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  • An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (Old Edition)

    by Jane Collier ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Now the sport begins!' An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting is the first English book on the craft of nagging. A bitingly funny social satire, it is also an advice book, a handbook of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners. Collier describes methods for 'teasing and mortifying' one's intimates and acquaintances in a variety of social situations by taking advantage of their affections ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cry

    A New Dramatic Fable

    Series series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
    Before Jane Austen's novels explored heroines in English society, writers Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier dared to provide commentary on gender and education through self-conscious narratives. Published in 1754 in five parts and divided into three volumes, The Cry stands as one of the most distinctive and intriguing works by women during the florescence of their writing in eighteenth-century ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    An Essay On The Art Of Ingeniously Tormenting (Unabridged)

    by JANE COLLIER ...
    Narrated by Leo Stafford ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 15 min

    An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting was a conduct book written by Jane Collier and published in 1753. The Essay was Collier's first work, and operates as a satirical advice book on how to nag. It was modelled after Jonathan Swift's satirical essays, and is intended to "teach" a reader the various methods for "teasing and mortifying" one's acquaintances. It is divided into two sections ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • From Duty to Desire

    Remaking Families in a Spanish Village

    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    In the 1980s, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a "modern subjectivity" among the people. Whereas the villagers she met in the sixties stressed the importance of meeting social obligations, the people she interviewed ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • History and Power in the Study of Law

    New Directions in Legal Anthropology

    Edited by June Starr, Jane F. Collier ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed ... Read more

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  • eBay.co.uk For Dummies

    Go from eBay beginner to eBay pro in no time!Whether you aim to browse, buy, sell, or open up your own eBay shop, this third edition of Britain's bestselling guide to eBay gets you up and running with everything you need to know. Fully updated and packed with new information on eBay apps, creating and running an eBay business, becoming a PowerSeller and much more, it covers every aspect of eBay.co ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

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    Hello Winter

    A Short Story Collection

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    Given the simple prompt, "hello winter," nine writers were given the task to create a new short story to be put into this collection. This unique group of stories were all crafted in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic and brings writers from two continents and five states together when we all must stay safely apart. Short Stories included in this collection: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO HAPPINESS by ... Read more

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  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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