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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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Guide to the Lakes£9.99 William Wordsworth, Saeko Yoshikawa
9780198848097 Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today, such as how the growing number of visitors, and the money they might bring, would affect such a small and vulnerable landscape. |
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How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums£18.99 Jillian M. Hess
9780192896070 This volume studies an important manuscript form of nineteenth-century England: the commonplace book and its descendent, the scrapbook. It explores the tradition of managing information in nineteenth-century England and excavates notes and drafts of the most important works in Romantic and Victorian literature. |
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself£9.99 Frederick Douglass, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Andrew Taylor
9780198835325 In his final autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself, Frederick Douglass shares the stories of his 'several lives in one.' He does powerful justice to his lives lived in U.S. slavery, in the fight for abolition, and in the 'conflict and battle' of the Civil War. |
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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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Mary Shelley: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Charlotte Gordon
9780198869191 Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a political and philosophical stance advocating for the rights of women. Charlotte Gordon explores the context and key themes in the life and work of this courageous, complicated, and accomplished woman. |
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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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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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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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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 Marquise de Gange£8.99 The 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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Lark Rise to Candleford£9.99 Flora Thompson, Phillip Mallett
9780198796695 Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture is reissued in a handsome hardback edition including the original wood-engravings by Julie Neild and a new introduction that looks at the background to the trilogy and its enduring popularity. |
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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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Henry James: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Susan L. Mizruchi
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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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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. |