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  • The Daughter of Adoption

    A Tale of Modern Times

    by John Thelwall ...
    John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times is a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in a slave ... Read more

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  • Caleb Williams

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'He appears to be persecutor and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?' Caleb is a guileless young servant who enters the employment of Ferdinando Falkland, a cosmopolitan and benevolent country gentleman. Falkland is subject to fits of unexplained melancholy, and Caleb becomes convinced that he harbours a dark secret. His discovery of the truth leads to ... Read more

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  • Charles Lamb: a Memoir

    Classic biography, first published in 1866. According to Wikipedia: "Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English/Welsh essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (17641847). Lamb has been referred to by E.V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as the most lovable ... Read more

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  • The Age of Shakespeare

    Enriched edition. Exploring Shakespeare's Legacy & Literary Impact

    In "The Age of Shakespeare," Algernon Charles Swinburne explores the rich tapestry of the English Renaissance, delving into the life and works of William Shakespeare within the context of his contemporaries. Swinburne employs a lush, evocative literary style characterized by its rhythmic cadence and vibrant imagery. The book not only scrutinizes Shakespeare's plays but also the cultural, political ... Read more

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  • Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets - Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey

    First published in 1862, “Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets” is an insightful account of the author's personal experiences and relationships with the Lake Poets, a group of English poets who all resided in the Lake District of England and include William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey. Considered an important part of the Romantic Movement, the Lake Poets are ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of William Godwin (Illustrated)

    Series Book 19 - Delphi Series Twelve
    The father of Mary Shelley, William Godwin was a novelist and social philosopher, whose revolutionary works anticipated the English Romantic literary movement, advancing atheism, anarchism and personal freedom. Godwin’s idealistic liberalism was based on the principle of the absolute sovereignty and competence of reason to determine right choice. His masterpiece, ‘An Enquiry Concerning Political ... Read more

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  • Wieland; or The Transformation, and Memoirs of Carwin, The Biloquist

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    One of the earliest American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennyslvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the novel employs Gothic devices and sensational elements such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. The plot turns on the charming but diabolical intruder Carwin, ... Read more

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  • Speeches

    As well as being one of the greatest authors of all time, Charles Dickens was also a prolific orator. This is a collection of some of his most famous speeches, given from 1841 to 1870. ... Read more

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  • Caleb Williams

    When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper into Falkland's past and finally unearths the guilty truth, the results of his curiosity prove calamitous when - even though Caleb has loyally sworn never to disclose what he has discovered - the Squire enacts a cruel ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits

    Insightful Portraits of Influential Figures in 19th Century Literature and Society

    In "The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits," William Hazlitt presents an astute and incisive critique of early 19th-century Britain through a series of biographical sketches of his contemporaries. Employing a distinctive blend of essayistic prose and sharp observation, Hazlitt delineates the philosophical, political, and artistic climates of his time, portraying figures such as ... Read more

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  • Charles Lamb

    Selected Writings

    by Charles Lamb ...
    Series series Fyfield Books
    Charles Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, poet, humorist, critic and letter-writer, has an enduring reputation for his early "Tales from Shakespeare" (1807), written in collaboration with his sister Mary, and his " Essays of Elia," first published in the "London Magazine." This thematic selection of Lamb's writings - essays, dramatic criticism, verse and ... Read more

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  • Samuel Johnson

    that his father's bankruptcy made his stay difficult, and that the period must have been one of trial.The effect of the Oxford residence upon Johnson's mind was characteristic. The lad already suffered from the attacks of melancholy, which sometimes drove him to the borders of insanity. At Oxford, Law's Serious Call gave him the strong religious impressions which remained through life. But he does ... Read more

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