With an Introduction Bibliography & Glossary by Michael Irwin Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson & Browning He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later when Eliot & Yeats were the leading names in the field His extraordinary stamina & a consistent individuality of style & vision made him a survivor immune to literary fashion At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did even in his own lifetime He is now recognised not only as a great poet but as one who is widely loved He speaks with directness humanity & humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike ...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex W B Yeats was Romantic & Modernist mystical dreamer & leader of the Irish Literary Revival Nobel prizewinner dramatist & above all poet He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems T S Eliot one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them' For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century & the twentieth century Yeats's work is essential This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times Paradoxical proud & passionate Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever ...

With an Introduction by Antonia Till William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth & he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan & neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century He sought to write in the language of ordinary men & women of ordinary thoughts sights & sounds & his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art Wordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy & his wife Mary by whom he had four children His remarkable autobiographical poem ' The Prelude' was completed in 1805 but was not published until after his death & it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth's poetry ...

New to Penguin Classics the remarkable devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich dark collection of her collected stories Her fictional world is haunted by her own painful memories of cheap hotels & drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities always on the periphery & always perilously close to the abyss Rendered in extraordinarily vivid honest prose these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers & offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel Wide Sargasso Sea This volume

Includes:: all the stories from her three collections The Left Bank (1927) Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) & Sleep It Off Lady (1976)

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With an Introduction & Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin San Francisco State University Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story Born in Wellington New Zealand in 1888 she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College & returned permanently in 1908 her first book of stories In a German Pension appeared in 1911 & she went on to write & publish an extraordinary body of work This edition of The Collected Stories brings together all of the stories that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923 With an introduction & head-notes this volume allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early satirical stories set in Bavaria through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand & through the mature deeply felt stories of her last years Admired by Virginia Woolf in her lifetime & by many writers since her death Katherine Mansfield is one of the great literary artists of the twentieth century ...

The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin&s prose fiction contains all his mature work In addition to & The Captain&s Daughter& & & The Tales of Belkin& the volume now

Includes:: many more short pieces & & The History of Pugachev& a vivid account of an eighteenth-century Russian rebellion Pushkin&s prose tales are the foundation stones of Russian literature They made possible the great achievements of Dostosvsky Tolstoy & Chekhov But they are also of course brilliant & fascinating in their own right At this volume makes clear Pushkins is one of the world&s great story-tellers& direct dramatic tender with the author &s voices always peruasively present Paul Debreceny&s highly acclaimed translation was first published in 1983 The Everyman edition is published to coincide with the Bicentenary of Pushkin&s birth on 26th May 1999

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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist & man of action He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS & A FAREWELL TO ARMS But he was equally prolific as a writer of short stories which touch on the same themes as the novels war love the nature of heroism reunciation & the writer's life The present collection

Includes:: all Hemingway's shorter fiction arranged chronologically from ' Up in Michigan' (1923) to ' Old Man at the Bridge (1938) & contains stories not currently available in any other UK edition of Hemingway's work's

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The definitive collection of short stories from the century's greatest science fiction writer All of Arthur C Clarke's short stories collected in one volume beginning with TRAVEL BY WIRE
- Clarke's first ever published short story A volume which showcases his range & variety each story a classic example of the unique mixture of speculation & fiction which has made Clarke a household name
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Here are all Grace Paley's classic stories in one volume From her first book THE LITTLE DISTURBANCES OF MAN (1959) to ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE (1974) & LATER THE SAME DAY (1985) Grace Paley's quirky boisterous characters & rich use of language have won her readers' hearts & secured her place as one of America's most accomplished short story writers Her stories are united by her signature interweaving of personal & political truths her extraordinary capacity for empathy & her pointed depiction of the small & large events that make up daily life ...

Katherine Mansfield's clear & perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre This collection represents the whole range of her writing from short sharp studies to longer richer tales encompassing her three major volumes Bliss The Garden Party & In a German Pension along with fifteen unfinished stories published after her death 816 pages Mansfield Katherine ...