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Émile Zola

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Zola’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other works
* The complete Rougon-Macquart cycle, as well as all the other novels and series
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* The complete short stores
* Includes Zola’s famous ‘J’accuse!’, with explanatory introduction
* Special criticism section, with essays by famous writers such as Henry James and James Joyce, evaluating Zola’s contribution to literature
* Features two bonus biographies by Zola’s English translator
* Special resources section, with the detailed listing of the Rougon-Macquart family tree, as well as an index of the main characters and locations in the twenty-novel series
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
* UPDATED with improved texts and Vizetelly’s seminal biography

CONTENTS:

The Early Novels
Claude’s Confession (1865)
The Dead Woman’s Wish (1866)
The Mystery of Marseille (1867)
Therese Raquin (1867)
Madeleine Ferat (1868)

The Rougon-Macquart Cycle
The Fortune of the Rougons (1871)
The Rush for the Spoil (1871)
The Fat and the Thin (1873)
The Conquest of Plassans (1874)
Abbe Mouret’s Transgression (1875)
His Excellency Eugene Rougon (1876)
The Dram Shop (1877)
A Love Episode (1878)
Nana (1880)
Piping Hot (1882)
The Ladies’ Paradise (1883)
The Joy of Life (1884)
Germinal (1885)
His Masterpiece (1886)
The Soil (1887)
The Dream (1888)
The Monomaniac (1890)
Money (1891)
The Downfall (1892)
Doctor Pascal (1893)

The Three Cities
Lourdes (1894)
Rome (1896)
Paris (1898)

The Four Gospels
Fruitfulness (1899)
Work (1901)
Truth (1903)

The Short Stories
Stories for Ninon (1864)
New Stories for Ninon (1874)
The Attack on the Mill (1880)
Miscellaneous Stories

J’Accuse !
I Accuse…! (1898)

The Criticism
M. Zola (1892) by Arthur Quiller-Couch
An Extract from ‘My Literary Passions’ (1895) by William Dean Howells
Zola (1898) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Émile Zola (1902) by William Dean Howells
Borlase and Son (1903) by James Joyce
Émile Zola (1903) by Henry James
The Zola Controversy (1915) by G. K. Chesterton

The Biographies
With Zola in England (1899) by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Émile Zola: Novelist and Reformer (1904) by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Resources
The Rougon-Macquart Family Tree
Index of Characters in the Rougon-Macquart Series
Index of Locations in the Rougon-Macquart Series

Christmas Quiz 2022

Delphi Christmas Competition 2022

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ANSWERS

 

ROUND 1: Abbreviated Bibliographies

 

1, TI; TBA; PO; TSCODJAMH; K; TMOB; TWB … :
Robert Louis Stevenson
2, SP; M; S; TSATF; AILD; S; LIA; P. :
William Faulkner
3, WAFTT; TLJ; ARWAV; HE; APTI; M.:
E. M. Forster
4, M; LW; GW; AOFG; LM; W; EC; RIB…:
Louisa May Alcott
5, TGA; TAOTS; TPATP; AOHF; ACYIKAC; TAC; TSA…:
Mark Twain
6, APOTAAAYM; U; FW; SH.:
James Joyce
7, JE; S; V; TP; E.:
Charlotte Brontë
8, C; B; Y; FH; TC; WAP; AK…:
Leo Tolstoy

ROUND 2: Literary Firsts

 

Book 1
A Christmas Carol

Book 2
The Great Gatsby

Book 3
Vile Bodies

Book 4
The Jungle Book

Book 5
Mrs Dalloway

Book 6
The Last Chronicle of Barset

Book 7
The Old Man and the Sea

Book 8
Madame Bovary

 

ROUND 3: Name the artist

 

Painting 1
Michelangelo

Painting 2
Rembrandt

Painting 3
Kazimir Malevich

Painting 4

Auguste Renoir

Painting 5
John Singer Sargent

Painting 6
Titian

Painting 7

Eugène Delacroix

Painting 8

Paul Klee

Painting 9

Thomas Gainsborough

Painting 10

John William Waterhouse

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Masters of Art Super Set

Please note: as this is an ongoing series, when future releases are made, you will need to purchase the new titles separately if you have already purchased this Super Set.

