A History of English Literature

On Painting, Paperback - Leon Battista Alberti

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100 Postcards from Austen to Zola, Hardcover - Penguin Classics

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Annals, Paperback - Tacitus

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English Literature for Boys and Girls, Paperback - H. E. Marshall

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DescriptionHenrietta Elizabeth Marshall was a British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children.

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Confucius: The Great Digest, the Unwobbling Pivot, the Analects, Paperback - Ezra Pound

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The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler, Paperback - Giles Milton

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The Seasons of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman Hesse, Paperback - Hermann Hesse

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Vowing at an early age "to be a poet or nothing at all, " Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of indepe...

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Timaeus and Critias, Paperback - Plato

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Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theo...

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A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature, Hardcover - Heather Ingman

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DescriptionThis book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It cover...

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D zafi, Paperback - Franketienne

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El Filibusterismo, Paperback - Jose Rizal

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Reducere. In the spirit of The Count of Monte Cristo and Les Mis rables, a major new translation-Jos Rizal's stunning continuation of Noli Me Tangere. Jos Ri...

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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 Story of the Glittering Plain - A Book That Inspired Tolkien: With Original Illustrations, Paperback - William Morris

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Sympathy for the Devil, Paperback - Kent Anderson

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The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition, Paperback - Pablo Neruda

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The Qur'an, Paperback - M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

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One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur'an is the suprem...

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A Modern Utopia, Paperback - H. G. Wells

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In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government....

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The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret, Paperback - Jacques Derrida

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The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the...

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The Holocaust and North Africa, Paperback - Aomar Boum

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Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926-1944, Paperback - Antal Szerb

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A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings, and

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Reducere. In A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore, editor Harold Courlander brings together an extensive and unique collection of tales, recollections, epics...

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The Origin of the Bible, Paperback - Philip W. Comfort

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Reducere. Many books have been written about the Bible, but few explain its origins. This updated volume of the original classic provides a fascinating overv...

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Jane Austen for Kids: Her Life, Writings, and World, with 21 Activities, Paperback - Nancy I. Sanders

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DescriptionJane Austen is one of the most influential and best-loved novelists in English literature. Austen's genius was her cast of characters--s...

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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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Heart of Darkness, Paperback (5th Ed.) - Joseph Conrad

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph ConradEditor: Paul B. Armstrong- A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last versio...

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The Black Arrow, Paperback - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Contributor(s): Author: Robert Louis StevensonIntroduction by: John SutherlandFrom the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a...

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The Last Chronicle of Barset, Paperback - Anthony Trollope

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Contributor(s): Author: Anthony TrollopeEditor: Sophie GilmartinAnthony Trollope was a masterful satirist with an unerring eye for the most intrins...

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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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The Marrow of Tradition, Paperback - Charles W. Chesnutt

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Contributor(s): Author: Charles W. ChesnuttIntroduction by: Eric J. SundquistNotes by: Eric J. SundquistThis novel is based on a historically accur...

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The Penguin Book of English Verse, Paperback - Paul Keegan

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Contributor(s): Editor: Paul KeeganSpanning seven centuries, this ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologi...

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The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale, Paperback - Anonymous

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Contributor(s): Author: AnonymousTranslator: Keneva KunzEditor: Bergljot S. KristjansdottirThe Penguin Classics list of medieval sagas grows ever m...

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Rob Roy, Paperback - Walter Scott

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Contributor(s): Author: Walter ScottWhen young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on hi...

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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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What Is Art', Paperback - Leo Tolstoy

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Contributor(s): Author: Leo TolstoyThis profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of m...

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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 Story of the Stone, Volume III: The Warning Voice, Chapters 54-80, Paperback - Cao Xueqin

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The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Div...

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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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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, Paperback - Joseph Conrad

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Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as...

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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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Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, Paperback - E. Patrick Johnson

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While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identiti...

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Studies in Hysteria, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

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Reducere. Hysteria--the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind--is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most el...

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Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain, Paperback - Rachel Bromwich

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DescriptionThis critical edition of the classic Celtic text Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long been established as the standard. Based on a full collati...

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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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The Story of French, Paperback - Jean-Benoit Nadeau

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The Qur'an: English Translation and Parallel Arabic Text, Hardcover - M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

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Rimey Lama Chopa - Dilgo Khyentse

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DescriptionDilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991) was one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist teachers of the 20th century. While a practitioner in the N...

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Radio, Paperback - Al Smith

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The Proverbs of Middle-Earth, Paperback - David Rowe

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The Marquise of O and Other Stories, Paperback - Heinrich Von Kleist

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The Book of Tea, Paperback - Kakuzo Okakura

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Zen and the art of tea--the classic book about the Japanese tea ceremony that is as much a guide to life For a generation adjusting painfully to th...

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How to Understand Your Bible: A Philosopher's Interpretation of Obscure and Puzzling Passages, Hardcover - Manly P. Hall

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The Canterbury Tales, Paperback - Geoffrey Chaucer

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Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English I...

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Tales of Old EDO Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Vol. 1, Paperback - ***

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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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Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, Paperback - Maurice LeBlanc

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Leblanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant, sly ... and...

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The Conquest of Gaul, Paperback - Julius Caesar

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Between 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the recor...

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

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Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflect...

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What Maisie Knew, Paperback - Henry James

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A new edition of the innovative, emotionally complex novel. After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between ...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Paperback - Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no oth...

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Purgatory, Paperback - Dante Alighieri

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The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the...

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On Liberty and the Subjection of Women, Paperback - John Stuart Mill

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Two cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who sharply challenged...

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A Journal of the Plague Year, Paperback - Daniel Defoe

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In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97, 000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on ...

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The Imitation of Christ, Paperback - Thomas A. Kempis

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One of the best-loved books of Christianity after the Bible, now in a new translation A passionate celebration of God and his love, mercy, and holi...

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Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, Paperback - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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A lively new translation of Rousseau's best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in cha...

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Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife, Paperback - Sigrid Undset

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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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Heart of Darkness, Paperback - Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by Hellboy artist Mike Mignola Heart of ...

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The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Paperback - Red Pine

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Reducere. A Zen-Taoist poetry classic, in a handsome Chinese-English formatThis definitive translation of Han Shan s poetry appears in a bilingual Chinese-En...

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The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry, Paperback - Jonathan Wordsworth

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The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spir...

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Winesburg, Ohio, Paperback - Sherwood Anderson

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