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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-03-05
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his...
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OUP Oxford
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1996-06-06
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These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students.Among the diverse and entertaining...
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Penguin
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1992-07-30
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Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf's, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor....
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OUP Oxford
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1992-01-02
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Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also...
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OUP Oxford
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1989-11-23
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Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1989-11-23
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Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone...
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OUP Oxford
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1989-02-09
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ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable...
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OUP Oxford
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1984-11-22
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This edition of one of Dickens's earlier novels is based on the accurate Clarendon edition of the text and includes the prefaces to the 1850 and 1867 editions and Dickens's Number Plans.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1982-12-09
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This edition of one of Dickens's earlier novels is based on the accurate Clarendon edition of the text and includes the prefaces to the 1850 and 1867 editions and Dickens's Number Plans.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1982-12-09
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This is Herman Hesse's last and greatest work, which won for him the Nobel Prize for LIterature. Described as "sublime" by Thomas Mann, admired by Andre Gide and T. S. Eliot, it is considered one of the important novels of the twentieth century. It captures Herman Hesse...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-01-06
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Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize and the New Horizons Award, honourable mention in the Grand Prize category!
After an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, everything in fifteen-year-old Jesse’s life deep in rural Louisiana is derailed. His father,...
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Anvil Press
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2025-12-19
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The premise is deceptively simple: a dirt-poor charwoman and former prostitute leans on her mop and tells her life story. But what a story! As she reminisces and rants, telling stories about herself, her friends and neighbours, the priest and his church, and every other...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2025-12-16
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Knut Hamsun’s groundbreaking novel Hunger (Sult, 1890) is a powerful psychological portrait of a struggling writer descending into poverty, madness, and self-destruction. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania (now Oslo), the novel follows an unnamed protagonist as he...
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Asimis Books
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2025-10-28
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This atmospheric coming-of-age tale follows Ben, a sensitive boy struggling to unravel his family history while caught in the vortex of other people's lives.
Vancouver Island, 1875. Three-year-old Ben comes to live with Agda and her volatile husband James in their...
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Thistledown Press
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2025-10-07
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*"Uncover the Dark Secrets of the Deep South*
Explore the tragic legacy of slavery and racism through the complex Sutpen family saga. Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's masterpiece of Southern Gothic literature is a powerful and haunting classic that will...
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Horizon Ridge Publishing
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2025-10-05
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Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works,Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a...
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Horizon Ridge Publishing
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2025-10-04
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A queer coming-of-age story about a young man’s journey from Canada to Serbia in search of his roots, about the power of truth and lies, and about the persistence of hope when there’s nothing else left.
Orphaned and stuck in a one-traffic-light prairie oil town, a young...
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Freehand Books
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2025-09-08
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A taut and uncanny thriller about one girl’s search for home, melding time travel, magic realism, horror, and literary suspense.
One forty-below December night, 18-year-old Ash Hayes finds herself locked out of her home in rural Minnesota. She seeks shelter from the...
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Freehand Books
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2025-09-08
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Growing up as an orphan, Tem decides to build an orphanage in his community to provide education and shelter for children. One morning, they find an abandoned miserable child at the gate and name her Mbong. She is loved by all as she is fast becoming an adorable,...
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NMI Education SARL
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2025-08-01
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