The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally ... Read more
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In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave Tolstoy the starting point he needed for composing what many believe to be the ... Read more
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Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations is as fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when it was first published in 1862. The controversial portrait of Bazarov, the en ... Read more
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Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his Queen refuse to receive him! You, an earl's daughter! Oh, Isabel! How utterly you have lost yourself!'
When the aristocratic Lady ... Read more
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To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.'
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Attractive new setting using English first edition text for this outsanding edition by acclaimed Conrad scholar Cedric Watts
Features new chronology and bibliography
A unique combination of Con ... Read more
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'Fear no more the heat of the sun.'
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conse ... Read more
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A new edition that draws on the scholarship of the Oxford English Texts edition for both text and editorial apparatus.
Reproduces the critically established 1891 text from the OET edition.
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Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distin ... Read more
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A major new translation of the supreme authority in Islam, published at a time of intense interest in the Islamic religion and the Muslim world.
The translation is accurate, easy to read and free ... Read more
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