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The
Canterbury Tales
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The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and
Tale
The
Wife of Bath gives a lengthy account of her feelings about marriage. Quoting
from the Bible, the Wife argues against those who believe it is wrong to marry
more than once, and she explains how she dominated and controlled each of her
five husbands. She married...
Friday, 12 April 2019
The Canterbury Tales
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Canterbury Tales
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The Canterbury Tales
is at once one of the most famous and most frustrating works of literature ever
written. Since its composition in late 1300s, critics have continued to mine
new riches from its complex ground, and started new arguments about the text
and its interpretation. Chaucer’s richly detailed text, so Dryden...
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Tess of the De Urbervilles
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Tess
is a (totally and completely doomed) country girl living in the late 19th
Century in an English village that seems secluded, even though it's only a
four-hour journey from London. Her father learns in the first chapter that he
is the last lineal descendant of the D'Urbervilles—one of the oldest, most
aristocratic,...
Sir Roger de Coverley
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Coverley Papers
Characters
Sir Roger de Coverley
Sir
Roger de Coverley, a fifty-six-year-old bachelor, the benevolent autocrat of a
large Worcestershire estate. The knight’s humaneness, according to his own
opinion, is the result of his love for a beautiful widow whom he has wooed for
thirty years. His kindness is equaled by his...
The Way of the World
Test 2
Plot
Overview
The
news that a wealthy young gentleman named Charles Bingley has rented the manor
of Netherfield Park causes a great stir in the nearby village of Longbourn,
especially in the Bennet household. The Bennets have five unmarried
daughters—from oldest to youngest, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia—and
Mrs. Bennet is...