18 books like An essay on man
Men Without Women
A collection of short stories, including three or four regarded as among his best. The subjects are varied, with In Another Country about a member of the Ambulance Corps in Italy during WW1, The Killers a taut crime thriller about two hit-men and The Undefeated about a bullfighter in Spain.
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Proserpine & Midas
Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of Proserpine & Midas includes a table of contents. 
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A brief introduction to the life of Shelley, called the poet of "uncompromising spirit," and his most praised works, some extracted from the whole, others presented in full.
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Songs of innocence and of experience
This volume of verse by the great English poet and artist William Blake contains two collections originally published separately in 1789 and 1784. This 1925 edition was edited by British literature professor George H. Cowling.
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Poems
Chaucer's Shorter Poems consists of several of the lesser known works by Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales:
The Book of the Duchess
The House of Fame
The Parliament of Fowles
Truth
Gentilesse
Merciles Beaute
Lak of Stedfastnesse
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Dunciad
Griffith 552;Head- and tail-pieces; initials; Anonymous. By Alexander Pope; M.E. Barry Rare Book Collection. Special Collections, Alumnae Library, Elms College; Description based on print version record.
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It is thought to be a comment on the…
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The course of time
The Course of Time is a ten-book poem in blank verse, first published in 1827.
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Milton's Poems
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden.…
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Poems
Introduces the life of author Samuel Taylor Coleridge and presents a sample of his poetry, including complete works and excerpts, with a brief, explanatory introduction to each.
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Poems
xxiii, 222 p. ; 20 cm
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The rose and the ring
The Rose and the Ring is one of those special literary treats which happen when a writer for adults turns his attention to the world of children. It's a classic fairy tale, told with Thackeray's customary insight into characters, an excellent story for reading aloud to children.
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Pearl
Yellow and golden pearls: yellow-green, greenish brown to dark brown;
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Sygdommen til døden
The 'sickness' which Kierkegaard's book refers to as 'unto death' is resistance to this belief. It is the inclination to accept that as far as the individual is concerned, death is indeed the end. Now why should Kierkegaard want to call that a sickness? After all, even in his own time there must have been people strong both in might and body who rejected the Christian teaching of sin and…
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Poems
The aim of this edition is to present all textual evidence of Wordsworth's work on the lyric and shorter narrative poems he composed between 1800 and 1807, the primary fruits of which appeared in 1807 under the title Poems in Two Volumes. - Preface.
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The seasons
The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of…
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Paradise Lost
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his…
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, his father's weaknesses and the growing realization that in order to make his way in the world he must reject a conventional life and boecome an artist.
Penguin Popular Classics are the perfect introduction to the world-famous Penguin Classics series — which…
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