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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 ...
    Far From The Madding Crowd (1874) is English writer Thomas Hardy's fourth novel.The novel is the first to be set in Hardy's fictional county of Wessex in rural south west England. It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. It describes the farmer Bathsheba Everdene, her life ... Read more

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  • The Great Gatsby

    [Illustrated Edition]

    by Francis Scott Fitzgerald ...
    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's ... Read more

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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

    $9.99 USD

  • Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy, Sam Vaseghi ...
    Translated by Constance Garnett ...
    "Anna Karenina" is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major ... Read more

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