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The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley 2
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The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley

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Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls asleep,...
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Richard II - William Shakespeare Richard II - William Shakespeare 2
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Richard II - William Shakespeare

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England’s...
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne 2
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne

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With an introduction by David Stuart Davies. Translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson. The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland on a journey which will lead them to...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce 2
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce’s Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work.
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence 2
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence

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Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. 
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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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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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Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe 2
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Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, has remained a beloved and influential work of literature for over three centuries. It has been printed in over 700 editions, adapted into plays, operas, cartoons, and video games, and has been praised by prominent...
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Complete Ghost Stories - Charles Dickens Complete Ghost Stories - Charles Dickens 2
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Complete Ghost Stories - Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens was a fan of supernatural stories during his lifetime, especially during Christmas time. He was open-minded and willing to put the existence of spirits to the test. His love for drama and the macabre made him an excellent writer of ghost stories, as seen in the twenty stories presented here, which include his famous A Christmas Carol.
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Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë 2
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Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë

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With a specially commissioned Introduction and Notes by Kathryn White, Assistant Curator / Librarian of the Brontë Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire.
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Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell 2
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Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. 
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Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 2
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Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Keele University. Illustrations by Marcus Stone. Considered by many to be Dickens’ finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book’s narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character.
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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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Kidnapped & Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped & Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson 2
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Kidnapped & Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped remains one of the most exciting stories ever written. Young David Balfour, orphaned then betrayed by his Uncle Ebenezer, his so-called guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‘tenant’ of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband.
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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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Little Men & Jos Boys - Louisa May Alcott Little Men & Jos Boys - Louisa May Alcott 2
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Little Men & Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott

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The two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo’s Boys, are worthy sequels to Little Women, one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, and its continuation, Good Wives.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell 2
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell

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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. With a Foreword by Tony Benn. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and...
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The Plays of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde The Plays of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde 2
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The Plays of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde

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With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere’s Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An...
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The Wings of the Dove - Henry james The Wings of the Dove - Henry james 2
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The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

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The Wings of the Dove is a tale of desire and possession, of love and death. It is in essence a simple story, but one that opens up the great subject of art: life itself. To tackle this, James moves between fairytale storylines and the startlingly modern techniques of his testing late style. An unspeakable subtext lies beneath the silence. 
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The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories - Rudyard Kipling The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories - Rudyard Kipling 2
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The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories - Rudyard Kipling

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With an Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master. The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster.
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The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton 2
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The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

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Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton’s greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the ‘eternal triangle’ of love.
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