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A selection of Russian folklore tales, from the classic 19th century collection by Alexander Afanasyev.

Jacob's story is told by the women in his life, in Woolf's influential departure from the traditional formal qualities of the novel. Includes supporting material.

The Heretic of Soana is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of Gerhart Hauptmann, the recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the most important exponents of German Naturalism.

Andrew Brown translates Hoffmann's classic murder mystery initially published in 1819. 'A precursor, the true inventor... of so much that makes literature pleasurable' Gilbert Adair

Shop owner and secret agent for a foreign power Adolf Verloc has misgivings when summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, who is forceful in his intent. This edition contains extra material on Conrad's life and work.

Presented in a new annotated edition accompanied with extra material, The Awakening is widely seen as a landmark of early feminism and a precursor of American modernism.

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The adventures of Mowgli, the young man raised by wolves in the jungles of Central India, and his friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Kaa the python, as they face the arch villain Shere Khan the tiger, have become so popular that they have achieved an almost mythical status throughout the world. They were collected by Kipling in The Jungle Book and its sequel, The Second Jungle Book, which also contain other stories set in India w...

After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in his gloomy house in Yorkshire, where she leads a lonely and neglected life, with nothing to do apart from exploring her surroundings. One day she discovers a walled garden which has been locked up, and becomes determined to enter it and find out its secret and the source of the mysterious crying sound that can be heard nearby. A powerful tale of regenerati...

Presented as Moll's autobiography, and published anonymously, the novel, through its self-made protagonist, highlights the intricacies and double standards of Moll's contemporary society, and offers an irresistible and evocative insight into both the drawing rooms and seedy back alleys of seventeenth-century England

Widely regarded as the first great American novel, The Last of the Mohicans, with its epic landscapes, stoic frontiersmen and noble Native Americans, created much of the mythology and romance that has wreathed the American frontier adventure ever since.

At a train station on her way to meet her friends Marie and Leo to recover her pet rock, Madame Charlotte accidentally picks up the Prime Minister's elephant-hide bag instead of her own. As it contains important documents and the politician is due to make an important speech on children's education, Miss Charlotte - hoping that she might get a ministerial job out of this - embarks on a quest to track him down. Along the way, Miss Charlotte can...

Joyce's avant-garde, bewildering classic, pushing the boundaries of literary modernism.

The classic Victorian bildungsroman, available here as part of the "Alma Evergreen" range. Admired by Freud and Dostoevsky, and Dickens's favourite from his own work.

When Dawin set sail at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that all life forms, both present and extinct, were more strongly related than the Christian version of the world's creation purported them to be. During his five-year voyage of research and discovery above HMS Beagle, and later from his home in Kent, he painstakingly collected a mass of evidence from across the planet - from Paraguay and the Galapagos Islands to Staffords...

A new edition of the classic satire following the artful and ambitious Becky Sharp. With a selected bibliography and extensive notes.

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