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The Dictionary of Received Ideas

The Dictionary of Received Ideas

A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, The Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet , this...
By: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN: 9781847491657
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The Life of Our Lord

The Life of Our Lord

Never published in its author’s lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life of Our Lord is an accessible and gently humorous take on the life of Jesus Christ and his teachings. Far removed from the...
By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781847491664
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Histoires Naturelles

Histoires Naturelles

A delightful variation on the long tradition of bestiary writing, Jules Renard’s short verse and prose poems have captured the imagination of readers and artists since they were originally written in 1894, with Ravel famously setting five of them to...
By: Jules Renard
ISBN: 9781847491701
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The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders

The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders

A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine form. Flying by the seat of his pants, the great author treats us to a condensed biography of his posterior, enlivened by some inspired wordplay....
By: Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 9781847491329
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On Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts

On Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts

In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey’s innovative, idio­syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, literary criticism and aesthetic judgements, in a work strewn with examples ranging from...
By: Thomas de Quincey
ISBN: 9781847491336
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Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Alice's Adventures Under Ground

In 1864, Lewis Carroll sent Alice’s Adventures Under Ground , a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, as a gift to Alice Liddell, the daughter of his Oxford dean. This formed the basis for Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland – introducing timeless...
By: Lewis Carroll
ISBN: 9781847490957
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Decay of Lying (The)

Decay of Lying (The)

In the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, Vivian is writing an article about the importance of lying, when he is interrupted by Cyril, who tries to tempt him away, but instead is drawn into a discussion about art, nature, literature and...
By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781847490674
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Dirty Limericks

Dirty Limericks

Inside these covers you will find a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years. Until quite recently, few of these verses had ever appeared in...
By: Anonymous
ISBN: 9781847490384
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Lars Porsena

Lars Porsena

Robert Graves's tongue-in-cheek treatise laments the decline of swearing and foul language in England and looks back with nostalgia at the glory days of oaths and blasphemies. Written when Graves was teaching at Cairo University in 1926, a time when...
By: Robert Graves
ISBN: 9781847490681
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Aphorisms

Aphorisms

Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the figure of the Great Emperor, French novelist Honoré de Balzac set himself the painstaking task of collecting a selection of Napoleon's aphorisms from his public speeches and the gazettes of the time....
By: Napoleon Bonaparte
ISBN: 9781847490322
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