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... . His consistently engaging but often wayward humour is mixed liberally with daring flights of fancy and some startling turns of thought ...

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... chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords ...

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Again Dr. Bird closes with the evil Saranoff-this time near the Aberdeen Proving Ground, in a deadly, mysterious blanket of fog.

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... studied the Roman Empire extensively prior to writing the novel, with the aim of getting historical details correct. As such, several ...

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... for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards ...

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... the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no ...

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... - and begins his moral education. The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue ...

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Using language with elements of the medieval tales which were his models, Morris ...

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... the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in ...

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... four million people lived in New York City, it opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's "assertion that there were ...

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... of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game." With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm ...

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... ten days, there had been the heat, unprecedented for June, with the thermometer climbing higher and higher and breaking a new ...

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... "of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians' who have wholly forgotten how it feels ...

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... linked the story lines developed in the Yellow Claw (1915) with Dr. Fu Manchu who appears but is not named. "He ...

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... is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592-93, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It ...

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Severin is so infatuated with Wanda that he requests to be treated as her slave ...

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... for many months on the truckle bed, between linen sheets, with a cool, bamboo-twisted roof between him and the relentless ...

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... parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the ...

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... Hansen is a foolish creature whose mistakes must be dealt with by her daughter Hulda. Coming to their aid is their ...

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... issued by the Modern Library in an unauthorised combined edition with The Book of Wonder under the latter's title in ...

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... Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play ...

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... in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world ...

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... 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year. Together with his wife, he traveled across France to Nice. In the ...

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... laundress; all the men in the novel are in love with her. The relation between Trilby and Svengali forms only a ...

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... die. The play ends instead on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of ...

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