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The Earliest English Poems (Penguin Classics) by none
azw3 |eng | 2006-07-26 | Author:none

Riddles ARISTOTLE devotes a paragraph of his Rhetoric to the riddle, and it is a form found in most ancient literatures, though it has suffered the fate of ‘occasional verse’ ...
( Category: British & Irish April 19,2020 )
The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts by David Atkinson
epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:David Atkinson [Atkinson David]

Fig. 5.1 Carpenter Collection, Photo 101, James Madison Carpenter sitting in his Austin Roadster. Courtesy of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA. His surviving ...
( Category: British & Irish April 16,2020 )
Afropessimism by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

8 You think you’ve seen it all, and you have. You met Sandra Dove when she sipped gin and lemonade and flicked her cigarette out the kitchen window. She called ...
( Category: British & Irish April 16,2020 )
Empire to Nation by Unknown
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Unknown

Reforming the Empire The road from the Ottoman imperial kaleidoscope to the rigidly defined world of the successor nation-states was a long one. The first part of this process goes ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 16,2020 )
William Thackeray by Hawes Professor Donald; Hawes Donald; Tillotson Geoffrey
epub |eng | | Author:Hawes, Professor Donald; Hawes, Donald; Tillotson, Geoffrey

But his favourite amusement is the unmasking hypocrisy. He delights to show the selfishness of kindness, the pride of humility, the consciousness of simplicity. If any of Mr. Thackeray’s characters ...
( Category: British & Irish April 16,2020 )
Christchurch by Anna Rogers
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Anna Rogers [Anna Rogers]

‘When you get older, nobody takes any notice of you,’ became another of Dorrie’s expressions. ‘Men just look right through you.’ #xa0; Dorrie had trouble with the man at the ...
( Category: British & Irish April 16,2020 )
Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater by Lyons SarahGlendon;
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Lyons, SarahGlendon;

‘Neither for God nor for his Enemies’: Heresy and Disinterestedness in the Critical Essays of Arnold and Pater In 1871, an anonymous writer published an article on ‘Standards of Heresy’ ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 16,2020 )
Changing Styles in Shakespeare by Berry Ralph;
epub |eng | | Author:Berry, Ralph; [Berry, Ralph]

The Shakespeare Quarterly reviewer concurred: Henry V . . . was allowed to grow as a man and as a king in equal proportions . . . Mr Plummer was ...
( Category: Performing Arts April 15,2020 )
Conversations with Isaac Newton by Michael White
epub |eng | 2020-04-13 | Author:Michael White

And you could not contemplate this because of your unorthodox views on the Trinity? Precisely. I could not in all honesty swear to accept the conventional idea of the Trinity. ...
( Category: Europe April 14,2020 )
Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture by Jennifer Higginbotham & Mark Albert Johnston
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Higginbotham & Mark Albert Johnston

Aaron attributes the boys ’ lechery to heredity or blood (via the metaphor of the card one is dealt) and their bloody minds or barbarity to his own tutelage (using ...
( Category: Performing Arts April 14,2020 )
English and Proud of It by William Moore
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:William Moore

Charles John Huffam Dickens is one of England's most beloved authors. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, to name but two of his works, are classics of the English Literature canon, ...
( Category: Europe April 14,2020 )
Helen with the High Hand (Timeless Classics) by Arnold Bennett
epub |eng | 2016-06-16 | Author:Arnold Bennett

“Then something is the matter?” “If you want to know,” said Helen, with haughtiness, “in the hall, just now—that is—I—I overheard Mr. Dean say something about Emanuel Prockter’s singing which ...
( Category: Drama April 14,2020 )
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed
epub |eng | 2020-02-29 | Author:Samira Ahmed [Ahmed, Samira]

Leila I step lightly and quickly toward the Hall of Guests. A cold fear grips me, tendrils wrapping around my ankles, pulling me back. But this is no time for ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 13,2020 )
Mothers of the Nation by Anne K. Mellor
epub |eng | 2019-05-10 | Author:Anne K. Mellor

( Category: British & Irish April 13,2020 )
Shakespeare’s Sister by Emma Whipday
epub |eng | 2016-02-11 | Author:Emma Whipday

NED Joan, I beg of you – JOAN What? What do you beg of me? What can I give you that I have not already given? I have pledged you ...
( Category: British & Irish April 13,2020 )

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