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This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.
102) The Canterbury tales
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Chaucer's most celebrated work, The Canterbury Tales (c.1387), in which a group of pilgrims entertain each other with stories on the road to Canterbury, is a masterpiece of narration, description, and character portrayal. The tellers and their tales are as fresh and vivid today as they were six centuries ago.
103) Martin Chuzzlewit
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This edition of one of Dickens's earlier novels is based on the accurate Clarendon edition of the text and includes the prefaces to the 1850 and 1867 editions and Dickens's Number Plans.
104) Rob Roy
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Banished from his father's house, Frank Osbaldistone becomes involved in the conspiracy surrounding the disastrous Jacobite rising of 1715. His adventures take him across the Highland Line, where he finds cruelty and some unlikely friends.
106) Bleak house
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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 & the outcast, the beautiful & the ugly, the powerful & the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied.
107) Esther Waters
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Esther Waters (1894) was one of the first English novels to defeat Victorian moral censorship. George Moore's story of a mother's fight for the life of her illegitimate son won Mr Gladstone's approval and was admitted, unaltered, into those bastions of Victorian conformity, the circulating libraries.
108) David Copperfield
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English
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This novel is part of Oxford University Press' World's Classics series whereby some of the best loved novels are reissued with special introductions by today's most distinguished writers.
109) Henry IV, part 1
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Oxford University Press
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2008
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English
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During Shakespeare's lifetime 'Henry IV, Part I' was his most reprinted play, and it remains enormously popular with theatre- goers and readers. David Bevington's introduction discusses the play in both peformance and criticism from Shakespeare's time to our own, illustrating the variety of interpretations of which the text is capable.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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In its towering central characters, vast geographical & historical sweep, 'Antony & Cleopatra' is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs. Yet the degree & nature of its success remain surprisingly contentious, & performances of the play have seldom matched the extravagant expectations of its admirers.
112) Dombey and son
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London in the 1840s worships money at the expense of love. Mr Dombey pins all his hopes and affections on his son, Paul, and cruelly neglects his loving daughter, Florence. This novel charts Dombey's progress, through tragedy to enlightenment.
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Oxford University Press
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2008
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English
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This volume offers excellent value by bringing together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed, city comedies by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Each of the plays features tradesmen - a shoemaker, goldsmith, merchant, shop-keepers - and depicts bustling city life.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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The four comedies here illustrate the richness of 18th century drama: Henry Fielding's 'The Modern Husband', David Garrick and George Colman's 'The Clandestine Marriage', Oliver Goldsmith's 'She Stoops to Conquer', and John O'Keefe's 'Wild Oats. Wood's introduction takes full account of the contemporary theatre world.
115) The belly of Paris
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Oxford University Press
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c2007
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English
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Florent Quenu returns to Paris after being unjustly imprisoned and finds the city utterly changed. The great new food market, Les Halles, has been built, and food dominates the political and social life of the capital.
116) The Pickwick papers
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'The Pickwick Papers' takes its title from the Pickwick Club founded by Mr Samuel Pickwick, and of which Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle are members.
117) The Brontes
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Oxford University Press
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2008
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English
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'The Brontes' is a topical exploration of the novels of the three Bronte sisters in relation to the age in which they lived, and in modern contexts such as film and television. The book traces the origins of novels such as 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights' and examines the 20th century's remaking of the novels in film and TV.
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This is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the 'Strand' magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The volume includes 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'.
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