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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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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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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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Villette - Charlotte Brontë
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Villette - Charlotte Brontë

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Brontë’s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.
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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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The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg 2
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The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg

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With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre and hideous crimes. 
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The Cossacks & Other Early Stories - Leo Tolstoy The Cossacks & Other Early Stories - Leo Tolstoy 2
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The Cossacks & Other Early Stories - Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the greatest novels ever written, did not emerge from a vacuum. They were preceded by at least twenty prose works of different kinds, some of them masterpieces in their own right. 
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Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare 2
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Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails.
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The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford 2
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The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

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With an Introduction and Notes by Sara Haslam, Department of English, The Open University. The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. 
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The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy 2
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The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

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With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy’s Wessex, the ‘partly real, partly dream country’ he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced...
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The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad 2
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The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad

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With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. ‘Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town…a cruel devourer of the world’s light. 
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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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Finnegans Wake - James Joyce Finnegans Wake - James Joyce 2
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Finnegans Wake - James Joyce

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With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Len Platt, Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London. Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family – their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. 
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Lady Audleys Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audleys Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon 2
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Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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With an Introduction and Notes by Esther Saxey. The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon’s classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder.
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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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Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol 2
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Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol

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With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up ‘dead souls’. 
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Heart of Darkness & Other Stories - Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness & Other Stories - Joseph Conrad 2
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Heart of Darkness & Other Stories - Joseph Conrad

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Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad’s shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. 
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Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare 2
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Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex In the hope of saving her brother’s life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become?
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A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy 2
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A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy’s novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic.
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Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 2
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Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

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Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. ‘Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security’. Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen that explores the themes of respectability, manners, and societal expectations. The story follows the two...
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The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories - Rudyard Kipling The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories - Rudyard Kipling 2
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The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories - Rudyard Kipling

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With an Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master. The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster.
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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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The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain 2
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The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain

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With an Introduction by Stuart Hutchinson, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. ‘Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?’ So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. 
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