Böcker av Matthew Arnold

Either the old Scottish castle is haunted, or someone is trying to scare the wits out of Heather Macdonell. The castle echoes with eerie sounds Heather is able to ease her mind about--at least, until the first murder occurs.

An academic is murdered.

First published in 1869, Culture and Anarchy debates questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold asks what good culture can do and how it can best be disseminated. This edition reproduces the first book version and enables readers to appreciate its historical context and its continued importance.

A selection from Arnold's writing on education, other than Culture and Anarchy. All the pieces stem from his work as Inspector of Schools: they illustrate his concern both with the principles that must be established as a basis for the education of an industrial democracy and his practical concern with the day-to-day running of schools.

Professor Toby Glendower halts an archaeological dig when the body of a recent murder victim is discovered, but Toby's kidnapping necessitates Penny Spring, his colleague, finishing the investigation.

This work argues for reason over anarchy and seems to advocate what many see as an elitist model of culture. This edition adds to the debate with essays from Maurice Cowling, Gerald Graff, Samuel Lipman and Steven Marcus.

Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has exercised a profound influence both on conceptions of the distinctive nature of British society, and on ideas about education and the teaching of literature more generally. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects - Democracy, Equality, and The Function of Criticism at the Present Time. The editor's substantial introduction situates these works in the context both of Arnold's life and other writings, and of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names, books, and historical events mentioned in the texts.