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He was alone in the world, and there was no one of whom he could ask a question.
After the sudden death of his wife, two years after he has left office as Prime Minister, the Duke of Omnium must become deeply involved with his children for the first time. They vex...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!'
Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-24
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'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!'
Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-24
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'There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself'
Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural French town of Plassans for thirty years. He lives a quiet life...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-08-28
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'There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself'
Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural French town of Plassans for thirty years. He lives a quiet life...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-08-28
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'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...'
Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Poe and M. R. James....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-25
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'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...'
Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Poe and M. R. James....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-25
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'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'
Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-26
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'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'
Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-26
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‘To myself alone could I look’Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe are heroines who depend upon no one but themselves. In the face of hardship, from small sacrifices to great heartache, they cling resolutely to their principles of self-reliance. Lucy's energy and enterprise take...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-03-05
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‘I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.’The crackle of gin on ice, the first chords of...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-03-05
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‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.’Is lying simply an uncomfortable truth about life or something to be celebrated? In these dazzlingly witty pages we find...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-03-05
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‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of deduction, and with the help of his faithful companion Dr Watson, Holmes takes on all manner of devious...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-03-05
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‘Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?And, live we how we can, yet die we must’What is the true meaning of power? Are some simply born to it or can it be acquired like a skill? Does it always breed corruption and greed or can it be a force for good? From...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-03-05
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‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens? Dickens knew the city inside out, walking the streets day and night, in all weathers, and...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-03-05
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'It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.'
Maria Edgeworth's 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life among the English...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-27
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'It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.'
Maria Edgeworth's 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life among the English...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-27
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'If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be ... But is love the only thing?'
Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a mythical pocket kingdom. Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll closely resembles the King...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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'If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be ... But is love the only thing?'
Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a mythical pocket kingdom. Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll closely resembles the King...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention."
Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-28
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