My Compleinte, and Other Poems (Exeter Medieval Texts & Studies)
By: Thomas Hoccleve
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples and is represented in this book by …
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1. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2. Troilus and Criseyde
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth… read more
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"And after winter folweth grene May."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"The very eyeballs in your skull look dead."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Not knowing, in his misery, for the nonce, What he was doing, he rushed away at once"-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
3. The Riverside Chaucer
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Larry Dean Benson
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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4. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience
By: Unknown , J.J. Anderson , A.C. Cawley
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldronincluded on a CD-ROM at the back of the book for … read more
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5. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
6. Love's Labour's Lost
By: William Shakespeare , Henry R. Woudhuysen
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To begin the introduction, the editor discusses the link between Love's Labour's Lostand the writin… read more
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7. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
8. Revelations of Divine Love
By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more
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9. Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3)
By: William Shakespeare
3.57
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part Oneagain pits a rebellion within th… read more
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10. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: * printed version of the … read more
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11. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
12. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
By: Jean Rhys , Diana Athill
4.06
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
Jean Rhys' unfinished posthumous autobiography. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time i… read more
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13. Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more
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"Therein lies the rub."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Brevity is the soul of wit."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
14. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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15. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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16. The Book of Margery Kempe
By: Margery Kempe , Lynn Staley
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminateThe Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpt… read more
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17. The Taming of the Shrew
By: William Shakespeare
3.78
Format: 438 pages,
Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more
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18. Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more
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19. The Romance of the Rose
By: Guillaume de Lorris , Frances Horgan , Jean de Meun
4.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose, an allegorical account of the progress of a c… read more
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20. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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21. The Winter's Tale
By: William Shakespeare
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more
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22. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)
By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more
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23. King John
By: William Shakespeare , Paul Werstine
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ru… read more
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24. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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25. The Spanish Tragedy
By: Thomas Kyd , None
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Highly popular and influential in the development of Elizabethan dra… read more
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26. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
27. Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
By: Elizabeth Keckley
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth… read more
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28. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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29. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
30. Confessio Amantis, Volume 1
By: John Gower
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important his… read more
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"There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his…"-John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 1
31. My Compleinte, and Other Poems (Exeter Medieval Texts & Studies)
By: Thomas Hoccleve
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples and is represented in this book by … read more
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