19th Century

By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a being from dead body parts, and animates this creature. The results, for Victor and for his family, are catastrophic.Written when Mary Shelley was just eighteen, Frankenstein was inspired by the ghost stories and vogue for Gothic literature that fascinated the Romantic writers of her time. She transformed these supernatural elements an epic parable that warned against the threats to humanity posed by accelerating technological progress. Published for the 200th anniversary, this edition, based on the original 1818 text, explains in detail the turbulent intellectual context in which Shelley was writing, and also investigates how her novel has since become a byword for controversial practices in science and medicine, from manipulating ecosystems to vivisection and genetic modification. As an iconic study of power, creativity, and, ultimately, what it is to be human, Frankenstein continues to shape our thinking in profound ways to this day.

'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.'When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siécle London, the novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. As Dorian's slide into crime and cruelty progresses he stays magically youthful, while his beautiful portrait changes, revealing the hideous corruption of moral decay.Ever since its first publication in 1890 Wilde's only novel has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an unclassifiable and uniquely unsettling work of fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Chi conosce Lovecraft come l'allampanato maestro del mostruoso, autore di una scarna opera che ha segnato la narrativa horror e lasciato un'impronta indelebile su tutti i successori, deve prepararsi a una grossa sorpresa: dopo la sua morte si è rivelato uno dei più copiosi epistolografi di ogni tempo. E quasi un'altra persona. Gli amici, che hanno conservato le sue lettere, ne ricaveranno una scelta di circa un migliaio raccolte in cinque volumi, ma l'intero corpus pare ammonti ad almeno centomila, scritte tra i venti e i quarantasette anni, e diventate, nell'ultima stagione, un'occupazione a tempo pieno. Come rendere l'idea di una corrispondenza di tali spropositate dimensioni? Non restava che prendere una sola lettera, la più lunga, e consegnarla al lettore in forma di libro. Si scoprirà così l'universo quotidiano di Lovecraft, ben lontano da quello che traluce dai racconti, e un uomo totalmente diverso: sobrio, pacato, pieno di troppo sano buon senso - l'altra faccia della sua follia - da offrire all'ignoto destinatario, che già dalla prima pagina scompare. Come un serial killer che alla fine di una lunga giornata, dal suo buen retiro di Providence, ci indottrina sulle grandi epoche storiche, loda la compagnia e la natura, e da critico sempre acuto e rassegnato dell'età moderna ci fa i suoi migliori auguri per l'avvenire. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

2023 erscheint der 62. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er versammelt die Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums "Heinrich Heine und die Menschenrechte", das vom Heinrich-Heine-Institut, der Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft und der North American Heine Society veranstaltet wurde. Darüber hinaus enthält er Studien von Hartmut Reinhardt über Heine und das Königtum, Eckart Pastor über Heines kreativen Sprachgebrauch sowie weitere Analysen zu Heines Werk und Wirkung und dokumentiert die Reden zur Verleihung des Heine-Preises der Stadt Düsseldorf 2022 an Juri Andruchowytsch.

Il volume prende in esame la produzione breve di Nathaniel Hawthorne cercando di identificare in essa le tracce della tradizione storico-letteraria del saggismo ottocentesco, di cui furono maestre personalità del calibro di Charles Lamb, Washington Irving, Leigh Hunt, Ralph Waldo Emerson e Henry David Thoreau. La specificità dello sguardo saggistico di cui Hawthorne decide di dotare i propri personaggi è indagata nella sua dimensione formale quale ingrediente fondamentale amalgamato contrappuntisticamente a quello narrativo, che spesso sembra dominante... Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!"Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's happiness and integrity. A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. The emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms. In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel, which is both shocking and romantic.

"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity. Misconceptions and hasty judgements bring heartache and scandal, but eventually lead to true understanding, self-knowledge, and love.It's almost impossible to open Pride and Prejudice without feeling the pressure of so many readers having known and loved this novel already. Will you fail the test - or will you love it too? As a story that celebrates more unflinchingly than any of Austen's other novels the happy meeting-of-true-minds, and one that has attracted the most fans over the centuries, Pride and Prejudice sets up an echo chamber of good feelings in which romantic love and the love of reading amplify each other.

Le lecteur des huit cents pages du Voyage en Orient de Gérard de Nerval peut difficilement concevoir les étapes de la constitution de ce riche et long récit. Initialement publié dans divers périodiques entre 1840 et 1850, puis ' reconstruit ' en 1851, l'ouvrage comporte nombre de variantes. Dans les publications antérieures à 1850, Nerval n'a pas donné immédiatement à ses chroniques tout le sens de la version finale. La critique nervalienne a donc souvent pu souligner la nécessité d'une recherche approfondie sur ces variantes. Cette étude tente de combler cette lacune en proposant au lecteur de scruter pas à pas l'élaboration d'une des plus belles invitations au voyage qui soit. En mettant à jour les étapes de la transformation du Voyage en Orient de feuilletons en livre, des variantes des premiers jets aux recompositions ultérieures, l'auteur de cette étude décèle et déploie, sur les traces du voyageur, la naissance progressive de l'écrivain, tout en dégageant la logique interne qui a déterminé son texte définitif.

