Douglas Brooks-Davies

Great Expectations

Leslie Poles Hartley

An invitation to a friend's house changes an adolescent boy's life. Discovering an old diary, Leo, now in his sixties, is drawn back to the hot summer of 1900 and his visit to Brandham Hall. The past comes to life as Leo recalls the events and devastating outcome that destroyed his beliefs and future hopes. The first annotated edition of L.P. Hartley's great classic, the present text generally follows that of the first edition of 1953 and also includes a number of small but significant corrections based on the surviving holograph of The Go-Between.

The Go-between

Magical Politics from Spenser to Pope

The Mercurian Monarch

Jane Austen

All the poems Jane Austen wrote, and many of those she read and valued, and which play a part in her novels.

Poems and Favourite Poems

A Study in Emotional Jacobitism

Pope's Dunciad and the Queen of Night

A Critical Commentary on Books I and II

Spenser's Faerie Queene

A critical reading of Dickens' novel "Great Expectations" for 'A' Level candidates and undergraduates.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Douglas Brooks-Davies

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