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This was the first volume of Mr. Eliot's criticism to be published, and it includes essays on Dante, Swinburne, Blake and the contemporaries of Shakespeare ; on poetry, poetic drama and the criticism of poetry. They were the product of his early writing days and are especially interesting as evidence of Mr. Eliot's ideas on literature at that time.

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The Writings of Hammurabi: The First Complete Law Code

by Charles F. Horne

The book is an article extracted from the source book "Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: Babylonia and Assyria" of the author and contains 282 codes of law.

ISBN: 9780766100138

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On Literature and Art

by Mao Tse-Tung

This historic document brilliantly exemplifies the profound integration of Marxism-Leninism with the practice of the Chinese revolution.

ISBN: 9788190633055

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Marxism and Problems of Linguistics

by Joseph Stalin

This book focused against dogmatism in Marxist thought on language, but it also presents irrefutable arguments against idealist, naturalist and formalist thinking on language as well as clarifying the Marxist approach and method on basic questions of linguistics.

ISBN: 9788187728788

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The Iliad

by Homer Andrew Lang Walter Leaf Ernest Myers

Homer's great epic poem.

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Reminiscences of Tolstoy

by Ilya Tolstoy George Calderon

Biography of Tolstoy by his son

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Cuentos

by Charles Perrault

Un gato que se las trae; Pulgarcito, un niño tan pequeño como valeroso; una Caperucita Roja que se deja engañar ingenuamente; la hermosa Cenicienta y sus envidiosas hermanastras... son los principales personajes cuyas aventuras y desventuras se narran en estos cuentos inmortales.

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La dama de las camelias

by Alejandro Dumas

Inspirándose en un personaje real, dibujó Alexandre Dumas (hijo) a «la dama de las camelias», una de las heroínas más seductoras de toda la literatura romántica, cuya «expresión virginal, incluso infantil» sobrenada en medio de su vida cortesana. El verdadero drama empieza cuando un respetable joven burgués se enamore de ella y ella decida aceptarlo.

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