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Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The Island of Captain Sparrow by S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;The Island of Captain Sparrow" by author S. (…

&quot;Robin Hood assured them that he had detached a party in the direction of the road they were to pass, who would not fail to discover and apprize them of any secret ambuscade; and that he had…

&quot;Robin Hood assured them that he had detached a party in the direction of the road they were to pass, who would not fail to discover and apprize them of any secret ambuscade; and that he had…

&quot;The Twilight of Magic" was written in 1931 by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), telling about the Middle Ages, when adults and children alike still believed in magic. The tale is full of castles, k…

This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial p…

This fascinating account, envisages as a virtual film, Alexander the Great&apos;s early life tracing events from his birth, through to his boyhood and thence to the brink of manhood. He inherited…

&quot;No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man&apos;s and yet as mortal as his…

&quot;The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous s…

It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor…

These three stories represent all that remained of Hemingway&apos;s early work after the suitcase full of his manuscripts was stolen in the Gare de Lyon. A masterful collection of three early wor…

&quot;Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" is a collection of 23 essays by George Orwell. <br/> Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an E…

The famous Fairy Tales written by the Brothers Grimm. Over 50 well-known and less well-known fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in one volume! The book includes classics like Rapunzel, Mother Holl…

&quot;Ich bin durch und durch Rationalistin, Atheistin, mit achtzehn aus der Kirche ausgetreten. Ich habe mich nie für Mystik, Okkultismus, Telepathie oder dergleichen interessiert. Wenn es um ir…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Christmas Holiday" is a novel written in 1939 by W. Somerset Ma…

An overzealous supermodel turned-assassin with a temper of a lion. A long To-do-list. The collapse of the global justice system. Will people change and avert Directive 17? Who will be the voice o…

so und so <br/> ein mann macht sich auf um in richtung süden zu wandern oder eine frau kommt um mitternacht in eine bar das ist ein grosser unterschied der anfang ist entscheidend und richtungswe…

In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discour…

Probably the best-known of all Dickens&apos; works, Oliver Twist was originally published as a serial, and sought to bring the public&apos;s attention to various contemporary social evils, includ…

&quot;The Jungle Book" (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustratio…

&quot;I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider&apos;…