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A Clergyman's Daughter

£9.99

George Orwell, Nathan Waddell

9780198848424
Paperback
07 January 2021

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The most formally experimental of all of George Orwell's novels, A Clergyman's Daughter charts the course of a young woman's voyage out of a small town in East Anglia and her eventual homecoming. This new edition of the novel is the first in over 30 years.

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Burmese Days

£9.99

George Orwell, Rosinka Chaudhuri

9780198853701
Paperback
07 January 2021

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Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel is set during the end days of British colonialism, when Burma is ruled from Delhi as part of British India.

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Homage to Catalonia

£7.99

George Orwell, Lisa Mullen

9780198838418
Paperback
07 January 2021

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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books.

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Down and Out in Paris and London

£8.99

George Orwell, John Brannigan

9780198835219
Paperback
07 January 2021

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This new edition of Orwell's 1933 text comes with an authoratative introduction, explanatory notes, and a select bibliography to help first-time readers situate the novel in it's contexts and offer a fresh new re-evaluation of the work to returning readers.

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The Road to Wigan Pier

£9.99

George Orwell, Selina Todd

9780198850908
Paperback
07 January 2021

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The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England.

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Selected Essays

£7.99

George Orwell, Stefan Collini

9780198804178
Paperback
07 January 2021

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Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Exiles

£8.99

James Joyce, Keri Walsh

9780198800064
Paperback
10 December 2020

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James Joyce's only surviving play has divided Joyceans for a century. Illuminating the themes of performance that are so prominent throughout Joyce's fiction, Exiles sees Joyce staking his claim definitively within the European theatrical tradition.

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Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

£10.99

Gideon Nisbet

9780198854654
Paperback
26 November 2020

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This selection of more than 600 epigrams in verse is the first major translation from the Greek Anthology in nearly a century. Each of the Anthology's books of epigrams is represented here, in manuscript order, and with extensive notes on the history and myth that lie behind them.

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The Duke's Children Complete: Extended edition

£12.99

Anthony Trollope, Steven Amarnick

9780198835875
Paperback
22 October 2020

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The Duke's Children is a novel about sorrow and loss, and about a parent s pained discovery that our children inevitably grow to love us less than we love them.

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

£10.99

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Jack Lynch, Celia Barnes

9780198798743
Paperback
22 October 2020

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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides form a natural pair for an OWC because both books, often read and taught alongside each other, focus on the Scottish highlands.

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Wuthering Heights

£4.99

Emily Brontë, John Bugg

9780198834786
Paperback
24 September 2020

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Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language, and a potent tale of revenge. This new edition explores its extraordinary power and unique style and narrative structure, and includes a selection of poems by Emily Brontë.

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Doctor Pascal

£8.99

Émile Zola, Julie Rose, Brian Nelson

9780198746164
Paperback
27 August 2020

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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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Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians

£10.99

Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah, Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, Geert Jan van Gelder

9780198827924
Paperback
25 June 2020

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Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah was a Syrian Arab physician of the 13th century who compiled a biographical encyclopedia of notable physicians, and scholars from the Greeks, Romans, Syriacs and Indians including Galen and Avicenna.

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Green Tea: and Other Weird Stories

£8.99

J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Aaron Worth

9780198835882
Paperback
25 June 2020

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A landmark edition of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's shorter fiction, the form at which he most excelled

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The Essential Mòzǐ: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings

£12.99

Mo Zi, Chris Fraser

9780198848103
Paperback
25 June 2020

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An abridged translation of the influential classical Chinese text Mòzi covering the ethical and political writings and the dialectical texts.

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This Side of Paradise

Second Edition

£8.99

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Philip McGowan

9780198848110
Paperback
28 May 2020

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This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to know himself better. F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, it made him instantly famous and stamped him as the bard of the Jazz Age.

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Nana

Second Edition

£9.99

Émile Zola, Helen Constantine, Brian Nelson

9780198814269
Paperback
26 March 2020

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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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Belinda

Second Edition

£10.99

Maria Edgeworth, Linda Bree

9780199682133
Paperback
27 February 2020

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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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The Prisoner of Zenda

Second Edition

£7.99

Anthony Hope, Nicholas Daly

9780198841098
Paperback
20 February 2020

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Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894.

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Pride and Prejudice

Third Edition

£4.99

Jane Austen, Christina Lupton, James Kinsley

9780198826736
Paperback
28 November 2019

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With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal.

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