Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition’s transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections such as, but are not limited to, comparis...

"The Trial" is Franz Kafka's dark and disturbing tale of a mild-mannered bank clerk named Josef K. who is arrested, hauled before a court and threatened with imprisonment¿all without knowing any of the charges against him.Both an absurdist story of bureaucracy run amok and a satiric take on the vagaries of the justice system, Kafka's manuscript for "The Trial" was almost lost to history after Kafka's death when he ordered in his will that all his writings should be destroyed. But t...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Ann Radcliffe was an English author best known for her Gothic novels. Radcliffe is considered one of the founders of the Gothic literature and her classic books helped popularize the genre. Radcliffe's best known work is The Mysteries of Udolpho which is a...

Peter Abelard is Waddell's evocation of medieval Paris, and gripping account of this tragic love story, set amidst theological disputations. This historical novel was first published in 1933. It was critically well received then and became an instant bestseller. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using th...

LEARN HOW TO WRITE ROMANTIC FICTION WHICH TAKES THE BREATH AWAY.Do you want to capture the share of the fastest growing market in fiction?Do you have a compelling vision for a passionate love story?Masterclass: Write Romantic Fiction is designed for anyone who wants to write in this genre of popular fiction, whatever their focus. It is the only book available to cover the new and increasingly diverse sub-genres in romance to give insight int...

Dracula Unearthed takes the lid off Stoker's most famous novel. With the aid of 3,400 textual endnotes and annotations, new light is shed on its sources, characters and structure. Stoker never went to Transylvania, so how could he describe it so graphically? Prior to Dracula, he had never written about vampires, so how could he make them so believable? Contemporary critics seemed oblivious to Dracula's sexual undercurrents, so how did he disguise its eroticism? These and many other questions ...

An English author of detective fiction. Bailey wrote mainly short stories featuring a medically-qualified detective called Reggie Fortune. Although Mr Fortune is seen at his best in short stories, he also appears in several novels. Includes an active table of contents so you can easily navigate to each book.Table of ContentsThe Highwayman (1917)Call Mr. Fortune (1920)Call Mr. Fortune (1920)-As a doctor, "Reggie" is a delightful fellow. As an efficient a...

Frankenstein was first released in 1818 anonymously.The credit for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s authorship first occurred in 1823 when a French edition was published. A year earlier, Mary’s revolutionary husband, the influential poet, dramatist, novelist, and essayist Percy Bysshe Shelley, died.The same year Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (its full title) was first published, so was another work by Mary’s husband that shares use of the word Prome...

Readers and critics have been intrigued - and disturbed - by the characters of Wuthering Heights since its publication in 1847. Heathcliff and Catherine, the tormented and enigmatic lovers at the centre of the novel, have justifiably been the focus of critical attention. Yet the novel is peopled with a large cast of idiosyncratic characters, each of whom plays a significant role in the plot. This novel, with its references to physiognomy and monomania, its interest in dre...

Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction BookIn 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world’s leading scholars. The essays analyze Stoker’s orig...

An American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.ContentsA Cigarette-Maker's Romance (1894)Saracinesca (1887)Man Overboard! (1903)The Little City of Hope (1907)Paul Patoff (1887)Casa Braccio (1894)Khaled, A Tale of Arabia (1891)Mr. Isaacs (1882)In the Palace of the King (1900)Cecil...

Jason has lost everything. He finally has the college to himself. There isn't anybody from his past to ruin the character he’s created for himself anymore. It’s just him. The funeral is only a few days away. He blames himself. He can hardly see through the darkness of the guilt he’s feeling. Then there’s Lisa. Lisa is the light in the darkness. Lisa is the way back to the daylight. Lisa is the girl that he’s always been looking for and he can't believe it’s taken him so long to realize tha...