Modernists (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

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An instant library of modern classics: Memorable fiction by James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Ford Maddox Ford, and E.M. Forster.
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners When first published, James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel and his collection of Irish short stories helped create modern literature. Today they remain vibrant examples of fine writing and luminous portrayal.
• Lady Chatterley's ...
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Overview

An instant library of modern classics: Memorable fiction by James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Ford Maddox Ford, and E.M. Forster.
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners When first published, James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel and his collection of Irish short stories helped create modern literature. Today they remain vibrant examples of fine writing and luminous portrayal.
• Lady Chatterley's Lover. The last, most famous, and most deeply controversial of Lawrence's works combines lyrical prose, a vibrant story about one woman's self-discovery, and deep insights about human yearnings for connections.
• Lord Jim In this arresting classic by Joseph Conrad, a single act of cowardice destroys an idealistic British seaman's youthful dreams of glory and exiles him into a life of constant, restless roaming.
• The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf's first novel might also be her most neglected and accessible. Fellow novelist E.M. Forster called this light satire of Edwardian society "absolutely unafraid… Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path."
• The Good Soldier Capped by its ironic title, this subtle novel by Ford Madox Ford scourged the pretensions and selfishness of British aristocrats. When first published during early World War I, this fiction scandalized readers, but today it is recognized as the classic it is. This Barnes & Noble Classic edition carries an introduction by noted critic Frank Kermode.
• Howard's End The struggle for the ownership of a house provides the main plot of this E.M. Forster novel, but it is his modulated portraits of three disparate families that make it his masterpiece.

The Barnes & Noble Classics series offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics series:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
• Footnotes and endnotes
• Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
• Comments by other famous authors
• Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
• Bibliographies for further reading
• Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780594069461
  • Publisher: Barnes & Noble
  • Publication date: 12/17/2010
  • Series: Barnes & Noble Classics Series
  • Sales rank: 437415
  • Product dimensions: 10.40 (w) x 12.80 (h) x 5.10 (d)

Meet the Author

James Joyce (1882-1941) was born in a suburb of Dublin to a lower-middle class family, the eldest of ten children. Though hindered by his family's ever deepening poverty, he pursued his education, first in Catholic school, then at prestigious University College Dublin. Graduating in 1903, he studied medicine briefly, but abandoned it for literature. The following year, he eloped to the continent with his long-time mate, Nora Barnacle. While in Trieste, he began a writing career that quickly blossomed. Works published during his lifetime include Chamber Music (poems, 1907), Dubliners (short story collection, 1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (novel, 1916), Exiles (play, 1918), Ulysses (novel, 1922(), Pomes Penyeach (poems, 1927), Collected Poems (poems, 1936) and Finnegans Wake (novel, 1939).

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was born in rural central England, the fourth child of a marginally literate coal miner father and a former schoolteacher wife. Though his early life was plagued by poverty and his parents' deep incompatibility, he excelled at school, winning a scholarship and eventually earning a diploma from Nottingham University at 22. After graduation, he taught for four years, but his heart belonged to writing. He published his first book, The White Peacock, in 1911. Others soon followed: The Trespasser (1912), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (1914), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), The Lost Girl (1920), Aaron's Rod (1922), The Horse Dealer's Daughter (1922), Kangaroo (1923), The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird (1923), The Boy in the Bush (1924), St. Mawr and Other Stories (1925), The Plumed Serpent (1926), The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926), The Woman who Rode Away and Other Stories (1928), Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), The Escaped God (1929), Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories (1930), The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories (1930) and The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930).

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) wrote his great novels in English, but he was born of Polish parents in the Ukraine. That he did not speak the language well until he was in his early twenties did not impede his very active writing career. His fiction includes Almayer's Folly (1895), An Outcast of the Islands (1896), The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus' (18970), Lord Jim (1900), Typhoon (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), Victory (1915), The Shadow Line (1917), The Arrow of Gold (1919), and The Rescue (1920). In addition to these solo works, he wrote three novels with Ford Maddox Ford.

Bloomsbury Group member Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is best remembered for her novels, but she was also a prolific writer of criticism and other essays. Her fiction includes The Voyage Out (1915), Night and Day (1919), Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), The Waves (1931), The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).

Ford Maddox Ford (1873-1939) was born as Ford Madox Hueffer, but renamed himself in honor of his grandfather, painter Ford Madox Brown. He was a prolific writer, producing scores of books during his creative life. Among the most notable are The Brown Owl (1891), The Feather (1892), The Fifth Queen (1906-1908), The Good Soldier (1915), Joseph Conrad (1924), Parade's End (1924-1928), It was the Nightingale (1933), Collected Poems (1936), Portraits from Life (1937), and From Minstrels to the Machine (1938).

During his long life, Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) wrote novels, short stories, plays, film scripts, essays, libretti, criticism, biography, and travel writing. His most famous works, however, are his novels, most particularly Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), and the posthumously published Maurice (written 1913-1914).

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