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  • Miscellaneous Plays

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 7

    by Stephanie Hodgson-Wright ...
    Series Book 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    The four plays in this volume represent just a small fraction of the total output by early modern women dramatists. Other plays will appear in later volumes in the facsimile series devoted to individual authors. Marcelia (1660), The Perjur'd Husband (1700), She Ventures and He Wins (1695) and The Unnatural Mother (1698) were written at a point in time when women playwrights were becoming a ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Delarivier Manley

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 12

    by Stephanie Hodgson-Wright ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    The works included in this volume constitute Delarivier Manley's early oeuvre, written in the seventeenth century. They comprise one epistolary novella, Letters Written [sic] by Mrs Manley; one commendatory poem 'To the Author of Agnes de Castro'; one comedy, The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband, one tragedy, The Royal Mischief; and two commemorative poems, 'Melpomeme: The Tragick Muse' and ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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  • A Discourse of Life and Death by Mornay and Antonius by Garnier

    by Robert Garnier ...
    "A Discourse of Life and Death" by Philippe de Mornay is a philosophical essay that reflects on the transient nature of human life and the inevitability of death. Mornay, a Protestant theologian, argues for the importance of understanding the temporary nature of life in order to live virtuously and with proper regard for the afterlife. The work engages with ideas about the human soul, divine ... Read more

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

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  • The End of Airports

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  • The Consolations of Writing

    Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi

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