Please note: due to the large digital content of this Super Set, we can offer no refunds or exchanges for incorrect orders.

Included eBooks in the Super Set:

Thomas Hood

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hood’s life and works
* Concise introduction to the life and poetry of Thomas Hood
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* The texts are taken from the Oxford University Press edition of Hood’s Complete Poetical Works, edited by Walter Jerrold
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes Hood’s rare Juvenilia text ‘The Bandit’
* Features a bonus biography – discover Hood’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

CONTENTS:

The Life and Poetry of Thomas Hood
BRIEF INTRODUCTION: THOMAS HOOD
ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE (1825)
WHIMS AND ODDITIES. FIRST SERIES (1826)
WHIMS AND ODDITIES. SECOND SERIES (1827)
THE PLEA OF THE MIDSUMMER FAIRIES, HERO AND LEANDER, LYCUS THE CENTAUR, AND OTHER POEMS (1827)
THE EPPING HUNT (1829)
COMIC MELODIES (1830)
THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM, THE MURDERER
VERSES FROM TYLNEY HALL (1834)
HOOD’S OWN: OR, LAUGHTER YEAR TO YEAR (1839)
POEMS FROM ‘UP THE RHINE’ (1840)
WHIMSICALITIES: A PERIODICAL GATHERING (1844)
MISCELLANEOUS UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1821-1845)
JUVENILIA
APPENDIX: J. H. REYNOLDS’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ‘ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE’ (1825)

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Biography
BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS HOOD by William Michael Rossetti

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Tennyson’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Features Tennyson’s first poetry collection, which he wrote with his brother, appearing here for the first time in digital print
* Includes other rare collections often missed out of editions
* Illustrated with Waterhouse’s famous ‘Lady of Shallott’ paintings
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Also includes the complete poetic dramas
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes the collection of memoirs edited by Tennyson’s son – spend hours exploring the poet’s letters and anecdotes written by close friends and literary figures
* Features two bonus biographies – discover Tennyson’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with corrected formatting of lines in ‘In Memoriam’

CONTENTS:

The Poetry Collections
POEMS, BY TWO BROTHERS
TIMBUCTOO : A POEM
POEMS, CHIEFLY LYRICAL
POEMS, 1832
THE LOVER’S TALE. A FRAGMENT.
POEMS, 1842
MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS, 1831-1868
THE PRINCESS: A MEDLEY
IN MEMORIAM A. H. H.
MAUD, AND OTHER POEMS
IDYLLS OF THE KING
ENOCH ARDEN AND OTHER POEMS
BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS
TIRESIAS AND OTHER POEMS
LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS AFTER, ETC.
DEMETER AND OTHER POEMS
THE DEATH OF ŒNONE, AND OTHER POEMS

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Plays
QUEEN MARY: A DRAMA
HAROLD: A DRAMA
BECKET
THE CUP: A TRAGEDY
THE FALCON
THE PROMISE OF MAY
THE FORESTERS: ROBIN HOOD AND MAID MARIAN

The Biographies
TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS by Hallam, Lord Tennyson
ALFRED TENNYSON by Andrew Lang
TENNYSON’S LIFE AND POETRY by Eugene Parsons

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bulwer-Lytton’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL 29 novels, with individual contents tables
* The rare unfinished novel LIONEL HASTINGS is available in no other digital collection
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the Victorian texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories
* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read
* Includes Bulwer-Lytton’s complete short stories, with all the obscure tales published in magazines – appearing here for the first time in digital print
* Features Thompson Cooper’s important biography on the author, first time in digital print – discover Bulwer-Lytton’s literary life
* A selection of non-fiction works
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

CONTENTS:

