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| "Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J Booth University of Kent at Canterbury When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life' Richard AldingtonThis novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist Paul Morel and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers Lawrence's novels are perhaps the most powerful exploration in the genre in English of family class sexuality and relationships in youth and early adulthood"
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| "Dubliners by James Joyce (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies Dartmouth College New Hampshire Living overseas but writing always about his native city Joyce made Dublin unforgettable The stories in Dubliners show us truants seducers gossips rally-drivers generous hostesses corrupt politicians failing priests amateur theologians struggling musicians moony adolescents victims of domestic brutishness sentimental aunts and poets patriots earnest or cynical and people striving to get by In every sense an international figure Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature"
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| "The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by David Blair University of Kent at Canterbury It is 1757 Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy Their conflict however overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative in which Cora and Alice Munro daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war attempt to join their father Thwarted by Magua the sinister 'Indian runner' they find help in the person of Hawkeye the white woodsman and his companions the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas his son the last of his tribe Cooper's novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain skirmishes treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples Through the character of Hawkeye Cooper raises lasting questions about the practises of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures"
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| "Les Miserables Volume Two by Victor Hugo (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark University of Kent at Canterbury Translation by Charles E Wilbour (1862) One of the great Classics of Western Literature Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean the street urchin Gavroche the rascal Thenardier the implacable detective Javert and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae Volume 2 of 2"
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| "Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts MA PhD Emeritus Professor of English University of Sussex Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller and has remained popular ever since This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged filmed televised and imitated The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog Montmorency provide rich humour shrewd observations lyrical reflections and predominantly genially ironic perceptions of human fallibility The sequel Three Men on the Bummel reunites the three friends for their Bummel' (roaming or wandering') through Germany The results vary from the seductively titillating to the outrageously farcical; and subsequent history has laden the narrative with ironies"
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| "The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis University of Kent at Canterbury With Illustrations by RSeymour RW Buss and Hablot K Browne (Phiz) The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English Originally serialised in monthly instalments it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40000 by the final part In the century and a half since its first appearance the characters of Mr Pickwick Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general and the works of Dickens in particular"
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| "Persuasion by Jane Austen (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan Reader in Literature University of Essex What does persuasion mean - a firm belief or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines but also one of the strongest and the most open to change She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars a time of accident adventure the making of new fortunes and alliances A woman of no importance she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars Even though she is nearly thirty well past the sell-by bloom of youth Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself in a regenerated society"
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| "The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction by John S Whitley University of Sussex After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls the great detective reappears to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House The stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget the finest of illustrators from which our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive This is the second of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes newly typeset from the original copies of The Strand Magazine The three books present all the Holmes stories in order of first publication"
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| "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton Head of English Studies University of Ripon and York In seeking to discover his inner self the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster First published to critical acclaim in 1886 this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man&39;s nature and it is the book which established Stevenson&39;s reputation as a writer Also included in this volume is Stevenson&39;s 1887 collection of short stories The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables The Merry Men is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; Markheim the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; Thrawn Janet a spine-chilling tale of demonic possession; Olalla a study of degeneration and incipient vampirism in the Spanish mountains; Will O&39; the Mill a thought-provoking fable about a mountain inn-keeper; and The Treasure of Franchard a study of French bourgeois life"
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| "War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters Three of these the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery This translation is one which received Tolstoy's approval"
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| "Shirley by Charlotte Bronte (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Sally MinogueThe Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be Their male counterparts - Louis the powerless tutor and Robert his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment featuring class disenfranchisement the drama of Luddite machine-breaking and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars But Charlotte Brontes particular strength lies in exploring the hidden psychological drama of love loss and the quest for identity Personal and public agitation are brought together against the dramatic backdrop of her native Yorkshire As always Bronte challenges convention exploring the limitations of social justice whilst telling not one but two love stories"
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| "The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain 'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself of a monstrous towna cruel devourer of the world's light There was room enough there to place any story depth enough for any passion variety enough there for any setting darkness enough to bury five millions of lives'Conrad's monstrous town' is London and his story of espionage and counter-espionage anarchists and embassies is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother Stevie as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho However far from offering any sentimental picture The Secret Agent is Conrad's funniest novel Its savagely witty picture of human absurdity and misunderstanding is written in an ironic style that provokes laughter and unease at the same time and that continues to provide one of the most disturbing visions of aspiration and futility in twentieth century literature"
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| "Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance Professor of English University of Sussex Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy&39;s Wessex novels It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was ‘…the past was yesterday; never the day after’ and lastly of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer Mr Boldwood whose love fills him with ‘…a fearful sense of exposure’ when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels"
