Introduction, notes and activities by Brian Hodgkiss. Acknowledged as Wilde\"s most perfect comedy, brilliant and subversive, The Importance of Being Earnest has even been considered to anticipate the \"drama of the absurd\" of the......

The publication in 1890 of Wilde\'s only novel led to a furious public debate over art and morality. Dorian Gray\'s double life in elegant high society and in London\'s most degraded slums express the essence of aestheticism and fin de siecle decadence and shows up the hypocrisies of Victorian society....

This collection of three of Stevenson\'s stories (\'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\', \'Markheim\' and \'The Body Snatcher\') analyses the moral fibre of Victorian society and highlights the conflict between good and evil: man’s social, civilised, rational being versus his egotistic, instinctive, sensual self....

Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin....

Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin....

Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin....

Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English. The \'English\' literature of the ex-colonies is proving to be the most interesting and innovative of our times: this volume offers a significant example of its vitality and originality....

Introduction, notes and activities by Guido Carboni Horror (\'The Fall of the House of Usher\' and \'William Wilson\'), detection (\'The Murders in the Rue Morgue\') and the bizarre (\'The Devil in the Belfry\') all feature in this selection of eight stories by Poe – displaying his sense of humour and an understanding of the complexities of the ...

Introduction, notes and activities by Dorothea Barret In the second half of the 19th century, the British Empire, was at its greatest. Imperialism left a lasting mark on Great Britain itself as well as on the ex-colonies....

Selection, introduction, notes and activities by John Douthwaite These stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, R....