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'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York TimesTracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and...
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Penguin
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2000-02-03
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`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.'
The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-01-06
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`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.'
The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-01-06
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'Among the most powerful things Dickens ever did in fiction' GuardianGreed has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and name-sake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire...
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Penguin
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1999-11-25
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The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other Indian work has had a greater influence on world literature, and no other collection of stories has become as...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-11-25
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In the work that has been judged the finest of his later novels, (printed here in Bennett's corrected version) Arnold Bennett gives us an unfogettable portrait of a miser and his wife. Henry Earlforward is a second-hand bookseller with a passion for money. He marries...
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Penguin
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1999-09-30
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`She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.'
The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-09-02
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`She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.'
The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-09-02
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'The funniest book in the world' Evelyn Waugh'The jewel at the heart of English comic literature' William Trevor Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young...
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Penguin
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1999-08-26
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First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-07-15
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First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-07-15
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Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-07-15
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This edition is the first to present the text as it originally appeared, indicating the changes Carlyle made to later editions. Appendices contain Carlyle's own extensive commentaries on his work.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-07-08
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The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no morality, no human affection, and no hope. Power is given to the...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-07-01
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THE RETURN OFTHE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In this novel, Hardy's tragic vision is powerfully and narrowly focussed on Egdon Heath and the men and women who live...
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Penguin
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1999-06-24
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`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'
What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-06-03
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`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'
What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-06-03
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Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from Louisiana - appears at the school gates, a dreadful secret is revealed and...
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Penguin
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1999-04-29
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`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!'
A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-04-01
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