Product Description: Literature’s most famous romantic hero, Mr. Darcy, opens his diary to disclose a complex, passionate inner world.The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy is a captivating novel of love, pride, passion, and, of course, prejudice. Off-stage events barely mentioned in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ?are revealed, and many surprising new facts come to light, such as Mr...read more

Product Description: This study provides a detailed account of the 'Fables', including humour, the representation of animals, the literary qualities and the 'moraliste' core. Dr Slater brings to light veiled satirical attacks, allusion to forgotten works and literature, and traces the obscure currents of thought, all this in the service of explicating the 'fable' element...read more

Product Description: This study provides a detailed account of the "Fables", including humour, the representation of animals, the literary qualities and the "moraliste" core. Dr Slater brings to light veiled satirical attacks, allusion to forgotten works and literature, and traces the obscure currents of thought, all this in the service of explicating the "fable" element...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The landmark plays from the French theatre included in this edition embody the transition from the old to the modern in dramatic experimentation: precursors of surrealism, they are innovative, outrageous and highly enjoyable. Consisting of Maeterlinck's The Blind, Jarry's Ubu the King, and Apollinaire's The Mammaries of Tiresias, this edition provides new translations sensitive to crucial linguistic features such as rhyme and pun and contains the only editions of Maeterlinck and Apollinaire's plays in print...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)