Best of
Literature
1839
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
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens - 1839
But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys Hall, a school for unwanted boys; the slow-witted orphan Smike, rescued by Nicholas; and the gloriously theatrical Mr and Mrs Crummles and their daughter, the 'infant phenonenon'. Like many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterised by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing his comic genius at its most unerring.
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!
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Volume 1
Edgar Allan Poe - 1839
For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many cen- turies shall pass away ere these memorials be seen of men. And when seen there will be some to dis- believe, and some to doubt, and yet a few who will find much to ponder upon in the characters here graven with a stylus of iron.Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Volume 1 "Morella" "Lionizing" "William Wilson" "The Man That Was Used Up — A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "The Duc de L'Omelette" "MS. Found in a Bottle" "Bon-Bon" "Shadow — A Parable" "The Devil in the Belfry" "Ligeia" "King Pest — A Tale Containing an Allegory" "The Signora Zenobia" "The Scythe of Time"