A History of English Literature

Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History, Hardcover - Adrian Mourby

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Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where the...

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Melmoth the Wanderer, Paperback - Charles Robert Maturin

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'My hour is come ... the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears 'Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth...

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The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Paperback - Geza Vermes

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A newly updated edition of the landmark translation by one of our greatest religious scholarsSince its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical exper...

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The Journals of Captain Cook, Paperback - James R. Cook

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The writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer, and a major inspiration for Elizabeth Gilbert s bestselling novel The Signature of Al...

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The Man in the Wooden Hat, Paperback - Jane Gardam

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The Complete Plays, Paperback - Christopher Marlowe

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The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profan...

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The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi, Paperback - Alessandro Manzoni

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Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from...

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The Penguin Book of First World War Stories, Paperback - Various

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Contributor(s): Author: VariousEditor: Barbara KorteEditor: Ann-Marie EinhausAn anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famou...

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Annals, Paperback - Tacitus

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DescriptionA compelling new translation of a vital account of Roman history With clarity and vivid intensity, Tacitus's Annals recounts the pivotal...

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Major Works, Paperback - Jonathan Swift

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This authoritative edition brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career--prose, poetry, and letters--to give...

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The Complete Poetry, Paperback - George Herbert

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A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse Ge...

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Buddhist Scriptures, Paperback - Anonymous

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While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dh...

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Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah, Paperback - Jean Racine

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DescriptionThree plays by Racine For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking ...

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On Architecture, Paperback - Vitruvius

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In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruv...

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The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian, Paperback - Various

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A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics The Greek Cynics owned no property and rejected fame and fort...

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Chronicles, Paperback - Jean Froissart

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DescriptionOne of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and FranceDepicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from th...

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Elective Affinities, Paperback - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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DescriptionCondemned as immoral when it was first published, this novel reflects the conflict Goethe felt between his respect for the conventions o...

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Petersburg, Paperback - Andrei Bely

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"The most important ...] Russian novel of the 20th century."-The New York Times Book ReviewConsidered Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg, is a p...

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Italian Journey: 1786-1788, Paperback - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Goethe's account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the gr...

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The Law and the Lady, Paperback - Wilkie Collins

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Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to sus...

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A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy

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When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Altho...

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Revolutionary Suicide, Paperback - Huey P. Newton

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The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutiona...

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Black Beauty, Paperback - Anna Sewell

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One of the best-loved animal adventures ever written This Penguin Threads edition of Anna Sewell's moving novel Black Beauty includes a new forewor...

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, Paperback - Herman Melville

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Melville's continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of S...

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The Painter of Signs, Paperback - R. K. Narayan

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For Raman the sign painter, life is a familiar and satisfying routine. A man of simple, rational ways, he lives with his pious aunt and prides hims...

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Celtic Mythology: The Nature and Influence of Celtic Myth from Druidism to Arthurian Legend, Paperback - Ward Rutherford

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This is a lively and absorbing account of the world of Celtic myth and the role it has played in the development of western culture. Included here ...

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The Everyman Anthology Of Poetry For Children, Hardback - Gillian Avery

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Gillian Avery, historian of children's books and novelist whose first book THE WARDEN'S NEICE has become a modern classic of children's literature,...

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The Didascalia apostolorum in English, Paperback - Margaret Dunlop Gibson

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Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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An Enemy of the People: An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen, Paperback - Arthur Miller

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The Rise of the Roman Empire, Paperback - Polybius

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The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen u...

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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Paperback - Jacob Burckhardt

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For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world ...

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The Complete Poems and Translations, Paperback - Christopher Marlowe

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The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright--newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays--and for courting danger a...

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Li Po and Tu Fu, Paperback - Li Po

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Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendar...

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The Noh Plays of Japan, Paperback - Arthur Waley

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The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English. The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary me...

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Under Western Eyes, Paperback - Joseph Conrad

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"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fel...

