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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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Hunger£6.99 Tore Rem, Terence Cave
9780192862846 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. |
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The Wendigo and Other Stories£7.99 Algernon Blackwood, Aaron Worth
9780198848882 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. |
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The Origins of Science Fiction£8.99 Michael Newton
9780198853626 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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The Sign of the Four£6.99 Arthur Conan Doyle, Caroline Reitz, Darryl Jones
9780198862123 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. |
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The Swann Way£9.99 Marcel Proust, Brian Nelson, Adam Watt
9780198871521 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. |
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The Origins of Science Fiction£8.99 Michael Newton
9780198891949 This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction. |
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Specimen Days£8.99 Walt Whitman, Max Cavitch
9780198861386 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. |
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Selected Poems£8.99 Du Bellay, Ronsard, Anthony Mortimer
9780192847997 From the gritty realism and resentment of Du Bellay to the lyric grace and frank eroticism of Ronsard, the poems of this volume testify to the many-faceted achievement of the two poets who, as leaders of the famous 'Pléiade' group, were crucial to the creation of a new national literature. |
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Pan£6.99 Knut Hamsun, 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
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EmmaFifth Edition £5.99 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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