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Thomas Durfey’s «Love for Money, or The Boarding School» (1691)

A Critical Edition

Edited by María José Mora, Manuel J. Gómez-Lara ...

Series Book 3 - Restoration Drama
Thomas Durfey’s Love for Money (1691) uses a boarding school in Chelsea as the setting for an amusing series of love intrigues. Characters include a long-lost heiress and her impoverished suitor, a mercenary jilt, a libertine rake with a touch of the gull, a bragging French coxcomb, and two hoydenish romps courted by fortune-hunting schoolmasters with treats of custard and cheesecake. An imperious ... Read more

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Thomas Durfey’s Love for Money (1691) uses a boarding school in Chelsea as the setting for an amusing series of love intrigues. Characters include a long-lost heiress and her impoverished suitor, a mercenary jilt, a libertine rake with a touch of the gull, a bragging French coxcomb, and two hoydenish romps courted by fortune-hunting schoolmasters with treats of custard and cheesecake. An imperious
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The Debt to Pleasure

by John Wilmot ...

Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and the words of those who loved or loathed him. The book is a mosaic in which the poet's voice and the voice of his age sound with a startling, ribald, and riotous clarity. ... Read more

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Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and the words of those who loved or loathed him. The book is a mosaic in which the poet's voice and the voice of his age sound with a startling, ribald, and riotous clarity.
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Early Modern Women's Writing

An Anthology 1560-1700

Edited by Paul Salzman ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of her brother William, except that she had none of his chances. The truth is that many women wrote during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and ... Read more

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In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of her brother William, except that she had none of his chances. The truth is that many women wrote during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and
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From Chaucer to Tennyson

by Henry A. Beers ...

A fantastic look at the history of English literature from Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century to Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the 19th, taking in 30 authors on the way, including William Shakespeare, John Milton and Alexander Pope. ... Read more

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A fantastic look at the history of English literature from Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century to Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the 19th, taking in 30 authors on the way, including William Shakespeare, John Milton and Alexander Pope.
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A Political Romance (Mobi Classics)

by Laurence Sterne ...

A Political Romance is a 1759 novel by Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy.The first work written by Sterne might be labelled a roman à clef or a cronique scandaleuse, which were so popular at the beginning of the eighteenth century. However, even these more suitable names do not do justice to the richness and slipperiness of this text. It can certainly be considered a mock-epic allegory ... Read more

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A Political Romance is a 1759 novel by Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy.The first work written by Sterne might be labelled a roman à clef or a cronique scandaleuse, which were so popular at the beginning of the eighteenth century. However, even these more suitable names do not do justice to the richness and slipperiness of this text. It can certainly be considered a mock-epic allegory
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Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

Enriched edition. Unveiling the Heart of a Literary Genius: A Glimpse into Keats' Innermost Thoughts and Emotions

by John Keats, Trevor Ellington ...

In "Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends," the intimate correspondence of one of the most celebrated figures of the Romantic era is brought to light, revealing the profound insights and emotions that colored his thoughts and artistic ambitions. This collection is not merely a compendium of personal messages; it serves as a critical lens through which we can evaluate Keats's literary ... Read more

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In "Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends," the intimate correspondence of one of the most celebrated figures of the Romantic era is brought to light, revealing the profound insights and emotions that colored his thoughts and artistic ambitions. This collection is not merely a compendium of personal messages; it serves as a critical lens through which we can evaluate Keats's literary
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British Literature 1640-1789

An Anthology

by Robert DeMaria Jr. ...

Series series Blackwell Anthologies
Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies.A thoroughly updated new edition of this popular anthology which focuses firmly on the eighteenth century without neglecting the seventeenth centuryContains ... Read more

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Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies.A thoroughly updated new edition of this popular anthology which focuses firmly on the eighteenth century without neglecting the seventeenth centuryContains
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The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe

Enriched edition. A Diverse Collection of British Humor and Classic Wit

by Various, Charlotte Monroe ...

The compendium "The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe" exemplifies the rich tradition of comedic verse within English literature. Spanning centuries, it features an array of poets whose clever wordplay, satirical themes, and playful rhythms reveal the breadth of humor in the English language. From Geoffrey Chaucer'Äôs ribald tales to the nimble quips of Edwin W. Saxe, ... Read more

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The compendium "The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe" exemplifies the rich tradition of comedic verse within English literature. Spanning centuries, it features an array of poets whose clever wordplay, satirical themes, and playful rhythms reveal the breadth of humor in the English language. From Geoffrey Chaucer'Äôs ribald tales to the nimble quips of Edwin W. Saxe,
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Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

by John Keats ...

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Keats was a peer of other great poets such as Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley and his poems have become more popular after his death. This edition of Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Keats was a peer of other great poets such as Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley and his poems have become more popular after his death. This edition of Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends includes a table of contents.
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Jane Austen

Poems both inspiring and witty from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma'

by n/a Jane Austen ...

Series series The Great Poets
'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known'Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet:'I am going to have my dinner, after which I shan't be thinner'This collection, which also includes poems by the poets she herself admired, sheds light not only on ... Read more

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'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known'Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet:'I am going to have my dinner, after which I shan't be thinner'This collection, which also includes poems by the poets she herself admired, sheds light not only on
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Quotations from the Diary of Samuel Pepys

by David Widger ...

The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature, writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. Originally written in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's diary provides ... Read more

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The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature, writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. Originally written in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's diary provides
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Selected Letters of John Keats

Based on the texts of Hyder Edward Rollins, Revised Edition

by John Keats ...

The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ... Read more

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The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous
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