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Why another classics series? Until now, there were only two options--to buy your chosen classic in an authoritative and academic but prohibitively expensive edition, or pick it up dirt cheap, but poorly printed, with the basic text presented in almost illegible print. Toby Classics introduce a better option: the world's most enduringly popular classics, newly reset, on quality paper in larger size (8½" x 5½"), edited with new introductory essays by respected academics in the field--at an affordable price. All titles are available in either paperback or durable library hardcover binding.
Emma by Jane Austen First published in 1816, Emma is generally regarded as Jane Austen's most technically brilliant and comic work. An heiress who is determined not to marry ends up falling in love. Emma Woodhouse is a snob, a meddler, and spoilt; but she is also clever, funny, generous, and compassionate. As in all of Jane Austen's works, the simple theme of courtship belies the complexity of her vision of human nature. With an introduction and chronology by Professor H.M.Daleski. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-04-4 8ľ"x5ľ US$9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-00-1 8˝"x5˝" US$7.95 More Info...
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Fanny Price is a poor relation, the eldest daughter of an inadvisable marriage, who grows up in her wealthy relatives’ household without ever being accepted as an equal. Her only real friend is her cousin Edmund, the younger of the family’s two sons. As the children attain adulthood, Mansfield Park becomes the scene of games, balls, and theatricals—but who will see timid Fanny as the eligible young woman that she is? With an introduction and chronology by Professor H.M.Daleski. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-044-3 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-045-1 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 More Info...
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." Published anonymously in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is a superb comedy of manners. In recounting the courtship of the witty, independent Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy--the handsome bachelor whose arrogant pride Elizabeth regards as a fatal flaw--Austen illuminates the prejudices of society as a whole with subtle humor. With an introduction and chronology by Professor H.M.Daleski. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-01-X 8ľ"x5ľ" US$9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-00-1 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Austen pursues a central theme; the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor, a sensible, rational creature, and Marianne wildly romantic - characteristics that offer Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-064-8 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-065-6 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info...
Major Voices: 18th Century Women Playwrights Michael Caines, ed. Since Virginia Woolf acclaimed the seventeenth-century poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn as both a proto-feminist figure and an important author in her own right, interest in the history of women's writing in English has grown enormously. The plays in this anthology show the range of work that women were writing for the stage, from immensely successful comedies about love and marriage to social satire, melodrama and tragedy, catering to general readers, students and theater practitioners alike. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-058-3 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-059-1 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info...
The Colonel's Dream by Charles W Chesnutt Around the turn of the twentieth century and after having achieved financial success in New York, Colonel French returns to his hometown of Clarendon, NC, determined to use his great wealth to bring about racial harmony through economic prosperity, in a south still reeling from the social upheaval of the Civil War. He devises schemes to bring jobs to all members of the community - without regard to 'race' - but underestimates the power of deep-seated racism to undermine his efforts. Written by the first African American writer to be given serious attention by the mainstream American literary establishment. ISBN 1 59264 062 1, paperback, $7.95 Publication date: April 2004 More info...
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The storming of the Bastille, the trundling death carts with their doomed human cargo, the chillingly merciless guillotine; this is the frenzied Paris in revolt that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With an introduction and chronology by Professor H.M.Daleski. ISBN 1 59264 042 7, paperback, $7.95 ISBN 1 59264 043 5, hardcover, $9.95 More info...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens A classic study of the development of a man from child to adult, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip's life with Dickens' customary wryness, wit, and ready sympathy. In the heady process of gaining his great expectations, Pip must come to terms not just with the world around him, but with himself; his hopes and dreams, his past and future, in order to discover what is truly important to him... With an introduction and chronology by Professor H.M.Daleski. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-10-9 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-09-5 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The gaunt, pathetic figure of orphan Oliver being refused more gruel has become a literary and cultural icon, embedded in the national consciousness as a searing image of poverty and helplessness. Full of vivid characterizations, biting irony and ghoulish humor, Oliver Twist is one of Dickens‚ most enduringly popular works. With an introduction and chronology by Professor H.M.Daleski. Library Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-07-9 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-06-0 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Major Voices: 18th Century Women Playwrights Sallyann H. Ferguson, ed. From their arrival in the country, African American women writers have developed a literary tradition based on their own experiences and have consistently resisted attempts by patriarchal men and, especially, matriarchal women to romanticize and redefine that heritage. The black American woman's literary self-portrait began to come into focus during nearly three centuries of legalized rape by white men and their designates and sharpened its features during the ensuing eras of Jim Crow segregation and civil rights... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-076-1 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-077-X 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 Publication date: November 2004 More Info...
Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery ed. by Dr Eric Gardner TThe stage was a vital force in nineteenth-century America-especially in the debates over slavery and race. For the first time, this Toby anthology brings together a selection of plays that shaped the ways in which the drama of slavery was performed in the American theatre... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-117-2, Pages: c.400, US$19.95, Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-118-0, Pages: c.400, US$14.95 Publication date: May 2005 More Info...
The Scarlet Letter & The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, a young woman in Puritan Boston who bears an illegitimate child and is sentenced to wear a red A. as a badge of shame. The House of the Seven Gables is the story of a distinguished New England family, the Pyncheons, who are troubled by a centuries-old curse... With an introduction by Professor Michael P. Kramer. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-13-3 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-12-5 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
The Golden Bowl by Henry James The Golden Bowl, Henry James' last completed novel, is a story of the union of European class and American money. American millionaire and widower Adam Verver lives with his daughter Maggie in Europe, where they spend their time collecting objet d'art and enjoying each other's company. Maggie becomes engaged to the aristocratic but penniless Amerigo, ignorant of the fact that Amerigo had previously had an affair with her best friend Charlotte... With an introduction by Professor Alide Cagidemetrio. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-046-X Pages: c.300 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-047-8 Pages: c.300 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 More Info...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Hank Morgan, nineteenth-century New Englander, is knocked on the head with a crowbar and wakes up to find himself in sixth century England, during the reign of King Arthur. Ever resourceful, he determines to be boss of the entire country within three weeks.... With an introduction by Professor Werner Sollers. ISBN 1 59264 048 6, paperback, $7.95 ISBN 1 59264 049 4, hardback, $9.95 More info...
*Frank J. Webb: Fiction, Essays & Poetry* Originally published in London in 1857, The Garies and their Friends is the first novel to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War Northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and "passing," and tells the story of the Garies and their friends the Ellises, a "highly respectable and industrious colored family." In addition to this new edition of The Garies, we are pleased to include new material by Webb, never before published in book form... Paperback: ISBN: 1 59264 098 2, USA $14.95, in UK Ł9.99, Hard Cover: ISBN: 1 59264 099 0, USA $19.95, in UK Ł14.99 Publication date: November 2004 More info...
*Walt Whitman: Collected Poetry & Prose* One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. His main collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 but was continually augmented and republished throughout his life. Whitmanˇ¦s poetry presents the physical body and the transcendent spiritual experience as innately interlinked. With an introduction by Professor Shira Wolosky. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-16-8 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Student Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-15-X 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Major Voices in 19th Century American Women's Poetry, Professor Shira Wolosky There are a number of anthologies of nineteenth-century American women poets in print, but these tend to offer a very small sample of poems from a very large number of writers, often based around a specific topical concern. Major Voices, will instead present a substantial number of texts by a select group of poets, focusing in depth on the major voices of that time. This anthology will thus allow the reader the opportunity to engage more deeply with the poetry; to see the range within each poet's writings, and the relation among the poets. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-040-0 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-041-9 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...