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Unto This Last and Other Writings

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The English Utilitarians V2 James Mill (1912) — Leslie Stephen

The English Utilitarians V2 James Mill (1912)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads — Francis James Child

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Francis James Child

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Welsh Literature and the Classical Tradition — Ceri Davies

Welsh Literature and the Classical Tradition

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

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The Mabinogion — []

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Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

C.S. Lewis, My Godfather Letters, Photos, and Recollections — Laurence Harwood

C.S. Lewis, My Godfather Letters, Photos, and Recollections

Laurence Harwood

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield/ Great Expectations — Nicolas Tredell

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield/ Great Expectations

Nicolas Tredell

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Landscape and Literature — Stephen Siddall

Landscape and Literature

Stephen Siddall

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Lord Byron’s Correspondence: Volume 2 Chiefly with Lady Melbourne, Mr. Hobhouse, the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, and P.B. Shelley — George Gordon Byron

Lord Byron’s Correspondence: Volume 2 Chiefly with Lady Melbourne, Mr. Hobhouse, the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, and P.B. Shelley

George Gordon Byron

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Bleak House — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Independent Spirit Essays — Hubert Butler

Independent Spirit Essays

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Táin — Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Candida — George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Middle English Word Studies A Word and Author Index — Louise Sylvester

Middle English Word Studies A Word and Author Index

Louise Sylvester

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce — Colm Toibin

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Volpone and Other Plays — Ben Jonson

Volpone and Other Plays

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

A Preparation for Death — Greg Baxter

A Preparation for Death

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty, Equality, Fraternity — James Fitzjames Stephen

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

James Fitzjames Stephen

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Genreflecting A Guide to Popular Reading Interests — Cynthia Orr

Genreflecting A Guide to Popular Reading Interests

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Tense Future Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form — Paul K. Saint-Amour

Tense Future Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form

Paul K. Saint-Amour

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Oscar Wilde’s Wit and Wisdom A Book of Quotations — Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s Wit and Wisdom A Book of Quotations

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Women’s Travel Writings in India 1777-1845 — Éadaoin Agnew

Women’s Travel Writings in India 1777-1845

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The British and Anglo-Irish Thing-essay from 1701 to 2021 Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts — Daniel Schneider

The British and Anglo-Irish Thing-essay from 1701 to 2021 Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts

Daniel Schneider

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

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