Author: Desmond CokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Pamela Herself
Author: Desmond CokeGrand Union
Author: Zadie SmithPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525559000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal! A dazzling collection of short fiction Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us. Nothing is off limits, and everything—when captured by Smith’s brilliant gaze—feels fresh and relevant. Perfectly paced and utterly original, Grand Union highlights the wonders Zadie Smith can do.
Pamela, Or, Virtue Rewarded
Author: Samuel RichardsonThe Novels of Samuel Richardson, Esq. Viz. Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles Grandison
Author: Samuel RichardsonBelle Pamela
Author: Lucy Emily Madeline EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Pamela. v.5-13. Clarissa Harlowe. v.14-20. Sir Charles Grandison
Author: Samuel RichardsonThe Novels of Samuel Richardson, Esq. Viz. Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles Grandison. In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Life of the Author
Author: Samuel Richardson (the Novelist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded ... The thirteenth edition. To which are prefixed, Extracts from several curious letters written to the editor on the subject
Author: Samuel RichardsonThe Anti-Pamela
Author: Eliza HaywoodPublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513294415
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
The Anti-Pamela: Or, Feign'd Innocence Detected (1741) is a novel by Eliza Haywood. Blending tragedy and comedy, Haywood explores the intersection of gender and class to reveal how women perform and experience desire. Written in response to Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded, a novel in which a young girl resists the advances of her wealthy employer and eventually marries him honorably, Haywood’s novel flips the portrayal of static feminine desire on its head. Unlike Pamela, her protagonist is an anti-heroine who wields her sexuality for the purpose of social mobility, showing resilience and determination despite her repeated failures. Syrena Tricksy knows what she wants from men. To get it, she disguises herself as an unmarried aristocrat, a mistress, a widow, and a libertine, each time in pursuit of a wealthy nobleman to marry. Playing these parts with ease, she frequently gets in her own way, failing at the last moment through carelessness and greed. Resourceful and independent, Syrena is a character at odds with the stereotypical portrayal of feminine sexuality. She may not be perfect, but she is never passive. As a parody of Samuel Richardson’s popular novel of morality, The Anti-Pamela: Or, Feign'd Innocence Detected lampoons the unrealistic character at the heart of Pamela, a woman who gets what she wants through virtue alone. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Eliza Haywood’s The Anti-Pamela: Or, Feign'd Innocence Detected is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author: Samuel Richardson