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Merlin Holland presents the original transcript of the famous Wilde vs Queensberry trial, containing previously unseen details and exchanges.

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Volume 19 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Much of 1947 and 1948 was taken up with Orwell's struggle to complete Nineteen Eighty-Four and his fight against illness.

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A collection of essays on travels in Italy. It explores art and religion, political shifts and cultural revolutions, and the nature of travel itself. It covers the aesthetic allure of Venice, the vitality of Rome, and the noisy, sensuous appeal of Naples.

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An important reintroduction to this literature, this compilation of Thomas Crane's original translations of Italian folk stories includes new critical analysis.

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A collection of ten autobiographical essays

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A remarkable collection of farewell addresses by the thirteen U.S. senators who voluntarily retired in 1996-Bill Bradley, Hank Brown, William S. Cohen, J. James Exon, Mark O. Hatfield, Howell Heflin, J. Bennett Johnston, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Sam Nunn, Claiborne Pell, David Pryor, Paul Simon, and Alan K. Simpson.

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The best-selling enfant terrible of the Reagan revolution offers advice to today's budding conservatives--the very people he sees as the true "radicals" of tomorrow

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Linus Pauling's views on a wide range of issues are brought together in this book. He was outspoken on a number of issues including the obligations of the scientist to society and he wrote about nuclear weapons and testing, and education. He wrote the introduction shortly before his death.

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Eliot wrote in his introduction: I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind...perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without...the refreshment, the revitalization and `making new' of literature in our time.

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The fifth book of Livy's Roman history. It contains a literary and historical introduction and a vocabulary. The notes offer discussion of historical and linguistic points of significance, and each section ends with a summary paragraph that concerns language, matters of history, and composition.

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Book XXI of Livy's history of Rome includes Carthaginian campaigns in Spain and Hannibal's momentous crossing of the Alps to invade Italy. This edition is designed for A Level students, with a useful introduction, commentary and vocabulary.

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A text which heralded the ethos of Modernism of the late 20th Century.

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From the trenches in Afghanistan to the Occupied Territories, Israel to Baghdad and beyond, this is a poignant account from one of Australia's most respected foreign correspondents, of the international fallout from September 11 and informative meditation on what our future holds.

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The selected speeches of Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine made throughout her 32 year career in the U.S. Congress are critically analyzed in this rhetorical study. Thus this work will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S. politics, communications, and women's studies.

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One of the most influential American women writers of the 19th century, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) played a vital role in the shaping of New England Transcendentalism and the birth of the women's movement.

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This work opens with an assessment of Mark Twain as a great American orator and then appraises his rhetoric, lectures and occasional speeches, and summarises his impact on his listeners. It shows how he used humour and varying styles to achieve his effects.

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Edited with Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary by E. C. Kennedy

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This collection of essays, chosen by the Philip Hamburger from his 60 years of writing for "The New Yorker", chronicles not only the people of US political life but also the places and events, with special emphasis on presidential inaugurations.

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Meanjin is Australia's second oldest literary journal. Founded by Clem Christesen in 1940, it has documented both the changing concerns of Australians and the achievements of many of the nation's writers, thinkers and poets. This anthology offers a broad sweep of essays, fiction and poetry published in Meanjin since the magazine began.

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