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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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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£16.49 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. |
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Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Jenny Hartley
9780198714996 Jenny Hartley introduces Charles Dickens's life and works, looking at the vitality of his characters and the energy which surges through his writing. Examining the themes running through his books, she considers the institutions which influenced his work (such as the workhouse) and looks at his critique of nineteenth century society. |
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Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Laura Marcus
9780199669240 Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. Laura Marcus defines what autobiographies are, considering their relationship with similar literary forms, and analysing the core themes in autobiographical writing. She also discusses how autobiography offers the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world. |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Writings£17.99 Josie Billington, Philip Davis
9780198797630 This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). The edition presents Barrett Browning's most celebrated works alongside lesser-known texts, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes. |
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The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance£6.99 H. G. Wells, Matthew Beaumont
9780198702672 One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. In this pioneering novella, Wells combines comedy, both farcical and satirical, and tragedy - to superbly unsettling effect. |
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Charles Dickens: An Introduction£10.99 Jenny Hartley
9780198788164 Jenny Hartley introduces Charles Dickens's life and works, looking at the vitality of his characters and the energy which surges through his writing. Examining the themes running through his books, she considers the institutions which influenced his work (such as the workhouse) and looks at his critique of nineteenth century society. |
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New Grub StreetSecond Edition £10.99 George Gissing, Katherine Mullin
9780198729181 New Grub Street (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women forced to earn a living by the pen. It tells of a group of novelists, journalists, and scholars caught in the literary and cultural crisis that hit Britain in the closing years of the nineteenth century. |
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Victorian Fairy Tales£8.99 Michael Newton
9780198737599 This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre, to show the vibrancy of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. From whimsy to satire, the stories reveal the preoccupations of the age and celebrate the value of the imagination. |
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Sentimental Education£10.99 Gustave Flaubert, Helen Constantine, Patrick Coleman
9780199686636 With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frédéric Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but he is caught up in the revolution of 1848 and the attractions of three other women. Flaubert's portrait of an idealist in a disenchanted world influenced later modernists, and is here newly translated. |
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Doctor Thorne TV Tie-In with a foreword by Julian Fellowes: The Chronicles of Barsetshire£9.99 Anthony Trollope, Julian Fellowes, Simon Dentith
9780198785637 Frank Gresham needs to marry for money if he is to save his impoverished family estate. But he loves the doctor's penniless niece, and faces a terrible dilemma. Doctor Thorne, now adapted for ITV by Julian Fellowes. |
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King Solomon's MinesSecond Edition £7.99 H. Rider Haggard, Roger Luckhurst
9780198722953 Allan Quatermain leads an expedition in search of a missing man and the fabled King Solomon's mines in deepest Africa. His exciting adventures captivated readers, and this new edition looks at Haggard's own African experiences and colonial attitudes to native tribes and the ravages of the British Empire. |
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Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity£21.99 Colin Burrow
9780199684793 Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity explains the nature and extent of Shakspeare's classical learning, exploring why Ben Jonson was wrong to claim that he had 'small Latin and less Greek'. It examines Shakespeare's relationship to classical texts and how this relationship changed in the course of his career. |
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