′They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic - to terror, too, perhaps.′Co
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Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, Tristram Shandy caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, foreshad
′Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied - Sleep never came!′Based on Charlotte
′One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.′Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 185
′Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.′Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shi
′I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.′When Helen flees from her alcoholic husband in order to protect her son she defies soc
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘ “…Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” ’This se
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Rom
′The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.′At t
′How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.′Still co
′Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.′An idyllic snapshot of a boy′s childhood alon
′My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.′When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Obero
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