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Consciousness & the novel
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Lodge, David

Consciousness & the novel : connected essays / David Lodge.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

The art of fiction
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Lodge, David <1935- >

The art of fiction : illustrated from classic and modern texts / David Lodge

London : Penguin books, 1992

Abstract: "The Art of Fiction" is essential, thoroughly entertaining reading for writers, students and anyone who wants to understand how literature works. The articles by David Lodge, which first appeared in the "Independent on Sunday", are expanded here and consider the subject under a wide range of headings such as 'The Intrusive Author', 'Suspense' and 'Magic Realism'. Styles and techniques are illustrated in each case by passages from classic or modern fiction. Drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James and Martin Amis, Jane Austen and Fay Weldon and Henry Fielding and James Joyce, Lodge also demonstrates the richness and variety of British and American fiction.

The practice of writing
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Lodge, David

The practice of writing / David Lodge.

1st American ed.

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1996.

Abstract: In his first critical work since the highly successful "The Art of Fiction" (0140174923), David Lodge writes principally about Grahame Greene, Kingsley Amis and James Joyce, and from there goes on to tackle two questions: the value of creative writing, and the task of dramatizing literary works for TV and the stage. He is uniquely qualified as a novelist, critic and academic to write this book, and approaches his subject with a fine wit and accessible style.

Lady Chatterley's lover
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Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930.)

Lady Chatterley's lover ; A propos of "Lady Chatterley's lover" / D.H. Lawrence ; edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Squires.

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1994.

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Abstract: Constance Chatterly is deeply unhappy; married to an invalid, she is almost as inwardly paralyzed as her husband Clifford is paralyzed from below the waist. She finds refuge and regeneration in the arms of Mellors the gamekeeper. But can she break out against the constraints of society?

D.H. Lawrence and Italy
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Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930.)

D.H. Lawrence and Italy / D.H. Lawrence ; introduction by Anthony Burgess.

New York : Penguin Books, 1997.

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Abstract: A collection of three travel sketches on Italy, written when Lawrence was at the height of his creative powers. This edition features an introduction by Anthony Burgess.

The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
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The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice / by William Shakespeare ; editors: Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine.

USA : The New Folger Library, 1993

The ground beneath her feet
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Rushdie, Salman.

The ground beneath her feet : a novel / Salman Rushdie.

1st ed.

New York : Henry Holt, 1999.

Abstract: At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, the photographer Rai. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. This is Salman Rushdie's boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, and account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus.

Fury
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Rushdie, Salman.

Fury : a novel / Salman Rushdie.

1st ed.

New York : Random House, c2001.

Abstract: Fury is the story of a dollmaker whose dolls run wild, of living women turned into dolls and then broken, and of a revolt on the planet's far side led by an army of living dolls. Fury is a novel of an old, deep love gone wrong, of a second, twisted passion rooted in wrongness, and of a third, passionate love that just might turn out right. Fury is a novel of furious energy, a study of the workings of fury at the heart of human lives: the personal fury that poisons human relations, the psychotic fury that fuels murderers, the social fury born of our raised and disappointed hopes, the creative fury that sets free our greatest gifts, the political fury that starts revolutions and burns whole cities down. Fury is a novel of today, an utterly contemporary portrait of life at the beginning of the third millennium, life in New York during an apparently endless time of prosperity that is paradoxically also a time of barrenness in many people's lives, and also in the world-empire that America rules, although it barely knows where it is.

Wide Sargasso Sea
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Rhys, Jean.

Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys ; introduction by Francis Wyndham.

New York : Norton, [1992], c1966.

Norton paperback fiction

Abstract: Jean Rhys' late, literary masterpiece "Wide Sargasso Sea" was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.

The mysteries of Udolpho
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Radcliffe, Ann Ward, (1764-1823.)

The mysteries of Udolpho / Ann Radcliffe ; edited by Bonamy Dobrâee ; with an introduction and notes by Terry Castle

New ed

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

Abstract: 'Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds herself after Count Montoni, her evil guardian, imprisions her in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. As the same time, with its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters' psychological states, it often seems strangely modern: 'permanently avant-garde' in Terry Castle's words, and a profound and fascinating challenge to contemporary readers.

The nature of blood
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Phillips, Caryl.

The nature of blood / Caryl Phillips.

London : Vintage / Random House, 2008.

Abstract: A novel about personal crisis and momentous social conflict, Caryl Phillips sixth novel tells the inextricably linked stories of a young Jewish woman growing up in mid-twentieth-century Germany, and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth-century Venice. At the heart of these stories is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with similarity and difference, with blood. This is a novel about how we define ourselves and consequently, it is about the most dangerous and nightmarish aspects of our identity.

Animal farm: a fairy story.
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Orwell, George, (1903-1950.)

Animal farm: a fairy story.

London, Secker and Warburg, 1971.

Stone virgin
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Unsworth, Barry, (1930-)

Stone virgin / Barry Unsworth.

USA : Norton, 1995.

My House in Umbria
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Trevor, William

My House in Umbria / William Trevor

London : Penguin Books, 2000

The master
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Toibin, Colm

The master / Colm Toibin

London : Picador, 2004 poi: New York : Scribner, 2005

Abstract: It is January 1895 and Henry James's play Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make a fortune, has failed on the London stage. The Master opens with this disaster and takes James through the next five years, as having found his dream retreat, he moves to Rye in Sussex. It is there he writes his short masterpiece, The Turn of the Screw, in which he used much of his own life as an exile in England and a member of one of the great eccentric American families. He is impelled by the need to work and haunted by sections of his own past, including his own failure to fight in the American Civil War, the golden summer of 1865, and the death of his sister Alice. He is watchful and witty, relishing the England in which he has come to live and regretting the New England he has left.

The contemporary British novel
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Tew, Philip.

The contemporary British novel / Philip Tew.

2nd ed.

London ; New York : Continuum, 2007.

Abstract: Studies of the contemporary British novel often turn out not to be very contemporary at all. All too often the discussion is dominated by the literature of the immediate post-war years. Tew provides a fresh treatment of the theme by focusing on the work of authors who have made their reputation within the last two decades.

The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other tales of terror
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Stevenson, Robert Louis

The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other tales of terror / Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited by Robert Mighall.

London : Penguin Books, 2002.

Penguin classics

Abstract: Contains 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', The 'The Body Snatcher', and 'Olalla' Stevenson's story is one of the most famous works of horror fiction of all time and the names of Jekyll and Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of the split personality. As an exploration of the human potential for evil and bestiality, the story is very much a product of its time and this new edition reveals the scientific and literary context of Stevenson's work. 'The Body Snatcher' is charts the murky underside of Victorian medical practice and 'Olalla' is a tale of vampirism and 'the beast within' with a beautiful woman at its centre.

The great work of making real
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The great work of making real : Salman Rushdie's The ground beneath her feet / edited by Elsa Linguanti and Viktoria Tchernichova.

Pisa : Edizioni ETS, c2003.

The satanic verses
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Rushdie, Salman.

The satanic verses : a novel / Salman Rushdie.

New York : Picador, 1997.

David Copperfield
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Dickens, Charles

David Copperfield / Charles Dickens ; with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling.

Rev. ed.

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2004.

Penguin classics

Abstract: "Penguin Classics" give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens' novels, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens' life and notes that fill in the background to the book. "David Copperfield" is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are David's tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy, school-friend Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations.