No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.'
Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siecle Boston, plunges i ... Read more
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I am not a man, I am dynamite.'
Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to com ... Read more
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Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.'
We are used to thinking of myths as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however ... Read more
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The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The int ... Read more
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This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are ... Read more
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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama, and painting, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. What uni ... Read more
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Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchm ... Read more
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The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political si ... Read more
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Sydney Owenson, (Lady Morgan); Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Pages
304 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
127 x 196 mm
Pub date
Sep 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
I long to study the purely national, natural character of an Irishwoman'
When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for gambling debts and diss ... Read more
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Mrs Gareth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancee. When she discovers that her young ... Read more
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