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Ce recueil de Paul Féval propose un voyage à travers des légendes et des récits, avec une attention particulière pour le folklore breton et l'influence du Mont-Saint-Michel. L'auteur entrelace souvenirs personnels et histoires populaires, offrant une perspective sur la foi, l'histoire et l'identité régionale.

'Let us go on, then! And I will tell you the story of my sister and her daughter, from beginning to end.'Alis al-Bustani's Sa'iba (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in Arabic by a female writer. Written when the Arabic novel was only in its third or fourth decade, it takes up the leading fictional theme of the era: the question of young people's choices in marriage in a society where their elders traditionally made these decisions. In Sa'iba, the focus is on what happens after the wedding, as the eponymous heroine has to fend off a jealous cousin who believes he has a right to her. Drawing on motifs of Victorian Gothic writing, brought into an Arab-Turkish fictional context, the novel powerfully shows the continuing hold of old ideas about women's sexual susceptibility and moral 'weakness', as such ideas were slowly giving way among educated Arab and other Ottoman middle classes to new ideals of companionship in marriage. Marilyn Booth's translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the themes and social context of the novel, a time of modernizing efforts and pushback against European and American power and culture in the Arabic and Ottman worlds. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley began writing her 'Journal of Sorrow' (c.1822-6)three months after the devastating loss of her husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to drowning. In the privacy of the diary's pages, she grapples with her overwhelming grief over the tragic losses of her young husband, three of their children, and their friend the poet Lord Byron. Shelley ultimately resisted a suicidal depression by throwing herself intowriting the allegorical plague novel and roman-à-clef, The Last Man(1826). Rooted in her own experiences of plagues both real and metaphorical, Shelley set The Last Man in the aftermath of a pestilential, centuries-longwar between Greece and Turkey in the late twenty-first century. The novelis an existential and political thought experiment which provokes themortal reader to contemplate the meaning of life and death in the face of the human-made disasters of war, epidemic, and species extinction. Through the ever-hopeful voice of the narrator Lionel Verney, the eponymous last man, Shelley leads readers to consider: what should be done after a massive global disaster?This edition presents these two masterpieces together, with a new editorial introduction and notes for both texts, giving readers profound insight into Shelley's enduring relevance for existential philosophy, life writing, post-apocalyptic literature, and political thought.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

La Princesse de Navarre est une comédie-ballet en trois actes de Voltaire, créée en 1745 pour divertir la cour de Louis XV. L'oeuvre mêle des éléments de comédie, d'opéra et de tragédie, intégrant des divertissements musicaux au récit. L'histoire se déroule à la frontière de la Castille sous le règne de Charles V, où intrigues amoureuses et enjeux politiques se croisent.

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Spannend bis zur letzten Minute! Jules Vernes berühmter AbenteuerklassikerHopp oder top, sagt sich der exzentrische Gentleman Phileas Fogg und setzt die Hälfte seines Vermögens für eine verrückte Wette aufs Spiel: In 80 Tagen oder 115 000 Minuten will er die Erde umrunden und nach Ablauf dieser Zeit pünktlich wieder im noblen Londoner Reform Club am Whisttisch sitzen. Gesagt, getan - und mit 20 000 Pfund im Gepäck macht sich Fogg, begleitet von seinem Diener Passepartout und verfolgt vom Geheimagenten Fix, unverzüglich auf, um seine turbulente Reise um die Welt anzutreten. Jules Vernes glänzender Abenteuerroman aus dem Jahr 1872, hier präsentiert in einer Hardcover-Ausgabe mit Schmuckprägung, besticht bis heute mit Witz und Charme.- 'Das ultimative Reiseziel? Natürlich die ganze Welt!' Süddeutsche- Jules Verne ist Science-Fiction-Pionier, Vater des Steampunk und Erfinder des naturwissenschaftlichen Abenteuerromans- 'Jules Vernes Name steht wie kein zweiter für die Begeisterung für Entdeckungen und die Reise ins Unbekannte - weit über seinen Tod am 24.3.1905 hinaus.' WDR- Vielfach adaptiert als Musical, für das Theater und mehrfach verfilmt: 1956 mit David Niven (ausgezeichnet mit fünf Oscars), 1989 mit Pierce Brosnan, 2004 mit Jackie Chan, 2021 als Serie mit David Tennant und Leonie Benesch Ausstattung: Surbalin Linea mit Schmuckprägung