E. M. Forster
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English
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The renowned British novelist’s “casual and wittily acute guidance” on reading—and writing—great fiction (Harper’s Magazine).
Renowned for such classics as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, E. M. Forster was one of Britain’s—and the world’s—most distinguished fiction writers, a frequent nominee for the Nobel...
Renowned for such classics as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, E. M. Forster was one of Britain’s—and the world’s—most distinguished fiction writers, a frequent nominee for the Nobel...
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English
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Join a young E.M. Forster on his personal journey of discovering his beloved India for the first time. Through letters written home and personal recollections, Forster paints the picture of Dewas State, a strange, bewildering, and enchanting slice of pre-independence India. In this collection, Forster shares insight into the lives of Indian royalty, and at times humorous accounts of the stark contrasts between excess and poverty he encounters. From...
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English
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The world examined by the ancient Greek philosophers and poets was distinctly different from our own. And that context, the author argues, has been missing from later evaluations of their work. Here is the Greek view of life in the classical age-perspectives on the state, the individual, religion, and art-as seen by writers such as Aristotle, Euripides, Homer, Plato, and Sophocles, among many others.
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Harvest book ; HB109
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English
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An eminent English author views the past and present in a miscellaneous collection of articles, essays, reviews, and poems.
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Works ; 11
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Edward Arnold
Pub. Date
1972.
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English
Description
Essays that applaud democracy's toleration of individual freedom and self-criticism and deplore its encouragement of mediocrity: "We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two."
11) Florence stories
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"An anthology of stories set in Florence by a wide range of great writers, from Dante to Salman Rushdie"--
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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Comprising short stories, novel excerpts, essays, journal entries, letters, and poetry. Italy in Mind captures all the contradictions of the Italian scene: enduring tradition and trendy consumerism, ravishing landscapes and urban sprawl, demonic bureaucracy and unvanquishable human warmth. Each entry is accompanied by a biography of the author, and the entire collection is preceded by a lively introduction by editor Alice Leccese Powers. The result...
