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  • The Long Life

    by Helen Small ...
    The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee. Helen Small argues that if we want to understand ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • John Stuart Mill and the Idea of the University

    Including a New Edition of J.S. Mill's Inaugural Address

    by Helen Small, John Stuart Mill ...
    John Stuart Mill's Inaugural Address as Rector of the University of St Andrews, delivered in 1867, is one of the great statements of the principles that should underpin a liberal higher education. This volume makes Mill's ambition for the university freshly available at a critical juncture in thinking about what higher education is for: its underpinning principles, its scope, and its social ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time

    by Helen Small ...
    Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express concern that it can now only be corrosively negative. The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time takes a more balanced view. Re-evaluating ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Eustace Diamonds

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassment by her brother-in-law's solicitor entangles her in a series of crimes - apparent and real - ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Literature and Ageing

    by Elizabeth Barry, Margery Vibe Skagen, Peter Svare Valeur, Sarah Falcus, David Amigoni, Emily Timms, Helen Small, Jacob Jewusiak, Kathleen Woodward0, Margaret Morganroth Gullette1 ...
    The central focus of this book is the experience of growing old as represented in literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: an experience shaped by changes in longevity, a new science of senescence, the availability of state pensions, and other phenomena of recent history. The collection considers the increasing prominence of stories of ageing, challenging the idea that old ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Last Chronicle of Barset

    The Chronicles of Barsetshire

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'All Hogglestock believed their parson to be innocent; but then all Hogglestock believed him to be mad.' Josiah Crawley lives with his family in the parish of Hogglestock, East Barsetshire, where he is perpetual curate. Impoverished like his parishioners, Crawley is hard-working and respected but he is an unhappy, disappointed man, ill-suited to cope when calamity strikes. He is accused of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob

    by George Eliot ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Lifted Veil (1859) is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works. - ;`She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of ... Read more

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  • The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob

    by George Eliot ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology and experiments in revification it is Eliot's anatomy of her own moral ... Read more

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  • The Small House at Allington

    by Trollope, Anthony ...
    "The Small House at Allington" by Anthony Trollope is a captivating novel that delves into the intricate lives of the residents of Allington, a quaint English village. At its center is the Small House, a modest dwelling nestled in the idyllic countryside, and its inhabitants, each grappling with their own desires, ambitions, and insecurities.The narrative follows the spirited Lily Dale, whose ... Read more

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  • The Duke's Children

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    The brilliant conclusion to the Palliser novels, this touching story follows the elderly Duke of Omnium, the former prime minister of England, as he struggles to overcome his grief at the loss of his beloved wife, Lady Glencora. To complicate matters, he must also deal with the willfulness of his three adult children as he tries to guide and support them—his plans for them are quite different from ... Read more

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  • Doctor Thorne: A Barsetshire Novel

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    In Dr.Thorne, the third of the six Barchester novels, Trollope moves outside the cathedral close to follow the fortunes of Dr Thorne, an upright and principled country doctor, and his niece Mary. She falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the heavily mortgaged Greshambury estate, but he is constrained in his choices by the need to marry well so that he can restore the family fortunes.Joanna ... Read more

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  • Can You Forgive Her?

    (Illustrated)

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    After the conclusion of a stormy engagement with her reckless and selfish cousin George, Alice Vavasor, a young woman with an independent fortune, engaged herself to a country gentleman, John Grey. The marriage was approved by her father and her highly placed relatives, but George’s sister Kate persuaded her that she was not adapted to the quiet life of the country, and she broke her engagement. ... Read more

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