Product Description: A car accident dumps journalist Marsha Dunbar in a strange and beautiful place...but it is also a place in which an abducted teenager is being held captive. Marsha has a broken foot, a wrecked car, and a busted phone. She can barely help herself, never mind the imprisoned young girl...read more

Product Description: 1963: the death of JFK and the birth of Dr Who. A craft passes over Billy Flowers's head, and he is doused in a strange, green mist. Billy, the Head Porter at Wentworth Train Station, becomes sick...but he also gains the ability to see people's darkest secrets...read more

The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning and intensity our own lives do not. Out of the novelist's moral imagination-the breadth and depth of his awareness of human motivations, tensions, and complexities-emerge fictional persons through whom we learn to read ourselves. This eloquent book, exploring fictional lives in crucial moments of choice and change, stresses both their difference from and their deep connections with life. Martin Price writes here about ways in which character has been conceived and presented in the novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with chapters that cogently argue the artistic value of character, Price then deals with the different forms character has taken in individual novels. His first discussions center on authors-Jane Austen, Stendhal, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy-who define individuals by their adherence or opposition to social norms. The next chapters deal with novelists for whom the moral world is largely internalized. The characters of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster live in society and act upon it, but the authors are particularly concerned with the confusions, terrors, and heroism that lie within consciousness. The last chapter uses novels about the artist by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann in order to apprehend the process by which experience is transformed into art. Avoiding both formalistic and moralistic extremes, this new book by a distinguished critic helps us recover a fuller sense of literary form and the forms of life from which it emerges.

Product Description: This classic study of the structure of Swift’s works, first published by Yale University Press in 1953 and reissued by Archon Books in 1963, is here brought back into print in paperback form. Price’s brilliant essay is concerned prin­cipally with structure as it serves to create meaning, but he deals with the large themes of Swift’s major works and gives an overview of Swift’s work as a whole...read more

12 critical essays that analyze and evaluate the style and works of the 19th century British novelist, Charles Dickens