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A Christmas Carol: and Other Christmas Writings
Charles Dickens
Anthologies (non-poetry); Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Tells the story of the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of... [more]
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A Confession and Other Religious Writings
L.N. Tolstoy
Literary essays; Religion: general; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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This is a reader covering Tolstoy's later beliefs after he had rejected orthodox religion. The book mainly draws on Confession... [more]
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A Discourse on Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Social & political philosophy; Political science & theory; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Demonstrates how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities... [more]
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A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including... [more]
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most...
Daniel Defoe
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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This work follows Daniel Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets... [more]
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A Modern Utopia
H. G. Wells
Classic science fiction; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world.... [more]
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A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
Carole Fabricant, Jonathan Swift
Literary essays; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which... [more]
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A Nietzsche Reader
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry... [more]
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A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Guy de Maupassant
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Include thirty-three tales that focus on the relationships between men and women, between brothers and sisters, and between... [more]
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A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped... [more]
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A Room with a View
E. M. Forster, Malcolm Bradbury
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Visiting Florence with her cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr Emerson... [more]
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A Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne
Literary essays; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Paints a captivating picture of an Englishman's adventures abroad. This edition also includes a chronology, updated further... [more]
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A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
A. E. Housman
Poetry; Poetry by individual poets
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'What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?' In this collection, the author's poems, including... [more]
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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A romantic thriller set against the background of the French Revolution. [more]
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A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental...
David Hume
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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A key to modern studies of 18th century Western philosophy, the Treatise considers numerous classic philosophical issues,... [more]
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Against Nature
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and... [more]
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Agricola and Germania
Tacitus
History; British & Irish history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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Presents a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law.... [more]
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Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources...
Asser
Biography: historical, political & military; British & Irish history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by... [more]
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American Notes: For General Circulation
Charles Dickens
Biography: historical, political & military; Classic travel writing; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the... [more]
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American Supernatural Tales: the Ultimate Collection of Weird and Frightening...
S.T. Joshi
Anthologies (non-poetry); Horror & ghost stories; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Contains contributions from Edgar Allan Poe, H P Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and - of course... [more]
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Ancien Regime and the Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville
European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions; Revolutionary groups & movements; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Presents a critique of the ancien regime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledges the reforms introduced... [more]
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty... [more]
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Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights
Robert Irwin
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end... [more]
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Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Travel writing; Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa and educated at Eton and Oxford. In the spirit of TE Lawrence, Thesiger spent five... [more]
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Armadale
Wilkie Collins
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
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Written in the same decade as The Moonstone and The Woman in White , Collins' novel deals with such issues of the Victorian... [more]
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