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Edmund Burke,
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

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'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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'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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William Shakespeare,
Cymbeline

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'I see a man's life is a tedious one.'Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline…

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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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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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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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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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William Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar

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'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war'Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This N…

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William Shakespeare,
King Henry VIII; or All is True

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'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.'Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henr…

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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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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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William Shakespeare,
Richard II

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'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings'Crowned as a child, Richard II only knows power. The King's court tire of his fickle, greedy reign, but it is only w…

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Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility

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In Jane Austen's first published novel, her portrait of two heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope offers a powerful analysis of how women were shaped by the claustrophobic society they ha…

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