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	Confessions of a Thug £10.99 Philip Meadows Taylor, Kim A. Wagner 9780198854647 Paperback 04 April 2024 Oxford World's Classics 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
	Hunger £6.99 Tore Rem, Terence Cave 9780192862846 Paperback 09 November 2023 Oxford World's Classics Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with landladies, eccentric elderly men, policemen, shopkeepers, pawnbrokers, and others on the way.
	The Wendigo and Other Stories £7.99 Algernon Blackwood, Aaron Worth 9780198848882 Paperback 09 November 2023 Oxford World's Classics The tales of Algernon Blackwood, in the view of many the greatest weird writer of them all, blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk.
	The Origins of Science Fiction £8.99 Michael Newton 9780198853626 Paperback 14 September 2023 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	The Sign of the Four £6.99 Arthur Conan Doyle, Caroline Reitz, Darryl Jones 9780198862123 Paperback 14 September 2023 Oxford World's Classics As a dense yellow fog swirls through London, Sherlock Holmes sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman, whose father vanished ten years before. The ensuing investigation involves a wronged woman, stolen Indian treasure, a helpful dog, and a love affair.
	Specimen Days £8.99 Walt Whitman, Max Cavitch 9780198861386 Paperback 14 September 2023 Oxford World's Classics Though well-known to many Whitman scholars, Specimen Days is an underrated 'late' prose work which chronicles the life of one of the world's best loved and most influential poets.
	The Swann Way £9.99 Marcel Proust, Brian Nelson, Adam Watt 9780198871521 Paperback 14 September 2023 Oxford World's Classics The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.
	The Origins of Science Fiction £8.99 Michael Newton 9780198891949 Paperback 14 September 2023 Oxford World's Classics This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction.
	William Blake: Selected Writings £19.99 Peter Otto 9780192868053 Paperback 16 August 2022 21st-Century Oxford Authors This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827). The edition features a selection of Blake's poetry, illuminated poetry, and prose, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes.
	Thomas De Quincey: Selected Writings £19.99 Robert Morrison 9780192868046 Paperback 04 August 2022 21st-Century Oxford Authors This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The edition presents De Quincey's work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough and accurate annotation of De Quincey's major works ever compiled.
	Jacob's Room Second Edition £7.99 Virginia Woolf, Urmila Seshagiri 9780192857392 Paperback 09 June 2022 Oxford World's Classics Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war.
	John Ruskin: Selected Writings £15.99 Richard Lansdown 9780192868022 Paperback 26 May 2022 21st-Century Oxford Authors This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and treatises to reviews, correspondence, and critical notes.
	Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction Second Edition £6.99 Virginia Woolf, Bryony Randall, David Bradshaw 9780198838135 Paperback 28 April 2022 Oxford World's Classics Essential to Virginia Woolf's development as a novelist, these short stories are among the most interesting and accomplished fictions she wrote.
	The Origins of Science Fiction £16.99 Michael Newton 9780198853619 Hardback 01 April 2022 Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
	Mary Shelley: A Very Short Introduction £8.99 Charlotte Gordon 9780198869191 Paperback 24 March 2022 Very Short Introductions 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.
	Emma Fifth Edition £5.99 Jane Austen, John Mullan 9780198837756 Paperback 03 March 2022 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	Through the Looking-Glass £5.99 Lewis Carroll, Zoe Jaques 9780198861508 Paperback 24 February 2022 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction £8.99 Tom Keymer 9780198725954 Paperback 27 January 2022 Very Short Introductions 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.
	The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction £8.99 Andrew Kahn 9780198754633 Paperback 09 December 2021 Very Short Introductions Drawing on examples from across the globe and throughout history, Andrew Kahn explores the key characteristics of the short story. He shows how its rise was intertwined with international print culture, and discusses the essential techniques within this thriving literary genre, as well as the ways in which it is constantly innovated, even today.
	James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction £8.99 Colin MacCabe 9780192894472 Paperback 28 October 2021 Very Short Introductions James Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short stories, and analyses the literary traditions and social factors influencing his distinctive complex style. Interweaving Joyce's life and history with his books, it also shows how Joyce celebrated his own experiences in Dublin.

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