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Price: £8.99
Pub date: 02/06/05 |
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Colossus
The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
Niall Ferguson
'Colossus confirms Niall Ferguson's standing as one of the most incisive writers of history, politics and economics today' Sunday Telegraph
Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards for territory and their successors spreading freedom across the world - at gunpoint if necessary. Yet is the US really equipped to play Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? America, Ferguson reveals, is now an empire running on empty, backing away from the crucial imperial commitments of time, money and manpower - and resting on perilous financial foundations. When the New Rome falls, its collapse may come from within.
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Price: £14.99
Pub date: 30/06/05 |
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The Command of the Ocean
A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
N. A. M. Rodger
'Superb … a truly satisfying book that one puts down with regret, but also with a sense that one has encountered a great work of history' Paul Kennedy, Sunday Times
In this gripping book, N. A. M. Rodger charts the nation's rise to mastery of the ocean with unprecedented authority and scholarship. HE tells the story not just of the great voyages and battles but also describes how ordinary men (and sometimes women) lived, worked and were fed at sea; brings to life figures such as Pepys, Nelson, St Vincent and Bligh; ranges over subjects from press gangs to pirates; and shows the crucial place of the Navy in the life of the British nation and government.
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Pub date: 30/06/05 |
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In Command of History
Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
David Reynolds
Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History
'Masterly … compelling … a fascinating study' Brendan Simms, Sunday Times
Churchill fought the war twice over - as Prime Minister and again as its premier historian. In 1948-54 he published six volumes of memoirs which secured his reputation and shaped our understanding of the conflict to this day.
Using the drafts and correspondence for The Second World War, David Reynolds opens our eyes to Churchill the author. We see how the memoirs were censored by Whitehall to conceal secrets such as the codebreakers at Bletchley Park, and how Churchill himself censored them to avoid offending current world leaders. This book illuminates an unjustly neglected period of Churchill's life - the Second Wilderness Years of 1945-51, when Churchill wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into Downing Street and delivered some of the most important speeches of his career. |
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Price: £6.99
Pub date: 30/06/05 |
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Cranford
Edited with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham
Elizabeth Gaskell
TA portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of vignettes, Elizabeth Gaskell portrays a community governed by old-fashioned habits and dominated by friendships between women. Her wry account of rural life is undercut, however, by tragedy in its depiction of such troubling events as Matty's bankruptcy, the violent death of Captain Brown or the unwitting cruelty of Peter Jenkyns. Written with acute observation, Cranford is by turns affectionate, moving and darkly satirical
In her introduction, Patricia Ingham discusses Cranford in relation to Gaskell's own past and as a work of irony in the manner of Jane Austen. She also considers the implications of the novel as to class and empire. This edition also includes further reading, notes and an appendix on the significance of 'Fashion at Cranford'. |
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Price: £10.99
Pub date: 30/06/05 |
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Early Socratic Dialogues
Translated with an introduction by Trevor Saunders
Plato
Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy. |
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Price: £9.99
Pub date: 30/06/05 |
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Master and Man and Other Stories
Translated and annotated by Ronald Wilks and Paul Foote with an introduction by Hugh McLean
Leo Tolstoy
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, 'What Men Live By' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and 'Two Old Men' shows a peasant abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his neighbours. And in the highly moving 'Master and Man', Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal - little realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker.
The translations by Paul Foote and Ronald Wilks are accompanied by an introduction by Hugh McLean, which places the stories in the context of Tolstoy's life and literary development. This edition also includes further reading, a chronology and notes. |
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Price: £8.99
Pub date: 28/07/05 |
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A Passage to India
Edited by Oliver Stallybrass with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra
E. M. Forster
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects.
A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. |
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Pub date: 28/07/05 |
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Maurice
Edited by David Leavitt
E. M. Forster
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970. Compellingly honest and beautifully written, it offers a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British society, and is at once a moving love story and an intimate tale of one man's erotic and political self-discovery.
The introduction, by David Leavitt, explores the significance of the novel in relation to Forster's own life and as a founding work of modern gay literature. This edition reproduces the Abinger text of the novel, and includes new notes, a chronology and further reading. |
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Price: £8.99
Pub date: 28/07/05 |
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Faust Part One
Translated with an introduction by David Constantine, and with a preface by A. S. Byatt
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death.
In this first part of Goethe's great work the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a life beyond his study and - in rejuvenated form - winning the love of the charming and beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire and self-delusion, Faust, served by the devil, heads inexorably towards destruction. |
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Price: £8.99
Pub date: 28/07/05 |
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The Prose Edda
Translated with an introduction, glossary and notes by Jesse Byock
Snorri Sturlson
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. It also preserves the oral memory of heroes, warrior kings and queens. In clear prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda provides unparalleled insight into the gods' tragic realization that the future holds one final cataclysmic battle, Ragnarok, when the world will be destroyed. These tales from the pagan era have proved to be among the most influential of all myths and legends, inspiring modern works as diverse as Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
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