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  • The Monk

    Ambrosio, the worthy superior of the Capuchins of Madrid, falls to the temptations of Matilda, a fiend-inspired wanton who, disguised as a boy, has entered his monastery as a novice. Ambrosio then falls in love with one of his penitents and finally kills her in order to escape detection. However, he is discovered, tortured by the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Although extravagant in its ... Read more

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  • Before Burns

    Eighteenth-Century Scottish Poetry

    Edited by Christopher MacLachlan ...
    Series series
    This superb anthology offers a lively and indispensable collection of poems and songs from the eighteenth century. Here are the poets who created the literary tradition of vernacular directness which Burns drew upon and shared.Before Burns includes a substantial selection from the work of Allan Ramsay and Robert Ferguson (Burns's 'elder brother in the muse'), as well as a wider selection from the ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto (Diversion Classics)

    Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms.When an unfortunate accident kills the son of Manfred, lord of the castle of Otranto, on the boy’s wedding day, his father is not just stricken with grief, but with fear. Terrified of an ancient prophecy fortelling the end of Manfred’s family line, the lord attempts to trump ... Read more

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  • The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Gothic Romance (Reader's Edition)

    by Ann Radcliffe ...
    After the death of her parents, Emily St. Aubert leaves her beloved home to live with her aunt, a woman of much money and less sense. The marriage of Emily's aunt to a mysterious Italian begins a series of journeys that take Emily across the rugged beauty of the Alps to the wonders of 16th century Venice and then to an isolated and foreboding castle in the Apennines, where she must struggle ... Read more

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  • The Italian

    by Ann Radcliffe ...
    The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (she would go on to write the novel Gaston de Blondeville, which was published posthumously in 1826). The Italian has a dark, mysterious and somber tone, and concerns the themes of love, devotion and persecution by ... Read more

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  • The Romance of the Forest

    Nonsuch Classics

    by Ann Radcliffe ...
    Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest, first published in 1791, is the epitome of the Gothic novel: a beautiful, orphaned heiress, a dashing hero, a dissolute, aristocratic villain and a ruined abbey deep in a great forest are combined by the author in a tale of suspense where danger lurks behind every secret trap-door. Reprinted four times between 1791 and 1795 and satirised as represented of ... Read more

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  • Stressed, Unstressed

    Classic Poems to Ease the Mind

    Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry.Intended to help you endure some of your stressful moments and painful experiences, these poems tell us we are not alone. Returned again and again over the centuries by great imaginations are love and death and memory – remembrance of childhood joy, of happy days and ... Read more

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  • Risking Everything

    110 Poems of Love and Revelation

    Edited by Roger Housden ...
    “Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary OliverThis luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip ... Read more

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  • Just Imagine: An Anthology Of Poems On Love, Faith And Dreaming

    Series series Rhyme Whisperer Series
    'Just Imagine' brings together two Rhyme Whisperer Books, 'As The Moon And The Sun' and 'In The Madness Of Meeting' in an anthology of poetry on love, faith and dreaming that will provoke minds and brighten hearts of readers of all ages. ... Read more

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  • Fish Heads and Roses

    Fish Heads and Roses: The title reflects the strange fruit found within this anthology.We have the witch who swapped places with her cat and his life.The poetic story of a woman trapped in a Library, who is she?An orchestra of violins, cats and conspiracy, stories and poetry, combined into a soup of words by a group of writers converging and enjoying writing.All the writers who have contributed to ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Series Book 2 - The Reader's Library
    A selection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's essential poems. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher. His Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798 with co-author William Wordsworth, marked the beginning for all intents and purposes of English Romanticism and included “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Other notable poems include "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," ... Read more

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  • Diverse Voices

    It is said that if you put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters, eventually you will end up with The Bulkington Writers. And here to prove that theory is a sampling of their output.Produced by published authors, prize winners and writers who just like to write for the sheer pleasure of it, we present a series of stories, essays, poems, shopping lists (no wait ... Read more

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