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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

045400
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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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Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott 2
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Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott

045530
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With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott’s finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. 
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Persuasion - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen 2
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Persuasion - Jane Austen

060068
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Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex. What does persuasion mean – a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen’s quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of...
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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

045594
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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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The Best Short Stories - Rudyard Kipling The Best Short Stories - Rudyard Kipling 2
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The Best Short Stories - Rudyard Kipling

045372
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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling’s early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and...
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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

045361
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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

045483
Wordsworth Editions
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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Dubliners - James Joyce Dubliners - James Joyce 2
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Dubliners - James Joyce

045423
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Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable...
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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

045437
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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

045349
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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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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

045404
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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 Sea-Wolf - Jack London The Sea-Wolf - Jack London 2
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The Sea-Wolf - Jack London

045535
Wordsworth Editions
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 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

045595
Wordsworth Editions
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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The Collected Stories of Khaterine Mansfield The Collected Stories of Khaterine Mansfield 2
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The Collected Stories of Khaterine Mansfield

045385
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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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What Maisie Knew - Henry James What Maisie Knew - Henry James 2
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What Maisie Knew - Henry James

045634
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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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David Copperfield - Charles Dickens David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 2
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David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

045408
Wordsworth Editions
Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: ‘Of all my books I like this the best’. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author’s own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic,...
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Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe 2
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Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

045491
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With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. Moll Flanders is the main character of this novel, which tells the story of her tumultuous life, including her seduction at a young age, her involvement in criminal activities and prostitution, her conviction for theft, her transportation to Virginia, and her eventual...
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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 2
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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

045500
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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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Adam Bede - George Eliot Adam Bede - George Eliot 2
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Adam Bede - George Eliot

045355
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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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Tom Jones - Henry Fielding Tom Jones - Henry Fielding 2
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Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

045611
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Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Considered one of the earliest and most influential novels in English literature, Tom Jones is also recognized for its humor. The protagonist, Tom Jones, is a generous yet impulsive country boy with a weakness for young women, who is under the care of a liberal...
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Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy 2
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Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy

045524
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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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