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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University \'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I..

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere\'s Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A..

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University \'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I..

These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited education, dull work, and sterile relationships.

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This powerful novel, Tolstoy\'s third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called..

An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain\'s inimitable portrait of \'the great Father of Waters\'. Part memoir, part travelogue, it expresses the..

This volume contains a generous selection of the tales of H.G.

Wells, some of them famous, some forgotten. They demonstrate his immense imaginative energy, his originality, his prophetic genius, and his mastery of a range embracing Gothic horror,.

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In these \'scientific romances\' H. G.

Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict.

The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University and the author of Joseph Conrad and H. G.

Wells: The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene. At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.

G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened.

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Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead.

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Unfolding in the sensuous environment of Southern Louisiana, The Awakening is an evocative story of self-discovery and female emancipation, as the young Edna Pontellier reclaims her own individuality, refusing to be defined by her roles of wife and..

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical..

Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn.

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