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was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear. Il a été construit sur une pointe conique de basalte, et a été entouré par quatre vallées profondes, un de chaque côté, une autre en face, et la quatrième à l'arrière. At the base of the citadel, crowding against one another, a group of houses stood within the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. À la base de la citadelle

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1^^* J^^ ^A^iu^iXStr tc|U - THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT IN LITERATURE THE SYMBOLIST MOYEMENT IN LITERATURE I BY ARTHUR SYMONS LONDON ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE 1908 isf CO. Ltd. First Edition, 1899 Second Edition, Revised, 1908 Printed by BAILAHXINE, Hanson &• Co. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh TO W. May I dedicate to B. YEATS you this book on the Symbolist move- metit in literature, both as an expression of a deep personal

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Modern French Series,' the Delegates of the Clarendon Press determined, some time since, to issue a 'Higher Series' of French works intended for Upper Forms of Public Schools and for University and Private Students, and have entrusted me with the task of selecting and editing the various volumes that will be issued in due course. The titles of the works selected will at once make it clear that this series is a new departure, and that an attempt is made to provide annotated editions of books which have

Quartet (1915) Raja Rao: Kanthapura (1938) Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan (1956) R. K. Narayan: The Guide (1958) Attia Hosain: Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) Anita Desai: Games at Twilight (1978) Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India (1988) Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine (1989) Salman Rushdie: East, West (1994) Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy (1994) Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance (1996) Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (1997) Michael Ondaatje: Anil’s Ghost (2000) vii 3 11 27 47 59 75 87 99 111 129

Crime and Punishment A NOVEL IN SIX PARTS WITH EPILOGUE BY Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated and Annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Translation copyright © 1992 ISBN: 0679405577 Foreword “I want to do an unprecedented and eccentric thing, to write thirty printed sheets [480 printed pages] within the space of four months, forming two separate novels, of which I will write one in the morning and the other in the evening, and to finish them by a fixed deadline. Do you

A History of French Literature From Chanson de geste to Cinema DAVID COWARD HH A History of French Literature For Olive A History of French Literature From Chanson de geste to Cinema DAVID COWARD © 2002, 2004 by David Coward 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of David Coward to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright