Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-03-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.46
Review Shadows on Our Skin / Headline Review:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1989-02-23
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.02
Review How Many Miles to Babylon? / Penguin:
Authors
- Louisa M. Alcott
- et al
- Jerome K. Jerome
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-10-15
RRP: £19.99
Price: £16.09
Review Short Stories: The Nostalgia Collection (CSA Word Short Story Series) / CSA WORD:
Edition: New
Publication date: 1999-10-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.00
Review The Christmas Tree / Headline Review:
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.60
Review Finnegan's Wake (Norton, Riordan) / James Joyce:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.63
Review Three Men in a Boat (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Brian Wright
Publication date: 2005-10
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.94
Review My Life and Times: The Autobiography of Jerome K Jerome / Crimson Cats:
Publication date: 2008-11-13
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.73
Review Foolish Mortals / Headline Review:
Publication date: 2007-10-04
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.71
Review Foolish Mortals / Headline Review:
Creator: Elizabeth McGovern
Edition: Re-issue
Publication date: 2006-04
Dewey code: 813.4
RRP: £19.96
Price: £11.15
Review A Portrait of a Lady (Classic Literature with Classical Music) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-06-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.29
Review The Essential Jennifer Johnston: "Captains and the Kings", "Railway Station Man", "Fool's Sanctuary" / Headline Review:
Creator: Jim Norton
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £32.00
Price: £18.89
Review A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (The Complete Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Authors
- Alphonse Daudet
- Jerome K. Jerome
Publication date: 2006-05-15
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.93
Review Fry and Laurie Read Daudet and Jerome / CSA WORD:
Creator: Marcella Riordan
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-05-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £85.00
Price: £51.00
Review Ulysses (Modern Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.99
Price: £10.81
Review Ulysses / James Joyce:Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States-and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's astonishing command of the English language. Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is "What happens?" In the case of Ulysses, the answer could be "Everything". William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. [+]Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of inforgettable Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, loiter, argue and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream- of-consciousness technique-which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river- we're privy to their thoughts, emotions and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordion-folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism. Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent-that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call "Early Yeats Lite"- will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naïve curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" -James Marcus.
Creator: Ted Enik
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2001-09
RRP: £3.36
Price: £0.40
Review The Great Shark Escape (Magic School Bus Science Chapter Books) / Scholastic:
Publication date: 2005-11-07
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review Grace and Truth / Headline Review:
Creator: Hugh Laurie
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-06-19
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.16
Review Three Men in a Boat / CSA WORD:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-07-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.25
Review The Gingerbread Woman / Headline Review:In The Gingerbread Woman, Jennifer Johnston again demonstrates her ability to create memorable and affecting characters. Clara, who at 35 makes her living doing "odd jobs for newspapers", is recovering from a serious operation and spends her days wandering around the cliff tops at Dublin Bay. Like the The French Lieutenant's Woman, she stares out to sea, trying to rediscover the direction in her life. One rainy afternoon, she encounters Laurence (Lar), a teacher who has run away from his life in Northern Ireland as he tries to come to terms with a family tragedy. The novel describes how these two unconventional people form a fragile friendship. Alternating the narrative voice, Johnston lets their stories unravel gradually. Both characters are trying to come to terms with loss and the novel examines the contrasting ways they cope: Clara is self-depreciating and humorous but can't shake off the knowledge that haunts her; Lar is bitter and coiled, bottling up his pain in an ever-present anger. Johnston has no difficulty in keeping the reader intrigued as the plot is never a foregone conclusion. The Gingerbread Woman is a short book but not a light read-it investigates loss, tragedy, loneliness and apparent hopelessness but does not weigh the reader down in doing so. It also considers the complexities of emotions not always recognised or voiced and their impact on everyone involved. [+]This is a book that lingers. -Christina McLoughlin.
Creator: Jim Norton
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-05-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £24.99
Price: £14.83
Review Dubliners (Box Set) (Modern Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
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Shadows on Our Skin, How Many Miles to Babylon?, Short Stories: The Nostalgia Collection (CSA Word Short Story Series), The Christmas Tree, Finnegan's Wake (Norton, Riordan), Three Men in a Boat (Classic Fiction), My Life and Times: The Autobiography of Jerome K Jerome, Foolish Mortals, Foolish Mortals, A Portrait of a Lady (Classic Literature with Classical Music), The Essential Jennifer Johnston: "Captains and the Kings", "Railway Station Man", "Fool's Sanctuary", A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (The Complete Classics), Fry and Laurie Read Daudet and Jerome, Ulysses (Modern Classics), Ulysses, The Great Shark Escape (Magic School Bus Science Chapter Books), Grace and Truth, Three Men in a Boat, The Gingerbread Woman, Dubliners (Box Set) (Modern Classics) |