The Novels
FALKLAND
PELHAM
THE DISOWNED
DEVEREUX
PAUL CLIFFORD
EUGENE ARAM
GODOLPHIN
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE
RIENZI, THE LAST OF THE ROMAN TRIBUNES
ERNEST MALTRAVERS
ALICE
LEILA
CALDERON, THE COURTIER
ZICCI
NIGHT AND MORNING
ZANONI
THE LAST OF THE BARONS
LUCRETIA
HAROLD, THE LAST OF THE SAXONS
THE CAXTONS
MY NOVEL
WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT?
A STRANGE STORY
THE COMING RACE
KENELM CHILLINGLY
THE PARISIENS
PAUSANIAS
LIONEL HASTINGS

The Shorter Fiction
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNIGHT’S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE
THE STUDENT
TALES FROM MISCELLANEOUS PERIODICALS

The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Play
THE LADY OF LYONS

The Poetry
LIST OF POEMS
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Non-Fiction
ATHENS: ITS RISE AND FALL
THE FALLEN STAR
A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
TOMLINSONIANA

The Biography
LORD LYTTON: A BIOGRAPHY by Thompson Cooper

Medieval Poetry Collection

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to the poets’ lives and works
* Concise introductions to the works
* Most of the poems appear with their original medieval texts, as well as an English translation — ideal for students
* Images of how the original manuscripts first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the medieval texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Easily locate the sections you want to read
* Features three critical works on the development of medieval literature
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order

CONTENTS:

Medieval Poetry
Hymn by Cædmon (7th century)
Christ II by Cynewulf (8th century) (Tr. Raymond Wilson Chambers)
Beowulf (c.1000) (Tr. William Morris)
The Song of Roland (c. 1050) (Tr. C. K. Moncreiff)
The Poem of the Cid (c. 1140) (Tr. Robert Southey)
Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from ‘Roman de Rou’ by Wace (c. 1170) (Tr. Edgar Taylor)
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes (c. 1180) (Tr. William Wistar Comfort)
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1210) (Tr. Jessie Weston)
The Troubadours (1100-1350) by H. J. Chaytor
The Knight in the Panther’s Skin by Shota Rustaveli (c. 1190) (Tr. Marjory Wardrop)
The Song of the Nibelungs (c. 1200) (Tr. Daniel Bussier Shumway)
Lays of Marie de France (c. 1210) (Tr. Eugene Mason)
The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris [PARTIAL TRANSLATION] (c. 1230) (Tr. Geoffrey Chaucer)
Poetic Edda (c. 13th century) (Tr. Benjamin Thorpe)
Wine, Women and Song: Mediæval Latin Students’ Songs (c. 13th century) (Tr. John Addington Symonds)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320) (Tr. H. F. Cary)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375) (Tr. Jessie Weston)
Sonnets by Francesco Petrarca (c. 1374) (Tr. Thomas Campbell)
Piers Plowman by William Langland (c. 1380) Edited by Thomas Wright
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1400)

The Criticism
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory by George Saintsbury
Medieval English Literature by W. P. Ker
Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. Ker

Thomas Hood

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hood’s life and works
* Concise introduction to the life and poetry of Thomas Hood
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* The texts are taken from the Oxford University Press edition of Hood’s Complete Poetical Works, edited by Walter Jerrold
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes Hood’s rare Juvenilia text ‘The Bandit’
* Features a bonus biography – discover Hood’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

CONTENTS:

The Life and Poetry of Thomas Hood
BRIEF INTRODUCTION: THOMAS HOOD
ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE (1825)
WHIMS AND ODDITIES. FIRST SERIES (1826)
WHIMS AND ODDITIES. SECOND SERIES (1827)
THE PLEA OF THE MIDSUMMER FAIRIES, HERO AND LEANDER, LYCUS THE CENTAUR, AND OTHER POEMS (1827)
THE EPPING HUNT (1829)
COMIC MELODIES (1830)
THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM, THE MURDERER
VERSES FROM TYLNEY HALL (1834)
HOOD’S OWN: OR, LAUGHTER YEAR TO YEAR (1839)
POEMS FROM ‘UP THE RHINE’ (1840)
WHIMSICALITIES: A PERIODICAL GATHERING (1844)
MISCELLANEOUS UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1821-1845)
JUVENILIA
APPENDIX: J. H. REYNOLDS’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ‘ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE’ (1825)

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Biography
BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS HOOD by William Michael Rossetti

Edward Bulwer-Lytton – Parts Edition

Please note: Parts Editions are large files and may require more time and a strong internet connection to download to your computer.

