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  • Ruritania

    A Cultural History, from The Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries

    by Nicholas Daly ...
    This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of Ruritania to foil a coup, but faces a dilemma when he falls for the lovely Princess Flavia. Hope's novel inspired stage and screen ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City

    Paris, London, New York

    by Nicholas Daly ...
    Series Book 97 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narratives and images of urban life circulated among them, including fantasies of urban catastrophe, crime dramas, and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Modernism and Colonialism

    British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939

    by Nicholas Daly ...
    This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Bringing postcolonial studies into dialogue with modernist studies, the contributors move beyond depoliticized appreciations of modernist aesthetics as well as the dismissal of literary modernism as irredeemably complicit in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Snake's Pass

    A Critical Edition

    by Bram Stoker, Mark Doyle, William Hughes, Nicholas Daly, Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    In 1890, The Snake’s Pass was published in serialized form in the periodical The People. It is the story of Arthur Severn, an Englishman who has inherited wealth and a title through an aunt who took him under her wing to the exclusion of closer relations. His inheritance includes land in Ireland, and now that he is a man of leisure, he decides to tour the west of Ireland. As Bram Stoker’s first ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Study in Scarlet

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Darryl Jones ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.' In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, an army doctor home on sick leave, for the first time. Through Watson we learn a little about the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

    by E. W. Hornung ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Art for art's sake is a vile catchword, but I confess it appeals to me' Gentleman by day and thief by night, A. J. Raffles lives a double life. Taking 'Art for art's sake' as his motto, Raffles supports his debonair lifestyle by performing lucrative, artistic, and ingenious burglaries of the wealthy elite of Victorian London. Dedicated to his brother-in-law Arthur Conan Doyle, Hornung's first ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Prisoner of Zenda

    by Anthony Hope ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be ... But is love the only thing?' Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a mythical pocket kingdom. Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll closely resembles the King of Ruritania, and to foil a coup by his rival to the throne, he is persuaded to impersonate him for a day. However, Rassendyll's ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Scarlet Pimpernel

    by Emma Orczy ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Is he in heaven?-Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel? Sir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but in abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask him, Percy's estranged, independent wife, Marguerite, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Elusive Pimpernel

    by Baroness Emmuska Orczy ...
    The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Sea Adventure Books of All Time

    by Jules Verne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Jeffery Farnol, Randall Parrish, Jack London, Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Walter Scott, Ralph Henry Barbour, Daniel Defoe, Rudyard Kipling, Frederick Marryat, Rafael Sabatini, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, R. M. Ballantyne, Tobias Smollett, Thomas Mayne Reid, R. L. Stevenson ...
    The Greatest Sea Adventure Books of All Time navigates the tumultuous waters of maritime fiction with a collection that sails through centuries of literary exploration and daring escapades. This anthology showcases a rich tapestry of sea adventures, each woven with threads of mystery, peril, and the indomitable human spirit. The stories, ranging from haunting tales of the unknown to epic quests ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sign of the Four

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Prof Darryl Jones ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.' Mary Morstan receives a large pearl through the post once a year without any clue as to the sender. When her intriguing correspondent requests a meeting, Holmes and Watson take on the case. Together the trio race through London to uncover the secrets of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Hound of the Baskervilles

    by Darryl Jones, Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!' The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the ancestral Curse of the Baskervilles, which summons a demonic hound to stalk the moor and exact vengeance for a past misdeed, or is there a more ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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