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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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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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Willa Cather,
Death Comes for the Archbishop

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The story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American wars, Father Jean-Marie Latour and Joseph Vaillant spread Catholic faith and religio…

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Thomas Mann,
Death in Venice and Other Stories

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'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"'This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in t…

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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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Thomas Mann,
Doctor Faustus

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Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and musical development provides a panorama of middle-class German society in the early twent…

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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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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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Walt Whitman,
Leaves of Grass

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'I spring from the pages into your arms'Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the last two hundred years. Widely credited as the originator …

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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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Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey

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'No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.'Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about differ…

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