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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

    $44.79 CAD

  • 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

    $8.09 CAD

  • 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

    $24.99 CAD

  • Little Dorrit

    by Charles Dickens ...
    'In Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached' George OrwellA masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. It follows Arthur Clennam who, returning to England after many years abroad, takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, who ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $8.09 CAD

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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

    $7.19 CAD

  • 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

    $7.19 CAD

  • 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

    $27.49 CAD

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  • The Small House at Allington

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House? Our story will, as its name imports, have its closest relations with those who lived in the less dignified domicile of the two; but it will have close relations also with the more dignified, and it may be well that I should, in the first instance, say a few words as to the Great House and its owner. ... Read more

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  • The Duke's Children

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Series series Timeless Classic
    "The Duke's Children" by Anthony Trollope is a compelling and poignant novel that delves into the complexities of family, love, and society's expectations. The sixth and final installment in Trollope's Palliser series, the story continues the saga of the Palliser family and the challenges they face in navigating the upper echelons of Victorian society. At the heart of the novel is the Duke of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Doctor Thorne

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    Anthony Trollope’s third novel in the fantastic series ‘Chronicles of Barsetshire’ follows Mary Thorne, the niece of the titular Doctor Thomas Thorne, and her romantic troubles with Frank Gresham, the only son of the local squire. ... Read more

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  • Can You Forgive Her?

    by Anthony Trollope ...
    First published in the year 1864, the present novel 'Can You Forgive Her?' by Anthony Trollope follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three strong women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow. Early on, Alice asks the question "What should a woman do with her life?" This theme repeats itself in the dilemmas faced by the ... Read more

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