One of Austen's five major novels in a superb new edition
The standard Chapman/Kinsley text in a newly set typeface gives a more attractive appearance
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The best-value edition, combining Northanger Abbey with three minor works, two early, one late, showing her originality across the full range of her career.
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"Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act."
At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Por ... Read more
'I wonder what will become of her!'
So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. C ... Read more
The bitter tragedy of human life- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. '
In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tas ... Read more
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art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake'
In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a ... Read more
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Oscar Wilde's shorter fiction includes memorable fairy-tales, witty comedies, and daring narrative experiments: all are contained in this enchanting collection.
Includes best-loved stories such a ... Read more
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A dictionary and thesaurus in a handy-sized, small hardback, providing quick reference help whenever you need it
Over 40,000 words, phrases, and definitions, and over 65,000 synonyms
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The first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories, the major source for our knowledge of Rome's rise to world power and her method of rule in the years 220-146 BC, includi ... Read more
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Christopher Gorse; David Johnston, Governor General of Canada; Martin Pritchard
Pub date
Feb 2012
Series
Oxford Quick Reference
This A to Z is the most up-to-date dictionary of building, surveying, and civil engineering terms and definitions available. Written by an experienced team of experts in the respective fields, it cove ... Read more