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The rise and fall of the man of letters : aspects of English literary life since 1800.
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ISBN: 0140216170 9780140216172 Year: 1973 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books


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The Oxford book of essays
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ISBN: 019282970X Year: 1992 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Joyce
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ISBN: 000632438X Year: 1971 Publisher: London : Fontana/Collins,

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The rise and fall of the man of letters : aspects of English literary life since 1800.
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ISBN: 0297764942 Year: 1969 Publisher: London Weidenfeld and Nicolson

After Shakespeare : an anthology
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ISBN: 0192142682 9780192142689 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,

The new Oxford book of English prose
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ISBN: 0192142461 Year: 1998 Publisher: Bombay Oxford university press

After Shakespeare : an anthology
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ISBN: 0192804723 9780192804723 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford New York Tokyo Oxford University Press

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The Oxford book of aphorisms
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ISBN: 0192141112 Year: 1984 Publisher: Oxford

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The dictionary defines "aphorism" as "a short pithy statement or maxim," but beneath this definition lies a wealth of wit and insight to which neither the word nor any brief description can do justice. This delightful anthology demonstrates just how rewarding the aphorism can be and how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate a hidden truth or reveal the ironies of life. Whatever the situation, whatever the mood, the reader will find in this international array of aphorisms just the right words to give his or her feeling pungent expression. The classic aphorists--La Bruy'ere, Nietzsche, both Samuel Butlers, La Rochefoucault, Emerson--are here in abundance, as are the philosophers from the Greeks of Paul Val'ery, the social commentators from Edmund Burke to Walter Benjamin. Statesmen and scientists, Olympians and gadflies, mystics and boulevardiers--this collection brings together the most diverse figures, drawing freely on ancients and moderns, on the widsom of East and West, juxtaposing viewpoints as different as those of Jean Cocteau and George Orwell, Ambrose Bierce and Marcus Aurelius, Lord Chesterfield and Elias Canetti. Profound, provocative, and vastly entertaining, The Oxford Book of Aphorisms will lure the reader back to its pages time and again. The book is fully indexed, and wherever possible, sources, dates, and complete names are supplied.

The new Oxford book of literary anecdotes
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ISBN: 1281146803 9786611146801 019151697X 142949851X 9780191516979 9780192804686 0192804685 9781281146809 6611146806 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. This hugely entertaining anthology ranges from Chaucer to the present day, with anecdotes that are hilarious, touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, and downright weird.

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