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Heart of Darkness – Ed. Goonetilleke – Third Edition
The first incarnation of this Broadview edition of Heart of Darkness appeared in 1995, the second in 1999; both were widely acclaimed, and the Goonetilleke…
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Heart of Darkness – Ed. Peters
Heart of Darkness is based upon Joseph Conrad’s own experience in the Congo; “it is,” as he remarks in his 1916 author’s note to Youth:…
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Henry V
Upon opening their expensive new book in 1623, buyers of the folio collection of William Shakespeare’s plays were promised The Life of Henry the Fift.…
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Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents
In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O’Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This…
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How to Be Good with Words
In recent decades, the contested areas of English usage have grown both larger and more numerous. English speakers argue about whether we should say man…
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How to Read (and Write About) Poetry – Second Edition
How to Read (and Write About) Poetry invites students and others curious about poetry to join the critical conversation about a genre many find a…
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Human Life and the Natural World
Human concern over the urgency of current environmental issues increasingly entails wide-ranging discussions of how we may rethink the relationship between humans and the rest…
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Illustrations of Political Economy
Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing.…
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In crafting her coming-of-age story,…
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Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents
This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of…
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Iola Leroy
Frances Harper’s fourth novel follows the life of the beautiful, light-skinned Iola Leroy to tell the story of black families in slavery, during the Civil…
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Irish-English Relations: A History in Documents
In 1919, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland noted that “there is a path of fatality which…
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Jack Sheppard
In London Labour and the London Poor (1861) Henry Mayhew wrote, “Of all books, perhaps none has ever had so baneful effect upon the young…
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Jane Eyre – Second Edition
Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication…
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Kelroy
Kelroy, a nearly-forgotten 1812 novel by Rebecca Rush, combines the refinement of the novel of manners with the Gothic novel’s hidden evil to tell the…
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King Lear
The text of the play included here, prepared by Craig Walker for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, has been acclaimed for its outstanding introductory…
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King Lear – Ed. Best & Joubin
King Lear is a play for our times. The central characters experience intense suffering in a hostile and unpredictable world. They face domestic cruelty, political…
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Laon and Cythna
Laon and Cythna is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most celebrated, and most controversial, literary works. At once philosophical treatise and love story, it follows…
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Le Morte Darthur: Selections
Arguably no medieval English literary work has had as far and wide a reach as Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur; among the many adaptations…
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon – Selected Writings
The work of ‘L.E.L.’ began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As…
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Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
“The art of travelling is only a branch of the art of thinking,” Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in one of her many reviews of works of…