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The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens 2
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The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the...
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The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope 2
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The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope

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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College. Anthony Trollope's novel, is notable for its sharp social commentary and unwavering honesty, and it holds a special place in Trollope's literary career.
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The Essential Kafka - Franz Kafka
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The Essential Kafka - Franz Kafka

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Translated and with an Introduction by John R. Williams Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. 
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Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens 2
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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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Richard III - William Shakespeare Richard III - William Shakespeare 2
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Richard III - William Shakespeare

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David...
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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 2
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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

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Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent. Northanger Abbey is a novel written by Jane Austen that follows the story of a young girl named Catherine Morland. Catherine leaves her sheltered, rural home to venture into the sophisticated and bustling world of Bath in the late 1790s...
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Silas Marner - George Eliot Silas Marner - George Eliot 2
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Silas Marner - George Eliot

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Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. Although the shortest of George Eliot’s novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner – a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England – and how he is restored to life...
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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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The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
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The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.
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Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 2
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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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Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
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Shirley - Charlotte Brontë

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With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue. The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman’s role is and can be.
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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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To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
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To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions.
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The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence 2
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The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence

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In this novel, symptomatic of Lawrence's later work, Kate Leslie, an Irish widow visiting Mexico, finds herself equally repelled and fascinated by what she sees as the primitive cruelty of the country. As she becomes involved with Don Ramon and General Cipriano, her perceptions change...
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Almayer's Folly & The Rover - Joseph Conrad Almayer's Folly & The Rover - Joseph Conrad 2
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Almayer's Folly & The Rover - Joseph Conrad

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"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" From the rain forests of Almayer's Folly to the Mediterranean coast of The Rover, Conrad's first and final completed novels are played out against contrasting backgrounds.
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Mansfield Park - Jane Austen Mansfield Park - Jane Austen 2
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Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Mansfield Park, one of Jane Austen’s later novels, explores the consequences of adultery on the tranquil household of Mansfield Park...
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The Government Inspector and Other Works - Nikolai Gogol The Government Inspector and Other Works - Nikolai Gogol 2
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The Government Inspector and Other Works - Nikolai Gogol

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"I am who I am and that's who I am." Translated by Constance Garnett Notes and Introductions by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottawa Gogol’s works constitute one of Russian literature’s supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. 
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100 Selected Stories - O. Henry 100 Selected Stories - O. Henry 2
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100 Selected Stories - O. Henry

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex This selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.
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What Maisie Knew - Henry James What Maisie Knew - Henry James 2
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What Maisie Knew - Henry James

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With an Introduction by Pat Righelato, University of Reading Maisie Farange is the child of divorced parents who remarry and engage in adulterous affairs. Despite the sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupt adult world, this novel is one of Henry James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behavior of the characters on the seedy fringes of...
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Adam Bede - George Eliot Adam Bede - George Eliot 2
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Adam Bede - George Eliot

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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. ‘Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings…’
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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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Bleak House - Charles Dickens Bleak House - Charles Dickens 2
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Bleak House - Charles Dickens

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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is widely regarded as one of Charles Dickens' most remarkable achievements, establishing his reputation as both a serious and mature novelist and a brilliant comic writer. 
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