Henry Carter Hull

while news love meant to keep foreveris wiped, so lightly, by this scanning weeper.'Another Lighthouse'Angela Leighton's sixth collection of poems turns on the strange arts of remembering and forgetting. From Rome to Yorkshire, Naples to the Fens, she sets contemporary moments of hope and loss against a classical or Christian backdrop, while tracking a path that goes, more impersonally, from winter's cold to the growth of a garden. There are poems...

After James Douglas and his daughter Ellen are banished from their home, they go into hiding with the help of several enemies of the king. The Lady of the Lake is an intricate story filled with political and social intrigue, romance and chivalry. James Douglas is the former Earl of Bothwell, who once mentored King James V of Scotland. He is currently exiled from the realm and living on the outskirts of the kingdom. Douglas and his daughter Ellen...

L'Origine des espèces par le moyen de la sélection naturelle, ou la préservation des races favorisées dans la lutte pour la vie (Titre anglais original : On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) est un ouvrage de Charles Darwin, publié le 24 novembre 1859 et dans lequel il explique le mécanisme présidant, selon lui, à l'évolution graduelle des espèces vivantes

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"The Complete Works of James Joyce, illustrated and meticulously curated, presents a comprehensive collection of the literary genius's masterpieces. This anthology includes 'Dubliners,' a series of poignant short stories depicting the lives of Dublin's residents with exquisite precision. 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' unfolds as a semi-autobiographical novel, tracing the intellectual and artistic development of the protagonist, Stephen...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and wisdom from her novels deserve to be better known, from Northanger Abbey on its lovable, naive heroine-"if adventures will not befal a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad"-to Persuasion's...

"The Classic Collection of James Joyce, embellished with illustrations, presents a rich anthology of the renowned author's literary masterpieces. At its core is 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,' a semi-autobiographical novel tracing the intellectual and artistic maturation of the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus. Joyce's mastery of stream-of-consciousness technique and intricate language is showcased in this seminal work. 'Ulysses,' a landmark...

There aren't many novels that address the Second World War and its influence on Asian Countries as well as Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World. Neither are there many criticism of this novel. This book, therefore, intends to highlight the importance of this novel by critiquing the story and looking at its effect on Japan. In the novel, Kazuo Ishiguro highlights the conflict that results from the varying attitudes towards the Second World...

The poems in this collection were composed using only words that appear in the following texts attributed to the legendary, notorious, and infamous Irish-Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, who lived from 1854 to 1880: The Jerilderie Letter, The Cameron Letter, The Babington Letter and The O'Loghlen Letter. The poems use Kelly's spelling and mimic his punctuation and capitalisation. This collection was partly inspired by Peter Carey's novel True...

Poetry is a form of expression. I have been trying to write my emotions and thoughts down for a while now. Whether or not it is elegant isn't the point. The point is to express yourself. And this book represents that.

Tom Jones teaches English at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy. A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English language Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith...