The Life of Teresa of Jesus |
Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582) |
Teresa of Avila was major figure of the Catholic Reformation - a prominent mystic, writer, and reformer. At age seven she ran away from home to 'find martyrdom amongst the Moors'. At twenty she joined the Carmelite nuns. She resolved to found a new convent based on the principal of absolute poverty and renunciation of property. This, and the three kinds of ritual flagellation used at services, disturbed the laity. Later, the Carmelites tried to suppress her movement. After Don Quixote this is Spain's mode widely read prose classic. |
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The Lifted Veil |
George Eliot (1819 - 1880) |
This novella, first published in 1859 is unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). |
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The Mill on the Floss |
George Eliot (1819 - 1880) |
The novel explores the three different loves Maggie Tulliver feels for the three men in her life - her father, her brother, and her special friend Philip Wakem. As the story moves to a dramatic conclusion, the gifted and independent Maggie is challenged by circumstance and tensions both within the family and between her family and the Wakems. |
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The Mirror of the Sea |
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
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The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" |
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
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The Oedipus Trilogy |
Sophocles (495BC - 406BC) |
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