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Persuasion - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen 2
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Persuasion - Jane Austen

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Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex. What does persuasion mean – a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen’s quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of...
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Selected Short Stories & The Rover - Joseph Conrad Selected Short Stories & The Rover - Joseph Conrad 2
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Selected Short Stories & The Rover - Joseph Conrad

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Chosen and Introduced by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury and Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer,...
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Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare 2
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Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Variously melancholy, lyrical, joyous and farcical, Twelfth Night has long been a popular comedy with Shakespearian audiences. The main plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love.
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Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
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Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes – grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of...
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The Best Short Stories - Rudyard Kipling The Best Short Stories - Rudyard Kipling 2
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The Best Short Stories - Rudyard Kipling

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling’s early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and...
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Ulysses - James Joyce Ulysses - James Joyce 2
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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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About Love and Other Stories - Anton Chekov About Love and Other Stories - Anton Chekov 2
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About Love and Other Stories - Anton Chekov

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About Love is the third and final short story in what is sometimes referred to as "The Little Trilogy" which includes The Man in a Case, and Gooseberries. They share the theme of missed opportunity. "I kept trying to understand why she had met him first and not me, and why such a terrible mistake in our lives need have happened."
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Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers - Henry James Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers - Henry James 2
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Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers - Henry James

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is perhaps Henry James's most famous work, a timeless ghost story that takes place in a country estate. It is a haunting tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre, leaving readers on the edge of their seats.
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The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith 2
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The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith

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With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. 
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Nostromo - Joseph Conrad Nostromo - Joseph Conrad 2
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Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

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Introduction and Notes by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana.
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The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James 2
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The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading. Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life.
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Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell 2
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Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. 
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Washington Square - Henry James Washington Square - Henry James 2
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Washington Square - Henry James

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Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele. Washington Square marks the culmination of James’s apprentice period as a novelist. 
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The Winter’s Tale - William Shakespeare The Winter’s Tale - William Shakespeare 2
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The Winter’s Tale - William Shakespeare

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations...
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Pride and Prejudice - Jan Austen
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Pride and Prejudice - Jan Austen

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Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813.
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The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot 2
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The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

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Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This novel, based on George Eliot’s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.
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Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy 2
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Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy

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With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Michael Irwin, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kent, Canterbury. The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a ‘sensation novel’ in the mode of Wilkie Collins. 
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The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence 2
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The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence

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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence’s frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century.
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The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 2
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The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

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With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. 
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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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The Plays of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde The Plays of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde 2
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The Plays of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde

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With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere’s Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An...
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Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf 2
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Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

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With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf’s singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.
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