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'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne'
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else,...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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'I beg as soon as you get Fielding's Joseph Andrews, I fear in Ridicule of your Pamela and of Virtue in the Notion of Don Quixote's Manner, you would send it to me by the very first Coach.'
(George Cheyne in a letter to Samuel Richardson, February 1742)
Both...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.'
In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.'
In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo '
So begins one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century,...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne'
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else,...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Professor...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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A thrilling search for a missing man amidst the scorching deserts and perilous mountains of Africa. In 1885, H. Rider Haggard's publisher considered King Solomon's Mines 'the most amazing book ever written.'
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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'My empire is of the imagination.' These are the words of Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central African tribe, whose dread title, 'She-who-must-be-obeyed', testifies to her undying beauty and magical powers; but they serve equally well to describe the hold of...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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`So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!'
These words, said to have been uttered by Abraham Lincoln, signal the celebrity of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first American novel to become an international best-seller, Stowe's novel charts...
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Oxford Paperbacks
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2008-06-12
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Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus.
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Oxford Paperbacks
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2008-06-12
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'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father’s quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if...
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Penguin
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2008-06-05
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Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields, has his work cut out for him helping his farming relatives
and convincing his lover's aristocratic parents
that he deserves her hand.
This prophetic, 1953 novel about the ghosts of time and rising radicalism in Thai...
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Thaifiction Publishing
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2008-06-01
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THAI MODERN CLASSICS
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The disaffected son of a Thai aristocrat
goes to study law in London in the early 1920s,
only to fall in love with an English journalist and become a reporter.
In England, France, the US, Japan and China,
their work and his fear of poverty and cultural...
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Thaifiction Publishing
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2008-06-01
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THAI MODERN CLASSICS
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There is no braver officer in Napoleon’s cavalry than étienne Gerard – especially in his own opinion. Whether kidnapped by gangs of brigands or outnumbered by enemy troops, the plucky little soldier is constantly gallant, chivalrous and ready to face any danger, even if...
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Penguin
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2008-05-29
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Rudolf Rassendyll, having heroically saved the kingdom of Ruritania and nobly given up the hand of the beautiful Princess Flavia, has returned to his normal life in England. But when, three years later, Flavia, now the unhappily married Queen of Ruritania, sends him a...
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Penguin
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2008-05-29
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