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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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Pan£6.99 Tore Rem, Terence Cave
9780192893451 One of Knut Hamsun's most famous works, it tells the story of Thomas Glahn, a lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop. |
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Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830£12.99 Daniel Cook
9780198803553 Featuring 218 poems and songs in Scots, English, and Gaelic, this collection places Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and other major writers of the period alongside lesser known or even entirely forgotten figures. A significant number of important long poems are given in full, and many of the shorter works feature for the first time in a modern edition. |
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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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Lykophron: Alexandra£8.99 Lykophron, Simon Hornblower
9780198863342 The Alexandra, attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece. At 1474 lines, it is one of the most important and notoriously difficult Greek poems dating from the Hellenistic period. |
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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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Jacob's RoomSecond Edition £7.99 Virginia Woolf, Urmila Seshagiri
9780192857392 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. |
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Kew Gardens and Other Short FictionSecond Edition £6.99 Virginia Woolf, Bryony Randall, David Bradshaw
9780198838135 Essential to Virginia Woolf's development as a novelist, these short stories are among the most interesting and accomplished fictions she wrote. |
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Estate Management and Symposium£8.99 Xenophon, Emily Baragwanath, Anthony Verity
9780198823513 Xenophon recounted several Socratic dialogues which included his Symposium and Oeconomicus and both are concerned with Athenian private life. They are literary creations that reveal Xenophon as a skilled literary artist, an innovative thinker, and far from merely reflecting the conventional thinking of the world around him. |
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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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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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Elegies of Chu£12.99 Nicholas Morrow Williams
9780198818311 This anthology, Elegies of Chu, will provide readers with an understanding of Chinese literature, examining its evolution from free-spirited, mythico-religious songs to the more formal, polished style of the Han court. |
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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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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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Antigone and other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra£4.99 Sophocles, Oliver Taplin
9780192806864 These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies. |
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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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Arms and the Man, The Devil's Disciple, and Caesar and Cleopatra£10.99 George Bernard Shaw, Lawrence Switzky
9780198800712 Arms and the Man, The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra are some of Shaw's most popular and frequently performed works. They demonstrate the development of Shavian comedy and contain early formulations of his idea of the Superman, an extraordinary individual who catalyzes the evolution of mankind. |
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Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell£10.99 George Bernard Shaw, Sos Eltis
9780198803836 Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell are plays which give a clear sense of the range of Shaw's first forays into playwriting. Together they showcase his early negotiations between his political and social concerns and the constraints and possibilities of the British stage at the fin de siècle. |
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