Literature Primary Texts & Anthologies Books

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1. The Apple and the Spectroscope (Routledge Revivals)

   Being Lectures on Poetry Designed (in the main) for Science Students

   By T Henn

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1951, this book is based on a course of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge University during the long vacations of 1946-1950. A request for lectures of this kind came originally from a group of science students and the response was such that a course of this nature...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Elizabeth Gaskell and the English Provincial Novel

   By W. A. Craik

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1975, this book places Elizabeth Gaskell amongst the major novelists of the nineteenth-century. It considers how she has sometimes been overlooked, or admired for very few of her works, or for reasons that are not in fact central to her art. W. A. Craik looks at Gaskell’s...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
3. Clouds above the Hill

   A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1

   By Shiba Ryōtarō

   Edited by Phyllis Birnbaum

   Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed....

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Clouds above the Hill

   A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2

   By Shiba Ryōtarō

   Edited by Phyllis Birnbaum

   Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed....

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Romance of Arthur

   An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation, 3rd Edition

   Edited by Norris Lacy, James Wilhelm

   The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm’s classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian literature, and is expanded to cover: key...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Historians of Ancient Rome

   An Anthology of the Major Writings, 3rd Edition

   Edited by Ronald Mellor

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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