Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.'
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A unique selection of Gothic tales
`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneou ... 続きを読む
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.'
In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled worl ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
'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).
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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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
