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Edmund Burke,
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

'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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James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ' So begins one of…

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Mark Twain,
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Enormously influential in the development of American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains a controversial novel at the centre of impassioned critical debate. This edition discusses all the …

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Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales

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A new edition of Herman Melville's tragic novella about the young sailor, Billy Budd, who falls victim to a petty jealousy and false accusations.

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Paul Valéry
Collected Verse

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This edition of new translations brings together the most extensive collection of Paul Valéry's verse, from the adolescent years marked by mysticism, Mallarmé, and the Symbolist movement, to the three gre…

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William Shakespeare,
Cymbeline

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A new edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, a tale of homicidal jealousy and villainous plots.

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Jane Austen,
Emma

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Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well as herself, is told with…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust Part One

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The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuro…

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James Joyce
Finnegans Wake

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One of the greatest artistic works of the twentieth century, Finnegans Wake is both an outrageous epic and a wildly inventive comedy that rewards its readers with never-ending layers of meaning. This edit…

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Marcel Proust,
In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom

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In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom is the second volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.

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William Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar

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The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Julius Caesar provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous Roman tragedy.

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William Shakespeare,
King Henry VIII; or All is True

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All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the most defining periods in English history, the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.

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Walt Whitman,
Leaves of Grass

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A new edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a defining piece of American literature.

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Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan

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Hobbes's Leviathan is one of the most important works in the history of Western political thought, and the issues it addresses are still fundamental to us all today.

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William Shakespeare,
Macbeth

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The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems.

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Mary Shelley,
Mathilda

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A new edition of Mary Shelley's second novel Mathilda, which remained unpublished until 1959 due to its themes of suicide and incest. The introduction examines the novel as both a complex exploration of t…

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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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A new edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, detailing a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in June 1923. This edition is fully annotated with an introduction that broadens and deepens key asp…

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Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey

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Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels.

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Joseph Conrad,
Nostromo

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'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.' One of the greatest political novels …

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