Generally: cabbages
An exploration of the important role played by the Brassicaceae in world literature.
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By way of explanation.
Crambe repetita (1)
Hipponax, fr. 104.
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Ananias, fr. 4.
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Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.ii.1.
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Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit.
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Henry James, Madame de Mauves.
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Collins, The Woman in White.
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Alexander Pope, Martinus Scriblerus.
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Joyce, Dubliners.
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Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband.
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‘Olive Pratt Rayner’, The Type-Writer Girl.
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Thomas Carlyle, Two Notebooks.
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Samuel Butler, Notebooks.
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John Bedford, Old Worcester China.
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Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus.
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A visual interlude.
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Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia.
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Marcel Proust, The Captive.
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Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing.
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William Hazlitt, ‘On the Pleasure of Painting’.
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Boswell, Life of Johnson.
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Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, ‘Democritus to the Reader’.
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Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine.
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Hope Mirrlees, The Counterplot
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Agnes Jekyll, Kitchen Essays.
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Margaret Cavendish, Sociable Letters.
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Olivia Manning, The Balkan Trilogy.
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Fanny Burney, Journals and Letters.
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Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary.
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Roberto Bolaño, 2666.
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Gyula Krúdy, The Adventures of Sindbad.
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Irmgard Keun, After Midnight.
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Monica Dickens, Mariana.
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Mollie Panter-Downs, One Fine Day.
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Virginia Woolf, ‘Four Figures: Beau Brummell’ from The Second Common Reader.
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Teffi, ‘One Day in the Future’ from Subtly Worded.
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Allen Lane, quoted in Penguin Portrait.
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M.V. Hughes, A London Home in the 1890s.
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Montaigne, Essays.
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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History.
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Machi Tawara, Salad Anniversary.
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Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues.
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Danielle Dutton, Margaret the First.
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Poe, ‘The Philosophy of Furniture’.
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Gert Jonke, The System of Vienna.
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Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre.
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Vasily Grossman, Forever Flowing.
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Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life.
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René Daumal, ‘Treatise on Patagrams’.
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Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford, Business as Usual.
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Al-Nuwayri, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition.
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Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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Aristotle, Historia Animalium.