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  • THE GREEN DWARF AND OTHER EARLY FICTION
    THE GREEN DWARF AND OTHER EARLY FICTION
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Brontë created, together with her siblings, a series of tales set in the imaginary realm of Glass Town. In ‘The Green Dwarf’, against the backdrop of war, the arrogant aristocrat Colonel Percy and the enigmatic Mr Leslie are vying for the affections of the beautiful Lady...
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  • THE PROFESSOR
    THE PROFESSOR
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    When the orphaned William refuses his uncles’ proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of his brother’s mill, he decides to accept a position as an English teacher at a boys’ school in Brussels. When his career leads him to take up an additional post at a girls’ school nearby, William becomes emotionally involved with the manipulative head...
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  • A DOG’S HEART
    A DOG’S HEART
    BULGÁKOV, MIJAIL
    When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted ...
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  • BLACK SNOW
    BLACK SNOW
    BULGÁKOV, MIJAIL
    After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow’s theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, censorship and egomania – epitomized by the arrogant and tyr...
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  • DIABOLIAD AND OTHER STORIES
    DIABOLIAD AND OTHER STORIES
    BULGÁKOV, MIJAIL
    In Bulgakov’s ‘Diaboliad’, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare.This early...
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  • THE WHITE GUARD
    THE WHITE GUARD
    BULGÁKOV, MIJAIL
    Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918–19, The White Guard, Bulgakov’s first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast between the cosy domesticity of family life on the one hand, and wide-rangin...
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  • THE AWAKENING
    THE AWAKENING
    CHOPIN, KATE
    While spending the summer in the resort of Grand Isle with her husband and children, Edna Pontellier begins a process of self-discovery that is accelerated after she meets the charming Robert Lebrun. Yet, when Robert departs for Mexico and the summer vacation ends, