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  • The Vicar of Wakefield

    by Oliver Goldsmith ...
    There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Delphi Classics)

    by Henry Fielding, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 14 - Delphi Series Three
    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Henry Fielding, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Fielding's life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts* ALL the novels, with individual contents tables* Images of how the books were first ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die

    The Secret Garden, The Odyssey, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Scarlet Letter, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula and others

    by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Homer, Charles Dickens, Lyman Frank Baum, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Haggard, Wilkie Collins, H. G. Wells, Sir Walter Scott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Leo Tolstoy, Euripides, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, James Fenimore Cooper, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, John Bunyan, Charles Darwin, Alfred Tennyson, Bram Stoker, James Joyce, Dante Alighieri, Howard Pyle, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Giovanni Boccaccio, Rudyard Kipling ...
    50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the ... Read more

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  • The Complete John Keats

    The Complete Poems, Drama and Correspondence

    by John Keats ...
    The Complete Works of John Keats! The Complete Poems, Drama and Correspondence.The Ultimate Collection of John Keats! - In One Beautifully Formatted Volume!John Keats was one of the greatest of the English Romantic poets, who along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley is celebrated as one of the most significant and beloved of all the English poets.The poetry of Keats is characterised by his ... Read more

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  • The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte

    by Emily Bronte ...
    Emily Brontë (1818-1848), of the well-known Brontë family, is best known for her novel "Wuthering Heights", which has been deemed a classic of English literature. She wrote two complete notebooks of poetry by 1844, which were soon discovered by her sister, Charlotte. At Charlotte's urging, Emily began publishing the poems in collaborative works with her two sisters under the pseudonyms Acton, ... Read more

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  • The Original Fables of La Fontaine

    by Jean de La Fontaine ...
    The fables were written and first published in the 17th century. They portray humans' behaviour in the society.The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness of touch, the unconstrained suppleness of metrical structure, the unfailing humor of the pointed the ... Read more

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  • Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Lectures on the English Poets and Three Other Books

    by William Hazlitt ...
    This collection includes: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Lectures on the English Poets, Liber Amoris, The Spirit of the Age, and Table-Talk. According to Wikipedia: "William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and ... Read more

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  • Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady

    by Samuel Richardson ...
    Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language. Clarissa Harlowe is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently and now desires to become part of the aristocracy. Their original plan was to concentrate the wealth ... Read more

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  • Lectures on the English Poets

    by William Hazlitt ...
    According to Wikipedia: "William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. Hazlitt was a prominent English literary critic, grammarian and philosopher. He is considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in English,[1][2] placed in the same company as Samuel Johnson and George Orwell,[3][4] but his work is ... Read more

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  • Classic Picaresque Novels (Golden Deer Classics)

    Candide, Kim, Moll Flanders, Dead Souls...

    by Rudyard Kipling, Golden Deer Classics, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding, Nikolai Gogol ...
    The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca," from "pícaro," for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero/heroine of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society. Picaresque novels typically adopt a realistic style, with elements of comedy and satire. This style of novel originated in 16th-century Spain and flourished ... Read more

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  • Romance Classics Collection Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Vatsyayana, John Cleland, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Henry Fielding, Gustave Flaubert, Daniel Defoe, Golden Deer Classics, D.h. Lawrence ...
    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure[John Cleland] - Moll Flanders [Daniel Defoe] - The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling [Henry Fielding] - Madame Bovary [Gustave Flaubert] - Lady Chatterley's Lover [David Herbert Lawrence] - The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana] - Venus in Furs [Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch] ... Read more

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