This title takes extracts and examines the four great Shakespearian tragedies, "Hamlet", "King Lear", "Othello" and "Macbeth", explaining how the critic can use particular techniques to bring out comp
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights took the literary world by storm when it was published in 1847. There had never been a novel like it, and it continues to cast a powerful spell over readers t
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The Nmap 6 Cookbook provides simplified coverage of network scanning features available in the Nmap suite of utilities. Every Nmap feature is covered with visual examples to help you quickly understan
Philip Larkin became an English institution in his own lifetime. However since his death in 1985, controversy has raged around his character and life. This book takes a fresh look at the poems, leadin
This study focuses on how Frankenstein works: how the story is told and why it is so rich and gripping. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examine
This study takes a fresh and candid look at Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders and Roxana. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical a
Daniel Defoe's writings have bred controversy since their first appearance in the eighteenth century: 'Robinson Crusoe' fuels virulent disagreements among critics, while Defoe's two scandalous women,
Focusing on Songs of Innocence and Experience, this book uses close analysis and interpretation of individual poems to build the reader's confidence when approaching Blake's lyrics. The new edition in
William Blake was ignored in his own time. Now, however, his Songs of Innocence and Experience and 'prophetic books' are widely admired and studied.The second edition of this successful introductory t
Dickens was an unprecedented phenomenon in his lifetime, drawing crowds of thousands to his professional readings in Britain and America, provoking demonstrations of public grief when his child-charac
How to Begin Studying English Literature has established itself as one of the most successful and popular introductory student guides in the field. This fourth edition has been fully revised and expan
Dickens was an unprecedented phenomenon in his lifetime, drawing crowds of thousands to his professional readings in Britain and America, provoking demonstrations of public grief when his child-charac
A unique and much-needed collection, The Smart Princess takes readers inside the fantasies, dreams and disappointments of young people who are deaf. This book is written and illustrated by winners of
Chuckle along with the best 19th-century humorists, who provide you with tall tales, puns, and witty ripostes. Seven of these twenty-seven gems are from Twain himself. No guarantees of political corre
