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John Donne and the Line of Wit: From Metaphysical to Modernist is a study of influence, adaptation, historical imitation......more
"Shakespeare’s comedy in updated language that maintains the humor at the heart of the play while making it accessible f......more
"Updated language makes this cautionary fable about frailty, power, and the perils of legislating morality accessible fo......more
Shakespeare’s early comedy reimagined for modern audiences. Love’s Labour’s Lost is a wacky comedy of disguise and misch......more
"Poverty is what I am writing about". In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, ......more
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"I love this series of poems with a passion that comes from my own sense of identification with them. They speak to me-o......more
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Translation of: Qu’est-ce que l’existentialisme?...more
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‘This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back. . . ......more
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Of unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his strugg......more
Includes "The Critic as Artist" by Oscar Wilde, "Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses" by Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold’s "T......more
Lorenzino de’ Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature...more
La colecci n Poes a Port til re ne enSuave es vivir solo una muestra de los versos m s rompedores de Fernando Pessoa, cr......more
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Written by Lorenza Mazzetti, the first woman film director ever to be funded by the BFI, London Diaries/Free Cinema is t......more
An exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internat......more
An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could......more
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William Wordsworth is chiefly remembered as one of the Lake Poets. Yet he was also one of the founders of English Roma......more
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the W......more
Tragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare’s plays, often leading to the death of at......more
George Moore’s fierce polemic against the literary and social censorship of the Victorian select circulating libraries w......more
Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining pe......more
In a world full of atrocities, somehow, the German people are solely required to have the monopoly on guilt, with others......more
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In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain s wars against the Ottoman Empi......more
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Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a c......more
Shakespeare in London offers a lively and engaging new reading of some of Shakespeare s major work, informed by close at......more
For decades, French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been enticing readers with compact, erudite books th......more
Shakespeare’s plays are powerfully shaped by their sense of place. From Romeo and Juliet’s fiery, divided Verona to the ......more
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