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These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains,...
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Penguin
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2013-12-05
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Journalism of Oscar Wilde” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Throughout the 1880s Oscar Wilde devoted a great part of his creative energies to working as a professional journalist and he...
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e-artnow
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2013-12-02
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Non-Fiction Writings (Essays on Art + The Rise Of Historical Criticism + Poems in Prose + The Soul of a Man under Socialism + De Produndis and more)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of...
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e-artnow
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2013-12-02
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Truth of Masks: a Note on Illusion (an essay of dramatic theory)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is an essay written by Edgar Allan Poe, first publisched in 1886. “The Truth of Masks”...
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e-artnow
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2013-12-02
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Rise Of Historical Criticism (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Rise of Historical Criticism, published in complete form in 1908, is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde,...
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e-artnow
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2013-12-02
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The Idiots was Joseph Conrad’s first short story and it was written during his honeymoon (1896).
Jean-Piere Bacadou returned from military service to find the family farm run down. He decides to take over from his aged parents… He gets married; his mother dies; and twin...
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Atlântico Press
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2013-12-01
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‘Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century’ The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand,...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-11-30
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This Van Der Post 'reader', thematically organised to reflect the patterns and themes which have influenced his life and his writing, distils the essence of the writer, thinker, spiritual guru and man of action.This evocative and thought-provoking selection, combining...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-11-30
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OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS
General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells
Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-28
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A selection of the most popular and relevant essays from Adam Phillips, the man New Yorker called 'Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer''Phillips's prose is poetic in the best sense: it is muscular, resonant, and thrums with a dark music that is all its own' John...
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Penguin
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2013-11-28
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Robert Herrick has long been one of the best loved of English lyric poets. Known through the centuries as the author of 'Gather ye rosebuds', he also wrote, as this new edition shows, hundreds of songs, epigrams and longer poems equally worthy of attention. Volume I of...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-21
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Autobiography has been an essential element of the London Review of Books since its founding in 1979. This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the LRB’s pages.Here, Lorna Sage remembers growing up with her grandfather during the...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2013-11-21
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Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel deMontaigne's Essays. Published in London in 1603, this book was widely read in seventeenth-century England: Shakespeare borrowed...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-14
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Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. The principle of selection is to choose writers whose use of fiction is realistic -- not realist, but fundamentally contributory to...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-14
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A collection of Terry Wogan's best TELEGRAPH columns, with his trademark wry take on life.'It's my feeling that whatever's bothering you, you ought to be able to say it in less than 500 words. The rest is window-dressing ... Probably explains why I didn't write WAR AND...
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Orion
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2013-11-07
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*** WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS POPULAR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR** *'I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever. It's real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving, and contains more than one reference to Arsenal FC' Nick Hornby,The Believer'Adrian...
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Penguin
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2013-11-07
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Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1909. It has been called "arguably his most artistic book."
Tono-Bungay is narrated by George Ponderevo, who is persuaded by his uncle to help develop the business of selling...
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Atlântico Press
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2013-11-01
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This is the first edition for fifty years of one of the greatest of English lyric poets. Volume I concentrates on Herrick's large printed collection, Hesperides, published in 1648, and the product of nearly four decades of writing. The text is based on a collation of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-11-01
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Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively and varied portrait in fiction of Russia's mysterious capital city....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively and varied portrait in fiction of Russia's mysterious capital city....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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