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It includes extracts from A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil, as well as literary criticism on a range of writers from George Eliot and Balzac to Chekov and Turgenev.

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A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England.

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Contains stories that include "The Melancholy Hussar", "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions", "The First Countess of Wessex", "Barbara of the House of Grebe", "For Conscience' Sake", "The Son's Veto", "On the Western Circuit", "An Imaginative Woman", "A Changed Man", and "Enter a Dragoon".

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Translated by Constance Garnet, this work features Introduction and notes by Gary Saul Morson, and also includes a reading group guide.

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Presents stories which are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia.

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The Getting of Wisdom is the coming-of-age story of a spontaneous heroine who finds herself ensconced in the rigidity of a turn-of-the-century boarding school. The clever and highly imaginative Laura has difficulty fitting in with her wealthy classmates and begins to compromise her ideals in her search for popularity and acceptance.

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Addictive, charming and gleaming with Jazz Age glitz The Lady
The fabulous new novel from the author of The Girl Who Came Home

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Arthur Koestler's first novel, set in the late Roman Republic, tells the story of the revolt of Spartacus and man's search for Utopia.

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From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.

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Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins. She exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves This is a comic story of a woman in control of her destiny. Here, the author drew on conventions of popular romances, illustrated weeklies, and plays.

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In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for the bridge to be repaired, they are inspired to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day.

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Set in the reign of Queen Anne, this title presents a story that follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future.

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A portrait of England in the 1830s and 40s. It presents the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London.

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John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina in order to achieve the American dream.

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A collection of the finest supernatural tales by two of the best Victorian writers of weird tales ErckmannChatrian, authors who inspired M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many others.

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Following a shipwreck, a young naturalist finds himself on an island run by a mad scientist intent on creating a strain of beast men.

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This title is an example of Tolstoy's thought on spiritual crisis, Christianity and sexuality and an exquisite introduction to the great Russian writer. This edition also includes the controversial Sequel to the Kreutzer Sonata.