The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems - Prijzen

Lord Jim

All discrepancies have been checked against the second English edition and the second American edition; the resulting Textual Notes include over 500 substantive changes. The text is thoroughly annotat...

Modernism & The Materiality Of Texts

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that intere...

Consuming Irish Children

As far as Irish history is concerned, consuming Irish children was not only a matter for Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal. Late nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a thriving home-grown...

Cambridge Introductions to Literature

For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and...

The Life and Work of Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Sea Fever Selected Poems

John Masefield (1878-1967) is one of the great storytellers of English poetry, a spinner of yarns and ballads of tall ships and exotic seas, of the deep-rooted life of the rural England in which he gr...

The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery

The first edition of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery was published in the 1980s, with fifty percent of the material removed to save space, as well as to reflect a quaint, marketable vision of...

Mrs Humphry Ward

Mary Ward (1851-1920) had a furiously active public career, her literary and philanthropic activities transforming her from an eminent Victorian into a pre-eminent Edwardian. The granddaughter of T...

Chick-Lit: On the Edge

Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction is the fourth volume in On the Edge: New Women's Fiction, FC2's ongoing effort to discover new and innovative voices in women's fiction. Determined to contradict the my...

Never Let Me Go

Die junge Kathy berichtet über ihr Leben an einer Schule, die praktisch als Organreservoir dient. Alle Schüler/-innen dort sind Klone, die in die Welt gesetzt wurden, um später lebenswichtige Organe z...

Little Big Boubo

I'm not a baby anymore, believe me. I can walk backwards without falling over...almost! The latest book from award-winning illustrator Beatrice Alemagna is a tender and humorous reflection on toddle...

A Plague On Both Your Houses

In the tradition of Ellis Peters, A Plague on Both Your Houses introduces the physician Matthew Bartholomew, whose unorthodox but effective treatment of his patients frequently draws accusations of he...