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1) The Canterbury tales from the text of W.W. Skeat: with a note on the language and metre and a glossary

Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

Volume

76

Earliest Publication Date

1965

2) Lives of the English poets

Author

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

Volume

83

Earliest Publication Date

1906

3) The poems of George Herbert

Author

Herbert, George, 1593-1633

Volume

109

Earliest Publication Date

1961

4) Romola

Author

Eliot, George, 1819-1880

Volume

178

Earliest Publication Date

1885

Summary

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The celebrated Victorian author of Middlemarch explores the turbulent world of Florence during the Italian Renaissance in this sweeping historical novel. Florence, 1492. Lorenzo de Medici has just died, leaving governance of the Florentine Republic to his son Piero, an unskilled ruler. Meanwhile, Tito Melema, a shipwrecked stranger, finds love with a young woman named Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar. Though her brother has a vision...

5) Selected poems of William Wordsworth

Author

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

Volume

189

Earliest Publication Date

1913

6) English critical essays (nineteenth century)

Volume

206

Earliest Publication Date

1961

7) Confessions of a thug

Author

Taylor, Meadows, 1808-1876

Volume

207

Earliest Publication Date

1916

8) English prose

Volume

219-223

Earliest Publication Date

1921

9) English critical essays: twentieth century

Volume

405

Earliest Publication Date

1933

10) Five pre-Shakespearean comedies <early Tudor period>

Volume

418

Earliest Publication Date

1934

11) The stricken deer: or, The Life of Cowper

Author

Cecil, David, Lord, 1902-

Volume

435

Earliest Publication Date

1935

12) Nineteenth century plays

Volume

533

Earliest Publication Date

1953

13) Oliver Cromwell and the rule of the Puritans in England

Author

Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936

Volume

536

Earliest Publication Date

1953

14) Memoirs from The house of the dead

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Volume

597

Earliest Publication Date

1965

15) Selected stories

Author

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904

Volume

599

Earliest Publication Date

1963

16) Crime and punishment: a novel in six parts and an epilogue

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Volume

619

Earliest Publication Date

1973

17) Mary Schweidler: the amber witch

Author

Meinhold, Wilhelm, 1797-1851

Volume

cccxxv

Earliest Publication Date

1928

Summary

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"Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch" is an 1838 novel by Wilhelm Meinhold, originally published in German and translated into English by Lady Duff-Gordon. Initially published as a hoax claiming to be a 17th-century account of witchcraft, Meinhold eventually confessed to the deceit but encountered significant trouble when trying to prove that he actually wrote the book. Set during the Thirty Years War, the plot revolves around the story of a pastor,...

18) Six plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare

Author

Wheeler, C. B. (Charles Bickersteth), 1862-1922

Volume

cxcix. six elizabethan plays

Earliest Publication Date

1915

19) The history of the Peloponnesian War

Author

Thucydides

Volume

no.494

Earliest Publication Date

1950

Summary

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War. Ambition. Betrayal. A timeless study of power and its price. Step into the world of ancient Greece at its most turbulent. Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War chronicles the epic struggle between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BC-a war that reshaped the Greek world, ruined a great city, and left lessons still painfully relevant today. Unlike earlier historians, Thucydides was there. An Athenian general turned historian, he offers...

20) Five Stuart tragedies

Volume

no. 526

Earliest Publication Date

1953