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  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare, Digital Fire ...
    Series Book 9 - Digital Fire Super Combos
    This ebook contains Shakespeare's complete plays and complete poems in a new, easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate format. This is the most reader-friendly introduction to Shakespeare available today. 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare' collects all thirty-seven of the immortal Bard's comedies, tragedies, and historical plays in a Collectible Edition. This volume also features Shakespeare's ... Read more

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  • Jane Austen : The Complete Collection

    [Special Illustrated Edition] [Annotated with Literary History And Criticism ] [Free Audio Links]

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection - Jane Austen Collection 1
    Jane Austen (16 December 1775  -  18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the ... Read more

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  • Greatness Engendered

    George Eliot and Virginia Woolf

    by Alison Booth ...
    Series series Reading Women Writing
    The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 (Guardian™ Classics)

    by Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Louisa May Alcott, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo ...
    This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Alcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Pride and PrejudiceAusten, Jane: EmmaBalzac, Honoré de: Father GoriotBarbusse, Henri: The InfernoBrontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell HallBrontë, Charlotte: Jane EyreBrontë, Emily: Wuthering HeightsBurroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the ApesButler, Samuel: The ... Read more

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  • Essays of E. B. White

    by E. B. White ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    "Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." — Washington PostThe classic collection by one of the greatest ... Read more

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  • Essays

    by Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
    Percy Bysshe Shelley is more widely known as one of the great Romantic Poets. Yet in his short life he was active politically but also as an essayist where his thoughts and ideas were fresh and innovative. Included in this collection is In Defence Of Poetry which contains the quite wonderful suggestion that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". By the age of 29 he was dead but ... Read more

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  • The Victorian Age in Literature

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    A fascinating survey of Victorian literature from one of England's greatest mindsDishing out his signature brand of harsh wit, G. K. Chesterton casts a critical eye on the poets and novelists that defined the Victorian age in English literature. "Her imagination was sometimes superhuman—always inhuman," he writes of Emily Brontë. " Wuthering Heights might have been written by an eagle." Ranging ... Read more

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  • Differences between the play and the film adaptation of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' concerning censorship and setting

    by Anonymous ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, University of Salzburg, language: English, abstract: This paper focuses on the main differences between the play and the film adaption of A Streetcar Named Desire concerning censorship and setting. ... Read more

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  • Sur Hoffmann et les compositions fantastiques

    by Walter Scott ...
    Le goût des Allemands pour le mystérieux leur a fait inventer un genre de composition qui peut-être ne pouvait exister que dans leur pays et leur langue. C’est celui qu’on pourrait appeler le genre FANTASTIQUE, où l’imagination s’abandonne à toute l’irrégularité de ses caprices et à toutes les combinaisons des scènes les plus bizarres et les plus burlesques. Dans les autres fictions où le ... Read more

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  • Jews and Christians in The Merchant of Venice

    by Claudia Oldiges ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Osnabrück, course: The Merchant of Venice, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although one is able to find a lot bias towards Jews in the play The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare is not to be blamed as an anti-Judaic person. Regarding the ... Read more

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  • The Early H.G. Wells

    A Study of the Scientific Romances

    by Bernard Bergonzi ...
    Series series Heritage
    This is a sensitive study of Wells’ imaginative development during his formative years. It comes at a time when interest in H.G. Wells’ early writing is beginning to revive, owing, no doubt, to the current translation into reality of some aspects of science fiction.Mr. Bergonzi examines Wells’ early fiction, from surviving student writings of the late eighties to 1901 when he published The First ... Read more

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  • Community and Solitude

    New Essays on Johnson’s Circle

    by John Radner, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, James E May, Marilyn Francus, Lance Wilcox, Elizabeth Lambert, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Christopher Catanese, James J. Caudle ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, ... Read more

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  • Rewriting Crusoe

    The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media

    by Robert Mayer, Rivka Swenson, Patrick A. Gill, Przemyslaw Uscinski, Frederick Burwick, Marta Pellerdi, Lora E. Geriguis, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Jennifer Preston Wilson, Ian Kinane, Daniel Cook ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel—who in 1731 penned his own island narrative—coined the term “Robinsonade” to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide ... Read more

