With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.

Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives a...

The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount – read ‘Landscape and Memory’ to have these explained… ‘Landscape and Memory’ is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our relationship with the landscape around us – rivers, mountains, forests – the impact each of them has had on our culture and imaginations, and the way in which we, in turn, have shaped them to answer our needs. This is not a conventional history b...

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Since its first publication in 1991 Richard Tuck's edition of Leviathan has been recognised as the single most accurate and...

'Writing for Advanced Learners of English' is for advanced learners of English language and literature. The four sections guide students from aspects of accuracy and writing within given frameworks to open-ended, creative activities.

An understanding of spectroscopic techniques in the analysis of chemical structures is essential to all chemistry degree courses. This new addition to the Oxford Chemistry Primers series provides the essential material needed by undergraduates, in a compact form. It will be beneficial to postgraduates in organic chemistry as reference material in their daily research.

« Le haut plateau granitique du Limousin fut l'un des derniers refuges de l'éternité. Des êtres en petit nombre y répétaient le rôle immémorial que leur dictaient le sang, le sol et le rang. Puis le souffle du temps a touché ses hauteurs. Ce grand mouvement a emporté les personnages et changé le décor. On a tâché de fixer les dernières paroles, les gestes désormais perdus de ce monde enfui. »

Entre 1176 et 1181, Chrétien écrivit un roman consacré à Lancelot du Lac. Le Chevalier de la Charrette accable le plus magnifique chevalier de la cour d'Arthur d'un surnom méprisant, en l'associant à la charrette d'infamie réservée aux assassins et aux voleurs, dans laquelle le héros monte pourtant afin de retrouver sa bien-aimée. Quel forfait a-t-il commis, vers quel destin va-t-il, s'interrogent les foules rencontrées sur le chemin de son humiliation ? Comme un mauvais augure, to...

Voor de niet-geoefende poëzielezer is een gedicht vaak een moeilijk te doorgronden geheel. Het ontbreekt de lezer soms aan bekendheid met het instrumentarium van de dichter en met de effecten die met dit instrumentarium beoogd worden.

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.

What increasingly affects all of us, whether professional planners or individuals preparing for a better future, is not the tangibles of life-bottom-line numbers, for instance-but the intangibles: our hopes and fears, our beliefs and dreams. Only stories-scenarios-and our ability to visualize different kinds of futures adequately capture these intangibles.

In The Art of the Long View, now for the first time in paperback and with the addition of an all-new User's Guide, Peter Schwartz outlines...