b ’in this life, even if you don’t ask for much you still end up with bugger all!’ /b In a run-down quarter of Paris, Ge......more
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The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood (1915) is a monograph by George Whicher. Highly regarded by feminist scholar......more
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How do you find a book when you can’t recall the title.or the author? This homage to a common reader’s dilemma is a gift......more
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trap Around the World (1891) is a travel narrative by American journalist Elizabeth Bisland. W......more
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In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape thei......more
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Bored of his underground life and spring cleaning, the Mole decides to do the unthinkable-- go above the ground! As he d......more
"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about se......more
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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English langua......more
Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one, ) That should I after return, Or, long, long ......more
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The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe a......more
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Translation of: Qu’est-ce que l’existentialisme?...more
Tolstoy as Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoevsky (1901) is a work of literary criticism by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Ha......more
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An elegant introduction to one of America’s most complex and influential writers. From his childhood in a family of lead......more
The Devil’s Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling......more
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See the Enterprise. See the Enterprise go boldly. Go Go Go, Enterprise! Go Boldly! Join Kirk and Spock as they go boldly......more
The People of the Abyss (1903) is a work of nonfiction by American writer Jack London. Written after the author spent th......more
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Part of the Hero Classics series "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and deli......more
"She was part of the ’stunt girl’ movement that was very important in the 1880s and 1890s as these big, mass-circulation......more