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Mathilda & Other Stories - Mary Shelley Mathilda & Other Stories - Mary Shelley 2
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Mathilda & Other Stories - Mary Shelley

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Mathilda is Mary Shelley's haunting story of an incestuous and fatal love. The narrative traces the teenaged Mathilda's reunion with her unnamed father, and the development of their obsessive bond that culminates in suicide. Shelley's own father, William Godwin, was so disturbed after reading the manuscript that he refused to return it to her and it...
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The Last Man - Mary Shelley The Last Man - Mary Shelley 2
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The Last Man - Mary Shelley

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London. The Last Man is Mary Shelley’s apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation.
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Emma - Jane Austen Emma - Jane Austen 2
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Emma - Jane Austen

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ‘heroine whom no one but myself will much like’, but Emma is irresistible. ‘Handsome, clever, and rich’, Emma is also an ‘imaginist’, ‘on fire with speculation and foresight’. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks...
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Hamlet - William Shakespeare Hamlet - William Shakespeare 2
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Hamlet - William Shakespeare

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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature.
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The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume Two - E. F. Benson The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume Two - E. F. Benson 2
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The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume Two - E. F. Benson

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Contains: Mapp and Lucia; Lucia’s Progress; Trouble for Lucia. These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). 
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Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain 2
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Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain

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With an Introduction by Petr Barta, University of Kent. An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of ‘the great Father of Waters’. 
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Night and Day & Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf Night and Day & Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf 2
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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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Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe 2
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Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

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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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The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky 2
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The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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"Beauty will save the world" Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland.
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Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos 2
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Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

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With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis In this famous story of seduction, two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young married woman and a fifteen year old girl who has only just emerged from the convent. 
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The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins 2
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The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

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Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent. The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen.
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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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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 2
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts. Here is Edward FitzGerald’s original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald’s distinctive version (1859), with its oriental imagery and sensual warmth, made an...
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Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov 2
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Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov

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With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University. Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader’s imagination.
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Dracula - Bram Stoker Dracula - Bram Stoker 2
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Dracula - Bram Stoker

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Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. ‘There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; 
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Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë 2
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Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

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Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father.
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Pride and Prejudice - Jan Austen
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Pride and Prejudice - Jan Austen

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Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813.
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The Collected Short Stories of Saki - Hector Hugh Munro The Collected Short Stories of Saki - Hector Hugh Munro 2
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The Collected Short Stories of Saki - Hector Hugh Munro

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Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried.
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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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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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 Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 2
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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury. Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the “roaring twenties”, and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’.
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Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk & The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk & The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad 2
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Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk & The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad

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"There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate...or thus disdained by destiny or by the sea." Edited and with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea.
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Lady Susan & Other Works - Jane Austen Lady Susan & Other Works - Jane Austen 2
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Lady Susan & Other Works - Jane Austen

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With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together some of Jane Austen’s earliest works of fiction, as well as novels that she left unfinished at the time of her death in 1817.
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