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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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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart..."
Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of...
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The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper
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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper s Leather-Stocking novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slaying young frontiersman) and the Mohican chief, Chingachgook...
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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 Oscar Wilde
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Wilde’s works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse.
He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince.
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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
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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 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
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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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The House of the Dead & The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Dostoevsky’s fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out.
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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
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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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The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts...
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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 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
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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
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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
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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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The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.
‘ … once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.’.
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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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The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys.
‘My name is Sherlock Holmes. it is my business to know what other people don’t know’.
’The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant detective the readers of The Strand Magazine.
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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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