Selected Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry and Prose similar books

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  The Poems of Charlotte Smith

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  Jude the Obscure

  Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonem…

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  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  "Day after day, day after day,
  We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
  As idle as a painted ship
  Upon a painted ocean.
  
  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the l…

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  Lyrical Ballads

  The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of soci…

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  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

  Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-cen…

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  Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

  Written by William Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister near the Welsh Borders, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey describes his encounters with the countryside on the banks of …

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  Hard Times

  "My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas …

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  The Brothers Karamazov

  The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karam…

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  The Tempest

  Alternate Cover/publisher Edition ISBN 0743482832 (ISBN13: 9780743482837)
  
  Each edition includes:
  • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
  
  • Full explanatory notes conveni…

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  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Tr…

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  Sense and Sensibility

  Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662
  
  'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'
  
  Marianne Dashwood wears her …

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  Mrs. Dalloway

  Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party p…

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  A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

  Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth.
  
  Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon …

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  Hamlet

  Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. …

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  Persuasion

  Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that yea…

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  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To clear m…

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  Northanger Abbey

  A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical…

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