"He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
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Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it exa ... Read more
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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is ... Read more
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Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and psycholo ... Read more
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 in ... Read more
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As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.'
A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of t ... Read more
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* The only accurate, affordable edition of an ancient guide to Greek myth
The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus&nbs ... Read more
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the ... Read more
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A new single-volume edition of all Dickens's Christmas books, with a selection of the original illustrations and a full critical introdution.
New edition includes a selection of 20 of the origina ... Read more
