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She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, Margaret, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her own father's life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience.

Alastor Or The Spirit Of Solitude

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1816

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Sense And Sensibility / Persuasion

Jane Austen - 1811

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Edward Thomas: Selected Poems (Bloomsbury Poetry Classics)

Edward Thomas - 1964

Since his tragic death in the First World War, Edward Thomas has emerged as a major poet of the English tradition.

This selection, made by a poet who shares Edward Thomas's deep but unsentimental feeling for and response to nature, reinforces Thomas's claim to centrality.

The Sound and The Fury / As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner - 1946

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Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant - 1911

Guy de Maupassant, France's gift to the world of short stories, was a prolific writer of this genre.

His complete collection numbers just under 200. Volume X contains the following titles:1. The Christening2. The Farmer's Wife3. The Devil4. The Snipe5. The Will6. Walter Schnaff's Adventure7. At Sea8. Minuet9. The Son10. That Pig of a Morin11. Saint Anthony12. Lasting Love13. Pierrot14. A Normandy Joke15. Father MatthewPublic Domain (P)2021 Voices of Today

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Various - 2014

The tales collected for Irish Fairy and Folk Tales all are reprinted from nineteenth-century sources, but they date back much further, to a time when they were part of a centuries-old oral tradition of storytelling and had yet to be committed to the printed page.

These are stories that passed down through the ages virtually unaltered in their telling. To those who told and listened to them, they expressed something fundamental about Irish culture and the Irish way of life. The stories in this volume feature a wide variety of fantastic beings, including ghosts, witches, fairies, and changelings, but several feature creatures that are virtually exclusive to Ireland: the banshee, the merrow, the pooka, and the leprechaun. Read these tales of frightening supernatural horrors, brave folk heroes, and everyday people clever enough to outwith the devil, and you'll agree that they could only take place on Irish soil.

The Last September

Elizabeth Bowen - 1929

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude toward the events going on around them, but behind the facade of tennis parties and army camp dances, all know that the end is approaching—the end of British rule in the south of Ireland and the demise of a way of life that had survived for centuries.

Their niece, Lois Farquar, attempts to live her own life and gain her own freedoms from the very class that her elders are vainly defending. The Last September depicts the tensions between love and the longing for freedom, between tradition and the terrifying prospect of independence, both political and spiritual.

The Skull

Philip K. Dick - 1952

Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen.

He wasn't concerned about getting the wrong man. He knew what the man looked like. There was no way he could make a mistake about his target's identity -- he had the man's skull under his shoulder.

Dalyrimple Goes Wrong

F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1920

La mauvaise t^ete, written and drawn by Franquin, is the eighth album in the Spirou et Fantasio series.

After serial publication in Spirou the complete story was published, along with the Marsupilami short story Touchez pas aux rouges-gorges, in a hardcover album in 1957.