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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field

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Sir Walter Scott


Marmion is an epic poem in six cantos, written in emulation of the ancient Scottish minstrel style which was of such great interest to Scott…

The Story of Rimini

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Leigh Hunt


A long poem telling the tragic story of Francesca da Rimini, the duped and adulterous bride, inspired by the character in Dante's Inferno. P…

En Route

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Joris-Karl Huysmans


The second book by Huysmans concerning the religious development of the novelist Durtal, who in the first book ("La-bas") experien…

Madame Chrysantheme

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Pierre Loti


Pierre Loti (a nom de plume) was for many years an officer in the French Navy, giving him the opportunity to sample and analyze different na…

The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

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John Dryden


The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…

The Cathedral

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Joris-Karl Huysmans


It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the c…

Rome

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Émile Zola


The Abbe Pierre Froment, after his experiences in Lourdes, has written a book expressing a vision of a new enlightened papacy. He visits Rom…

Twilight in Italy

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D. H. Lawrence


This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…

The Late Mattia Pascal

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Luigi Pirandello


Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…

Metamorphoses (Howard Version)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso


Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…

Virgin Soil Volume 1

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Ivan Turgenev


Turgenev's last and longest novel presents the story of a group of young people in late nineteenth century Russia, who because of disillusio…

Discourse on Metaphysics

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz


This is a relatively short treatise by the highly influential and admired philosopher and polymath Leibniz. It presents his views on metaphy…

The Bagpipers

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George Sand


A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTuc…

The Major Symptoms of Hysteria

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Pierre Janet


In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspe…

The Last Days of Pekin

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Pierre Loti


The author was an officer in the French navy. This book is a compilation of his experiences when stationed in China in 1900 during and immed…

Virgin Soil Volume 2

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Ivan Turgenev


The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …

Science and the Modern World

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Alfred North Whitehead


It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seve…

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …

The Improvement of Human Reason

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Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufail and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Al-Malik Ibn Tufail


The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, …

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