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 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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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 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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The Golden Bowl
Henry James and Virginia Llewellyn Smith (ed.)
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A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold ...
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud, Joyce Crick, and Ritchie Robertson
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud’s original argument, ...
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James: The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James and Matthew Bradley (ed.)
‘By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.’ The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James’s classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often ...
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Just So Stories: for Little Children
Rudyard Kipling and Lisa Lewis (ed.)
How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. ...
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The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Duncan (ed.)
‘The ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would ...
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Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing
James Joyce, Kevin Barry (ed.), and Conor Deane (ed.)
‘I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism’
James Joyce’s non-fictional writings address diverse issues: ...
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett and Peter Hunt (ed.)
‘It was the garden that did it – and Mary and Dickon and the creatures – and the Magic.’ An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, a ...
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Selected Essays
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay ‘is simply that it should give pleasure…It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its ...
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Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle and Barry McCrea (ed.)
‘Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science.’ For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately ...
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame and Peter Hunt (ed.)
‘Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ’ So says Rat to Mole, as he introduces him to the delights ...
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The Wings of the Dove
Henry James and Peter Brooks (ed.)
The vivacious Kate Croy seems to face a stark choice; to marry Merton Densher, the impoverished journalist she loves, and thereby break with her family, or to marry lovelessly but well and ...
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