Dead Souls: A Poem
Nikolai Gogol and Christopher English
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'Rus! Russ!...Everything within you is open, desolate, and flat; your squat towns barely protrude...
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Tamburlaine: Parts I and II: Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward II
Christopher Marlowe, David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen
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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is...
The Awakening: And Other Stories
Kate Chopin and Pamela Knights
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'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most...
The Homeric Hymns
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'With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins, With herself and her slim-ankled...
The Italian
Ann Radcliffe and Frederick Garber
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'His figure was striking, but not so from grace ...and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy, Andrew Kahn and Nicolas Pasternak Slater
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'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied' As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to...
Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction
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Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power,...
Catiline's Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories
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Sallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint...
Roman Lives
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'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as...
Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
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In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford....