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The threat of invasion brings three rival suitors into the life of Anne Garland at Overcombe Mill - John, the gentle trumpet-major, his lighthearted brother Bill, and the boorish Festus. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it.

In this proto-feminist novel two sisters confront society's preconceived ideas about morality and choose to live differently.

With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of three centuries of feminist intellectuals, each of whom possesses a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale. Focusing on paradigmatic figures ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller to Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag, preeminent scholar Elaine Showalter uncovers common themes and patterns of women's lives across the centuries and discovers the feminist intellectual tradition they embodied. The author brilliantly illuminates the contributions of Eleanor Marx, Zora Neale Hurston, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, and many more.Showalter, a highly regarded critic known for her provocative and strongly held opinions, has here established a compelling new Who's Who of women's thought. Certain to spark controversy, the omission of such feminist perennials as Gloria Steinem, Susan B. Anthony, Robin Morgan, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Virginia Woolf will surprise and shock the conventional wisdom.

Virgil was the greatest of the Roman poets and The Aeneid served as the model for all the Latin epics of the medieval period and then for the new classical epic of the Renaissance. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it.

Sophocles created these three tragedies in his 80s, when Athenian democracy was heading towards final defeat in the Peloponnesian War. The volume also includes his unfinished satyr-drama Trackers. This study edition contains both the texts and notes upon them.

The first of Wells's scientific romances, this novel combines social and political allegory with an attempt to predict the future.

In Merlin and Company, Cunqueiro creates a fantastical framework within which he evokes ancient myths and settings that are coloured by his own lively wit and perceptions. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it.

A modern day classic which has already been turned into a film in its native Spain, a rip-roaring tale of royal gossip, natural and national disasters, political and religious intrigue set amidst the pomp and splendour of the seventeenth-century Spanish court.

Young, rich and intelligent, Gallia Hamesthwaite embraces the dictates of reason and shuns the impulses of passion. She must choose between sensible rational marriage and sensual romantic love; but in pursuing the pleasure of a logical life, she must also endure the pain of emotional sacrifice.

Coriolanus is the playwright's last tragedy, telling of Caius Marcius, a proud Roman general who gains the name Coriolanus when he captures the town of Corioli in battle against the Volscians. This study edition contains both the text and commentary upon it.

Felix Holt, austere, idealistic, and passionate, is pitted against the self-satisfied local landlord Harold Transome in this story set in a Midland borough at the time of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. Every class of society is included in Eliot's vivid picture of political ferment.

This selection of Spenser's poems includes The Shepherd's Calendar, Colin Clout's Come Home Again, Amoretti and Epithalamion and Muiopotomos: Or, the Fate of the Butterfly. This study edition contains both the poems and commentary upon them.

Reflecting Conrads preoccupation with man's vulnerability and corruptibility, Lord Jim (1900) is set in the maritime world. The Patna is an ill-manned ship, sailing with a party of pilgrims. When the ship threatens to sink, Jim, the chief mate ultimately joins his cowardly crew in abandoning ship, leaving the passengers to fend for themselves. Jim is stripped of his papers and attempts to make up for his moment of folly with a life of atonement.

ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS tells the story of a miser's daughter who inherits a fortune. The choice of theme and Bennett's prose style owe much to the influence of the French realists.

A dazzling mind and driving ambition has carried Griffin into territory never before explored: he has discovered how to make himself invisible. What sacrifice now can be too great? Yet even as Griffin attains his dream, his nightmare begins.

Each book in the Everyman series has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology of life and times of the author, plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response.

With the death of Rose, painful memories are awakened for her younger sister Ella, forcing her to confront the tragic consequences of their family's guilt, its penchant for martyrdom and denial of romantic love. As Ella guides her niece through love, the past begins to repeat itself.

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts - a strike which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. Yet despite the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, Lantier retains his belief in the ultimate germination of a new society, leading to a better world. Germinal is a dramatic novel of working life, sexual desire, and everyday relationships, but it is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigour and power in this new translation.

Better known for the haunting melancholy of his tragic novels, Hardy(1840-1928) was also a great humorist and it is this aspect of his writing which is brought to the fore in The Lighter Hardy.This volume includes the novel Under the Green-Wood Tree and the story 'Our Exploits at West Poley'. Rustic lovers, skylarking schoolboys and a village choir are among those who people the pages of The Lighter Hardy;all are observed with Hardys usual acuteness and, here, a measure of indulgence as Hardy celebrates the quirks of human behavi

Set in the late 15th-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Macchiavelli and the Medicis, this story reconstructs a turning-point in the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic religious leader Savanarola. This is a study edition.

Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bronte, and, having been invited to write the official life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters, interviews, and observation, establishing the details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background. Through an often difficult and demanding process, Gaskell created a vital sense of a life hidden from the world. This edition, based on the revised Third Edition of 1857, collated with the manuscript and the First Edition, and taking account of the Second Edition, offers fuller information about the process of writing and fuller elucidation of the text than any previous edition. For the first time, all the French passages are translated, and detailed annotation covers biographical and historical material, references, and allusions.