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  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    by Thomas Hardy, Michael Irwin, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and ... Read more

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  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    by Lewis Carroll, Michael Irwin, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at CanterburyThis selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and ... Read more

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  • The Skull and the Nightingale

    A Novel

    by Michael Irwin ...
    Michael Irwin’s The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue and seduction, set in 18th-century England.When Richard Fenwick returns to London, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a sedate life in Worcestershire, but feels the urge to experience, even vicariously, the extremes of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Educating Boys

    by Michael Irwin ...
    According to the media and some concerned parents, boys are having greater trouble than ever with schooling. this book takes the refreshing counter position that boys are generally fine, and not inherently toxic creatures that need 'fixing'. What does need fixing, however, are some of the parenting and teaching practices and environments boys are placed in for schooling and social development. In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Picturing

    Description and Illusion in the Nineteenth Century Novel

    by Michael Irwin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    First published in 1979. Most of the great nineteenth century novelists strove to render in words the people and places that they invented and most readers of fiction picture in their imagination these characters and scenes. This book investigates both types of ‘picturing’, exploring the principles and problems concerned, and sheds light on the workings of fiction — reassessing a number of famous ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Children and Adolescents in Trauma

    Creative Therapeutic Approaches

    by Diane Cook, Terry Bruce, Christine Bradley, Kedar Nath Dwivedi, Paul Caviston, Joanne Nicholson, Chris Nicholson, Jacqueline Marshal-Tierney, Michael Irwin, Jane Saotome ...
    Series series Community, Culture and Change
    Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools.The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative methods are applied in cases of abuse, trauma, violence, self-harm and identity development. They ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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    The Skull and the Nightingale

    by Michael Irwin ...
    Narrated by Steve West ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 2 min

    Michael Irwin’s The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue and seduction, set in 18th-century England.When Richard Fenwick returns to London, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a sedate life in Worcestershire, but feels the urge to experience, even vicariously, the extremes of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Far from the Madding Crowd

    by Thomas Hardy ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    “They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”--- Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding CrowdFar from the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's ... Read more

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  • The Great Gatsby

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story is of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    Dead Simple

    Meet Roy Grace in This Pulse-Pounding Crime Thriller from the Multimillion-Copy Bestselling Author

    by Peter James ...
    Narrated by Daniel Weyman ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Roy Grace

    Unabridged

    11 hours 53 min

    Meet Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on his unforgettable first major case by award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman.It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared and his friends are dead.With only three days to the wedding, Roy Grace is contacted by the man’s distraught fiancée to unearth what happened on that fateful ... Read more

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  • The Fault in Our Stars

    by John Green ...
    Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author ... Read more

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  • Anna Karenina

    by Graf Leo Tolstoy ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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