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One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the story of a beautiful woman whose passionate love for a…

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This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of…

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An anthology of Italian tales covering the period roughly from 1370 to 1630, during which the novella was the dominant form…

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''The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...''The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel…

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The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in…

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Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s…

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A highly stimulating Very Short Introduction to the history of Ancient Greek civilization, from the first documented use of…

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An ambitious and unscrupulous priest arrives in the provincial town of Plassans, intent on conquering its political and…

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Daniel Deronda, George Eliot's last great novel, charts the intertwined lives of spirited Gwendolen Harleth and the…

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In Gulliver's Travels Gulliver sets out on a sea voyage hungry for adventure. He is shipwrecked on an island inhabited by…

David Copperfield tells of the life of the unlucky David Copperfield. David is sent away to boarding school. As he grows up,…

In The Canterville Ghost, an American family move to an old house in England. The resident ghost, Sir Simon de Canterville,…

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Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized…

Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots,…

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''And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can''t attend to the sermon; and, more…

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Leroux's classic Gothic melodrama, here freshly presented in a vivid new translation, with informative introduction and…

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Frederick Ahl`s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of Virgil`s epic poem in a…

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Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback…

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Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly…

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''I cannot be killed indoors,'' he said, ''nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.'' ''Well,'' she…

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In A Hero of Our Time, the first great Russian novel, a young officer, passionate and world-weary, is posted to the Caucasus…

Wuthering Heights tells the story of Catherine and Heathcliff. As children they are inseparable and grow up running wild on…

Silas Marner tells the story of Silas, wrongly accused of theft he leaves his home town to start a new life. He lives a…

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Shows there was more to Conan Doyle than Moriarty, Dr Watson and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Keith Richmond, ASLEF Journal…

It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the…

In Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Mr Utterson is concerned when he is sent a will from Dr Jekyll asking for all his possessions to…

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''The face was quite unfamiliar to her, and yet not strange. She had not known till this moment what face to expect''.A…

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The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and…

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\nIn this insightful memoir Lennie Goodings takes the reader behind the scenes at Virago, the feminist press that she has…

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Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama…

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''I liv''d indeed like a Queen; or if you will have me confess, that my Condition had still the Reproach of a Whore, I may…

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The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class…

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The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the…

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This is the fourth volume of Euripides plays in new translation. The four plays it contains, Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician…

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Scenes of Clerical Life consists of three short novellas in which the lives of ordinary men and women in a provincial…

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When his mum and sister are caught in a bomb attack in a Damascus shopping mall, 13-year-old Sami and his family make the…

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One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Here is the first full…

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Presents the full range of classic English ghost fiction, including some of the very best and most frightening ghost stories…

One of a series designed to provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each title includes…

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This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's…

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probably the most brilliantly comprehensive introduction to Frankenstein that I have ever read. Even if you've read the book…

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A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers…

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From Pinocchio to The Chronicles of Narnia to Charlotte''s Web, classic children''s tales have shaped generations of young…

\nJust a few hundred copies of the 1623 edition of Shakespeare\'s collected plays exist, making it one of the most…

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\nA remarkable account of the brilliant, troubled mathematician and philosopher Kurt Goedel. From his famous Incompleteness…