The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter ...
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Against Nature
Joris-Karl Huysmans and Nicholas White (ed.)
‘It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.’ As Joris -Karl Huysmans ...
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
‘Love… it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.’ At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate ...
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An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
Paul Salzman (ed.)
These five works - George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene's Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Having assured the members of London’s exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg – stiff, repressed, English – starts by joining forces with an ...
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The Assommoir
Émile Zola and Robert Lethbridge (ed.)
Gervaise had waited up for Lantier until two in the morning. Then, shivering all over from sitting half undressed in the cold air from the window, she’d slumped across the bed, ...
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The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola
‘Respectable people… What bastards!’ Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the ...
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The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe and Anthony Bale (ed.)
margery kempe (née Burnham, b. c.1373, d. after 1439) came from the town of
Bishop’s Lynn (now King’s Lynn, Norfolk). She was the daughter of a successful and ...
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The Book of Marvels and Travels
John Mandeville and Anthony Bale (ed.)
In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe
to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and ...
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The Bright Side of Life
Émile Zola and Andrew Rothwell (ed.)
‘Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.’ Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the ...
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Capital: An Abridged Edition
Karl Marx and David McLellan (ed.)
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be ...
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A Case of Hysteria: (Dora)
Sigmund Freud
A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him. The 18-year-old ‘Dora’ was ...
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The Castle
Franz Kafka, Anthea Bell (ed.), and Ritchie Robertson (ed.)
A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats - this is the setting for Kafka’s story about a ...
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The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal Stendhal, Margaret Mauldon (ed.), and Roger Pearson (ed.)
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of the ...
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and David McLellan (ed.)
The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of ...
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The Complete Fairy Tales
Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault’s versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have ...
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The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil
Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent’s psychological ...
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The Conquest of Plassans
Émile Zola and Patrick McGuinness
‘Abbé Faujas has arrived!’ The arrival of Abbé Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of François Mouret in particular. ...
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Corinne: or Italy
Madame de Staël, Sylvia Raphael (ed.), and John Isbell
‘Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.’ Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the ...
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