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	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 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.
	Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts £18.99 Jacqueline Fay 9780198757566 Paperback 16 June 2022 Oxford Textual Perspectives Provides a new way of understanding how people became English during the Anglo-Saxon period by tracing the links between Englishness and the body in the texts and culture of this time.
	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.
	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
	Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction £8.99 Jonathan F. S. Post 9780198851417 Paperback 24 March 2022 Very Short Introductions Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and draws out key themes of the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss.
	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.
	Nineteen Eighty-Four £8.99 George Orwell, John Bowen 9780198829195 Paperback 28 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	The Road to Wigan Pier £9.99 George Orwell, Selina Todd 9780198850908 Paperback 07 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England.
	Animal Farm £8.99 George Orwell, David Dwan 9780198813736 Paperback 07 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality.
	Coming Up for Air £9.99 George Orwell, Marina MacKay 9780198804819 Paperback 07 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics Set at the beginning of the Second World War, Coming Up for Air describes suburban insurance agent George Bowling's return to his birthplace, a sedate Oxfordshire village. This new edition of one of George Orwell's early pre-war works explores the historical and political context of the novel.
	Keep the Aspidistra Flying £9.99 George Orwell, Benjamin Kohlmann 9780198858317 Paperback 07 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics "Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather than compromise with the 'money god'. Disgusted by society's materialism, he leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet.
	A Clergyman's Daughter £9.99 George Orwell, Nathan Waddell 9780198848424 Paperback 07 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	Burmese Days £9.99 George Orwell, Rosinka Chaudhuri 9780198853701 Paperback 07 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	Homage to Catalonia £7.99 George Orwell, Lisa Mullen 9780198838418 Paperback 07 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	Down and Out in Paris and London £8.99 George Orwell, John Brannigan 9780198835219 Paperback 07 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	Selected Essays £7.99 George Orwell, Stefan Collini 9780198804178 Paperback 07 January 2021 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	Exiles £8.99 James Joyce, Keri Walsh 9780198800064 Paperback 10 December 2020 Oxford World's Classics 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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