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This ribald, high-spirited novel, whose author was described by Diderot as 'the Rabelais of the English', provoked literary...

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Set in the Malay Archipelago, where Conrad spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, Victory is a...

A towering classic of Australian literature - by the only writer from that continent to win the Nobel Prize - Voss recounts an...

When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune...

Published in 1847, the year before Emily Bronte’s death at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights has proved to be one of the...