History of English literature

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

  In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage ghostly hound comes frighteningly to life. The gray towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country…

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  A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 2: The Restoration to the Present Day

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  A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to Milton

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  Roads to Mussoorie

  Roads to Mussoorie is a memorable evocation of a writer's surroundings and the role they have played in his work and life. Ruskin Bond describes his many journeys to, from and around Mussoorie, delvin…

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  Golden Treasury

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  Literary Theory: An Introduction

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  Look Back in Anger (Penguin Plays)

  Electrifying in its urgency, cauterizing in its wit, this play blasted a gaping hole in the conventions of British drama.
  
  Jimmy Porter plays trumpet badly. He browbeats his flatmate, terrorizes his wif…

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  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an obliqu…

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  Antony and Cleopatra

  A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including notes and critical commentary.

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  Pygmalion

  One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady.…

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  The Scarlet Letter

  Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identi…

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  Five Go to Mystery Moor (The Famous Five, #13)

  Bleak and eerie, Mystery Moor is well-known for its spooky atmosphere, but is there something really scary out there? The Famous Five are intrigued, but the unfriendly travellers camped on the moor ar…

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  Train to Pakistan

  “In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a milli…

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  Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

  Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full color ebook device, and in rich black and white on all other devices.
  
  Narnia . . . where animals talk . . . where trees walk . . . w…

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  The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

  The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real transformation of the world order. The very nature of international relations and its rules are changi…

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  Heart of Darkness

  Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts …

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  Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

  A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reve…

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  Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)

  Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world whe…

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  The Good Woman of Setzuan

  In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and possibly the greatest living European playwright." His plays, widely taught and studied, are searing…

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  Madame Bovary

  Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. When the…

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