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Tom Jones (Fielding Henry)(Paperback)

Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today. This carefully

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Fielding Henry)(Paperback)

Inspiration for the PBS Masterpiece series Tom Jones starring Hannah Waddingham A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire--though

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling (Fielding Henry)(Paperback)

Despite being abandoned by his parents, Tom Jones grows into a gallant and irresistible young man. Most of his time is spent romping through the English countryside, getting himself into all kinds of troublewith hisgood nature and unquenchable eye for women. After being betrayed by jealous

Tom Jones (Fielding Henry)(Paperback)

When Squire Allworthy returns from London to discover a sleeping baby of unknown parentage in his bed, Tom Jones makes its rollicking start toward a picaresque journey across eighteenth-century England. Its foundling hero, having grown to young manhood and developed a passion for the girl next

Joseph Andrews & Shamela (Fielding Henry)(Paperback)

Henry Fielding wrote both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) in response to Samuel Richardson's book Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy travesty. Joseph Andrews begins as a parody, too, but soon outgrows its origins, and its deepest roots lie in Cervantes and Marivaux. In

Quincy Jones: His Life in Music (Henry Clarence Bernard)(Paperback)

Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps most famous for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller. Clarence Bernard Henry

Klamela - Henry Fielding

Román Henryho Fieldinga Klamela vyšiel 4. apríla 1741. Román publikovali pod pseudonymom Conny Keyber, ale autorovi súčasníci aj dnešní literárni historici a kritici sa zhodujú, že jeho autorom bol Fielding. Dielo bolo mienené ako satirický útok na román v listoch Samuela

Joseph Andrews/Shamela (Fielding Henry)(Paperback)

'Kissing, Joseph, is but a Prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young Fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?' Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding's first full-length novel, depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked

The Singularity of Literature (Attridge Derek)(Paperback)

The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in ameliorating the lives of those existing in harsh

Key Writings (Lefebvre Henri)(Paperback)

Henri Lefebvre is widely recognized as one of the most influential social theorists of the Twentieth Century. His writings on cities, everyday life, and the production of space have become hugely influential across Cultural Studies, Sociology, Geography and Architecture. Key Writings presents the

Cousin Henry (Trollope Anthony)(Paperback)

Cousin Henry, first published in 1879, is perhaps the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope's shorter novels. Trollope's masterly handling of the novel's unlikely hero, a tiresome and timid coward, is notable for its insight and compassion. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's

The Henri Meschonnic Reader: A Poetics of Society (Meschonnic Henri)(Paperback)

Henri Meschonnic was a linguist, poet, translator of the Bible and one of the most original French thinkers of his generation. He strove throughout his career to reform the understanding of language and all that depends on it. His work has had a shaping influence on a generation of scholars and

Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King (Breverton Terry)(Paperback)

Henry IV, Part I: The Oxford Shakespeare Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of various critical approaches, offers a history of the play in performance from Shakespeare's time to

Cricket's Great Entertainers (Blofeld Henry)(Paperback / softback)

Henry Blofeld singles out the most exciting and entertaining cricketers of all time in his irrepressibly enthusiastic

Henry Lamb: Out of the Shadows (Moore-Gwyn Harry)(Paperback)

Henry Lamb stands amongst the most distinctive, talented but unjustly forgotten figurative British painters of the first decades of the last century. Published to coincide with the first major retrospective on the artist in over 30 years, and featuring a number of rediscovered masterpieces, Henry

Reaching Out (Nouwen Henri)(Paperback / softback)

Henri Nouwen, who died in 1996, was one of the most significant writers on spirituality of the late twentieth century. Reaching Out combines two of his most popular books in one

The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great (Fielding Henry)(Paperback)

The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled 'Thieftaker General', controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists

Road to Daybreak - A Spiritual Journey (Nouwen Henri J. M.)(Paperback)

The Road to Daybreak is Henri Nouwen's intimate diary recording his most poignant year at l'Arche, which began in the summer of 1985, a precious time of inner renewal and self-discovery. With simplicity and honesty, he describes how the experience changed his attitudes and enriched his spiritual

The Sacred Fount: Novel (James Henry)(Paperback)

One of Henry James's most mesmerizing and unusual novels, The Sacred Fount (1901) has for its scene a weekend party at the great English country house Newmarch. Here James leads the reader down a bizarre garden path. The Sacred Fount--his only novel to employ a first-person narrator--places us in

Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (Miller Henry)(Paperback)

One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which

Biker's Life - Misadventures on (and off) Two Wheels (Cole Henry)(Paperback / softback)

Henry IV, Part 2: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

This edition offers a fully modernized text of one of Shakespeare's most fascinating plays. Henry IV, Part 2 is the only play in the canon whose structure almost exactly mirrors that of its predecessor, and thereby affords unique perspectives on Shakespeare's art and craft. Far from being the

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (Jones Terry)(Paperback)

Terry Jones, actor, director, author and Python, approaches this most misrepresented and misunderstood' period in history through its principal characters. Accompanying a TV series, the book addresses and redresses many of the stereotypical images we have of the Middle Ages. Each chapter deals with