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Cover of A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
by Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009

The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of puns . . . This selection gathers together some of Swift's most brilliant prose, from high politics to social gossip, from savage tirades to lighthearted social satire. In addition...
Cover of The Complete Poems
by Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American. From...
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by Fredrik Sjöberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

Accidental Journeys with the Bestselling Author of The Fly Trap Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years...
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by Ford Madox Ford
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007

The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage seethes with unhappiness and deception. Our only...
Cover of The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
by Alexander Pushkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004

The Queen of Spades, one of his most popular and chilling short stories, tells of an inveterate card player who develops a dangerous obsession with the secret of an old lady's luck, which he believes will bring him the wealth he craves. The Negro of Peter the Great, a story based on the life Pushkin's...
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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005

Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three...
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How to be a Brit

The Classic Bestselling Guide

by George Mikes
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1986

The indispensable manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness George Mikes's perceptive best-seller provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life. Having been born in Hungary, he eventually spent more than forty years in the field, and the fruits of his labour include insights...
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Women Who Did

Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914

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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005

"A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes of the new woman, as she encountered...
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by GCHQ
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

The PERFECT GIFT for anyone who loves a good head-scratcher - the original official puzzle book for the GCHQ team . . . Would GCHQ recruit you? Pit your wits against the people who cracked Enigma in the official puzzle book from Britain's secretive intelligence organisation . . . -------------------------------- Odd...
Cover of Manon Lescaut
by Abbe Prevost
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004

When the young Chevalier des Grieux first sets eyes on the exquisitely beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut they fall passionately in love. But his happiness turns to bitter despair when he discovers that Manon is mercenary and immoral, and has taken a rich lover to pay for their life of pleasure....
Cover of Mary and Maria, Matilda
by Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 1992

These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary,...
Cover of Selected Writings
by Thomas Carlyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist. Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's career, and includes 'Sign of the Times',...
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Port Out, Starboard Home

The Fascinating Stories We Tell About the words We Use

by Michael Quinion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005

Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever...
Cover of Selected Tales
by James Henry, John Lyon
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001

Throughout his life, Henry James was drawn to the short story form for the freedom and variety it offered. The nineteen stories in this selection span James's career, from brief tales to longer works, all exploring his concerns with the old world and the new, money, fame and art. 'Daisy Miller', the...
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