The Voyage Out

Virginia Woolf

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• In The Voyage Out , one of Woolf's wittiest, socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship, and is launched... Lees meer

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe, Thomas Keymer

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• This new edition of Defoe's masterpiece includes a lively introduction by Tom Keymer, full notes and useful appendices, including a chronology of the ... Lees meer

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David Constantine

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• Drawing on his own unhappy experiences, Goethe's account of Werther's passionate love for Lotte, who is promised to another, is one of the first great... Lees meer

Phineas Finn

Anthony Trollope

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• The second novel in Trollope's Palliser series, Phineas Finn 's engaging plot embraces matters as diverse as reform, the position of women, the Irish ... Lees meer

Selected Letters

Cicero, P G Walsh

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• Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome and witnessed first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacemen... Lees meer

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot, K M Newton

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• 'she felt herself standing at the game of life with many eyes upon her, daring everything to win much' Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when sh... Lees meer

A Mad World, My Masters/Michaelmas Term/A Trick to Catch the Old One/No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's

Thomas Middleton

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• Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciti... Lees meer

Much ADO about Nothing

William Shakespeare

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• Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically succe... Lees meer

Catiline's Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories

Sallust, William W Batstone

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• Sallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and political de... Lees meer

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

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• This edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introductio... Lees meer

So You Think You Know Jane Austen?

John Sutherland, Deirdre Le Faye

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• How well do you really know your favorite author? In this new book, ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre L... Lees meer

Richard II

William Shakespeare

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• Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by ... Lees meer

La Bête Humaine

Émile Zola, Roger Pearson

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• La Bête humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of ... Lees meer

The Iliad

Homer

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• Much more than a series of battle scenes, the Iliad is a work of extraordinary pathos and profundity that concerns itself with issues as fundamental a... Lees meer

The Dhammapada

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• The Dhammapada , the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world's great religious lite... Lees meer

He Knew He Was Right

Anthony Trollope

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• Widely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels, He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast agains... Lees meer

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius, P G Walsh

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• Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Got... Lees meer

Four Comedies

Plautus

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• Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's the Miser are two subsequent classi... Lees meer

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

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• The Age of Innocence , Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant ana... Lees meer

La Dame Aux Camélias

Alexandre Dumas, David Coward

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• One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love ... Lees meer

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Thomas Hardy

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• Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blu... Lees meer

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Orwell

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• "Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather... Lees meer

Myths from Mesopotamia

Dalley

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• The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally wri... Lees meer

The Crimes of Love

Marquis de Sade, David Coward

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• Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel... Lees meer