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  • Vanity Fair

    by William Thackeray ...
    No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

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  • Wish Her Safe At Home

    by Stephen Benatar ...
    Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city—and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Unexpected Professor

    An Oxford Life in Books

    by John Carey ...
    Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Little History of Poetry

    by John Carey ...
    Series series Little Histories
    A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times“[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.’”—New York Times Book ReviewWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Essential Paradise Lost

    by John Carey ...
    After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit.Now it is little read. To bring readers back to Milton's masterpiece, John Carey has shortened it to a third of its original length. In this fascinating reinterpretation, Carey reveals new insights about Milton's sources of inspiration, while exploring divided ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • C++ Data Structures and Algorithm Design Principles

    Leverage the power of modern C++ to build robust and scalable applications

    by John Carey, Shreyans Doshi, Payas Rajan, Anil Achary ...
    Get started with C++ programming by learning how to build applications using its data structures and algorithmsKey FeaturesExplore data structures such as arrays, stacks, and graphs with real-world examplesStudy the trade-offs between algorithms and data structures and discover what works and what doesn'tDiscover how techniques such as bloom filters and multi-way heaps boost real-world ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Violent Effigy

    A Study of Dickens' Imagination

    by John Carey ...
    An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited. It shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence and a fanatical orderliness: he was attracted by characters who commit murder or burst into flame or ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • William Golding

    The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies

    by John Carey ...
    In 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every major publisher—until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to become Lord of the Flies, a book that would sell in the millions and bring Golding worldwide recognition.Golding went on to become one of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Translated by Joyce Crick ...
    Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires.The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Life Among the Apaches

    by John Carey Cremony ...
    John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett's boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance, particularly with the Apaches, whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Cremony's ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Duck Soup and Swansongs

    by John Carey ...
    ‘Witty, finely crafted, genuinely funny, Carey’s poems surprise with their clever double takes on society’s faults and foibles. At once erudite and bitingly topical, Carey has a keen eye for the humorous detail and the deeper resonances of global stupidity. Carey shows himself adept at both the brief political quip like the Tony Abbot-inspired “Captain’s Pick Haiku” or the longer reflective ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Re-Imagining Nature

    Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics

    by Timo Maran, Dermot Moran, Katherine M. Faull, Kathryn W. Shanley, Cynthia Radding, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Sarah Reese, Michael Oleksa, John Carey, Cary Wolfe ...
    Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study of the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD