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Literature & Classics
Literature & Classics
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| SOLOMON NORTHUP Book Number: 76208 |
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With an Introduction by Colin Harrison, Lecturer in American Literature at Liverpool John Moores University. 'I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was h...
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New THE SEA WOLF |
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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 ...
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| D. H. LAWRENCE Book Number: 45823 |
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These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in the latter half of the 1920s, coinciding with the composition of Lawr...
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| Mark Twain Book Number: 68847 |
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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'. Part mem...
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| ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Book Number: 76215 |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limi...
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New LITTLE DORRIT |
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A classic Dickensian tale of imprisonment, both literal and symbolic, the working title for the novel was Nobody's Fault. Draws intimately on the author's own personal experiences of the dreadful M...
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| KATE CHOPIN Book Number: 76217 |
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This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Fo...
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| FRANZ KAFKA Book Number: 73737 |
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Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from...
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| HENRY DAVID THOREAU Book Number: 78846 |
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No 19th century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature of much of what we call 'progress', the proper symbiotic relations...
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| FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Book Number: 30614 |
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Old Fyodor Karamazov, the embodiment of bestial sensuality, has four sons: Dimitry, Ivan, Aloysha and the bastard Smerdyakov. The father is a depraved buffoon and Dimitry's rival for the local sir...
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| LEO TOLSTOY Book Number: 45824 |
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Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, ...
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| JANE AUSTEN Book Number: 23765 |
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'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and ...
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'Middlemarch' is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unre...
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| CONAN DOYLE Book Number: 25387 |
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'Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories'. It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beg...
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| HERMAN MELVILLE Book Number: 30591 |
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Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, For...
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| JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Book Number: 30615 |
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Based on the fable of the man who traded his world for superhuman powers and knowledge, Faust became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. It is a compelling dramatic poem that charts the li...
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| D H LAWRENCE Book Number: 10769 |
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Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctione...
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| WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Book Number: 23833 |
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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challe...
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New SHIRLEY |
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This work is set among the cloth mills of the author's native Yorkshire. It portrays the drama of the latter part of the Napoleonic Wars when labour-saving machinery was smashed by desperate, unemp...
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| JOSEPH ROTH Book Number: 80911 |
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Translated into English by Richard Panchyk for the first time, this 1928 novel was discovered among Joseph Roth's papers decades after his death. Alexander Perlefter is a well-to-do Austrian Jewis...
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| MACHADO DE ASSIS Book Number: 80949 |
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Brazil's finest novelist completed 'The Wager' in the very last year of his life. The tale of a retired diplomat who becomes obsessed with a young widow, it is a story of broken dreams, love and o...
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| H. G. WELLS Book Number: 80529 |
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These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited ...
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| J. M. SYNGE Book Number: 57494 |
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The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play 'The Playboy of the Western World' and, indeed, this was neither the first nor the last time th...
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| GUY DE MAUPASSANT Book Number: 76214 |
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Une Vie (1883) and Bel-Ami (1885) seem almost diametrically opposed in tone and temper. The 'Life' of the first is poignantly restricted within a woman's lot, while Bel-Ami is robustly masculine. J...
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| HAROLD BELL WRIGHT Book Number: 76216 |
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Few works of American fiction have proved as enduringly popular as Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills. Wright's novel, first published in 1907, was an instant best seller; by 1918 the b...
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New SILAS MARNER |
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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 t...
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New HARD TIMES |
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Unusually for Dickens, 'Hard Times' is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted env...
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New WAVES |
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"I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot", Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in...
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New FORSYTE SAGA |
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When the Forsyte Saga was shown on TV in 1967 it was hugely successful. Comprising The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, is here produced by Wordsworth for the first time in a single volume...
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New THE ODYSSEY |
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Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. Odysseus's quick-witted heroi...
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