Contents:

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 01, FALKLAND
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 02, PELHAM
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 03, THE DISOWNED
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 04, DEVEREUX
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 05, PAUL CLIFFORD
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 06, EUGENE ARAM
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 07, GODOLPHIN
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 08, THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 09, THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 10, RIENZI, THE LAST OF THE ROMAN TRIBUNES
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 11, ERNEST MALTRAVERS
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 12, ALICE
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 13, LEILA
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 14, CALDERON, THE COURTIER
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 15, ZICCI
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 16, NIGHT AND MORNING
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 17, ZANONI
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 18, THE LAST OF THE BARONS
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 19, LUCRETIA
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 20, HAROLD, THE LAST OF THE SAXONS
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 21, THE CAXTONS
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 22, MY NOVEL
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 23, WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 24, A STRANGE STORY
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 25, THE COMING RACE
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 26, KENELM CHILLINGLY
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 27, THE PARISIENS
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 28, PAUSANIAS
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 29, LIONEL HASTINGS
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 30, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNIGHT’S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 31, THE STUDENT
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 32, TALES FROM MISCELLANEOUS PERIODICALS
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 33, THE LADY OF LYONS
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 34, THE POETRY
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 35, ATHENS ITS RISE AND FALL
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 36, THE FALLEN STAR
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 37, A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 38, TOMLINSONIANA
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 39, LORD LYTTON A BIOGRAPHY by Thompson Cooper

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Emile Zola – Parts Edition

Please note: Parts Editions are large files and may require more time and a strong internet connection to download to your computer.

Contents:

EMILE ZOLA 1, Claude’s Confession
EMILE ZOLA 2, The Dead Woman’s Wish
EMILE ZOLA 3, The Mystery of Marseille
EMILE ZOLA 4, Therese Raquin
EMILE ZOLA 5, Madeleine Ferat
EMILE ZOLA 6, The Fortune of the Rougons
EMILE ZOLA 7, The Rush for the Spoil
EMILE ZOLA 8, The Fat and the Thin
EMILE ZOLA 9, The Conquest of Plassans
EMILE ZOLA 10, Abbe Mouret’s Transgression
EMILE ZOLA 11, His Excellency Eugene Rougon
EMILE ZOLA 12, The Dram Shop
EMILE ZOLA 13, A Love Episode
EMILE ZOLA 14, Nana
EMILE ZOLA 15, Piping Hot
EMILE ZOLA 16, The Ladies’ Paradise
EMILE ZOLA 17, The Joy of Life
EMILE ZOLA 18, Germinal
EMILE ZOLA 19, His Masterpiece
EMILE ZOLA 20, The Soil
EMILE ZOLA 21, The Dream
EMILE ZOLA 22, The Monomaniac
EMILE ZOLA 23, Money
EMILE ZOLA 24, The Downfall
EMILE ZOLA 25, Doctor Pascal
EMILE ZOLA 26, Lourdes
EMILE ZOLA 27, Rome
EMILE ZOLA 28, Paris
EMILE ZOLA 29, Fruitfulness
EMILE ZOLA 30, Work
EMILE ZOLA 31, Truth
EMILE ZOLA 32, Stories for Ninon
EMILE ZOLA 33, New Stories for Ninon
EMILE ZOLA 34, The Attack on the Mill
EMILE ZOLA 35, Miscellaneous Stories
EMILE ZOLA 36, I Accuse…!
EMILE ZOLA 37, The Criticism
EMILE ZOLA 38, With Zola in England by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
EMILE ZOLA 39, Émile Zola: Novelist and Reformer by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
EMILE ZOLA 40, The Rougon-Macquart Family Tree
EMILE ZOLA 41, Index of Characters in the Rougon-Macquart Series
EMILE ZOLA 42, Index of Locations in the Rougon-Macquart Series

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