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Pride and Prejudice (Broadview Literary Texts)

Jane Austen

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Elizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: Elizabeth forms a prejudice against the proud and distant Mr. Darcy; Darcy's ch...more

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Waverley: or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (Oxford World's Classics)

Walter Scott

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Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Waverley was first published anonymously in 1814 and was Scott's first novel.

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The Theft of History

Jack Goody

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Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capi...more

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The Case for Literature

Xingjian Gao

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When Gao Xingjian was crowned Nobel Laureate in 2000, it was the first time in the hundred-year history of the Nobel Prize that this honor had been awarded to an author for a body of work written in Chinese. The same year, American readers embraced Mabel Lee’s translation of Gao’s lyrical and autobiographical novel Soul Mountain, making it a n...more

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The Face: A Natural History

Daniel McNeill

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What Frank Wilson did for The Hand, and Diane Ackerman for the senses, Daniel McNeill now does for the face. In a fascinating tour of our magnificent mugs, McNeill uses biology and history to help readers appreciate the underappreciated. "We often treat the face as the self," he writes in the introduction, and hence we look right through the most i...more

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Collapse How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed

Jared Diamond

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A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor political choices, and other factors that were pi...more

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Fray: Future Slayer

Joss Whedon

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In a future Manhattan which has become a deadly slum run by mutant crime-lords and disinterested cops, Fray--a street kid who thought she had no future--learns she has a great destiny--to unite a fallen city against a demonic plot to consume mankind. Original.

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All Editions	The Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada F. Max Meuller (20 reviews )
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All Editions	Greek Lyric An Anthology in Translation Write the first review.(See your review) Popular Tags: ancient & classical, literary criticism, poetry ancient & classical , literary criticism , poetry
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A Presocratics Reader

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Ideal for a two-to-three week introduction to the Presocratics and Sophists, this volume offers a selection of the extant remains of early Greek philosophical thought on cosmology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, together with unobtrusive, minimally interpretive editorial material: an introduction, brief headnotes, maps, and a concordance.

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