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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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Henry V - William Shakespeare Henry V - William Shakespeare 2
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Henry V - 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 V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare’s history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier’s renowned film.
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Middlemarch - George Eliot
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Middlemarch - George Eliot

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Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who...
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This Side of Paradise & The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise & The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald 2
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This Side of Paradise & The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his academic failure.
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Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy 2
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Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy

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Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy’s short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers.
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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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Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 2
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Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

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With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. In Thackeray's , the upper-class Regency society is a bustling and raucous commercial fairground dominated by unbridled greed and materialism. The narrator, who serves as a serio-comic observer, plays a brilliantly versatile role in bringing this world to life.
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A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 2
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A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Principal Lecturer in English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens’ greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. 
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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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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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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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