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Hard Times

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The 'terrible mistake' was the contemporary utilitarian philosophy, expounded in Hard Times (1854) as the Philosophy of Fact by the hard-headed disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind. But the novel, Dickens's shortest, is more than a ...

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The Color Purple

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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWinner of the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the National Book Award   Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker ...

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Orientalism

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Orientalism is a book published in 1978 by Edward Said that has been highly influential and controversial in postcolonial studies and other fields. In the book, Said effectively redefined the term "Orientalism" to ...

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The Ghost Road

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 The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize   The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World ...

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