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 Samuel Johnson: A BiographyBest Price: $21.50 Although the term "man of letters" didn't come into its own until the Victorian age,... |  Evelina (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $7.53 As a long time lover of Jane Austen, with a sister named Evelyn, I had to read this book. It is... |  The Portable Edmund Burke (The Viking Portable Library)Best Price: $10.00 I think the 2-star reviewers are missing the point; the "Reflections" are widely... |  The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd (The Swans Are Not Silent)Best Price: $8.83 This is the second book in the series The Swans are Not Silent. Like the other books in the... |  The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $6.75 "I believe that memory is responsible for nearly all these three-volume novels" ... |
 Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged Classics in Audio)Best Price: $23.78 I really enjoyed it. I understand why it's a classic. I would highly recommend it. |  The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $11.16 A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other purveyors of eighteenth... |  Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.59 This is one of those books that people should take some time to read solely for it's historical... |  The Italian (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $6.70 This book has all the makings of a very good plot and could have been very gripping if it had... |  The Life of Samuel Johnson (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $18.00 This is the abridged version! Don't get this! I love Boswell's Life of Johnson, it is one of... |
 A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $11.71 I bought this as a graduation present for my best friend and spent some time just thumbing... |  Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein (World's Classics)Best Price: $11.95 Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothis tales became... |  Tristram Shandy (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $13.12 this book is kinda boring and confusing. you really have to hang in there to get to the good... |  Samuel JohnsonBest Price: $15.00 I found this in out annual library sale for $1. I look forward to reading it based on the... |  British Literature 1640 - 1789: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)Best Price: $30.28 I orderd this book on October 7th, 2008. A month later the book still had not shipped out. On... |
 A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $6.44 A Tale of a Tub is certainly Swift's least classifiable work. He's best known, of course, for... |  The Romance of the Forest (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $6.65 I had very mixed feelings about this one- the story itself was sometimes very interesting, but... |  The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $4.84 Mr. Harley is indeed a non-traditional hero- instead of trying to make his way in the world, he... |  Roderick Random (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.79 In a letter to Alexander Carlyle just before RODERICK RANDOM was to be published, Smollett wrote... |  British Literature: 1780 - 1830Best Price: $40.00 This new comprehensive, and revisionist anthology of what is traditionally categorized as... |
 Evelina: or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.97 A prankster would love this book. So would any Jane Austen fan. Why? Well, for... |  Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $4.31 In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic... |  A Journal of the Plague Year (Norton Critical Editions)Best Price: $6.00 This book is obviously filled with conceits from the very beginning. Daniel Defoe tries to make... |  The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents; A Romance (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $7.65 This book is a very intelligent and well written book. |  The Eustace Diamonds (Everyman's Library (Cloth))Best Price: $8.00 Why are Victorian novels so long? Among other reasons one which stands out is that they were... |
 White BuildingsBest Price: $6.38 Harold Bloom writes of Hart Crane: "Genius is a mystery resistant to reductive analysis,... |  Love in Excess; Or, the Fatal Enquiry (Broadview Literary Texts)It seems everyone always wants to pinpoint the "first novel." It's not Pamela, it's... |  Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern InquiryBest Price: $21.76 "Pithy and wide-ranging. . . . This study provides a fresh new lens through which to... |  Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Signet Classics)Best Price: $1.45 If you are looking for a book that makes you think this is the one. Written in 1867, its amazing... |  The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (Smollett, Tobias George//Works of Tobias Smollett)Best Price: $74.40 The texts of many Eighteenth Century books are full of interpolations by printers and may... |
 The Emergence of RomanticismBest Price: $4.74 Although primarily known as an eminent historian of Russia, Nicholas Riasanovsky has been a... |  Fanny Burney: A BiographyBest Price: $4.25 Fanny Burney, despite herself, was a feminist. She would have hated that idea, but she was an... |  Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesBest Price: $147.28 ~Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches~ is a great anthology of conservative luminary... |  Jane Austen and the War of IdeasBest Price: $47.23 It is often said that Jane Austen in the countryside remained isolated from the great events of... |  Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Modern Critical Interpretations)Best Price: $188.88 Perusing through the hundred plus reviews, I believe most reviewers have read the novel Pride... |
 The Complete Plays of Frances Burney, 2 VolumesBest Price: $125.00 The first edition of the complete plays of Fanny Burney which is taken from the original... |  The Poet as BotanistBest Price: $59.99 For centuries, poets have been ensnared - as one of their number, Andrew Marvell put it - by the... |  The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy (Dalkey Archive Scholarly Series)Best Price: $3.12 |  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $13.72 (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) In 1773, the great Samuel Johnson-then 63-and his young... |  Tom Jones (Everyman's Library (Cloth))Best Price: $13.12 To read or not to read; that is the question. Whenever I want to buy something I try to get... |
 Eighteenth-Century Characters: A Guide to the Literature of the AgeBest Price: $30.64 Eighteenth Century Characters offers a brief introduction to the literature of the Eighteenth... |  John Clare: A BiographyBest Price: $5.00 Jonathan Bate's admirable biography of John Clare is worthy of this unique poet. There were... |  The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.00 Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his... |  By Himself (Fyfield Books)Best Price: $11.73 This volume brings together, in definitive form, all of John Clare's important autobiographical... |  The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (Smollett, Tobias George//Works of Tobias Smollett)Best Price: $70.59 Launcelot Greaves, Tobias Smollett's quixotic character, takes you on a hilarious journey... |
 The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses (Smollett, Tobias George//Works of Tobias Smollett)Best Price: $50.37 Though some may find it somewhat boreing by its length(some 500 pages), I consider Telemacus to... |  The History and Adventures of an Atom (Smollett, Tobias George//Works of Tobias Smollett)Best Price: $128.35 In "The History and Adventures of an Atom', a London haberdasher relates extraordinary... |  The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: Volume 2, Queer ArticulationsBest Price: $39.99 The queer man's mode of embodiment-his gestural and vocal style, his posture and gait, his... |  Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763Best Price: $12.76 Scotsman of high ideals and weak moral fibre spends several months in London crashing dinner... |  The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood: Essays on Her Life and WorkBest Price: $35.00 This book is so informative, and yet at the same time entertaining. I am a passionate woman,... |
 Gothic and the Rule of the Law, 1764-1820Best Price: $67.96 The Gothic and the Rule of Law is the first full-length theoretical and historical study of the... |  Romanticism's Debatable LandsBest Price: $73.12 This book uses the theme of "debatable lands," a term first applied to disputed parts... |  Jane Austen and the Popular Novel: The Determined AuthorBest Price: $69.96 Criticism has traditionally fixed Austen's oeuvre within the ideological locus of the 1790s,... |  Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century EnglandBest Price: $32.47 This brilliant and insightful contribution to cultural studies investigates the role of... | |
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