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Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web…

In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of…

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''You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug''s life, his ceremonies, and his acts''Often overshadowed by Kipling''s Kim…

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Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of the south-west of…

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What if you woke up tomorrow and everything had changed? Money is worthless. Your friends are gone. Armed robbers roam the…

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Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the…

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"He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had…

Kniha 9780192547071 Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen Set Jane Austen…

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The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political…

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Following a ferocious storm, Hannah and Becky find themselves lost in the dangerous Tasmanian bush. Recused and adopted by a…

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Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary…

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A compelling case for large-scale electoral reform.American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan…

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'Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest…

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Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, The Portrait of a Lady is both a dramatic Victorian…

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`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which…

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Based on Chaucer`s Knight`s Tale, the central themes of this humourous and moving play are the claims of love and…

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The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers…

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The Lifted Veil (1859) is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works.…

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One of Dickens's most haunting and bizarre novels, The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of `Little Nell' and her persecution…

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Charity Royall yearns to escape her dull existence in the New England backwater where she lives with her guardian. When her…

Love's Labour's Lost is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations,…

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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (commonly known as Fanny Hill), the most famous erotic novel in English, was denounced by its…

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'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - a man who knows speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his…

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In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description…

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A captivating hybrid of Gothic, oriental, and satiric fiction, Vathek documents the fall of Vathek, whose obsessive quest…

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Following his father`s death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he…

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My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest,…

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New edition. A major BBC dramatisation of Ford's tetralogy "Parade's End", adapted by Tom Stoppard and starring Benedict…

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The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars…

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This entirely new translation includes Petrarch`s short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent…

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''See!...The woods are alive! Already the Great Ones are there, and the dance will soon begin! The salve is here! Anoint…

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''in this life, even if you don''t ask for much you still end up with bugger all!'' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise…

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their…

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Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations is as fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when…

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Regarded by many as Woolf's greatest achievement, The Waves follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age. As…

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This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to…

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'he carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that he never did a single Injury to Man or Woman, by which…

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In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a…

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'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire' Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience…

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Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle…

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`I long to study the purely national, natural character of an Irishwoman` When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is…

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The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville`s translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid`s unique and…

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And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. The…

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'Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important.' Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of…

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During a long, hot summer, two children, Stephanie and Stephen, go missing while on a school trip to Lud''s Church, a deep…

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Horror Stories is no common schlock-fest. Darryl Jones has skilfully gathered the most beautifully written, unsettling…

The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included…