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New Testament, Hardback - ***

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The single most important book in the history of all Christian literature is presented here in the Authorized Version which has exerted such a prof...

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The Portable Emerson, Paperback - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A comprehensive collection of writings by the most influential writer of the nineteenth century (Harold Bloom) Ralph Waldo Emerson s diverse body o...

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A Mad World, My Masters/Michaelmas Term/A Trick to Catch the Old One/No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's, Paperback - Thomas Middleton

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DescriptionThomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovati...

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On Living and Dying Well, Paperback - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Philosophical writings on "the good life" by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Rom...

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First Italian Reader: A Dual-Language Book, Paperback - Stanley Appelbaum

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Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fou...

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Fantomina; Or, Love in a Maze (Dodo Press), Paperback - Eliza Fowler Haywood

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Reducere. Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywood's literary works hav...

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The Duchess of Malfi, the White Devil, the Broken Heart and 'tis Pity She's a Whore, Paperback - John Webster

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A new volume of the greatest revenge tragedies of the seventeenth-century stage These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles ...

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Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939, Paperback - Stephen Regan

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DescriptionThis anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early year...

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The Odyssey, Paperback - Homer

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Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation...

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Agricola and Germania, Paperback - Tacitus

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The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola--the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law--...

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The Histories, Paperback - Herodotus

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Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading p...

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The Discourses, Paperback - Niccolo Machiavelli

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``It is not the well-being of individuals that makes cities great, but the well-being of the community`` Few figures in intellectual history have p...

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On Sparta, Paperback - Plutarch

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Contributor(s): Author: PlutarchTranslator: Richard J. a. TalbertIntroduction by: Richard J. a. TalbertPlutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of t...

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The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation, Paperback - Anonymous

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DescriptionA story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular st...

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Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit, Paperback - Anonymous

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Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE...

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Selected Writings, Paperback - Hildegard of Bingen

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Hildegard, the "Sybil of the Rhine, " was a Benedictine nun and one of the most prolific and original women writers of the Middle Ages. Arranged th...

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Sons and Lovers, Paperback - D. H. Lawrence

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Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds. Repelled by her une...

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The Satires of Horace and Persius, Paperback - Horace

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Contributor(s): Author: HoraceAuthor: PersiusTranslator: Rudd PersiusInspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert F...

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Loser Takes All, Paperback - Graham Greene

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Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the ...

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Can You Forgive Her?, Paperback - Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope's stock-in-trade was the life of the great drawing rooms of mid-Victorian England, where the thirst for wealth and political power...

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A Literary Tour of Italy, Paperback - Tim Parks

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An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English"--ha...

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A Short History of the World, Paperback - H. G. Wells

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Cicero: Selected Political Speeches, Paperback - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th-Century Japan, Paperback - Sarashina

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DescriptionBorn at the height of the Heian period, the pseudonymous Lady Sarashina reveals much about the Japanese literary tradition in this haunt...

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The Small House at Allington, Paperback - Anthony Trollope

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The Small House At Allington (1864) is Anthony Trollope's fifth novel in the sequence that has become known as the Barsetshire series. Set against ...

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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, Paperback - E. T. a. Hoffmann

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Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixe...

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How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories, Paperback - Leo Tolstoy

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Lazarillo de Tormes and the Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels, Paperback - Anonymous

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The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populat...

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Peer Gynt and Brand, Paperback - Henrik Ibsen

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Masterful versions of Ibsen's two great verse plays by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill These two masterly and contrasting verse dra...

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Culture and Society. 1780-1950, Paperback - Raymond Williams

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Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying t...

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The Major Works, Paperback - William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a ...

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Romeo and Juliet, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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Reducere. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career near the end of the 16th century. This story of a love that can ne...

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The Adventures Of Maya The Bee: Translated By Adele Szold Seltzer With Poems Done Into English By Arthur Guiterman - Waldemar Bonsels

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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Paperback - Various

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From the reign of the Tsars in the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a cen...

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The Awkward Age, Paperback - Henry James

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Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even f...

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