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Pride and Prejudice - Bok av Jane Austen - Inbunden

Pride and Prejudice - Bok av Jane Austen - Inbunden

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use..

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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - The Book of the Spiritual Man - Bok av Patanjali - Inbunden

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - The Book of the Spiritual Man - Bok av Patanjali - Inbunden

Patanjali, also called Gonardiya, or Gonikaputra, (flourished 2nd century BCE or 5th century CE), author or one of the authors of two great Hindu classics: the first, Yoga-sutras, a categorization of Yogic thought arranged in four volumes with the titles \Psychic Power,\ \Practice of Yoga,\ \Samadhi\ (state of profound contemplation of the Absolute), and \Kaivalya\ (separateness); and the second, the Mahabhashya (\Great Commentary\), which is both a defense of the grammarian Panini against..

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Hero of Our Time - Bok av M Y Lermontov - Inbunden

Hero of Our Time - Bok av M Y Lermontov - Inbunden

Novel by Mikhail Lermontov, published in Russian in 1840 as Geroy nashego vremeni. Its psychologically probing portrait of a disillusioned 19th-century aristocrat and its use of a nonchronological and multifaceted narrative structure influenced such later Russian authors as Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy and presaged the antiheroes and antinovels of 20th-century fiction. The novel is set in the Russian Caucasus in the 1830s. Grigory Pechorin is a bored, self-centered, and cynical young army officer..

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Bok av Mary Wollstonecraft - Häftad

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Bok av Mary Wollstonecraft - Häftad

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential..

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Hero of Our Time - Bok av M Y Lermontov - Häftad

Hero of Our Time - Bok av M Y Lermontov - Häftad

Novel by Mikhail Lermontov, published in Russian in 1840 as Geroy nashego vremeni. Its psychologically probing portrait of a disillusioned 19th-century aristocrat and its use of a nonchronological and multifaceted narrative structure influenced such later Russian authors as Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy and presaged the antiheroes and antinovels of 20th-century fiction. The novel is set in the Russian Caucasus in the 1830s. Grigory Pechorin is a bored, self-centered, and cynical young army officer..

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Bok av Mary Wollstonecraft - Inbunden

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Bok av Mary Wollstonecraft - Inbunden

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential..

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The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century - Bok av Georgette Heyer - Inbunden

The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century - Bok av Georgette Heyer - Inbunden

The Black Moth (1921) is a Georgian era romance novel by the British author Georgette Heyer, set around 1751. The Black Moth was Heyer's debut novel, published when Heyer was nineteen. It was a commercial success.The story follows Lord Jack Carstares, an English nobleman who becomes a highwayman after taking the blame during a cheating scandal years before. One day, he rescues Miss Diana Beauleigh when she is almost abducted by the Duke of Andover. Jack and Diana fall in love but his troubled past..

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories - Bok av Kate Chopin - Häftad

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories - Bok av Kate Chopin - Häftad

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing patriarchal attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also one of the most important novels..

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories - Bok av Kate Chopin - Inbunden

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories - Bok av Kate Chopin - Inbunden

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing patriarchal attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also one of the most important novels..

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The House of the Seven Gables - Bok av Nathaniel Hawthorne - Häftad

The House of the Seven Gables - Bok av Nathaniel Hawthorne - Häftad

The House of the Seven Gables is a well known American classical literature by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The novel is set in the mid-19th century, with glimpses into the history of the house, which was built in the late 17th century. The primary interest of this book is in the subtle and involved descriptions of character and motive.The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident,..

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The House of the Seven Gables - Bok av Nathaniel Hawthorne - Inbunden

The House of the Seven Gables - Bok av Nathaniel Hawthorne - Inbunden

The House of the Seven Gables is a well known American classical literature by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The novel is set in the mid-19th century, with glimpses into the history of the house, which was built in the late 17th century. The primary interest of this book is in the subtle and involved descriptions of character and motive.The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident,..

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Nest of the Sparrowhawk - A Romance of the XVIIth Century - Bok av Baroness Emmuska Orczy - Inbunden

Nest of the Sparrowhawk - A Romance of the XVIIth Century - Bok av Baroness Emmuska Orczy - Inbunden

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála \Emmuska\ Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from \Madame Guillotine\ during the French revolution.Introducing the notion of a \hero with a secret..

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The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century - Bok av Florence L Barclay - Inbunden

The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century - Bok av Florence L Barclay - Inbunden

Florence Louisa Barclay (2 December 1862 - 10 March 1921) was an English romance novelist and short story writer.She was born Florence Louisa Charlesworth in Limpsfield, Surrey, England, the daughter of the local Anglican rector. One of three girls, she was a sister to Maud Ballington Booth, the Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. When Florence was seven years old, the family moved to Limehouse in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.In 1881, Florence Charlesworth married..

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The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People - Bok av John Dos Passos - Häftad

The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People - Bok av John Dos Passos - Häftad

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 - September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy.Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visiting Europe and the Middle East, where he learned about literature, art, and architecture. During World War I, he was an ambulance driver for American volunteer groups in Paris and Italy, before joining the U.S. Army Medical Corps.In 1920, his first novel, One Man's..

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