My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.'
For half a century from its publication in 1901 Up from Slavery was the best known book writt ... Read more
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Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publica ... Read more
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Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.'
First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a ... Read more
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Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned'
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams wa ... Read more
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The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.'
Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best rememb ... Read more
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Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answe ... Read more
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Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama exten ... Read more
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For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious. ... Read more
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This is the first unabridged verse translation of Book One of the Masnavi for more than a hundred years. Skilfully rendered in rhyming couplets, the translation is an attractive and faith ... Read more
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An introduction to the nature and value of humour and all of the leading theories
Explores the connections between humour and cognition
Looks at its moral dimensions - when does humour become i ... Read more
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