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The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy 2
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The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

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With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field.
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The Karamazov Brothers - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Karamazov Brothers - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity.
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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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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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Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence 2
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Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. This novel is Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers.
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The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare 2
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The Taming of the Shrew - 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 Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare’s comedies. 
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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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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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Kim - Rudyard Kipling Kim - Rudyard Kipling 2
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Kim - Rudyard Kipling

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century.
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Shadows of Sherlock Holmes - David Stuart Davies Shadows of Sherlock Holmes - David Stuart Davies 2
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Shadows of Sherlock Holmes - David Stuart Davies

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Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. 
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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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Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott 2
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Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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