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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

    $30.59 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

    $10.49 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 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 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 Small House at Allington

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    The Small House at Allington was written in the year 1864 by Anthony Trollope. This book is one of the most popular novels of Anthony Trollope, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally. ... Read more

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  • The Duke's Children

    by Trollope, Anthony ...
    "The Duke's Children" is the sixth and final novel in Anthony Trollope's Palliser series, first published in 1880. This Victorian-era novel explores themes of familial duty, personal growth, and the challenges of societal expectations. The story focuses on Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, who is grappling with the recent death of his wife and the responsibilities of parenthood. He finds ... Read more

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  • Dr. Thorne, Third of the Barsetshire Novels

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Others of the series are: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and Last Chronicle of Barset. According to Wikipedia: "Anthony Trollope ( 1815 1882 ) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary ... Read more

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  • Can You Forgive Her?

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'She loved him much, and admired him even more than she loved him...Would that he had some faults!' Alice Vavasor is torn between a risky marriage with her ambitious cousin George and the safer prospect of a union with the formidably correct John Grey. Her indecision is reflected in the dilemmas of her friend Lady Glencora, confined in the proprieties of her life with Plantagenet Palliser but ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Barchester Towers

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Barchester Towers, published in 1857 by Anthony Trollope, is the second novel in his series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". Among other things it satirises the antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Trollope began writing this book in 1855. He wrote constantly and made himself a writing-desk so he could continue writing while travelling by train ... Read more

    $1.99 USD