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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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William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream

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'I have had a most rare vision.'A Midsummer Night's Dream evokes images of fairies, dreams, changeling children, and actors being transformed into asses. But is the play as ethereal as these associations …

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Charles Dickens,
A Tale of Two Cities

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Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public…

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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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William Shakespeare,
Arden of Faversham

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'He must leave to live that we may love'The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham is based on the murder of Thomas Arden in Faversham in 1551 by his wife, Alice. The play depicts Alice Arden's increasingly…

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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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François de La Rochefoucauld,
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections

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This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers …

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Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of rela…

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William Shakespeare
Coriolanus

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'O mother, mother! What have you done?'Failing harvests, fragile supply chains, food shortages, a spike in the cost of living; military insurgency and counter-insurgency locked in bloody stalemate; a poli…

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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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Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay,
Federalist Papers

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The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1787-8. Written by key players in the American Revolution, they made a …

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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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Charles Dickens
Hard Times

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Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensu…

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William Shakespeare, Anonymous, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe
Henry VI, Part I

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'No, no, I am but shadow of myself...'Henry VI, Part I paints a vivid picture of political ambition, civil unrest, and war. One of Shakespeare's most collaborative plays, it was a theatrical hit when it w…

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Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare,
Henry VI, Part II

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'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.'Henry VI, Part II opens with a wedding and ends with a civil war, cycling through witchcraft, adultery, multiple murders, pirates, and an entire popular…

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