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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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  • Dubliners (Illustrated + FREE audiobook link + Active TOC)

    by James Joyce ...
    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

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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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  • Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

    by Robert Stone ...

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  • Women and Romance

    The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

    by Laurie Langbauer ...
    Series series Reading Women Writing
    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues ... Read more

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  • The World of Wolf Hall: A Reading Guide to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies

    by Fourth Estate ...
    ‘Your whole life depends on the next beat of Henry’s heart’Ahead of the release of The Mirror & the Light, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, revisit two of the most celebrated novels of our time.Bringing the opulent, brutal Tudor world of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII to glittering life, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies have thrilled and delighted readers, critics and ... Read more

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  • Frankenstein (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

    by Mary Shelley ...
    Series series Norton Critical Editions
    The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition.Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley’s finest work.This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that ... 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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  • David Copperfield (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

    by Charles Dickens ...
    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... 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 lower ... Read more

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  • Romeo and Juliet: Language and Writing

    by Prof. Catherine Belsey ...
    Series series Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
    Everyone knows the story of the star-crossed lovers but close attention to the language of the play can deepen and darken the legend. As icons of passion, Romeo and Juliet reveal the recklessness, as well as the idealism, of desire in a violent world. Catherine Belsey shows how you can tease out the play's subtle meanings and goes on to discuss key adaptations, including the classic Baz Lurhmann ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's The Tempest

    A Graphic Edition with CSEC Study Guide

    by Sherice Blair, Marilyn Pettit, Phil Page ...
    Understand Shakespeare's play immediately with engaging images that reinforce the text and aid preparation for the CSEC English B examination.- Build understanding of the play through images and text that work together- Check understanding of the text by answering the guided reading questions at the end of each scene.- Build literary knowledge with the section on comedy which explains the way ... Read more

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  • The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

    by Angela Youngman ...
    A unique exploration of the character, the author, and the many transformations of Alice in modern culture—often in edgy and menacing ways.The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first investigation of the vast range of darker, more threatening aspects of this famous story, and the way Alice has been transformed over time.Although the children's story has been in print for over 150 years, the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath

    Edited by Jo Gill ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The controversies that surround Sylvia Plath's life and work mean that her poems are more read and studied now than ever before. This Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of Sylvia Plath's poetry, prose, letters and journals and of their place in twentieth-century culture. These essays by leading international scholars represent a spectrum of critical perspectives. They ... 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

    by Charles Dickens ...
    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

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  • The Challenge of Bewilderment

    Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford

    by Paul B. Armstrong ...
    The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between knowing and narration. Paul B. Armstrong here addresses the pivotal thematic experience of ... Read more

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  • Hamlet: Arden Performance Editions

    by William Shakespeare, Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall ...
    Series series Arden Performance Editions
    The young Prince Hamlet, returning from university, finds his Kingdom in disarray: 'something is rotten in the state of Denmark'. With his father dead, and his uncle and mother marrying, Hamlet is confronted by an armored ghost, who, claiming to be the King, implores him to enact revenge upon the newlyweds and restore order to the realm. Yet, Hamlet's ability to act conflicts with his will to ... Read more

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  • Pride and prejudice (Complete & Illustrated ) (Free Audio Link)

    With sixty illustrations

    by Jane austen ...
    Series series Greenhouse Classics
    Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, ... Read more

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  • Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism, 1790–1930

    Bringing the Nation to Book

    by Andrew Murphy ...
    The emergence of an Irish 'common reader' in the nineteenth century had significant implications for the evolution of Irish cultural nationalism. The rise of literacy rates prompted a cultural crisis, with nationalists fearing that the beneficiaries of mass education were being drawn to populist publications emanating from London which were having the effect of eroding Irish identity and ... Read more

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  • W. H. Davies

    Essays on the Super-Tramp Poet

    Edited by Rory Waterman ...
    This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the ‘tramp-poet’ and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871–1940). Though Davies is a well-known and unique literary figure of the early twentieth century, most famous now for The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp and poems such as ‘Leisure’, which came 14th in the ... Read more

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  • She Speaks!

    What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said

    by Harriet Walter ...
    Harriet Walter, one of Britain's most esteemed Shakespearean actors, has played most of Shakespeare's women. She Speaks! is her inventive reimagining of what these women might have said, and the result is a rewarding, fun interpretation of these classic plays, perfect for contemporary audiences and fans of feminist retellings.Prefaced by Walter's notes and guides to her eye-opening, occasionally ... Read more

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