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Dombey and Son

tutorial, commentary, study resources, plot, and web links Dombey and Son was first issued in monthly instalments by Bradbury & Evans between October 1846 and April 1848. It was then published in a...

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Giacomo Joyce

tutorial, commentary, study resources, plot, and web links Giacomo Joyce is a short work written by James Joyce in 1914, immediately after the publication of Dubliners, his collection of short stories....

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English Spelling – 1/02

This easy level quiz will test your knowledge of English spelling. You’ll get a score and you’ll be shown the correct answers. We also offer you guidance on developing your knowledge of English...

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English Grammar – 1/01

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Henry James illustrated life

biography with period illustrations and photographs Henry James illustrated life is a biography of the great writer in Thames and Hudson ‘s Literary Lives series. It features a scholarly but accessible...

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Fictions

short stories of fantasy, parody, mystery, and satire Fictions (1944) is a single-volume compilation of two collections of short stories which made Jorge Luis Borges famous – his 1941 publication The...

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Flatland

a fantasy romance and mathematical novella Flatland (1884) is something of a literary curiosity – a Victorian work of science fiction. Its author Edwin Abbott was rather similar to Lewis Carroll – a...

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The Common Reader second series

essays and reviews on literary and cultural history The Common Reader second series (1935) is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, the second to be published in her own lifetime. It followed on...

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Chronicles of Bustos Domecq

short stories, satirical sketches, and parodies of criticism Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (1979) is a collection of short fiction that Jorge Luis Borges wrote in collaboration with his fellow...

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The Invention of Morel

tutorial, commentary, plot summary, and study resources The Invention of Morel (1940) is a science fiction novella by the Argentinean writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. It was his seventh book, but the...

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Roderick Hudson

tutorial, critical commentary, plot, and study resources Roderick Hudson (1875) was Henry James’s second novel, and the first to bring him a popular success. It initially appeared in twelve monthly...

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The Enchanter

tutorial, critical commentary, plot, and study resources The Enchanter (1939) was one of the last works Vladimir Nabokov wrote in Russian, using his original pen name of V. Sirin. It was composed in...

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The Moment

essays on literature, reading, and cultural history The Moment (1947) is the second collection of essays and reviews by Virginia Woolf that were gathered and edited by her husband Leonard after her...

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The Death of the Moth

essays on literature, reading, and cultural history The Death of the Moth (1942) is the third volume of Virginia Woolf’s essays to be published after the success of her earlier collections The Common...

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Granite and Rainbow

essays on literature, biography, and cultural history Granite and Rainbow (1958) is the third and final volume of Virginia Woolf’s essays to be collected, edited, and published by her husband Leonard...

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All Passion Spent

tutorial, critical commentary, plot, and study resources All Passion Spent first appeared in 1931 under the imprint of the Hogarth Press, the independent publishing house run by Leonard Woolf and his...

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The Cambridge Apostles

secrecy, intellectual elitism, and cultural history The Cambridge Apostles was a quasi-secret discussion group (also known as The Cambridge Conversazione Society) that was established at Cambridge...

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Manhattan Transfer

tutorial, critical commentary, plot, and study resources Manhattan Transfer was first published in 1925. It was the sixth literary work by John Dos Passos. Although he belonged to the same ‘lost...

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The Captain’s Death Bed

essays on literature, biography, and cultural history The Captain’s Death Bed (1950) is the third volume of collected reviews and essays to be published by Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press after the...

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Italo Svevo biography

his life, writings, and cultural context Italo Svevo was the pen name of the Austro-Italian writer Aron Ettore Schmitz. He was born in 1861 in Trieste, which at that time was part of the Hapsburg...

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