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The Origins of Science Fiction£8.99 Michael Newton
9780198853626 Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy. |
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Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Tom Keymer
9780198725954 Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines critical introductions to each of her six major novels with the exploration of key themes of her work. |
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Confessions of a Thug£10.99 Philip Meadows Taylor, Kim A. Wagner
9780198854647 Confessions of a Thug was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture |
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The Uncommercial Traveller£9.99 Charles Dickens, Daniel Tyler
9780199686667 In this series of sketches Dickens brings the city of London and its inhabitants vividly to life. His travels take him to the workhouse, the theatre, and further afield to the Liverpool docks and the Paris morgue. Combining autobiography with reportage, the book showcases Dickens's characteristic wit, humour, and social concerns. |
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The Origins of Science Fiction£16.99 Michael Newton
9780198853619 Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy. |
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The AssommoirSecond Edition £8.99 Émile Zola, Brian Nelson, Robert Lethbridge
9780198828563 The seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Assommoir is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. |
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EmmaFifth Edition £4.99 Jane Austen, John Mullan
9780198837756 Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well as herself, is told with consummate wit and humour. |
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Alice through the Looking Glass£5.99 Lewis Carroll, Zoe Jaques
9780198861508 Originally published in 1871, Alice Through the Looking-Glass describes Alice's further adventures. A masterpiece of carefree nonsense for children which embodies layers of satire, mathematical, linguistic, and philosophical jokes. |
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The Marquise de Gange£8.99 Marquis de Sade, Will McMorran
9780198848288 Loosely based on one of the most notorious crimes of the seventeenth century, The Marquise de Gange by The Marquis de Sade is a neglected classic. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, the novel reads with the same subversive tension of an author plotting against virtue in his distress. |
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Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon: Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings£6.99 Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland
9780198835899 The unfinished fictions collected here are the novels and other writing that Jane Austen did not publish, including works such as Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon. |
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Doctor Pascal£8.99 Émile Zola, Julie Rose, Brian Nelson
9780198746164 Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart series. Pascal Rougon has spent his life chronicling the hereditary patterns and illnesses of his family, using medicine to attempt cures, whilst his niece Clotilde places her faith in God. |
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Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Brian Nelson
9780198837565 Émile Zola occupies a distinctive place in the great tradition of French realist fiction. Brian Nelson introduces this quintessential novelist of modernity, and explores his fascination with change, and the way he opened the novel up to new areas of representation: the realities of working-class life, class relations, and sexuality and the body. |
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Green Tea: and Other Weird Stories£8.99 J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Aaron Worth
9780198835882 A landmark edition of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's shorter fiction, the form at which he most excelled |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne: Selected Writings£14.99 Francis O'Gorman
9780198858775 This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). This edition presents Swinburne's texts in chronological order, and includes an Introduction and full commentary notes. |
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NanaSecond Edition £9.99 Émile Zola, Helen Constantine, Brian Nelson
9780198814269 Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan élite, was la Ville Lumière, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siècle moral corruption. |
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BelindaSecond Edition £10.99 Maria Edgeworth, Linda Bree
9780199682133 Belinda (1801) tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought-provoking. Braving the perils of the marriage market, Belinda learns to think for herself as the examples of her friends prove singularly unreliable. |
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John Keats: Selected Writings£14.99 John Barnard
9780198859154 This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Keats (1795-1821). This edition presents Keats's texts in chronological order, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes. |
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Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Liza Knapp
9780198813934 Leo Tolstoy is one of the greatest novelists ever to have lived, whose books have stood the test of time to remain widely recognised as literary masterpieces today. This Very Short Introduction explores his celebrated novels and nonfiction writings to reveal the core themes and thought at the heart of Tolstoy's work. |
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the SeasSecond Edition £8.99 Jules Verne, William Butcher
9780198818649 Verne's classic tale of Captain Nemo and the submarine the Nautilus has left a profound mark on the twentieth century. Its themes are universal, its style humorous and grandiose, its construction masterly. |
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Reading: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Belinda Jack
9780198820581 Reading can inform, inspire, emancipate, and motivate us. Down the centuries, it has brought huge educational and social benefits. It can also unleash subversion, and its spread has been accompanied by censorship and control. Belinda Jack explores the global development and impact of reading - from ancient texts to digital texts today. |