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A rare comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a young man who has an infatuation with noses.

This extraordinary collection of poems by global human rights activist, author and jurist, Basil Fernando bears witness to one of the most harrowing clashes in South Asian history. Bringing an utterly human voice to Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war, Fernando evokes the imagery and testimony of...

They used to call it the English disease. Football Hooliganism was rampant on the terraces of English clubs through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and is still very much alive today but on a different level. Over the last decade Europe's football clubs have took on the mantle and brought new levels of...

The British historian and Whig politician, Baron Macaulay was a celebrated essayist and reviewer, whose poetry and works on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. Wedded to the Idea of Progress, especially in terms of liberal freedoms, Macaulay opposed radicalism, while idealising...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: During the 1800s in America, the rise of technology allowed people to have more possessions than ever before, and at a cheaper cost. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Written between the inception of Middlemarch and the completion, seven years later, of Daniel Deronda this book is a charming treatment of a subject taken from Boccaccio; a poem interesting by virtue of...

Este ebook presenta "Colección de Oscar Wilde" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Tabla de contenidos: Prosa: El retrato de Dorian Gray Cuentos: El príncipe feliz El ruiseñor y la rosa El amigo fiel El insigne cohete El crimen de lord Arthur Savile El fantasma de Canterville El modelo...

August Strindberg is considered the father of modern Swedish literature. Here are collected three of his finest plays, written during what he called his 'Inferno period', a period just following a series of psychotic episodes, they are full of wild imagery, intense and powerful characters and touch...

From a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the twentieth-century drama that was called “the finest verse play since the Elizabethans” (The New York Times). This modern verse play by the author of The Waste Land, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and other modern masterpieces...

Recreations of Christopher North Volume II John Wilson, scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854) This ebook presents «Recreations of Christopher North Volume II», from John Wilson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

Recreations of Christopher North Volume I John Wilson, scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854) This ebook presents «Recreations of Christopher North Volume I», from John Wilson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

Dreamthorp Alexander Smith, scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School (1829-1867) This ebook presents «Dreamthorp», from Alexander Smith. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK...

Leaping from the pages, jostling for position alongside the Valleys mams, dads, and bamps, and described with great warmth, the superheroes in question are a motley crew: Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty McFly, a bicycling nun, and a recalcitrant hippo. Other poems focus on the crammed...

‘You can’t tell your mum the streets are full of psychos and it’s pure fluke you get home alive every night.’ A controversial new gaming experience is inspiring a generation. In Killology, players are rewarded for torturing victims, scoring points for ‘creativity’. But Killology...