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The Preface to his Dictionary
(The College of DuPage, 2003)We are pleased to present the first volume of ESSAI the Preface to his Dictionary, The College of DuPage Anthology of Academic Writing Across the Curriculum. ESSAI celebrates and honors the skill, scholarship, and ... -
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(Oxford University press, 1971)William Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to ... -
Pride and prejudice
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage ... -
Principles of literary criticism
(Routledge Classics., 2001)Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was ... -
Pygmalion
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled ... -
The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems of Alexander Pope: Edited With Notes and Introduction
(The Macmillan Company, 1905)Excerpt from The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems of Alexander Pope: Edited With Notes and Introduction By the beginning of the eighteenth century much had been accomplished by the poets of England: Chaucer had portrayed ... -
The republic
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of δικαιοσύνη (justice), the order and character of the just city-state and the just man, reason by which ancient readers used ... -
Romeo and juliet
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays ... -
Samuel taylor coleridge selected poems
(Penguin Books., 1996)With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of ... -
The Second Jungle Book
(An Electronic Classics Series Publication, 2003)The tales in The Second Jungle Book includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. "How Fear Came": This story takes place before Mowgli fights ... -
Selected poems
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that ... -
Selected Poems
(The World's Poetry Archive, 2004)Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) prepared this volume in 1952—the author's choice of the ninety poems he felt would best represent his work up to that time—and it was published by New Directions in 1953 as The Collected Poems of ... -
Shakespeare's As You Like It / Notes
(Cliffs Notes, Inc., 1981)As You Like It tracks the travails of young lovers and despotic rulers as they chase one another from the palace of Duke Frederick to the Forest of Arden. Shakespeare's classic work weaves together greedy inheritors, ... -
Ship or Sheep?: an intermediate pronunciation course
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)This is a revised and updated edition of the classic pronunciation title Ship or Sheep? This new edition of Ship or Sheep?, an accessible intermediate-level pronunciation course in full colour for students of English, ... -
Songs of innocence and songs of experience
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he ... -
Sonnets
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Never before imprinted. ... -
Sons and lovers
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The refined daughter of a "good old burgher family," Gertrude Coppard meets a rough-hewn miner at a Christmas dance and falls into a whirlwind romance characterised by physical passion. But soon after her marriage to Walter ... -
The stranger
(Vintage Books, 1942)The Outsider or The Stranger (French: L’Étranger) is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942. The titular character is Meursault, an indifferent Algerian ("a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the ... -
A tale of two cities
(An Electronic Classics Series, 2013)It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against ... -
The Teaching of Reading and Writing: An International Survey
(The United Nations Educational, 1969)The Teaching of Reading and Writing is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the tools and knowledge pre-service and experienced teachers need to teach literacy in a developmentally-responsive and integrated way—while ...
