Neville Jason

This updated authoritative edition of the classic Hardy novel, which was published anonymously and first attributed to George Eliot, is set from Hardy's revised, unedited final draft of 1912 and features a new Introduction and Afterword. There is in England no more real or typical district than Thomas Hardy's imaginary Wessex, the scattered fields and farms of which were first discovered in Far from the Madding Crowd. It is here that Gabriel Oak observes...

English translation of the first installment of the French author's multi-volume autobiographical novel, published in 1913. "This first book of Proust's supreme seven-volume masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past), recalls the early youth of Charles Swann in the small provincial backwater of Combray as seen through the eyes of the narrator. It then shifts to Swann himself, now a man of fashion caught up in the glittering...

'The Tempest' has long been regarded as Shakespeare's swan-song, though recent chronologies suggest he went on to compose 'Henry VIII' and 'The Two Noble Kinsmen' after. In its first publication (in the First Folio of 1623), 'The Tempest' appears in the 'Comedies' section. In modern criticism, it is more likely to be described as a 'late play' (written towards the end of what we perceive to be Shakespeare's writing career, c. 1607-13) or a 'romance'...