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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‘tenant’ of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband.
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Billy Bid & Other Stories - Herman Melville Billy Bid & Other Stories - Herman Melville 2
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Billy Bid & Other Stories - Herman Melville

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Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery...
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne 2
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne

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With an introduction by David Stuart Davies. Translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson. The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland on a journey which will lead them to...
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The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan 2
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The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, B.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the ruthless conspirators.
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The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton 2
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The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

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Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits – her clothes, her charities and her gambling. 
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A Room of One’s Own & The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own & The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf 2
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A Room of One’s Own & The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. A Room of One’s Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society.
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Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare 2
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Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, B.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with The Merry Men & Other Stories - Robert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with The Merry Men & Other Stories - Robert Louis Stevenson 2
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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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Dracula - Bram Stoker Dracula - Bram Stoker 2
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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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Mathilda & Other Stories - Mary Shelley Mathilda & Other Stories - Mary Shelley 2
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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 The Last Man - Mary Shelley 2
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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 Emma - Jane Austen 2
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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 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 2
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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 The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume Two - E. F. Benson 2
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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 Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain 2
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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 Night and Day & Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf 2
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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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Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos 2
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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 The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins 2
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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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Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov 2
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Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov

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With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University. Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader’s imagination.
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The Collected Short Stories of Saki - Hector Hugh Munro The Collected Short Stories of Saki - Hector Hugh Munro 2
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The Collected Short Stories of Saki - Hector Hugh Munro

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Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried.
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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 2
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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury. Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the “roaring twenties”, and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’.
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Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk & The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk & The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad 2
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Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk & The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad

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"There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate...or thus disdained by destiny or by the sea." Edited and with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea.
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Lady Susan & Other Works - Jane Austen Lady Susan & Other Works - Jane Austen 2
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Lady Susan & Other Works - Jane Austen

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With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together some of Jane Austen’s earliest works of fiction, as well as novels that she left unfinished at the time of her death in 1817.
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