Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the 'masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is 'the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most ... Read more
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Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield; David Roberts
Pages
480 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Sep 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.'
So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences ... Read more
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She was swayed into emotional opinions concerning the strange man before her; new impulses of thought...entered into her with a gnawing thrill.'
Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies mo ... Read more
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Mary Pix; Susannah Centlivre; Elizabeth Griffith; Hannah Cowley; Melinda Finberg
Pages
448 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
128 x 195 mm
Pub date
Nov 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from ... Read more
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In the year of grace 1066, the Lord, the ruler, brought to fulfilment what He had long planned for the English people: He delivered them up to be destroyed by the violent and cunning Norman race.'
H ... Read more
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Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.'
Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and v ... Read more
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It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victo ... Read more
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With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins, With herself and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Aidoneus once Abducted...' Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with the two gre ... Read more
to the European, the American is first and foremost a dollar-fiend. We tend to forget the emotional heritage of Hector St John de Crevecoeur'
When D.H. Lawrence made this statement in his Studies i ... Read more
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Elizabeth Inchbald; J. M. S. Tompkins; Jane Spencer
Pages
384 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 195 mm
Pub date
May 2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of 'proper' womanly behaviour. Her love ... Read more
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