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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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A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy 2
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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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The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 2
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The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life.
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The Coral Island - R.M. Ballantyne The Coral Island - R.M. Ballantyne 2
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The Coral Island - R.M. Ballantyne

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The story opens with the shipwreck on a Pacific Island of the young friends Ralph Rover and Jack Martin and Peterkin Gray. Despite the pleasurable presence of delicious breadfruit, coconuts, and succulent oysters, the intrepid trio are not alone and they soon witness a battle between rival bands of cannibals led by 'Bloody Bill'...
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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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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling 2
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling

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The fourth adventure in the spellbinding Harry Potter saga – the series that changed the world of books forever The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter – but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition.
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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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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling 2
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

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The sixth adventure in the spellbinding Harry Potter saga – the series that changed the world of books forever When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why.
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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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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling 2
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling

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The boy wizard Harry Potter has been casting a spell over young readers and their families ever since 1997. Now the first book in this unmissable series celebrates 25 years in print! The paperback edition of the tale that introduced us to Harry, Ron and Hermione has been updated and dressed in silver to mark the occasion. It's time to take the magical...
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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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