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The Tragedie of Macbeth
Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfil the ambition for power.
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Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entir... Read more...
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1,120 Verses of Wise Words
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WHAT MY PEN THINKS (Volume 1) is a book that contains some selected verses of wise words that can be easily quoated, or used as references whenever one needs thiniking source(s) ; mostly when vast task or assignment lies ahead. In this book, youwill be rewarded with amazin... Read more...
Keywords: Wise-words, Understading of life, Cleverness, Prudency, Courage, Timeliness, Sincerity, Riches and its Risk, Caution, Women, Sex, Love, Tenderness, Submission, War, Peace, Unity
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The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a frie... Read more...
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Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas 1 Henry VI deals primarily with the loss of England's French territories and the p... Read more...
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The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without me... Read more...
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Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, this made-for-cable film is presented in flashback form, as aged humorist Mark Twain (James Garner) is invited as the keynote speaker for the Bryn Mawr College graduation ceremonies of 1891. At first concerned that his repu... Read more...
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The germination of this seed bearing fruit grew into essence by a collective inspiration of reading many texts on literature, philosophy, religion and aesthetics. This book contains a basket of flowers on literature, literary analysis, philosophy, religion, art and aestheti... Read more...
Keywords: Freud, Lacan, Christian Apologetics, Id, Ego, Super Ego, Libido, Literature, Aesthetics, Religion, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Christianonsciousness, psycho-emotivity, Christ, Chrisatianity, Oedipus Comples, Christomacy, Circumcision Complex, Castration complex, Oral, Anal, Phallic, Gaze, maternality, adultery, Mirror Stage, Real, Imaginary, Symbolic, Menstrual blood, Binary Fusion, Processual Ontology, cathartic, ecstatic, angstual, experientiality, catharstasy, catharangstasy, catharcognizy, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, The Rebel, heidegger, existentialism, nihilism, absurdism, incest, rape, pedophilia, murder, God, Theology, Metaphysics, purposuality, valuablelization, Kamala Das, Discourse, Dialogue, Streams of Consciousness, Dr. Sathyanathan Clarke [more]
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The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen." An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does... Read more...
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The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of We... Read more...
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