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| "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren University of Kent at Canterbury Set in 1482 Victor Hugo's powerful novel of imagination caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love fate architecture and politics as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters - amongst them Quasimodo the hunchback of the title hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda the satanic priest Claude Frollo Clopin Trouillefou king of the beggars and Louis X1 King of France Over the entire novel both literally and symbolically broods the Cathedral of Notre-Dame Vivid characters and memorable set-piece action scenes combine to bring the past to life in this story of love lust betrayal doom and redemption"
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| "The Collected Short Stories of Saki by Hector Hugh Munro (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's' Saki (HH Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire irony and the macabre in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried This collection includes Sredni Vastor and The Unrest Cure We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'"
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| "Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by RTJones Honorary Fellow of the University of York The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine Moll Flanders through its many vicissitudes which include her early seduction careers in crime and prostitution conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the New World Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social conditions prevailing in the London of the late 17th century"
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| "The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by RT Jones Honorary Fellow of the University of York This novel based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it and the result on more than one level is tragedy"
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| "Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights Department of English Studies Durham University Lorna Doone a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685) It is also a moving love story told through the life of the young farmer John Ridd as he grows to manhood determined to right the wrongs in his land and to win the heart and hand of the beautiful Lorna Doone Continuously in print since its first publication in 1869 Lorna Doone has remained perennially popular with a wide readership ever since"
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| "Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction by Roger Clark University of Kent at Canterbury Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling Castigated for offending against public decency Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm For Flaubert's contemporaries the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters For the writer subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction Flaubert's protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic flawed wife and mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration and the butt of his irony - Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional creations Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of fiction his portrayal of contemporary reality his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks of modern fiction"
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| "The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power The resourceful victim of a manhunt he is pursued by both the police and the ruthless conspirators The Thirty-Nine Steps is a seminal chase' thriller rapid and vivid It has been widely influential and frequently dramatised the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock became a screen classic This engaging novel also provides insights into the inter-action of patriotism fear and prejudice"
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| "Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts University of Kent at Canterbury Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Bleak House is one of Dickens&39; finest achievements establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist as well as a brilliant comic writer It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society Its representations of a great city&39;s underworld and of the law&39;s corruption and delay draw upon the author&39;s personal knowledge and experience But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy cosmic farce and tragic ruin In a unique creative experiment Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine Esther Summerson who is psychologically interesting in her own right and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers"
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| "The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories by Stephen Crane (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly University of Reading Also included are two short storiesThe Veteran The Open BookThe Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming an ordinary farm boy turned soldier It evokes the chaos and the dull clatter of war the acrid smoke the incessant rumours of coming battles the filth and cold the numbing monotony the unworldly wailing of the dying Like an impressionist painter Crane also captures the strange beauty of war the brilliant red flags against a blue sky steel bayonets flashing in the morning sun as soldiers step off into battle In the midst of this chaotic outer world he creates an intricate inner world as he takes us inside the head of Henry Fleming Stephen Crane is now recognised as one of a handful of daring innovators who helped shape modern American fiction"
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| "Les Miserables Volume One by Victor Hugo (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark University of Kent at Canterbury Translation by Charles E Wilbour (1862) One of the great classics of western literature Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean the street urchin Gavroche the rascal Thenardier the implacable detective Javert and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae The reader is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean's flight through the Paris sewers Volume 1 of 2"
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| "Around the World in 80 Days / Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal University of Kent at Canterbury Translationsare by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon) JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his reader's allegiance and trust This volume contains two of his best-loved yarns chosen from among the sixty-four titles of Les Voyages Extraordinaires Verne's pioneering contribution to the canon of modern science fiction Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant Passepartout whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson the prototype of the Vernian adventurer"
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| "To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury University of Reading This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels It is based on her own early experiences and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War"
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| "North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman University of Hull Set in the mid-19th century and written from the author's first-hand experience North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the market Readers in the twenty-first century will find themselves absorbed as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems and possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years later the complex relationships public and private between men and women of different classes"
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| "The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex the 'partly real partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character' The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force and features some of the author's most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description"
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| "Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work Now controversial this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him the lama seeks redemption from the Wheel of Life' Kim becomes involved in the Great Game' undertaking espionage for the British rulers This engrossing and moving novel with its diversity of memorable characters offers many insights into political religious and social tensions"
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| "Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales This collection of over forty of Andersen’s most popular stories includes The Mermaid The Real Princess The Red Shoes The Little Match Girl The Snow Queen The Tinder Box The Ugly Duckling and many more It is delightfully illustrated in black-and white by those remarkable brothers Charles Thomas and William Heath Robinson"
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| "Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile and the beginning of the Armadillos Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound"
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