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  • Shaw – “The Chucker Out”

    A Biographical Exposition and Critique

    by Allan Chappelow ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: George Bernard Shaw
    Originally published in 1969, in Shaw – “The Chucker Out” Allan Chappelow quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw material (the fruits of six years’ research at the British Museum and elsewhere) as the basis for his aim of assisting towards a better understanding of Shaw’s controversial character and his paradoxical attitude to life – with reference particularly to certain ... Read more

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  • A Study of George Orwell

    The Man and His Works

    by Christopher Hollis ...
    Author Christopher Hollis knew George Orwell personally during his schooldays at Eton, afterwards in Burma, and at the end of his life. His study of Orwell’s books is therefore illuminated by some anecdotes of reminiscence. However, it is important to note that this book is primarily a study rather than a biography. Hollis examines Orwell’s books in order and traces through them the development of ... Read more

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  • A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'A landmark of feminist thought and a rhetorical masterpiece' GuardianRanging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given by Woolf at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Published almost a decade later, ... Read more

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  • The Communist Manifesto: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

    by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow.A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled ... Read more

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  • Capitalism and the Historians

    by T. S. Ashton, Louis Hacker, W. H. Hutt, Bertrand de Jouvenel ...
    Essays by economic historians making the case that early factory workers benefited from the Industrial Revolution, despite its hardships and disruptions.The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system—so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book.The authors offer ... Read more

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  • Culture and Society

    Coleridge to Orwell

    by Raymond Williams ...
    Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature – from George Eliot to George Orwell – Williams provides insights into the social and economic forces that have shaped British culture and society. Provocative and revolutionary in its day, this work ... Read more

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  • Victorian England - Portait of an Age

    by G. M. Young ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Essays in Biography

    by John Maynard Keynes ...
    Of the fifteen famous scientists, economists and statesmen sketched in this collection of essays, which was first published in 1933, John Maynard Keynes was directly acquainted with all but three. The unique quality of immediacy in these biographical fragments contributes immensely to our more intimate appreciation of the historical significance of these men.This volume is made up of two parts:The ... Read more

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  • Edwardian Turn Of Mind

    by Samuel Hynes ...
    The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging ... Read more

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  • The Trail of the Dinosaur

    by Arthur Koestler ...
    Arthur Koestler's publications manifest a wide range of political, scientific and literary interests. The Trail of the Dinosaur gathers some of his best-known essays and speeches.The Trail of the Dinosaur , first published in 1955, contains a great deal of Koestler's thinking for the first ten years after the war – a 'farewell to arms' as he wrote in his preface. These essays deal with the ... Read more

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  • Irish Impressions

    by Gilbert Keith Chesterton ...
    In this collection of papers the author, in his characteristically discursive fashion, gives his impressions of the Irish character as an almost paradoxical combination of visionary dreamer and practical peasant. He emphasizes the fundamental differences between the English and the Irish out of which arise many if not all the tragic mistakes made on both sides. ... Read more

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  • Three Guineas (a book-length essay) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Feminist Pacifist Essay on War, Patriarchy, Education, and Women's Professional Independence

    by Virginia Woolf, Cora Tallowmere ...
    Published in 1938, Three Guineas is Virginia Woolf's searching book-length essay on the entanglement of war, patriarchy, education, and professional exclusion. Framed as a reply to a gentleman's letter asking how war might be prevented, it proceeds through ironic argument, documentary evidence, and moral interrogation. Its style is at once lucid, digressive, satirical, and severe, extending the ... Read more

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