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This novel was written in the year 1830, in a place some three hundred leagues from Paris. Many years before that, when our armies were pouring across Europe, I chanced to be billeted in the house of a canon. It was at Padua-a fortunate city, where, as in Venice, men's...
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Who wrote the Shakespeare Works?
Thematic readings of the four immortal tragedies, HAMLET, OTHELLO, KING LEAR and MACBETH, in the light of the great renaissance philosopher, Francis Bacon's Essays suggest an answer to this questinon.
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"A man of unwearied industry, inflexible constancy, sound, clear, and deep understanding and untainted integrity; so that whenever he was blinded, it was by the passion that he had for that which he esteemed the good and interest of the State."
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It was towards the end of the fourteenth century that the grandeur of the Hojo family rose to its acme, then fell with awful crash. The feudal story of the Land of the Rising Sun is a long dark chronicle of blood and tears, of crime and rapine, of vengeance and...
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THE morning was gray and I sat by the sea near Palos in a gray mood. I was Jayme de Marchena, and that was a good, old Christian name. But my grandmother was Jewess, and in corners they said that she never truly recanted, and I had been much with her as a child. She was...
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The ways were rude and long from Bordeaux town to Orleans, whither I had set my face, not knowing, when I left my own country, that the city was beleaguered by the English. For who could guess that lords and knights of the Christian faith, holding captive the gentle...
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'Edith!' said Margaret, gently, 'Edith!'
But, as Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep. She lay curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room in Harley Street, looking very lovely in her white muslin and blue ribbons. If Titania had ever been dressed in...
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To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that room there was a bed, and in that bed there lay a little girl; wide...
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"The wind is freshening; we gain upon her easily, I think, sir."
"Decidedly. This is our best point of sailing, and our best wind, too. We can't be going less than ten knots," said the captain, looking critically over the bows at the water racing alongside.
"I can...
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Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot, first published in eight instalments in 1871-1872.
The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829-1832, and follows several distinct, intersecting...
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861.
An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation...
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Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton.
It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts.
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The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London.
The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea...
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Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery).
Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century.
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North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.
With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004).
The later version renewed...
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Anne of Avonlea is a Canadian and American novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1909.
FollowingAnne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life ofAnne Shirley.
This book followsAnne from the age of 16 to 18, during the...
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Anne of the Island is the third book in theAnne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery aboutAnne Shirley.
Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestsellingAnne of Green Gables. In the continuing story ofAnne Shirley,Anne...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil...
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The Scarlet Letter is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.
Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair...
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Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886.
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