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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 ... -
Tennyson: Selected Poems
(Penguin Books, 1953)As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age. The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years of his literary career and show the wide ... -
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891)Tess of the D'Urbervilles is widely considered to be one of Thomas Hardy's most important and classic works which has endured time and contributed a considerable amount to literature.Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman ... -
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored ... -
Text and discourse analysis
(Routledge, 1995)Discourse analysis is in vogue as a field of enquiry, particularly in the guise of critical discourse analysis, which employs procedures not essentially different from literary criticism to identify ideological bias in ... -
To the lighthouse
(Hogarth Press, 1927)To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark of high modernism, the novel centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. -
The tragedy of hamlet, prince of denmark
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his father's brother and successor. Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, ... -
The tragical history of Dr Faustus
(The electronic classic series, 1998)Christopher Marlowe was an English poet, dramatist and translator in the Elizabethan period. Faust is the famous story of a man selling his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. On a deeper level man's decay from ... -
Translation studies
(Routhledge., 2002)At a time when millions travel around the planet – some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile – translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with ... -
Twelfth night
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Twelfth Night; or, What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centers on the twins Viola ... -
A University Grammar of English
(Longman Group, 1995)Discourse features are dealt with throughout, as well as being the theme of a major chapter entitled form 'sentence to text'. The authors are careful to point out those features of grammar which distinguish spoken from ... -
Virgil's Iliad: an essay on epic narrative
(Cambridge University, 1984)This is a book about Virgil's Aeneid, especially the second half of the poem, are explores in some detail Virgil's use of Homer's Iliad. The author's main purpose is to try to re-establish the value and importance of books ... -
Volpone; Or, The Fox
(Dramatis Personae, 2014)Volpone is a greedy Venetian nobleman who has no relative to inherit his wealth. Pretending to be on his death bed several people trying to win Volpone’s favor. -
Walt Whitman's "song of myself ": a mosaic of interpretations
(University of lowa press, 1989)Song of Myself by Walt Whitman is one of the must read Walt Whitman poems. There were a few editions of Song of Myself, as Whitman revised this poem throughout his lifetime. -
War and peace
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered as Tolstoy's finest ... -
The way of the world
(Dover Publications, 1994)One of the greatest of all Restoration comedies, this knowing comedy of manners depicts the scheming of a nest of shallow, deceitful aristocrats to prevent two lovers from marrying. The play abounds with felicitous phrasing, ... -
William Blake poems
(PoemHunter.com- The world's poetry archive, 2004)William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age His prophetic ... -
The works of John Donne: with an introduction and bibliography
(Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1994)Donne's works are also witty, employing paradoxes, puns, and subtle yet remarkable analogies. His pieces are often ironic and cynical, especially regarding love and human motives. Common subjects of Donne's poems are, death ... -
Writing Matters
(Cambridge University, 1989)Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed ...
