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In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Goldsmith, Burney and Burke, and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties...
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 187
Publisher
The Modern library
Pub. Date
[1946]
Language
English
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Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 250
Publisher
The Modern library
Pub. Date
[1947]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Modern library
Pub. Date
c1947
Language
English
Description
A little-known masterpiece, this cycle of short stories concerns life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century and forever changed the course of American storytelling. Bittersweet and richly insightful, it reveals Sherwood Anderson's special talent for taking small moments and transforming them into timeless folk tales—a talent that inspired a generation of writers including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. At...
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 259
Publisher
Dist. by McGraw-Hill, Inc
Pub. Date
c1948
Edition
Modern Library College ed.
Language
English
74) The plague
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Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 169
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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78) Mansfield Park
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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This is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices - in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price, to explore the social and moral values by which these families' lives are ordered.
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Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume G22
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1949, c1943]
Edition
[1st Modern Library giant ed.]
Language
English
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