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One of the pillars of nineteenth-century Russian prose...

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From the transcendent beauty of nature observed on the Yorkshire moors to fierce and forceful confrontations of mortality, Emily...

Never published in its author's lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life...

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A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his...

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Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his...

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Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the...

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of...

What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is...

Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume...

After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d’Urbervilles, as...

Published in 1880, one year before Verga’s influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic...

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Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, The Gods Want Blood centres on the rise to power of the Jacobin sympathizer...

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Although he is best known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective...

Alma Classics edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra material.
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As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude Morel begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a...

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...