All students of philosophy will relate to the concepts of selfhood, nature, karma and liberation. Here are views and answers to...

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The myths and legends of the Norsemen have entertained both old and young alike for hundreds of years.
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The British may not have invented the holiday as such, but they were largely responsible for the way many other nations spend...

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The elderly husband of Hester Prynne returns unexpectedly to their New England village to find his wife nursing an illegitimate...

At eighteen, the handsome Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, which prompts an admirer, Lord Henry Wotton, to declare that life...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson appear in a second series of twelve intriguing cases. They include The Adventure of Silver Blaze,...

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Professor Otto Lidenbrock's great adventure begins by chance when a scrap of paper drops out of an ancient book he has just...

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The French Riviera of the mid-1920s is the new playground for rich Americans, among them elegant heiress Nicole Warren and her...

Silas Marner (1861) is Eliot's classic tale of an outsider. A weaver who comes to live and work alone in the Midlands village of...

The Dashwood sisters - 19-year-old Elinor and Marianne, aged 17 - are left poor and homeless by their father's death. Although...

'It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the...

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"I am half agony, half hope."
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Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is...

The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, purple-dyed river...

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Edith Wharton's novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. Mattie Silver, a young and guileless girl, is...

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".. losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse."
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