Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
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'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful...
Socrates' Defence
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'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account...
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture
Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana
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India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised...
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
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'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...' In this selection from...
Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its...
Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives
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Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a...
A Pair of Silk Stockings
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'At night, among the reeds on the bayou, Chicot could still hear the woman's wail, mingled now with...
Atheist's Mass
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'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an...
Seven Hanged
Anthony Briggs and Leonid Andreyev
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'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one...
The Eve of St Agnes
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'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse -...