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Tom Brown's School DaysTom Brown's School Days T is not often that in later years one finds any book as good as one remembers it from one's youth; but it has been my interesting experience to find the story of Tom Brown's School Days even better than...
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The Oxford Concise Companion to English LiteratureBased on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised alphabetical entries give unrivaled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. The...
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Spain in Mind: An Anthology: From Byron, Trollope, and Wharton to Auden, Orwell, and Hemingway--Three Centuries of Great Writers EntrThis spellbinding literary travel guide gathers poetry, nonfiction, and fiction about Spain by forty English and American writers. Here are letters and memoirs from Lord Byron, Edith Wharton, and Henry James; a poem about Picasso by E. E. Cummings; and a comic tale by...
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The Portable Roman ReaderThe Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical...
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The Oxford Book of the SeaThe sea has served as a source of inspiration for writers throughout the ages. Now, in The Oxford Book of the Sea, bestselling author Jonathan Raban has compiled a remarkable anthology of our changing visions of the sea, a rich treasury of writings as...
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The Lamb Cycle: What the Great English Poets Would Have Written about Mary and Her Lamb (Had They Thought of It First)The rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" told in the style--and substance--of the great English poets from Edmund Spenser to Stevie Smith. In The Lamb Cycle, David R. Ewbank achieves the unthinkable--he writes so convincingly in the style of the great English poets that...
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Mexico in Mind: An AnthologyTwo centuries of writers drawn to Mexico--from D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams to Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and Sandra CisnerosThis scintillating literary travel guide gathers the work of great writers celebrating Mexico in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Ranging from...
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Great Expectations Sparknotes Literature Guide: Volume 29When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.Author:...
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The Norton Anthology of English LiteratureThe most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. Also available is an ebook featuring exciting, teachable core selections of...
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The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: 1800 to the PresentA fully-annotated, two-volume work which presents the major literary achievements of English writers from the medieval period to the twentieth century.Author: Frank KermodePublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 04/26/1973Pages: 2238Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 4.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 5.90w x 2.80dISBN: 9780195016581This title is only available via back...
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Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881-1922Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain. British writers played a central role in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and their writing was transformed by...
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Princeton Review AP English Literature & Composition Prep, 2023: 5 Practice Tests + Complete Content Review + Strategies & TechniquesEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5! Ace the 2023 AP English Literature & Composition Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide. Includes 5 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every section, and access to online extras. Techniques...
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AP English Language and Composition Premium, 2023-2024: Comprehensive Review with 8 Practice Tests + an Online Timed Test OptionBe prepared for exam day with Barron's. Trusted content from AP experts! Barron's AP English Language and Composition Premium: 2023-2024 includes in-depth content review and online practice. It's the only book you'll need to be prepared for exam day. Written by Experienced Educators Learn...
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The Norton Anthology of English LiteratureThe most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. Also available is an ebook featuring exciting, teachable core selections of...
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The Norton Anthology of English LiteratureThe most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. Also available is an ebook featuring exciting, teachable core selections of...
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Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century: The Father of English PoetryThis volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's work by Dryden,...
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Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the GameThe only book of its kind, Tennis and the Meaning of Life is a resplendent collection of the best fiction (and poetry ) written about this sport/obsession. The stories are hilarious and sad, whimsical and philosophical - and thoroughly saturated with the art of...
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The cost of wings, and other storiesThe cost of wings, and other storiesSHELDRICK, returning, refreshed and exhilarated, from a spin with a friend who had brought down a racing car of forty horse-power and an enthusiasm to match, found his wife sitting in the same chair, in the same attitude,...
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A bird of passageA bird of passageFew travellers penetrate to the Andamans, unless it be an enthusiastic astronomer to witness a rare comet, or an enterprising professor, who happens to be fired with a desire to study the language and the skulls of the aborigines. These islands...
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Muckle JohnMuckle John FOREWORD I. HOW PRINCE CHARLIE CAME TO INVERNESS II. THE COMING OF MUCKLE JOHN III. THE END OF THE JACOBITE CAUSE IV. FRENCH GOLD V. LOCH ARKAIG VI. THE WATCHERS BY NIGHT VII. BURIED TREASURE VIII. FLIGHT IX. THE TURN OF THE...
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