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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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Elegies of Chu£12.99 Nicholas 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara£8.99 George Bernard Shaw, Brad Kent
9780198828853 Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre. |
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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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The Apple Cart, Too True to Be Good, On the Rocks, and Millionairess£10.99 George Bernard Shaw, Matthew Yde
9780198809944 The Apple Cart, Too True to Be Good, On the Rocks, and The Millionairess is a collection of four of George Bernard Shaw's most interesting plays. They stretch from 1929 to 1935 and coincide with the Great Depression. |
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Major Cultural Essays£14.99 George Bernard Shaw, David Kornhaber
9780198817727 George Bernard Shaw's Major Cultural Essays introduces readers to the wealth and diversity of Shaw's cultural writings from across the breadth of his professional life, beginning around 1890 and ending in 1950. |
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Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan£10.99 George Bernard Shaw, Brad Kent
9780198793281 Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four£8.99 George Orwell, John Bowen
9780198829195 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period. |
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