, a fortunate combination of scholar and poet, to transform the Rubayyat into a worthy English version. Others had attempted literal translations. Only FitzGerald was able to capture the elusive qualities of mystical wonder and beauty which give this work its timeless interest."Omar Khayyam was never sure if the end of life would mean the end of his soul or the beginning of a new existence. One fact is certain: he attained immortality in a manner he had not expected, for his masterpiece will live among the great works of literature as long as there are those who read, wonder, and enjoy." (Inside cover)

    Saki's stories include the satiric, the comic, the macabre, and show a marked interest in the use of animals as agents of revenge upon mankind.

    With the active (linked) table of content, click on a title to go to it, and use the Back button to return to the table of contents. According to Wikipedia: "Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (IPA: /ˈtʃɑ:lz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Critics George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton championed Dickens's mastery of prose, his endless invention of unique, clever personalities, and his powerful social sensibilities, but fellow writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf faulted his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrences, and grotesque characterizations. The popularity of Dickens's novels and short stories has meant that they have never gone out of print. Many of Dickens's novels first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form—a popular format for fiction at the time—and, unlike many other authors who completed entire novels before serial production commenced, Dickens often composed his works in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. Such a practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one minor "cliffhanger" after another, to keep the (original) public looking forward to the next installment."Responding to customer feedback, I improved the formatting on 8/12009. If you bought a copy before then, you should be able to download the new version at no additional cost. Feedback always welcome. seltzer@samizdat.com

    

    We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

    A collection of the letters Charles Dickens wrote between 1836 and 1870.

    In this second edition, originally published in 1973, Chadwick examines how the study of the subject has expanded since 1953 and includes some of the material discovered since the initial publication. This book continues to be a valuable part of Classical scholarship and will be of interest to Classicists of every discipline.

    

    

    This recitation manual, containing the Sutra text only, is designed for practical use when assisting the living and the dead.

    

    

    It offers a guide to practical action which verges on mysticism: how to exercise strength without needing to be strong, how to win by yielding. Lao-Tze's exhortation to act while not-acting or 'doing nothing' has astonished and fascinated Chinese and Westerners alike.

    Pollitt attempts to answer this question by studying the critical terminology of the ancient Greeks—the terms they used to describe and evaluate sculpture, painting, and architecture. Although Greeks and Romans with a wide variety of backgrounds and interests—including artists, philosophers, rhetoricians, historians, and guidebook writers—wrote about art in antiquity, very few of their works have survived.  Mr. Pollitt has therefore had to draw largely on works of authors who, while discussing some other subject, make passing references to art for the purpose of analogy or illustration.  By carefully assembling and organizing these fragments, he presents a coherent view of art criticism in ancient Greece. This study is divided into two parts.  The first part provides a general history of Greek art criticism and its sources.  The second is an extensive glossary which collects, translates, and analyzes passages from Greek and Latin authors in which important critical terms are used.  The book can therefore be used by art historians and classicists as both a scholarly text and an important work of reference.

    Synopsis from the back cover:'The ghastly scream was repeated three or four times, each time fainter than before, as though it were descending slowly into the bowels of the earth...'"The chill hands of fear will grip your nerve-ends as you read these thrilling tales of hauntings and horror...From the hell-hound of the misty Fens to the spectral wedding party of the Northumberland castle, these stories will bind you with the spell of terror..."