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Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom rediscovered his college professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing ... More

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Kipling Sahib - Charles Allen

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A long overdue reassessment of Kipling in India by a leading historian of the subcontinent, author of PLAIN TALES FROM ... More

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Where Are They Now? - Matt Allen

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They were the playground superstars of yesterday. They played for the love of the game. But they were also the ... More

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Prison Diary 3 - Jeffrey Archer

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Covers the period of the author's transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. This volume ... More

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Facon De Parler - Angela Aries

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Includes reading and comprehension tasks, games, quizzes and puzzles. This book contains 'Pense-bete!' boxes that offer a reminder of basic ... More

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A Dream Of Jewelled Fishes - John Aston

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Written in the form of an angling autobiography, this work begins with boyhood expeditions to a pond in the shadow ... More

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Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf... - Edward Albee

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Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking ... More

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Dickens - Peter Ackroyd

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First published in 1990, this shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. ... More

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Koba The Dread - Martin Amis

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Addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In ... More

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Albion - Peter Ackroyd

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Features the stories ranging from Beowulf to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, via Chaucer and Shakespeare, ... More

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The Ripening Sun - Patricia Atkinson

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A remarkable story of struggle and transformation. After emigrating in 1990, Patricia Atkinson began life in the Dordogne with 4 ... More

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Spoken Here - Mark Abley

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Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction, as English and other top 20 languages drive all before them. This ... More

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Lawrence - Michael Asher

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Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the ... More

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Flatland - Edwin Abbott

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A deft mixture of social satire and science fiction that poses provocative questions about perception and reality. The novel is ... More

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The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius

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Lucius is a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to believe he can be transformed into a bird, ... More

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The Oresteian Trilogy -

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In these plays, Aeschyluys (525BC-456BC) takes as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family ... More

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The Nibelungenlied -

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Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the ... More

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Alfred The Great -

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As king of Wessex, he strove to emulate those kings of the past who, in his own words, had 'succeeded ... More

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The Art Of Rhetoric -

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This text examines Aristotle's "Rhetoric" as a classic treatise on the arts of public speaking and persuasion which played a ... More

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The Metaphysics -

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Presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality ... More

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Poetics -

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This is a translation of Aristotle's "Poetics", an account of Greek tragedy, which demonstrates how the elements of plot, character ... More

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The Complete Fables -

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A translation of the complete Aesopian fables. The introduction looks at the nature of the animals who appear in these ... More

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Lysistrata And Other Plays -

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Aristophones was a contemporary of Socrates and the last and greatest of the old Attic comedians, but unfortunately only 11 ... More

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City Of God - Saint, Bishop Of Hippo Augustine

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St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity. Written as a defence ... More

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The Birds And Other Plays -

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Included in this collection are "The Birds", the most graceful of Aristophanes' plays; "The Knights", a satire on Cleon, an ... More

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Three Plays - Alan Ayckbourn

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Includes the plays "Absurd Person Singular", "Absent Friends", and "Bedroom Farce". ... More

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Aesop's Fables -

Features a wily fox who is outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise who is triumphing over a self-confident hare ... More

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How To Do Things With Words - J.L. Austin

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This volume contains the late J.L. Austin's examination of his distinction of performative utterances from statements, and his subsequent theory ... More

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Jane Austen's Letters - Jane Austen

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Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, ... More

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