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The Pilgrim's Progress
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John Bunyan |
Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley … |
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Alfred Tennyson
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Andrew Lang,Aberdeen Press |
In writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the te… |
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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë |
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s… |
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The way we live now
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Anthony Trollope |
From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition):
*“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and… |
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Our jubilee is death
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Leo Bruce |
At the end of the Summer term, Carolus Deene, amateur detective *cum* history master of Queen's School, Newminster, is summoned to Suffolk to investigate the circumstances attending the discovery of … |
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Feasting with panthers
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Rupert Croft-Cooke |
A completely unsentimental look at the English Decadents. |
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Literary research and the British romantic era
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Peggy Keeran |
"Literary Research and the British Romantic Era: Strategies and Sources explores primary and secondary research resources of this prolific era, including general literary research guides; union libra… |
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Literature and heresy in the age of Chaucer
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Andrew Cole |
After the late 14th century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Chaucer, Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, T… |
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Heretical Hellenism
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Shanyn Fiske |
"The prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians' relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women Wr… |
OL11938188W |
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Select Plays of William Shakspeare in Six Volumes. Volume VI (All's Well That Ends Well / Antony an…
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William Shakespeare |
Contains:
All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
King Henry IV. Part 1
King Henry VIII
King Richard II
King Richard III
[Romeo and Juliet]… |
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Darkborn
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Alison Sinclair |
For the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city ofMinhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibri… |
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Plays (As You Like It / Hamlet / Merchant of Venice / Taming of the Shrew / Tempest)
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William Shakespeare |
Contains:
- As You Like It
- [Hamlet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15203981W/Hamlet)
- Merchant of Venice
- Taming of the Shrew
- [Tempest](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362699W) |
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Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
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Holly Hughes |
A guide to reading "David Copperfield" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample … |
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The Haunted House
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,Charles Dickens |
The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, … |
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Stand Up, Mr. Dickens
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Charles Dickens,Edward Blishen |
Extracts from Dickens' stories, with biographical commentary |
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A Woman of No Importance
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Oscar Wilde |
Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is an… |
OL14877870W |
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1984
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SparkNotes,Spark Publishing |
This volume provides a study guide for English author George Orwell's 1949 novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It provides a plot overview, an analysis of major characters, and summaries & analysis of the t… |
OL14905934W |
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Plays (Cymbeline / Pericles / Tempest / Winter's Tale)
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William Shakespeare |
Contains:
- Cymbeline
- Pericles
- [Tempest](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362699W)
- Winter's Tale |
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Plays (Hamlet / Macbeth / Merchant of Venice / Twelfth Night)
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William Shakespeare |
Contains:
- [Hamlet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15203981W/Hamlet)
- Macbeth
- Merchant of Venice
- Twelfth Night |
OL14915838W |
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George Orwell's 1984
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Kit Reed |
A guide to reading "1984" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. |
OL14920097W |