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Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Meanwhile a cohort of interested parties circle. The 'Count', a Polish man in exile watches overGertrude with loving patience. Tim, a failed painter, plans with his...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-10-30
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During the 1790s, with Ireland in political crisis, Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice: in Castle Rackrent, her first novel, she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the decline of a family from her own Anglo-Irish class. Castle Rackrent's...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-10-09
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`Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.'
Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in Italy, Oswald...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-10-09
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Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer.
Through the medium of an exciting adventure...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-10-09
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'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin - did not allow me to hesitate for a moment'
So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-10-09
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In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics.
This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-10-09
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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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2008-10-09
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'In Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached' George OrwellA masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. It follows...
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Penguin
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2008-10-02
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Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his...
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Penguin
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2008-09-25
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Drawn from the five volumes of his complete short stories (also published by Gollancz) this volume represents the very cream of Philip K. Dick's output. It serves both as a celebration of his work, in the 25th year since his death, and as the ideal introduction to his...
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Gateway
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2008-09-18
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'The finest translation in and for our time'
(Kevin Crossley-Holland)
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-09-11
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Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchman, Passepartout, and then with a ravishing Indian beauty, Aouda....
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OUP Oxford
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2008-09-11
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`I long to study the purely national, natural character of an Irishwoman'
When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for gambling debts and dissipated living, he adopts the persona of knight errant and goes off...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-09-11
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Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-09-11
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Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-09-11
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Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-09-11
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Mrs Gereth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancée. When she discovers that her young friend and sympathizer Fleda Vetch is secretly in love with Owen, she...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-09-11
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'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling Catherine...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-09-04
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Rediscover the novel behind the hit new film. ...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-09-04
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'Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene ...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-09-04
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