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An elevated, gifty anthology of love letters from history’s most passionate romantics. This beautiful volume features love letters from a variety of people throughout history, including Heloise and Abelard, Henry VIII, Margaret of Valois, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Robert Browning, and Mary, Queen of Scots. Contents are organized thematically in chapters such as Mad Love, Bad Love, and The World’s Greatest Lover (John Keats, of course).

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Celebrate Irish culture with this literary collection, which includes traditional ballads; poems by Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, William Allingham, William Butler Yeats, and others; short stories by Wilde, Le Fanu, and Carleton; the novels Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce; and Synge's drama The Playboy of the Western World.

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Elegantly designed, The Constitution of the United States of America with the Declaration of Independence puts indispensible documents of Americas heritage in the palm of your hand. This portable, pocket-sized volume includes the full text of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, and the twenty-seven amendments to the Constitution. It also contains the Articles of Confederation, a chronology of the adoption and ratification of all of these documents, an index to the Constitution and the amendments, and an introduction by Professor R. R. Bernstein. The Constitution of the United States of America with the Declaration of Independence is one of Barnes & Nobles Leatherbound Classic Editions. It features a durable bonded-leather binding and distinctive gilt edging.

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First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students.Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece ‘Green Tobacco’ by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of ‘The Ants’ by the post-war king of café society, Boris Vian, and a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues.

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