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Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

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George Borrow

This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of a…

Last Post

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Ford Madox Ford

This is the last novel in Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" tetralogy. Its predecessors "Some Do Not", "No More Para…

The Rover (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…

Notes on Life and Letters

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Joseph Conrad

Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…

The Romany Rye

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George Borrow

"The Romany Rye" is a direct continuation of George Borrow's "Lavengro", taking up the latter's story immediately where …

Lenore

In The Castle of Twilight

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Margaret Horton Potter

"Wistfully I deliver up to you my simple story, knowing that the first suggestion of “historical novel” will bring before you an image …

Chapter 24 part 2

In Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

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Austen Layard

Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…

Chapter 15: The Kingdom of Italy under Odovacar and Theodoric By Maurice Dumoul…

In The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 01, The Christian Roman Empire and the F…

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John Bagnell Bury

Volume 1: The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms "The present work is intended as a comprehensive accou…

Landfalls and Departures

In The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…

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