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Under Western Eyes
Conrad, JosephDuke Classics 2022Conrad reputedly wrote Under Western Eyes (1911) in response to Crime and Punishment, which he detested. The action takes place in Russia and Switzerland and shows Conrad's cynicis...
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The School for Scandal : A Comedy
sheridan, Richard BrinsleyDuke Classics 2022The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777. The play is still popular and regularly performed today. It is a comedy of manners about "the deceptive natu...
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Essays and Lectures
Wilde, OscarDuke Classics 2022Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) is remembered best for his sharp wit, his comedic plays and for his contribution to aestheticism and decadence. In this collection of essays, however, Wil...
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How to Tell Stories to Children : And Some Stories to Tell
Bryant, Sara ConeDuke Classics 2021One might assume that anyone can make up a story on the spot that will hold the attention of a group of children, but in reality, that's not the case. To really capture the imagina...
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How to Write a Play : Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouve, Pailleron, Sardou, and Zola
Duke Classics 2021Do you have an itch to see your stories unfold on stage? Want to cast your lot with Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Miller, Mamet, and other renowned playwrights? If so, How to Write...
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Martin Chuzzlewit : The Life and Adventures of
Dickens, CharlesDuke Classics 2022The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness. And every member of the Chuzzlewit family is given the chance to display their own...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, CharlesDuke Classics 2022A Tale of Two Cities is shorter and more compact than many of Dickens' novels and also more serious. Set in England and France during the French Revolution, it deals with ideas of...
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Persuasion
Austen, JaneDuke Classics 2024When she was young and beautiful Anne Elliot fell in love with a dashing, but poor naval officer. Her family considered him beneath her and persuaded her to break off the match. Ei...
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Laura Middleton : Her Brother and Her Lover
AnonymousDuke Classics 2022Fans of Victorian erotica will love Laura Middleton: Her Brother and Her Lover, a titillating work of fantasy that embodies the tension and barely suppressed desires that often lur...
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Nostromo : A Tale of the Seaboard
Conrad, JosephDuke Classics 2022Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast of a fictitious South American country. Many regard the imagined setting of the novel to be s...
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The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 : Leatherstocking Tales Series, Book 2
Cooper, James FenimoreDuke Classics 2022The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, and remains his best-known work. It is a historical novel set in the French and Indian war...
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The Tale of Cupid & Psyches
Apuleius, LuciusDuke Classics 2022The first known record of the the poignant tale of Psyche's labors to reclaim the love of Cupid is recorded by Lucius Apuleius in the second century AD. When the beautiful Psyche a...
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The Pickwick Papers : Or, the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, CharlesDuke Classics 2022The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise. It follows the travels...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, CharlesDuke Classics 2022"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens', A Tale of Two Cities, begins with these famous words. On the eve of the French Revolution of 1789, the stor...
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Poems : Series I - III
Dickinson, EmilyDuke Classics 2022Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family of good standing within their Massachusetts community. She had fewer than a dozen poems publ...
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The Portrait of a Lady
James, HenryDuke Classics 2022The Portrait of a Lady is perhaps Henry James' greatest novel. It tells the story of Isabel Archer, a young American heiress who "affronts her destiny". Dealing with one of James'...
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The Seagull : A Play In Four Acts
Chekhov, AntonDuke Classics 2022The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov's four full-length plays. It explores the romantic and artistic tension in the relationships between a young woman, a fading older lady, h...
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Great Expectations
Dickens, CharlesDuke Classics 2024Pip is content with his simple life until a bitter gentlewoman employs him as a sometime companion to herself and her adopted daughter. Pip then aspires to become a gentleman himse...
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Mary Barton
Gaskell, ElizabethDuke Classics 2022The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848. It tells of the plight of the lower class in Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s. Contrast...