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  • Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden

    by Elkanah Settle ...
    English verse allegory, humorous or serious, political or moral, has deep roots; a reprint such as the present is clearly no place for a discussion of the subject at large:1 it need only be recalled here that to the age that produced The Pilgrim's Progress the art form was not new. Throughout his life Dryden had his enemies, Prior and Montague in their satire of The Hind and the Panther, for ... Read more

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  • The Notorious Impostor (1692); Diego Redivivus (1692)

    by Elkanah Settle ...
    The Impostor: The central character who fabricates an elaborate identity and backstory. His actions lead to a series of dramatic and often humorous situations as he interacts with various members of society.The Victims: Various characters who fall prey to the impostor's schemes, ranging from the gullible to the skeptical. Their responses and the consequences they face add depth to the narrative ... Read more

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  • The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

    A 70-Work Anthology of Comic Dissent, Social Critique, and Satirical Tradition

    by Molière, St. John Hankin, Elizabeth F. Guptill, Petronius Arbiter, Anthony Trollope, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Carlyle, George Gibbs, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, Herman Melville, Maria Edgeworth, Marietta Holley, Anatole France, Nelson Lloyd, Voltaire, Samuel Brunt, Archibald Marshal, Gilbert Knox, H. H. Sir Bashford, P. G. Wodehouse, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Love Peacock, William Carlos Williams, Terry Southern, Hilaire Belloc, Iris Barry, C. M. Westmacott, Desiderius Erasmus, I. J. Potter, Montague Glass, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Elkanah Settle, Samuel Pordage, Bernard Mandeville, James Thomson, G. W. Foote, Marie Corelli, William Herman, Mark Twain, Ingersoll Lockwood, Jonathan Swift, T. Smollett, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Bertram Gayton, George S. Schuyler, Eugen Richter, Walter Harte, Aristophanes, Bill Nye, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Bridges, James Bramston, Ambrose Bierce, Franklin P. Adams, John Hervey Baron Hervey, An M. D., Frank Chapman Bliss ...
    The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads maps satire's remarkable durability from classical invective and Roman social comedy to Enlightenment irony, Victorian caricature, modernist experiment, and twentieth-century absurdism. Its selections traverse dramatic farce, mock-heroic prose, utopian fantasy, political allegory, comic essay, parody, and epigrammatic wit. Canonical assaults on hypocrisy, ... Read more

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  • Anti-Achitophel (1682)

    Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden

    by Elkanah Settle, Samuel Pordage ...
    Anti-Achitophel (1682) emerges as a vital literary response to the political climate of its time, capturing the intricate interplay of power, loyalty, and betrayal against the backdrop of late 17th-century England. This anthology bears witness to the diversity of poetic forms and rhetorical styles prevalent in the period, ranging from biting satire to solemn reflection. The collection's standout ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 3 (2021 Edition)

    by Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Dale Carnegie, Margaret Cavendish, G.K. Chesterton, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Rider Haggard, Victor Hugo, Rudyard Kipling, David Herbert Lawrence, Jack London, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, H.P. Lovecraft, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain ...
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  • The Book Of Common Prayer: Administration Of The Sacraments And Other Rites And Ceremonies Of The Church According To The Use Of The Church Of England Together With The Psalter Or Psalms Of David (Mobi Spiritual)

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    The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and used throughout the Anglican Communion. The first book, published in 1549 (Church of England 1957), in the reign of Edward VI, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome. Prayer books, unlike books of prayers, contain the words of structured (or liturgical) services of ... Read more

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  • Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

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    by John Keats, Trevor Ellington ...
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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2

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    This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers ... Read more

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  • Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

    by John Keats ...
    John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Keats was a peer of other great poets such as Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley and his poems have become more popular after his death. This edition of Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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    In "Lavengro: the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest," George Borrow weaves a rich tapestry of self-discovery and cultural exploration. The narrative unfolds through a lyrical prose style, blending autobiographical elements with fiction as Borrow travels through the landscapes of 19th-century England and interacts with a diverse cast of characters, including gypsies, scholars, and religious figures. ... Read more

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  • Three Homilies on the Power of Satan

    by St. John Chrysostom, Wyatt North ...
    This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and his ascetic sensibilities. ... Read more

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