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Anton Chekhov
9780199536689
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The importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation…
Dickens, Charles
9780199536306
A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books…
Mark Twain
9780199540587
The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism…
George Eliot
9780199203475
Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur Donnithorne…
Guy de Maupassant
9780199555789
This selection of twenty-seven stories in a lively new transltion shows Maupassant as his comic, cruel, and brillant best…
H.W. Fowler
9780199585892
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"A dictionary of modern English usage first published 1926"--T.p. verso.
Rene Descartes
9780199540075
Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography in the vernacular for a non…
Benjamin Constant
9780199554089
'The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him…
9780199536559
Enormously influential in the development of American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains a controversial novel at the centre of impassioned critical debate…
Virgil
9780199231959
'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago…