In the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade. No one felt this more keenly than authors from Ireland, Scotland, and the United States who struggled to establish their own national literary traditions while publishing in the English metropolis. Authors such as Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Walter Scott, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper devised a range of strategies to transcend the natio ...
"In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories , originally published in 1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works War and Peace and Anna Karenina . The compelling stories in this collection have largely been ignored by contemporary scholars and teachers because of their general unavailability. Available once again, the stories reveal new thematic and stylisitic dimensions to Tolstoy's oeuvre. While n ...
At his peak, about the time this collection was first published in 1910, Jack London was the highest-paid and perhaps the most popular living American writer. Lost Face consists of seven short works, including the title story and his finest and best-known short story, «To Build a Fire.» Now in paperback for the first time, this collection appears as it was originally published. Jack London grew up in poverty, educated himself through public l ...
Terminations is Henry James's most thematically unified collection of stories. Gathered in 1895, and following his fascination with the supernatural in the 1880s, this elegant collection explores the sadness of loss, both physical and spiritual, and finds James at his introspective best, while providing a glimpse of how the author dealt with death in his own life. The collection consists of four stories: «The Death of the Lion,» in which ...
Gedichte scheinen ein aus der Zeit gefallenes Relikt vergangener Epochen zu sein. Doch noch immer wohnt poetischen Zeilen ein ganz eigener Charme inne, insbesondere dann, wenn sie einem geliebten Menschen gewidmet sind. Liebesgedichte fuhren den Leser in die Gefuhlswelt des Verfassers, konnen beruhren und den Moment verzaubern. Wer schon einmal versucht hat, gro?en Gefuhlen in einem Liebesgedicht Ausdruck zu verleihen, wei? um die Schwierigkeit, ...
Though most widely known for the novella The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. Over the course of his career, Fitzgerald published more than 160 stories in the period's most popular magazines. His second short fiction collection, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. One, «M ...
Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them—least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagingly written study, Jeffrey Freedman examines one of the most important axes of the transnational book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the ci ...
