The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)
‘They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.’
Edith Wharton’s most ...
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The Ambassadors
Henry James and Christopher Butler (ed.)
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by ...
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The Beautiful and Damned (2 ed.)
F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Blazek (ed.)
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find meaning and happiness in their ...
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
Jack London, Earle Labor (ed.), and Robert C. Leitz (ed.)
Of all Jack London’s fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog’s adventures during the Klondike gold ...
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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 Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were ...
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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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Chance: A Tale in two parts
Joseph Conrad and Martin Ray (ed.)
Chance (1914) was the first of Conrad’s novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and ...
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The Collected Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (ed.)
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in ...
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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 Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)
Edith Whartonߣs satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her ...
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ECCE Homo: How To Become What You Are
Friedrich Nietzsche and Duncan Large (ed.)
Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative ...
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The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams and Ira B. Nadel (ed.)
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An ...
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Émile Durkheim, Carol Cosman (ed.), and Mark S. Cladis (ed.)
‘If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.’
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), ...
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Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey and John Sutherland (ed.)
Lytton Strachey’s biographical essays on four ‘eminent Victorians’ dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and ...
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The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim and Isobel Maddison (ed.)
Four very different women—the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline ...
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The End of the Tether: and Other Tales
Joseph Conrad and Philip Davis (ed.)
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at ...
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Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton and Elaine Showalter (ed.)
Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In ...
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