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A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.

Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833

A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christi...

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Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennes...

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Contrasted Songs

Longfellow, Marian, 1849-1924

Contrasted Songs — English source edition. Subject: Poetry.

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The Contrast

Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826; McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899 [Author of introduction, etc.]

The Contrast — English source edition. Subject: Comedy plays.

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The laws of contrast of colour

Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889; Spanton, John [Translator]

The laws of contrast of colour — English source edition. Subject: Color.

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A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman

Short lyric poems bring landscapes and memories into contact with limits on youth and opportunity. Listen to the apparent ease of the rhythm, then compare...

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Read the opening of Chapter 5, ending when Victor first leaves the room. Follow the movement from anticipated achievement to disgust. Compare the features...

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Secondary / sixth form

Henry IV Part 2

William Shakespeare

Illness, rumour and the approach of succession give familiar relationships a new urgency. Follow the contrast between ageing companions and the demands of...

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Henry V

William Shakespeare

A king’s campaign in France is shaped through speeches, disputed claims and encounters with ordinary soldiers. Attend to the Chorus as well as the action,...

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King Lear

William Shakespeare

An ageing king divides his kingdom after a public test of love. Follow the distance between flattering speech and dependable care, then consider how exposu...

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Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Interwoven lives test the relationship between law, care and the possibility of change. Read selected sections with attention to narrative digressions and...

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Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

George and Lennie hope for a life that offers security and companionship. Steinbeck places that hope within a world where work, money and social exclusion...

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Richard II

William Shakespeare

A struggle over royal authority becomes a study of the stories that sustain power. Richard’s elaborate language contrasts with Bolingbroke’s practical move...

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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

A private relationship develops inside a city divided by family hostility. Shakespeare places quick decisions, public violence and failed communication alo...

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