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London : Penguin books, 2012
Abstract: Jane Austen's sparkling and flawless comic masterpiece is the story of Emma Woodhouse- rich, charming, spoilt, obsessed with matchmaking and blind to everyone's faults - including her own. Although Austen described Emma as a character 'whom no one but myself will much like', her wit and her gradual self-realization make her one of the author's most remarkable, believably imperfect heroines.
Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
London : HarperCollins, 2010
Abstract: A young man in 1820s London who expects to be reared by a rich patron and to marry a wealthy young woman finds his hopes dashed.
Hard times for these times / Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint
London : Penguin books, c2003
Hard times for these times / Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction by David Craig
London : Penguin books, c2003
London : Penguin books, 2001
Abstract: William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Carey. No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia Sedley, however, longs only for the caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is William Dobbin, devoted to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. Set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, Thackeray's 'novel without a hero' is a lively satirical journey through English society, exposing greed, snobbery and pretension. This edition follows the text of Thackeray's revised edition of 1853.John Carey's introduction identifies Vanity Fair as a landmark in the development of European Realism, and as a reflection of Thackeray's passionate love for another man's wife. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman, but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in (1847-1848). If you enjoyed Vanity Fair you might like Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami, also available in Penguin Classics. Vanity Fair has strong claims to be the greatest novel in the English language. It is also the only English novel that challenges comparison with Tolstoy's War and Peace. (John Carey)
London : Penguin books, 2001
Abstract: William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Carey. No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia Sedley, however, longs only for the caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is William Dobbin, devoted to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. Set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, Thackeray's 'novel without a hero' is a lively satirical journey through English society, exposing greed, snobbery and pretension. This edition follows the text of Thackeray's revised edition of 1853.John Carey's introduction identifies Vanity Fair as a landmark in the development of European Realism, and as a reflection of Thackeray's passionate love for another man's wife. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman, but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in (1847-1848). If you enjoyed Vanity Fair you might like Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami, also available in Penguin Classics. Vanity Fair has strong claims to be the greatest novel in the English language. It is also the only English novel that challenges comparison with Tolstoy's War and Peace. (John Carey)
Middlemarch : a study of provincial life / George Eliot
Köln : Könemann, c1997
Harmondsworth : Penguin books, 1994
Harmondsworth : Penguin books, 1994
Harmondsworth : Penguin books, 1994
Middlemarch / George Eliot ; edited by Rosemary Ashton
Harmondsworth : Penguin books, 1994
Middlemarch / edited with an introduction by David Carroll
Oxford : Oxford University press, 1988
L'amante di Lady Chatterley / David H. Lawrence ; prefazione di Guido Almansi
Milano : Rizzoli, 1988
Vanity fair / William Thackeray ; edited with an introduction by J. I. M. Stewart
Harmondsworth : Penguin books, 1985
Middlemarch / edited by W. J. Harvey
Harmondsworth : Penguin books, 1985
Hard times / by Charles Dickens ; introduction by Robert Donald Spector
New York : Bantam books, 1981
Lady Chatterley's lover / [by] D. H. Lawrence ; with an introduction by Richard Hoggart
Harmondsworth : Penguin books, 1960
Inghilterra senza impero : la società, i costumi, i personaggi, il potere
Milano : Garzanti, 1960