Author: Denton Jaques Snider
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Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Homer's Odyssey
Author: Denton Jaques Snider
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Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The Newcomes
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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he Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action moves from London to Brighton, from England to France, from the political ambitions of an older generation in the industrial North to the painterly pretensions of a younger generation in Italy. At its centre is Thomas Newcome, a retired Colonel in the Indian Army who finds the snobberies and hypocrisies of early Victorian England disconcerting. In a world of men on the make, of social mobility, and of the buying and selling of women in an aristocratic marriage market, it is the Colonel's distinctive but old-fashioned gentlemanliness that stands out from a self-seeking society. The most observant and witty among Thackeray's studies of his culture, The Newcomes is also among his most complex and allusive novels.
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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he Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action moves from London to Brighton, from England to France, from the political ambitions of an older generation in the industrial North to the painterly pretensions of a younger generation in Italy. At its centre is Thomas Newcome, a retired Colonel in the Indian Army who finds the snobberies and hypocrisies of early Victorian England disconcerting. In a world of men on the make, of social mobility, and of the buying and selling of women in an aristocratic marriage market, it is the Colonel's distinctive but old-fashioned gentlemanliness that stands out from a self-seeking society. The most observant and witty among Thackeray's studies of his culture, The Newcomes is also among his most complex and allusive novels.
The Gentleman's Magazine
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Report of the Mayor on the Financial Concerns of the City of Portland
Author: Portland (Me.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe
Author: Edmund Gosse
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Category : Dutch literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Dutch literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Annual Report
Author: United States. Dept. of the Interior
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Catalogue of Copyright Entries
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
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The School Journal
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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