Literature Primary Texts & Anthologies Books

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1. The Lives of Jonathan Swift

   Edited by Daniel Cook

   Contemporaries were mesmerized by the outrageous wit of Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), a writer still widely regarded as the greatest satirist of all time. Soon after Swift’s death, his friends and enemies raced to publish the definitive account of the Dean of St Patrick’s. Now, Routledge brings these...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
2. Les Liaisons Dangereuses

   By Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

   Series: Routledge Classics

   ‘I resolved to write a book which would create some stir in the world and continue to do after I had gone from it.’ - Choderlos de Laclos A great sensation at the time of first publication, Les Liaisons Dangereuses reads as much the most 'modern' of eighteenth-century novels. Viewed by some...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
3. Lancelot-Grail: 5 Volumes (Routledge Revivals)

   The Old French Vulgate & Post-Vulgate Cycles in Translation

   Edited by Norris Lacy

   Series: Routledge Revivals: Lancelot-Grail

   The Arthurian episodic romance, which includes the love story of Lancelot and Guinevere and the Quest for the Grail are enduringly popular tales, but ones with a very complex history. These five volumes collect together and offer translations of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (also known as the Vulgate...

   Published April 19th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies 6 vols

   Edited by David Hopkins, Stuart Gillespie

   This collection is a facsimile reprint of the initial publication of the Tonson miscellanies (in the first four of which Dryden played a prominent role as contributor, editorial adviser, and recruiter of contributors). In 1679 the enterprising young publisher Jacob Tonson entered into a...

   Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge
5. Beautiful Angiola

   The Lost Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Laura Gonzenbach

   Published October 26th 2005 by Routledge
6. The Robber with a Witch's Head

   More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach

   By Jack Zipes, Laura Gonzenbach

   The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller's dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes....

   Published July 27th 2004 by Routledge
7. The Historians of Ancient Rome

   An Anthology of the Major Writings, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Ronald Mellor

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   Published July 13th 2004 by Routledge
8. Alain Chartier

   The Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy

   Edited by Joan E. McRae

   Series: Routledge Medieval Texts

   Belle dame sans merci (Beautiful lady with no mercy) (1424) is not readily available in moden English translation elsewhere, making this an essential addition to any library with a medieval literature or French literature collection....

   Published June 27th 2004 by Routledge
9. William Tyndale

   Selected Writings

   By William Tyndale

   Edited by David Daniell

   Series: Fyfield Books

   Published January 25th 2004 by Routledge
10. Reading Early Modern Women

    An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700

    Edited by Helen Ostovich, Elizabeth Sauer

    Published December 8th 2003 by Routledge