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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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The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens 2
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The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

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With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury*. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz.) The Pickwick Papers is Dickens’ first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English.
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The Lingard Trilogy - Joseph Conrad The Lingard Trilogy - Joseph Conrad 2
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The Lingard Trilogy - Joseph Conrad

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Contains the novels: Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands and The Rescue With an Introduction by Andrew Purssell, Notes and Glossary by Robert Hampson, FEA, FRSA. Almayer’s Folly was Conrad’s outstanding debut novel: as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction, it showed immense sophistication in its...
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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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Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 - William Shakespeare Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 - William Shakespeare 2
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Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 - William Shakespeare

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Henry IV, Part 1, portrays a doubly ironic situation where the successful rebellion of the King against Richard II is now being challenged by rebels led by the charismatic Harry Hotspur...
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David Copperfield - Charles Dickens David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 2
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David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: ‘Of all my books I like this the best’. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author’s own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic,...
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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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Orlando - Virginia Woolf Orlando - Virginia Woolf 2
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Orlando - 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 Orlando ‘The longest and most charming love letter in literature’, playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf’s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West.
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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 Mystery of Edwin Drood & Other Stories - Charles Dickens The Mystery of Edwin Drood & Other Stories - Charles Dickens 2
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood & Other Stories - Charles Dickens

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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens’s final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London.
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Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens 2
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Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens

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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens’ working title for the novel, Nobody’s Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life.
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The Aeneid - Virgil The Aeneid - Virgil 2
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The Aeneid - Virgil

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With an Introduction, Notes and Glossary by Mandy Green, University of Durham. Translated by Michael J. Oakley. The Aeneid is Virgil’s Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome’s legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion.
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Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky 2
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Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated.
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Call of the Wild & White Fang - Jack London Call of the Wild & White Fang - Jack London 2
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Call of the Wild & White Fang - Jack London

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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie
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Tom Jones - Henry Fielding Tom Jones - Henry Fielding 2
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Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

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Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Considered one of the earliest and most influential novels in English literature, Tom Jones is also recognized for its humor. The protagonist, Tom Jones, is a generous yet impulsive country boy with a weakness for young women, who is under the care of a liberal...
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Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott 2
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Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

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Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents – sieges, ambushes and combats – and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; ...
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The Years & Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf The Years & Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf 2
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The Years & Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf

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Edited and introduced by Linden Peach, Professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of Wales, Cardiff. This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer...
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Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon - F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon - F. Scott Fitzgerald 2
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Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver – her psychiatrist. 
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The Collected Works of Nathanael West The Collected Works of Nathanael West 2
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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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