Affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters. This work traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women.

Collects works representing four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day (view table of contents)

Product Description: This welcome two-volume reissue of John Wain's classic anthologies celebrates four centuries of English poetry from the Elizabethan era to the present. Beginning with the English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser, the collection progresses through the periods of metaphysical poets such as Donne and Marvell, Augustans such as Dryden and Pope, Victorians such as Tennyson and Browning, and World War I poets such as Sassoon and W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This biography, first published in 1974 and reissued with a new preface by the author, is about every aspect of Samuel Johnson: a discussion of ideas, a criticism of his writing, an historical placing of the man within the social and intellectual landscape of his day.

Product Description: Writer, rake, wit, traveler, and man-about-town, James Boswell kept a diary for thirty-three years, beginning just before his first trip to London and extending over his eventful life till shortly before his death in 1795. This one-volume selection of Boswell's journal entries, gathered and introduced by the distinguished poet and novelist John Wain, brings to life both a pre-eminent chronicler of eighteenth-century Britain and the tumultuous land about which he wrote so well...read more

Product Description: This volume offers a new introduction which provides a wide-ranging survey of criticism of "Macbeth" and four new essays. The new essays from Muriel Bradbrook, Malcolm Evans, Graham Holderness and Germaine Greer bring this edition up-to-date with current critical approaches...read more

Collects works representing four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day

Paul Waterford travels to Lisbon with his parents to attend memorial services for his sister Clare, who died in a plane crash, and finds new understanding of the adult world

A survey of English poetry includes poems by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Browning, Yeats, Eliot, and Auden

These seven stories evoke the superstition, dry humor, and mystery of country tales Hardy might have heard growing up in rural nineteenth-century England

Parallel tales of two men, each enthralled by women who exert unexpected power over them, center around a good samaritan who rescues a drowning woman and a novelist who visits a dying fan

Product Description: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: Poets, English English poetry Biography

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