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  • 'Household Business'

    Domestic Plays of Early Modern England

    by Viviana Comensoli ...
    Series series Heritage
    The domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its roots were predominantly native, rather than classical, and its mainspring was the staging of domestic conflict amongst English characters from the middle ranks of society. 'Household Business' traces the genre's origins in the cycle plays of medieval England and examines its ... Read more

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  • The Limits of Orientalism

    Seventeenth-Century Representations of India

    by Rahul Sapra ...
    The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India challenges the recent postcolonial readings of European, predominantly English, representations of India in the seventeenth century. Following Edward Said’s discourse of “Orientalism,” most postcolonial analyses of the seventeenth-century representations of India argue that the natives are represented as barbaric or exotic ... Read more

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  • Byrons und Leopardis Verhältnis zur Natur

    by Antonio Sisto ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,3, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Englisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Proseminar - Lord Byron, 13 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gegenstand dieser Arbeit wird die Entwicklung der Naturphilosophie von George Gordon Lord Byron und Giacomo Leopardi sein. Es werden aus der ... Read more

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  • Critique littéraire

    by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Savine (traducteur) ...
    L’auteur de Mandeville est un des plus illustres exemples du pou-voir intellectuel du siècle présent. Il a fait preuve de cette variété, de cette universalité de talents qui distingue l’homme destiné à hériter d’un renom durable, d’avec ceux qui possèdent une célébrité passagère. Quand ses droits ne devraient être mesurés qu’à l’exactitude de ses recherches dans la science morale et politique, il ... Read more

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  • L’Association des hommes roux

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeanne de Polignac ...
    L’année dernière, un jour d’automne, j’entrai chez mon ami Sherlock Holmes. Je le trouvai en conférence avec un gros clergyman, d’âge moyen et dont la face rubiconde et les cheveux roux ardent me frappèrent singulièrement. J’étais sur le point de me retirer en balbutiant une excuse, lorsque Sherlock Holmes m’attira brusquement dans le salon et fermant la porte derrière moi : — Vous ne pouviez ... Read more

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  • Jonathan Swift

    Our Dean

    by Eugene Hammond ...
    Jonathan Swift: Our Dean details the political climax of his remarkable career—his writing and publication of The Drapier’s Letters (1724), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729)—stressing the relentless political opposition he faced and the numerous ways, including through his sermons, that he worked from his political base as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, psychologically as ... Read more

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  • Alien Albion

    Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England

    by Scott Oldenburg ...
    Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how immigrants to England forged ties with their English hosts and how those relationships were reflected ... Read more

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  • Jude Law on Hamlet (Shakespeare on Stage)

    by Jude Law ...
    Series series Shakespeare on Stage
    In each volume of the Shakespeare on Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes, recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. They discuss their character, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing candour and in forensic detail. The result is a masterclass on playing the role, invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as ... Read more

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  • Fifty Forgotten Books

    by R. B. Russell ...
    Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bibliophile and for book-lovers of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty backrooms of long vanished used bookstores, a love letter to bookshops and bookselling, and a browser’s dream wish list of often overlooked and ... Read more

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  • The Shakespeare Code

    by Virginia M. Fellows ...
    In October 1623 Sir Francis Bacon describes a new and ingenious method for writing in code. One month later the Shakespeare First Folio is published. A coincidence? Over 250 years later a brilliant young physician made a discovery about the works of Shakespeare—coded messages which offer an unsettling revision of history in the royal court of Elizabethan England. Hidden agendas, secret lives, ... Read more

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  • Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    by Evelyn O'Callaghan, Alison Donnell, Maria McGarrity ...
    This collection explores how the complications and contradictions of Irish-Caribbean relations are much richer and deeper than previously recognized. Caribbean Irish Connections makes an important contribution to Irish studies by challenging the dominance of a US diasporic history and a disciplinary focus on cultural continuity and ancestry. The contributors emphasize the importance of ... Read more

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