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Henrik Ibsen, Laura Kieler,
A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken

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'Oh, be not afraid. I am cast out of society, but you, is it not true, you walk around as a man of honour? What more do you want?' (Laura Kieler, Men of Honour )Very few readers and audiences know that Ib…

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Edmund Burke,
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

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'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellec…

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Mark Twain,
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put …

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Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales

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'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!'Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd is a nautical recasti…

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William Shakespeare,
Cymbeline

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'I see a man's life is a tedious one.'Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline…

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Epictetus,
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

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This is the only complete modern translation of Epictetus's Discourses, together with the Handbook and fragments. A major work of Stoic practical ethics, the Discourses teach that the basis of happiness i…

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Olive Schreiner
From Man to Man or Perhaps Only-

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Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man (first published in 1926 and now re-edited after the discovery of an original typescript) tells the story of two white women born into the racist, sexist, and capitalist …

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Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels

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'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.' In these words Gulliver re…

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William Shakespeare,
Hamlet

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Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays.…

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
His Last Bow

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'There's an east wind coming... such a wind as never blew on England yet.'Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow features a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories written at a time of growing tensions in Europe.…

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley,
History of A Six Weeks' Tour

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'I never knew---I never imagined what mountains were before.'History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, two of the best-know…

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Marcel Proust,
In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom

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'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.'In the Shadow of Gir…

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Jules Verne,
Journey to the Moon

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A new translation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, telling the story of an audacious journey to the Moon that inspired generations of writers and astronauts. This edition c…

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William Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar

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'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war'Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This N…

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William Shakespeare,
King Henry VIII; or All is True

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'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.'Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henr…

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Queen Victoria,
Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882

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The books offer intimate views of the most important woman of her times as she shares her love of her family and of the Highlands and demonstrates her intense interest in all corners of her realm and in t…

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Mary Shelley,
Mathilda

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'I am in a strange state of mind. I am alone-quite alone-in the world-the blight of misfortune has passed over me and withered me; I know that I am about to die and I feel happy-joyous-'The eponymous hero…

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George Eliot,
Middlemarch

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Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch a concept of life and society free of the past's dogma yet abl…

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Virginia Woolf,
Mrs Dalloway

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'For there she was.'Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London, in June 1923, as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and actions are inter…

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Joseph Conrad,
Nostromo

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One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. This edition offe…

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