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A Shakespearian grammar

an attempt to illustrate some of the differences between Elizabethan and modern English
2003
A guide to Elizabethan syntax, grammar, and verse structure that explains the idiomatic usage used in Shakespeare's works.

Roughing it

2003
Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner when he joins his brother, a newly appointed federal official, in Nevada.

Emile

2013
A classic in the history of Western thought and educational theory for the development of autonomous, responsible human beings.

The world I live in and Optimism

a collection of essays
Helen Keller describes the sensations she experiences and the workings of her imagination, while arguing that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language.

The joys of walking

2012
A series of excursions into the landscape and mindscape of the traveler afoot, these twelve essays include contributions by Dickens, Beerbohm, Hazlitt, Belloc, Thoreau, and other distinguished authors.

The prose Edda

tales from Norse mythology
2006
A collection of tales from Norse mythology with sagas that represent the narrative style of the Vikings, in which warrior queens and heroes fight against elves, dwarves, and monsters.

Green mansions

a romance of the tropical forest
1989
Abel, a poet and political exile, arrives at a savage village in South America where he becomes a naturalist, and there in the forest he falls in love with a mysterious girl.

The octopus

a story of California
2003
A novel about the impact of railroads on American ranchers and the methods farmers took to strike back, based on a violent dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

1991

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