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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell 2
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell

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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. With a Foreword by Tony Benn. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and...
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The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare 2
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The Taming of the Shrew - 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 Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare’s comedies. 
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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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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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The Collected Stories of Khaterine Mansfield The Collected Stories of Khaterine Mansfield 2
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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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Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy 2
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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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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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As You Like It - William Shakespeare As You Like It - William Shakespeare 2
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As You Like It - William Shakespeare

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. 
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The Tempest - William Shakespeare The Tempest - William Shakespeare 2
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The Tempest - 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 Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare’s late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies.
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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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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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The Waves - Virginia Woolf The Waves - Virginia Woolf 2
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The Waves - Virginia Woolf

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Introduction and Notes by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham. ‘I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot’, Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time.
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories - Stephen Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories - Stephen Crane 2
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories - Stephen Crane

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. His stories of evolving American society are unflinchingly realistic and shrewdly ironic.
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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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Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë 2
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Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

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Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father.
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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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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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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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The Sea-Wolf - Jack London The Sea-Wolf - Jack London 2
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The Sea-Wolf - Jack London

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With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life, as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840), Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), and Herman Melville's Moby...
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey 2
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey

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With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction.
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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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North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell 2
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North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull. Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author’s first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine’s movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. 
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