Category: Modern Literature

Howards End [Large Print]

Howards End
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by E. M. Forster

Howards End (1910) is known as a “condition-of-England” novel about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-twentieth-century England and is considered by many to be Forster’s finest work. The story revolves around three families: the Wilcoxes, representing “new money” and global capitalism, the half-German Schlegel sisters (Margaret, Helen, and Tibby), representing the educated, cosmopolitan “New Woman” and raising questions of women’s rights and status in society, and the Basts, representing the precarious hold on life of the impoverished lower class. Continue reading “Howards End [Large Print]”

Dubliners [Large Print]

Dubliners
The Complete & Unabridged Large Print Classic Edition
by James Joyce

Dubliners is the first of James Joyce’s major works to be published in book form, preceded by Chamber Music, a volume of poetry which appeared in 1907.

Dubliners is not a novel, but consists of a series of fifteen short stories, which Joyce intended to accurately reflect the life of the contemporary middle class in Ireland. Continue reading “Dubliners [Large Print]”

Of Human Bondage: Unabridged Large Print Edition

Of Human Bondage
Unabridged Large Print Edition
Author:
W. Somerset Maugham

This quality large print edition includes the complete, unabridged text of W. Somerset Maugham’s classic tale in a freshly edited edition prepared by human editors. With a generous 7.44″ x 9.69″-page size, this edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design and is not a machine-scanned text or facsimile reproduction of an older version. Continue reading “Of Human Bondage: Unabridged Large Print Edition”

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [Large Print]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is the first novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Written in a modernist style, making extensive use of unconventional punctuation and a stream-of-consciousness narrative style on, it follows the religious, social and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s fictional alter ego. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown up, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work employed literary techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Continue reading “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [Large Print]”

Elmer Gantry [Large Print]

Elmer Gantry
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Sinclair Lewis

Written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 and published in 1927, Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel that presents a disparaging view of fundamentalist and evangelistic religious activity in the United States and the public attitudes of the 1920s.

The novel tells the story of Elmer Gantry, a young, narcissistic, womanizing college athlete who abandons his plan to become a lawyer and instead, after college, attends a Baptist seminary and is ordained as a minister. Able to hide certain sexual indiscretions, he is ultimately expelled before completing his Bachelor of Divinity degree for missing a scheduled preaching engagement while drunk. Continue reading “Elmer Gantry [Large Print]”

Heart of Darkness [Large Print]

Heart of Darkness
Large Print Edition
The Complete & Unabridged Classic Edition
by Joseph Conrad

This large print edition includes the complete text of Joseph Conrad’s classic tale in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a 6″ x 9″ page size, this Summit Classic Press edition is printed on heavy bright white paper with a fully laminated cover and original design.

First published in 1899 as a three-part serial, Heart of Darkness is one of literature’s most analyzed, interpreted and studied works. Ironically, Conrad and his contemporaries regarded it as a minor work, seized upon as a singularly important literary effort in the post-colonial era. Continue reading “Heart of Darkness [Large Print]”