Politics & Social Sciences

Jane Austen is arguably the finest female novelist who ever lived and Pride and Prejudice is arguably the finest, and is certainly the most popular, of her novels. An undoubted classic of world literature, its profound Christian morality is all too often missed or wilfully overlooked by today's (post)modern critics. Yet Austen saw the follies and foibles of human nature, and the frictions and fidelities of family life, with an incisive eye that penetrates to the very heart of the human condition. This edition of Austen's masterpiece includes an introduction by Professor Christopher Blum and several insightful critical essays by leading Austen scholars.

Life Your Way: Refresh Your Approach to Success and Breathe Easier in a Fast-paced World is a breath of fresh air in the crowded self-help market. Unlike the hundreds of existing personal and professional improvement books boasting idealistic and fleeting relief from modern pressures -- Have, Do and Be It All in Ten Easy Steps! Reinvent Yourself By Friday! - this timely book teaches a practical, reality-based, and enduring program for staying grounded and encouraged amid the overwhelm of our hectic modern age. Author Amy Wood, Psy.D., a seasoned psychologist with wide-ranging experience in understanding and facilitating healthy adult development, offers a real solution to our national stress problem by showing you how to embrace the realities of our perpetually overwhelmed culture and go within to restructure and update your fundamental approach to personal and professional success on your terms. Using inspiring examples from her life and work, the author communicates in a conversational style the psychological theory and social context behind her recommendations, making this a simultaneously sophisticated, stimulating, and down to earth self-help read. This immensely engaging and enjoyable book is suitable for consumers as well as counselors and coaches wishing to use the book to guide their clients.

Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become projections of Dickens himself.

In Carroll's masterpiece, Alice disappears down a rabbit hole and meets many unusual characters (Two 90-minute cassettes).

Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror."

A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.

Klein, who is known for getting the inside scoop on everyone from the Kennedys to the Clintons, reveals never-before-published details about the Obama administration's political inner workings, as well as Barack and Michelle's personal lives.

"Wuthering Heights" seems bafflingly unlike other novels yet constantly speaks to popular imagination. This edition for students and teachers engages with some of the key issues in contemporary critical theory.

Robert Louis Stevenson's cherished, unforgettable adventure magically captures the thrill of a sea voyage and a treasure hunt through the eyes of its teenage protagonist, Jim Hawkins. Crossing the Atlantic in search of the buried cache, Jim and the ship's crew must brave the elements and a mutinous charge led by the quintessentially ruthless pirate Long John Silver. Brilliantly conceived and splendidly executed, it is a novel that has seized the imagination of generations of adults and children alike. And as David Cordingly points out in his Introduction, Treasure Island is also the best and most influential of all the stories about pirates.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Published by W. W. Norton and Company, New York, 1962, written by Charles Dickens, Edited by Doris Dickens.