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100 Favorite English and Irish Poems

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This compact anthology contains many of the best works of 59 poets writing in English—from the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and lovely sonnets of the preeminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortality.Here also are beloved poems by Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Robert...

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100 Great American Short Stories

100 Great American Short Stories

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This celebration of America's literary legacy, a companion volume to Dover's 100 Great Short Stories, offers students and other readers a superb selection of short fiction by master storytellers. Contributors include Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Washington Irving, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, and many others. The stories are arranged alphabetically by author. Selections from American literature of the nineteenth century include...

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3 by Shakespeare

Уильям Шекспир

3 by Shakespeare

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Comedy, tragedy, and history — this anthology presents a trio of Shakespeare's most frequently studied and performed works. Each represents one of the playwright's primary genres, and together they run the gamut of the Elizabethan theater experience, from lighthearted romance to star-crossed passion to ruthless ambition: A Midsummer Night's Dream, a celebration of the imaginative powers of love, replete with mischievous fairies, mistaken identities, and magical...

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Уильям Шекспир

A Bottomless Grave

A Bottomless Grave

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Preoccupied with death, and repressed in many areas of their lives, Victorians seem to have found an emotional outlet in ghost stories, eerie tales, and a fascination with the macabre. Writers of the era fed this appetite with a continuing feast of stories steeped in terror and the supernatural. This unique collection gathers together 21 of these Victorian-era spine-tinglers, but unlike most anthologies, which feature the same tired tales, this volume contains 21 outstanding, but neglected...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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A Diary from Dixie

Mary Chesnut

A Diary from Dixie

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Born into Southern aristocracy, Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–86) married a rising star of the political scene who ultimately served as an aide to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. As a prominent hostess and popular guest in the highest circles of Confederate society, Chesnut possessed an insider's perspective on many of the Civil War's major events, which she recorded in vivid journal entries. Her diary recounts the social life that struggled to continue in the midst...

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Mary Chesnut

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

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Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world’s most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times. . From mounting death tolls, to horrific bodily ailments, contracting the Black Plague was considered a fate worse than death. Combining his own experiences within each of the two stories, the enigmatic narrator, known only...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

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From the master of satire, Jonathan Swift, comes a collection of his classic satirical works. «A Modest Proposal and Other Satires» includes the following works: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against the Abolishment of Christianity, A Modest Proposal, A True and Faithful Narrative, A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, Predictions for the Year 1708, and The Accomplishment of the First Year of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions.

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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

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A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other...

Kate Chopin

A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Short Stories

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Known for her vivid portrayals of Creole life in Louisiana, Kate Chopin (1851–1904) wrote, during her brief literary career, poignant and perceptive stories about the emotional lives of women. Bypassing many of the conventions of 19th-century realism, she won praise for her realistic portraits of the inhabitants of bayou and urban areas.This collection of nine stories contains one of her most famous works, «Désirée's Baby» — a haunting and ironic tale...

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Kate Chopin

A Shropshire Lad

Alfred Edward Housman

A Shropshire Lad

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A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad

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A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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A. E. Housman

A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four

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The world's most famous detective uses his celebrated skills of deduction in A Study in Scarlet, the tale that introduces Dr. John Watson. Recently discharged from the military, Watson takes a room with an amazing young man — the arrogant crime expert, Sherlock Holmes. Their investigation of a bizarre crime proves to be an auspicious beginning for one of the most illustrious crime-solving partnerships of all time.The second tale, The Sign of Four, is an incredible story of greed...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Vindication of the Rights of Woma...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woma...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack...

A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers

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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack...

A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Aeneid

Virgil

Aeneid

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Considered the greatest Roman poet, Vergil spent over a decade working on this monumental epic poem, which has been a source of literary inspiration and poetic grandeur for more than 2,000 years. Its twelve books tell the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found a new city in the west. This city, Lavinium, was the parent city of Rome.Drawn by divine destiny after the fall of Troy, Aeneas sailed westward toward the land of the Tiber. After many adventures,...

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Virgil

African-American Poetry

African-American Poetry

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In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the «Harlem...

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