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64) South Sea tales
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English
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The literary world was shocked when in 1890, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently in Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In stories such as 'The Beach of Falesa', 'The...
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English
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A young Irishman just elected to Parliament longs for Lady Laura, who has sacrificed her fortune to save her brother. However, Phineas decides maybe he should marry the Lady's best friend, the heiress Violet Effingham-or, possibly he should return to the love of Mary Jones, his childhood sweetheart. This 1867-68 serial is the second novel of "The Pallisers."
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World's classics volume 7
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1937]
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English
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World's classics volume 585
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1962
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English
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World's classics volume 187
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c1975
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English
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World's classics volume 516
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1960
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English