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TYPHOON * FALK * AMY FOSTER *THE SECRET SHARER
The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-08-14
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Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. ByZola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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For the first time a major novel by Charlotte Brontë appears in an edition based directly on the author's manuscript. Like her other mature work, The Professor owes much to her relationship with M. Heger, her Brussels schoolmaster. The first of her full-length novels,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-07-10
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Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. ByZola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own `wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity
This is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from her family and her surroundings on the brink of womanhood and the modern world.
In The...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-09
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Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2008-07-03
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'Upward, yet not Northward.'
How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third?
Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-06-12
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'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...'
Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-06-12
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'he thought it expedient and necessary that he should commence knight-errant, and wander through the world, with his horse and arms, in quest of adventures'
Don Quixote, first published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, is one of the world's greatest comic novels....
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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'he thought it expedient and necessary that he should commence knight-errant, and wander through the world, with his horse and arms, in quest of adventures'
Don Quixote, first published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, is one of the world's greatest comic novels....
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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'Tom was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, and the envy of the young...There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.'
In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark ogaincombines social satire and dime-novel...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-06-12
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'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...'
Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-06-12
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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.Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach,...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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The Dwarves of Death is a hilarious black comedy by Jonathan CoeWilliam has a lot on his mind. Firstly, there'sThe Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good, and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an unimpressed record. In fact they're so bad he's...
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Penguin
Parution :
2008-05-19
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The Accidental Woman is a wickedly funny novel from bestseller Jonathan CoeFor Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Untouched by friendship, unimpressed by devoted Ronny and his endless marriage proposals, she lives in a world of her own, but not...
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Penguin
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2008-05-19
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A Touch of Love is Jonathan Coe's delightfully comic and moving novel about not fitting inRobin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual...
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Penguin
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2008-05-19
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'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences...consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.'
Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur Donnithorne. His...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-08
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