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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 ...
Practical english usage
(Oxford University Press, 1995)
Practical English Usage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners of English and their teachers written by Michael Swan.It has basic descriptions of English grammar and usage as well as highlighting various ...
A portrait of the artist as a young man
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)
Stephen Dedalus - The main character of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Growing up, Stephen goes through long phases of hedonism and deep religiosity. He eventually adopts a philosophy of aestheticism, greatly ...
Jane Eyre
(Planet PDF, 1848)
Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1848 by Planet PDF. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The ...
Madame bovary
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)
Madame Bovary takes place in provincial northern France, near the town of Rouen in Normandy. The story begins and ends with Charles Bovary, a stolid, kindhearted man without much ability or ambition. As the novel opens, ...
The heart of darkness.
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness retells the story of Marlow's job as an ivory transporter down the Congo. Through his journey, Marlow develops an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent, and ...
Poems
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy ...
A house for Mr. Biswas
(Vintage, 2001)
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
In his ...
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 ...
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 ...