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Henrik Ibsen, Laura Kieler,
A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken

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'Oh, be not afraid. I am cast out of society, but you, is it not true, you walk around as a man of honour? What more do you want?' (Laura Kieler, Men of Honour )Very few readers and audiences know that Ib…

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William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream

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'I have had a most rare vision.'A Midsummer Night's Dream evokes images of fairies, dreams, changeling children, and actors being transformed into asses. But is the play as ethereal as these associations …

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Charles Dickens,
A Tale of Two Cities

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As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale…

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George Eliot
Adam Bede

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this was a wonderful novel, layered and beautiful and complex. The fact that I wanted there to be even more of it is a testimony to how good it was. Jenny Brown, Shelf Love 'Our deeds carry their terrible…

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William Shakespeare,
Arden of Faversham

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'He must leave to live that we may love'Arden of Faversham is based on the murder of Thomas Arden in Faversham in 1551 by his wife, Alice. The play depicts Alice Arden's increasingly desperate attempts to…

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Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales

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'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!'Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd is a nautical recasti…

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Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

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'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of …

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William Shakespeare
Coriolanus

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'O mother, mother! What have you done?'Failing harvests, fragile supply chains, food shortages, a spike in the cost of living; military insurgency and counter-insurgency locked in bloody stalemate; a poli…

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Willa Cather,
Death Comes for the Archbishop

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'One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico. He had lost his way'Death Comes for the A…

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Thomas Mann,
Death in Venice and Other Stories

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'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"'This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in t…

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Thomas Lovell Beddoes,
Death's Jest-Book and Other Writings

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'If there were dreams to sell What would you buy?'Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was among the most talented writers of the Romantic age. A prodigiously gifted poet and dramatist, he already had two pu…

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Thomas Mann,
Doctor Faustus

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'Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?'Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough f…

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Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay,
Federalist Papers

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'A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.'In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York press; the purpose of the essays was to persuade the citizens…

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Francis Bacon,
Francis Bacon: The Major Works

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This volume helps to illustrate the reciprocal relation between his career as a lawyer and a statesman and his writings in natural philosophy, moral philosophy, religion, and politics. Rose-Mary Sargent, …

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Olive Schreiner
From Man to Man or Perhaps Only-

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"I've lived in so many countries, yet when anything comes to me, it's nearly always Africa-Africa that sets it."Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only---, unfinished at the time of he…

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Plutarch,
Greek Lives

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Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander`I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in…

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Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels

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'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.'In these words Gulliver rep…

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William Shakespeare,
Hamlet

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a dynamic, exciting, and thought-provoking work Notes and Queries Hamlet 's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fasci…

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Charles Dickens
Hard Times

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Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensu…

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William Shakespeare, Anonymous, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe
Henry VI, Part I

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'No, no, I am but shadow of myself...'Henry VI, Part I paints a vivid picture of political ambition, civil unrest, and war. One of Shakespeare's most collaborative plays, it was a theatrical hit when it w…

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