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ISBN: 9780192802354 - Tragedy Tragedy
Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 0192802356  ISBN13: 9780192802354
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Aug 2005
Addressing questions about belief, blame, revenge, pain, witnessing, and ending; this Very Short Introduction demonstrates the enduring significance of attempts to make sense of terrible suffering. What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? More

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ISBN: 9780521691574 - The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 0521691575  ISBN13: 9780521691574
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Dec 2009
A survey of the most important British novelists of the past 250 years, for students of British fiction. In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles... More

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ISBN: 9780140434972 - Our Mutual Friend Bestseller Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 0140434976  ISBN13: 9780140434972
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Jun 1997
Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the lady's nature, John Harmon fakes his own death and takes on a new identity. As the complexities... More

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ISBN: 9781441187437 - Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden Becket Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden Becket
Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 144118743X  ISBN13: 9781441187437
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 22 Mar 2012
Focuses on Shakespeare's reception by modernist writers. This title offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and... More

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ISBN: 9780199538591 - What Maisie Knew What Maisie Knew
Henry James Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 019953859X  ISBN13: 9780199538591
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2008
The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. More

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ISBN: 9780199559190 - Washington Square Washington Square
Henry James Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 0199559198  ISBN13: 9780199559190
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Nov 2010
Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and is easily overwhelmed by the attentions of a handsome but penniless suitor. Her clever father is implacably opposed to the match, and the scene for a classic confrontation is set. This new edition of... More

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ISBN: 9780199538553 - The Aspern Papers and Other Stories The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 0199538557  ISBN13: 9780199538553
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 29 Jan 2009
An unscrupulous critic, determined to get his hands on the private papers of a great poet, finds himself duelling with the grim old lady who was once the poet's mistress and muse. Aspern's lost world of beauty and romance still seems to hand in... More

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ISBN: 9781903436714 - Shakespeare and the Victorians Shakespeare and the Victorians
Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 1903436710  ISBN13: 9781903436714
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd Arden Shakespeare
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Sep 2003
Adrian Poole's important new study examines the Victorians' obsession with Shakespeare, his impact on the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. Others have addressed aspects of the Victorian Shakespeare... More

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ISBN: 9780141441320 - The Ambassadors The Ambassadors
Henry James Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 0141441321  ISBN13: 9780141441320
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Mar 2008
Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs Newsome sends her 'ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined... More

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ISBN: 9780199555208 - The American The American
Henry James Adrian Poole

ISBN10: 0199555206  ISBN13: 9780199555208
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Jul 2009
'You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. More