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Life of Dante - Giovanni Boccaccio

Life of Dante offers fascinating everyday details, while also exploring the true nature of Dante's poetic life.

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The Forged Coupon: New Translation - Leo Tolstoy

In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little does he suspect that this small misdemeanour will have…

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The Duel - Casanova

The notorious adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova tells of his travels – on the run from the authorities of his native Venice – around northern Europe, poking fun at the ruling classes he encounters there,…

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Memoirs of a Hunter - Ivan Sergejevič Turgeněv

Turgenev’s first major publication, Memoirs of a Hunter is a series of tales based largely on the author’s own experiences while hunting on his mother’s estate of Spasskoye, where he became aware of the iniquities…

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Jonah's Gourd Vine - Zora Neale Hurston

BY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD ''Fierce, insightful and often devilishly funny'' COLIN GRANT, GUARDIAN ''One of the greatest writers of our time''…

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Frederic and Elfrida - Jane Austenová

Written when Austen was still an adolescent, Frederic and Elfrida is a witty and inventive parody that brilliantly sends up the conventions of romantic fiction.

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Harold Pinter Plays 3 - Harold Pinter

This revised third volume of Harold Pinter''s work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man''s Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in…

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Ladies of Lyndon - Margaret Kennedy

Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about…

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Monday Morning - Patrick Hamilton

''If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man'' Nick Hornby''I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer…

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Nothing, Doting, Blindness - Henry Green

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY D. J. TAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Green''s career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of love, marriage…

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Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath - Sigrid Undset

Set in 14th century Norway, the first volume of Undset''s medieval trilogy begins the life story of Kristin Lavransdatter. Starting with Kristin''s childhood and continuing through her romance with Erlend, a dangerously charming and impetuous…

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The Song of Roland - Robyn Lowrie

Alongside Beowulf and Gawain and the Green Knight this masterpiece of epic literature gives a rare insight into the wars of empire and civilisation in the post-Romanic Era of Europe.Gorgeous Collector''s Edition. Readers of Beowulf…

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Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man - Siegfried Sassoon

I can hear the creak of the saddle and the clop and clink of hoofs as we cross the bridge over the brook by Dundell Farm; there is a light burning in the farmhouse window,…

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Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories - Sallust

Sallust (86–c. 35 bc) is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His Catiline’s War tells of the…

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In America - Susan Sontagová

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist…

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Poems - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. This selection of verse and prose displays the extraordinary scope of his mind, the power of his…

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Doctor Faustus, A- and B- Texts 1604 - Eric Rasmussen, Stephen Bevington

This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and…

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Works and Days - Hesiod

''Stallings''s new translation of Hesiod''s Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed'' TLS, Books of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 RUNICMAN AWARDA new verse translation of one…

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The Castle of Otranto (Legend Classics) - Horace Walpole

“He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.”The Castle of Otranto is a…

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Petrarch in English - Thomas Roche

Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This collection contains English…

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Cane - Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer''s Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature due to its distinct structure and style.…

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Short Stories - Hjalmar Söderberg

The twenty-six stories included in this volume are taut, economical in structure, precisely observed and laced with irony. They include some of his most popular and well known stories: A Dog without a Master, a…

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Frankenstein - Mary W. Shelley, Johanna M. Smith

A long-awaited revision of the bestselling Case Study in Contemporary Criticism: Frankenstein Revised to reflect critical trends of the past 15 years, the third iteration of this widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text…

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So You Think You Know Jane Austen? - Sutherland John, Deirdre Le Faye

How well do you really know your favourite author? Ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre Le Faye challenge the reader to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test…

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