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Coming SoonHorrors of Slavery and The Axe Laid to the Root
Robert Wedderburn was born under the lash in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaican plantation society, the illegitimate child of a plantation owner and an enslaved Black woman. Despite…
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Coming SoonThe Blood of the Vampire
In 1897, the British public’s appetite for Gothic speculative fiction showed little sign of waning, and there is perhaps no more famous example of Gothic…
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The Marrow of Tradition
An emotional tour de force, Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (1901) unfolds against the backdrop of the only successful coup d’état in US…
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Canadian Literatures in English: A Historical Introduction
The landmark anthology Canadian Literatures in English reflects the editors’ commitment to historical contextualization, cultural inclusion, and a nuanced understanding of critical debates over the…
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Coming SoonTwelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is one of the most important firsthand accounts of American slavery. Solomon Northup’s narrative recounts his extraordinary experience of being kidnapped…
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Coming SoonCanadian Literatures in English, Volume 2 – Second Edition
Canadian Literatures in English reflects the editors’ commitment to historical contextualization, cultural inclusion, and a nuanced understanding of critical debates over the long literary history…
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Coming SoonA Son of the Forest
The 1829 memoir A Son of the Forest, by Pequot author, activist, and Methodist minister William Apess, was the first published book-length memoir written by…
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Coming SoonThe Passion of Young Werther
First published in 1774, The Passion of Young Werther was a phenomenon, and had a profound influence on literature and culture on both sides of…
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Coming SoonHow to Read: A Twenty-First-Century Guide for Students
With reading having become more difficult for many than ever before, universities and colleges are focusing increasingly on the degree to which reading and writing…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Compact Edition, Volume A – Second Edition
Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its extraordinarily high quality, for its breadth, and for the deep…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Compact Edition, Volume B – Second Edition
Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its extraordinarily high quality, for its breadth, and for the deep…
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This Language, A River: Workbook — Second Edition
This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts.…
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This Language, A River: A History of English – Second Edition
This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts.…
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Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times
Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times launched the career of one of nineteenth-century America’s most influential writers and activists. Set during the first years of…
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Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year is the most vivid first-person account of a pandemic in the English language. The narrative professes to be…
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The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction takes a “broad view” of science fiction in terms of its histories, themes, forms, and communities. Covering over two…
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A Room with a View
This updated edition of E.M. Forster’s 1908 classic renders A Room with a View newly accessible to contemporary readers. What may appear to be a…
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The Essential Táin Bó Cúailnge and Other Stories from the Ulster Cycle
Táin Bó Cúailnge, frequently referred to as the Táin, is one of the most important works of medieval Irish literature and has been called the…
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Ward Six and Other Stories
This edition brings together seven medically-themed short stories by Anton Chekhov—a practicing physician as well as an accomplished writer who thought deeply about the relationship…
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The Country Wife
The notorious rake Harry Horner pretends to have succumbed to a venereal disease and thus become impotent in order to be allowed to spend time…
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Canadian Literatures in English, Volume 1 – Second Edition
Canadian Literatures in English reflects the editors’ commitment to historical contextualization, cultural inclusion, and a nuanced understanding of critical debates over the long literary history…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: One-Volume Compact – Second Edition
Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its breadth and its deep attention to literature’s historical and cultural…
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Victorian Poetry: An Anthology
The first new anthology of its kind in twenty years, Victorian Poetry provides generous selections of poetry both by well-known Victorian poets (Alfred Tennyson, Robert…
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The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
For more than two hundred years, Robinson Crusoe’s story was encountered by generations of readers as one text in two parts, such that the second…