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  • The Long Life

    by Helen Small ...
    The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee. Helen Small argues that if we want to understand ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Last Chronicle of Barset

    The Chronicles of Barsetshire

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'All Hogglestock believed their parson to be innocent; but then all Hogglestock believed him to be mad.' Josiah Crawley lives with his family in the parish of Hogglestock, East Barsetshire, where he is perpetual curate. Impoverished like his parishioners, Crawley is hard-working and respected but he is an unhappy, disappointed man, ill-suited to cope when calamity strikes. He is accused of ... Read more

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  • The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time

    by Helen Small ...
    Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express concern that it can now only be corrosively negative. The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time takes a more balanced view. Re-evaluating ... Read more

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  • The Eustace Diamonds

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassment by her brother-in-law's solicitor entangles her in a series of crimes - apparent and real - ... Read more

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  • Literature and Ageing

    by Elizabeth Barry, Margery Vibe Skagen, Peter Svare Valeur, Sarah Falcus, David Amigoni, Emily Timms, Helen Small, Jacob Jewusiak, Kathleen Woodward0, Margaret Morganroth Gullette1 ...
    The central focus of this book is the experience of growing old as represented in literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: an experience shaped by changes in longevity, a new science of senescence, the availability of state pensions, and other phenomena of recent history. The collection considers the increasing prominence of stories of ageing, challenging the idea that old ... Read more

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  • The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob

    by George Eliot ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology and experiments in revification it is Eliot's anatomy of her own moral ... Read more

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  • The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob

    by George Eliot ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Lifted Veil (1859) is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works. - ;`She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of ... Read more

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  • The Small House at Allington

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    First published serially in 1862 and as a novel in 1864, “The Small House at Allington” is the fifth novel of Anthony Trollope’s “Chronicles of Barsetshire” series. This installment in the series primarily relates the story of Lily Dale, a young woman living in the dower house of the Allington estate with her mother and sister, Bell. Although Lily is secretly loved by a humble junior clerk in a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Duke's Children

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    The brilliant conclusion to the Palliser novels, this touching story follows the elderly Duke of Omnium, the former prime minister of England, as he struggles to overcome his grief at the loss of his beloved wife, Lady Glencora. To complicate matters, he must also deal with the willfulness of his three adult children as he tries to guide and support them—his plans for them are quite different from ... Read more

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  • Doctor Thorne

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    In Doctor Thorne, Anthony Trollope delivers a captivating tale of social ambition, romance, and personal integrity set in the fictional county of Barsetshire. The novel centers on the character of Dr. Thomas Thorne, a respected country doctor with a mysterious past, and his niece, Mary Thorne, who is at the heart of a complex social drama.Mary Thorne’s humble origins put her at a disadvantage in ... Read more

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  • Can You Forgive Her?

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Can You Forgive Her? Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her? is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. ... The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow. ... Read more

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  • Barchester Towers - The Original Classic Edition

    by Trollope Anthony ...
    Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Barchester Towers.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Anthony Trollope, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Barchester Towers:WHO WILL BE THE NEW BISHOP?In the ... Read more

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