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Wide Sargasso Sea

1999
An annotated edition of Jean Rhys's novel centered upon Bertha, the Jamaican madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; includes several of Rhys's letters, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and works of criticism discussing such aspects of the novel as colonialism, race, and Caribbean culture.

Adrienne Rich's poetry and prose

poems, prose, reviews, and criticism
1993
Presents an annotated selection of poems and prose writings by twentieth-century American author Adrienne Rich, and includes thirteen reviews and interpretations of her work.

Winesburg, Ohio

authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
1996
Contains the text of the novel by Sherwood Anderson along with his letters and memoirs, as well as several critical reviews by Anderson's contemporaries.

Anton Chekhov's short stories

texts of the stories, backgrounds, criticism
1979
A collection of thirty-five short stories by nineteenth-century Russian author Anton Chekhov, drawn from throughout his creative career.

Katherine Mansfield's selected stories

the texts of the stories, Katherine Mansfield--from her letters, criticism
2006
Collects thirty-five short stories by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield, with twenty excerpts from her correspondences, which address the craft of writing and her views of her own work, and eighteen critical essays by writers such as Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot, and Frank O'Connor.

Henry the Fourth

an authorized text, cultural contexts, extracts from the major sources, essays in criticism, bibliography
1969

Emma

an authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews and criticism
2000
Presents an annotated edition of the nineteenth-century novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy; and includes background materials, reviews, and critical essays.

Candide, or, Optimism

1991
Presents an annotated edition of the story of a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another; and includes backgrounds, a selection of critical essays, and a summary of the debate surrounding Voltaire's works.

The metamorphosis

translation, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
1996
An introduction to Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" that includes seven essays offering a variety of perspectives on the novella, historical notes on the text, and annotations.

Yeats's poetry, drama, and prose

authoritative texts, contexts, criticism
2000
Presents 145 poems, four plays, and over forty prose fiction, folklore, autobiographical, and critical writings by W. B. Yeats and over thirty critical pieces on his works, including reviews by his contemporaries and later essays, as well as explanatory notes, a chronology, a textual appendix, and a selected bibliography.

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