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A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald; J. M. S. Tompkins (Editor); Jane Spencer (Introduction by)
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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain impe ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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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 powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more im ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (PB) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
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'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'This is a new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866) by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. Young.The impoverished student Raskolni ...Show more
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
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Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus a ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is ha ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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"The Bront s' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Bront 's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel it ...Show more
Major Works by Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury)
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`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to think that the Christian religion is true? What is truth ...Show more
Moby Dick by Melville Herman
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. W ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Christina Lupton; James Kinsley (Editor)
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"Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadFew have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen's beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; John Mullan (Editor)
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Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striki ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siec ...Show more