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Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a…

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Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language, and a potent tale of revenge. This new…

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No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the…

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`Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his Queen refuse to receive him! You, an earl`s daughter! Oh,…

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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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A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, priestesses, merchants,…

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'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood…

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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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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 ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in the…

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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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Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading…

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Sketches by Boz, the first volume of the new Oxford Dickens, was also the title of Dickens''s first book. It is a collection…

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''I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.'' Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf was not the…

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Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic…

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German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very…

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Dickens' last completed novel traces John Harmon's covert observation of Bella Wilfer, whom he must marry if he is to…

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

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

This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with…

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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…

Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on…

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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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''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…