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  • Pierre

    or, The Ambiguities

    'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o'the'lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops." So judged the New York Herald when ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

    by Various ...
    Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and Lanier.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking ... Read more

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  • The Portable Hawthorne

    A critical vantage point from which to see Hawthorne's career as a whole—his artistic rise, triumph, and final worksThe Portable Hawthorne includes writings from each major stage in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales, all of The Scarlet Letter, excerpts from his three subsequently published romances—The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and ... Read more

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  • The American

    Revised Edition

    by Henry James ...
    Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana ... Read more

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  • The Turn of the Screw

    THE TURN OF THE SCREW, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novella written by Henry James.Due to its original content, the novella became a favorite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Many critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. However, others have ... Read more

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  • Daisy Miller, A Study in Two Parts

    by Henry James ...
    The novella is divided into two parts. In the first part, the reader is introduced to Daisy Miller, a vibrant and independent young woman from Schenectady, New York. She is traveling in Europe with her mother and younger brother. Daisy is considered unconventional by European standards, as she often interacts with men, including the main protagonist of the story, Frederick Winterbourne, in a more ... Read more

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  • Glasses

    by Henry James ...
    Classic Henry James long story. According to Wikipedia: "Henry James, (1843 – 1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born British author. He is one of the key figures of 19th century literary realism; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the ... Read more

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  • Tales of the Jazz Age (Illustrated Edition)

    The 1920s in the United States were known as the Roaring Twenties and the ultimate Jazz Age for the nation, a time that glorified hard and fast living. And nobody personified it or wrote so descriptively about it as F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), whose name became synonymous with the times after penning the epic Great Gatsby. Along with his dazzling wife Zelda, Fitzgerald was all too keen to ... Read more

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems (The Classics Collection)

    This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication. Some of the most notable are: Tales: • "The Fall of the House of Usher" • "The Masque of the Red Death" • "The Pit and the Pendulum" • "The Premature Burial" • "The Purloined Letter" • "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poems: • "Annabel Lee" • "The Bells" • "The City in ... Read more

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  • Works Of Henry James: Including The Portrait Of A Lady, The Turn Of The Screw, The Ambassadors, The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Wings Of The Dove & More (Mobi Collected Works)

    by Henry James ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of ... Read more

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  • Good Poems

    by Various ...
    Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m."The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For ... Read more

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  • Poetic Republic: Poems to Talk About

    by Peter Hartey ...
    This is a first-of-its-kind poetry publication.Poetic Republic: Poems to Talk About documents an anonymous peer review process in which nearly 800 poets (from 48 countries) read, voted on and commented on each other’s poems during May and June 2012.The Poetic Republic Poetry Prize has been developed over five years and is now one of the largest poetry events based in the UK. Some comments made by ... Read more

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