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  • The Long Life

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Last Chronicle of Barset

    The Chronicles of Barsetshire

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Eustace Diamonds

    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 - ... Leer más

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  • Literature and Ageing

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Small House at Allington

    The Small House at Allington was originally serialized in Cornhill Magazine between July and December 1862. It is the fifth book in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, and also introduces Plantagenet Palliser as the heir to the Duke of Omnium.The major story relates to the inhabitants of the Small House at Allington. Lily Dale falls deeply in love with Adolphus Crosbie, who quickly proposes and ... Leer más

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  • The Duke's Children

    Love, Duty, and Privilege in Victorian Society

    In "The Duke's Children," Anthony Trollope delves into the intricate dynamics of familial relationships amidst the rigid social structures of Victorian England. This novel, the last in the Palliser series, employs a rich narrative style characterized by its sharp social commentary and psychological depth. Trollope meticulously explores the lives of the Duke of Omnium's children as they navigate ... Leer más

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  • Doctor Thorne

    Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession. ... Leer más

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  • Can You Forgive Her?

    Series series Timeless Classic
    "Can You Forgive Her?" by Anthony Trollope is the first of the Palliser series, weaving a complex tapestry of relationships and societal expectations in Victorian England. The novel explores the dilemmas of its heroine, Alice Vavasor, who must choose between following her ambitions and succumbing to societal pressures. Caught between two suitors, her safe, predictable cousin George and the daring, ... Leer más

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  • Barchester Towers

    Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope - Published in 1857, Barchester Towers is Anthony Trollope's sequel to The Warden and almost certainly the most well-known of the author's Barsetshire series. Ostensibly a portrait of life the clerics in a "cathedral town" the renowned social critique of Trollope couched in humor transform the story into a satire on prevailing moral superiority of the reform ... Leer más

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