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  • Gender Roles in the Eighteenth Century Represented in the Story of Mary Blandy

    Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Passau, language: English, abstract: The Newgate Calendar,first published during the eighteenth century, was one of the books, along with the bible, most likely to be found in any English home at this period. It contains a large number of eighteenth century trials and is based on the remarkable ... Read more

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  • Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing

    Workshops of ESOCC 2016, Vienna, Austria, September 5–7, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume contains the technical papers presented in the workshops associated with the European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2016: 4th International Workshop on Cloud for IoT, CLloT 2016, Second International Workshop on Cloud Adoption and Migration, CloudWays 2016, First International Workshop on Patterns and Pattern ... Read more

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    How to Fail in Literature is a speech that was given by Andrew Lang at the South Kensington Museum. It discusses becoming a writer and getting published. ... Read more

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    This edifying book analyzes the most memorable classics of English Literature in a befitting and gracious manner. Fitch studies and discusses several celebrated authors and their brilliant masterpieces in a manner that is guaranteed to arouse any readers interest in them. A fascinating treasure trove of information! ... Read more

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  • On Reading, Writing and Living with Books

    Series Book 6 - The London Library
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  • The New Utopia

    Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).The New Utopia is a short story in which the author describes his dream about a socialist society. Jerome’s short essay describes a regimented future city, indeed world, of nightmarish egalitarianism, where men and women are barely distinguishable in their grey ... Read more

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