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The Collected Works of Nathanael West
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With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.
The four novels gathered here constitute the complete longer works of one the most brilliant and original American writers. West’s vision of American modernity is terrifyingly comical and diagnoses the tawdriness and meretriciousness of...
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with The Merry Men & Other Stories - Robert Louis Stevenson
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York.
‘…man is not truly one, but truly two.’
In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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The Collected Stories of Khaterine Mansfield
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With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.
Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen’s College and returned permanently in 1908.
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Dracula - Bram Stoker
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Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University.
‘There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath;
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Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
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Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue...
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Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
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Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a ‘literary gentleman’.
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Ulysses - James Joyce
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes."
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery.
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The Professor - Charlotte Brontë
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The Professor is Charlotte Brontë’s first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth.
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Mathilda & Other Stories - Mary Shelley
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Mathilda is Mary Shelley's haunting story of an incestuous and fatal love. The narrative traces the teenaged Mathilda's reunion with her unnamed father, and the development of their obsessive bond that culminates in suicide. Shelley's own father, William Godwin, was so disturbed after reading the manuscript that he refused to return it to her and it...
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The Last Man - Mary Shelley
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London.
The Last Man is Mary Shelley’s apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation.
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Emma - Jane Austen
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ‘heroine whom no one but myself will much like’, but Emma is irresistible. ‘Handsome, clever, and rich’, Emma is also an ‘imaginist’, ‘on fire with speculation and foresight’. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks...
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Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature.
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The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume Two - E. F. Benson
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Contains: Mapp and Lucia; Lucia’s Progress; Trouble for Lucia.
These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye).
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Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
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With an Introduction by Petr Barta, University of Kent.
An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of ‘the great Father of Waters’.
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Night and Day & Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dorinda Guest, PhD, formerly of the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society, the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where the representatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way, for ‘…
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Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
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With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.
Moll Flanders is the main character of this novel, which tells the story of her tumultuous life, including her seduction at a young age, her involvement in criminal activities and prostitution, her conviction for theft, her transportation to Virginia, and her eventual...
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Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
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With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis
In this famous story of seduction, two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young married woman and a fifteen year old girl who has only just emerged from the convent.
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The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
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Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent.
The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday.
That very night, the stone is stolen.
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Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy
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With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs
Translated by Louise Maude
This powerful novel, Tolstoy’s third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts.
Here is Edward FitzGerald’s original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald’s distinctive version (1859), with its oriental imagery and sensual warmth, made an...
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