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"In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final …

Are you crazy about rugby but frustrated at the modern emphasis on over-regulation; the 'closed-up' modern game, as opposed to the free-flowing, open running game of the past? Are you i…

Robinson Crusoe was born in York in 1632 as the son of a merchant. He ignores its father's warnings and goes to sea, where it is caught by pirates. After an adventurous escape, he arrives in…

Beckett’s Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate’s post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings, the study demonstrates how …

The Violet Fairy Book Andrew Lang – The Editor makes a move to rehash what he has frequently said previously, that he isn't the writer of the tales in the Fairy Books; that he didn't de…

The Violet Fairy Book Andrew Lang – The Editor makes a move to rehash what he has frequently said previously, that he isn't the writer of the tales in the Fairy Books; that he didn't de…

During the American Civil War, the coast of the southern states is largely blocked and trade in cotton collapses. A young merchant devises a plan to take advantage of this situation and make a pr…

During the American Civil War, the coast of the southern states is largely blocked and trade in cotton collapses. A young merchant devises a plan to take advantage of this situation and make a pr…

During the American Civil War, the coast of the southern states is largely blocked and trade in cotton collapses. A young merchant devises a plan to take advantage of this situation and make a pr…

During the American Civil War, the coast of the southern states is largely blocked and trade in cotton collapses. A young merchant devises a plan to take advantage of this situation and make a pr…

Первая книга, в которой филолог и фольклорист В. Я. Пропп рассматривает русский героический эпос как часть русской культуры, русской истории, русской действительности. Эпос, уходящий корнями в се…

Variety truly IS the spice of life in this jam-packed biography of Bernard Atha. He recounts some of the pleasures and sorrows of a long and varied life. From dancer to councillor, from the RAF t…

"The Courts of the Morning" was written in 1929 by Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician John Buchan (1875–1940), telling the events of a public revolution in the fictional co…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Tales from the Works of G. A. Henty by G. A. Henty <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Tales from the Works of G. A. Henty" is a collection …

&quot;The early years of my life, which were spent in the little cabin, were not very different from those of thousands of other slaves. My mother, of course, had little time in which to give att…

&quot;It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his …

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Goslings; or, A World of Women by J.D. Beresford <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Goslings; or, A World of Women" is a 1913 post-apocalyp…

Where is Helen? When a wealthy ex pat mysteriously disappears from her sun drenched Greek island home, her friend Lucy has a bad feeling. Convinced of foul play, she persuades the reclusive hard …

This book includes classic poems by such eminent poets as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Ye…

&quot;Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot&apos;s character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a …