This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…

At 17 Marguerite Buckby tried to kill herself. Her adopted mother had long since stopped answering her phone calls, her glib father’s new girlfriend was evil, and all of her…

Originally published in 1939, this book presents the content of the Leslie Stephen Lecture for that year, which was delivered by the renowned literary critic John Dover Wilson at Cambridge…

This volume includes select poems by John Milton, including 'Comus' and 'Lycidas', as well as an address on Milton given by Matthew Arnold. This collection is perfect for lovers of…

An essay collection taking its cue from one of the twentieth century’s greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, this book asks what it is to be a twenty-first-century historian, attempts to help…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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