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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Those are the famous lines of Dickens's stirring tale of two cities, London and Paris, at ...

With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is mo...

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the st...

Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch. NARNIA... where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans (and, ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehens...

Amy Dorrit (known as Little Dorrit) was born in the Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. She has lived there with her father and two elder sibling...

Set on the stormy moors of northern England, this classic novel is filled with the cruel and ecstatic love between the characters Heathcliff and Ca...

Alternate cover editions can be found here , here and here. With an introduction and notes by Dr. Sally Minogur, Department of English, Canterbury...

Among the greatest literary achievements of this century is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's fifth novel. It was greeted with a chorus of praise...

Antigone defending her integrity and ideals to the death, Oedipus questing for his identity and achieving immortality—these heroic figures have mov...

When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains — "Where shall we have dinner?" The...

With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain 'Then the vision of an enormous town prente...

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history ...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of r...

Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at The Merchant of Venice with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary a...

The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking ho...

Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a co...

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. 'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live be...

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven high fantasy novels by author C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is...

The two tales in this edition, The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw, reveal at its finest James's genius for creating a world out of a singl...

This is an alternate cover edition for 9781853262104. Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not ...

This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of...

Alternative cover editions can be found here, here, here, here, here and here. Sens and Sensibility's two heroines - so utterly unlike each other -...

The story centres on the personalities of the two sisters, whose contrasting temperaments are examined as they undergo comparable experiences in th...