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61) Oliver Twist
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The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements...
Publisher
Pelican
Pub. Date
2004
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This sourcebook of Halloween spans British, Irish, Scottish, French, Canadian, and American literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Each of the poems, stories, and plays in this anthology provides a link to Halloween celebrations of the past.
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T.S. Poetry Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
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"Ever wished you'd had a teacher who made you want to read the classics? Your wish has come true in this beautifully-told book. Karen Swallow Prior movingly and honestly tells a compelling story of self-discovery and coming to faith through some of the greatest books ever written"--P.4 of cover.
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
1985
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At the time of its first appearance in 1985 Between Men was viewed as an important intervention into Feminist as well as Gay and Lesbian studies. It was an important book because it argued that "sexuality" and "desire" were not a historical phenomenon but carefully managed social constructs. This insight (that actually originated with Michael Foucault) is often viewed as anti-humanist or post-humanist because it argues that men and women are simply...
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Backgrounds to English literature volume 2
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c2003
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Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the Romantic period, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.
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Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2005.
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First Carroll and Graf edition.
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Since their emergence as a journalistic force after the world wars, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see it as well as the craft as it is applied. Many of these pieces feel almost unsettlingly relevant today--the conclusions Emma Goldman drew in her 1916 article on birth control, Maddy Vegtel's 1930s article about becoming pregnant at forty, and Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater tolerance...
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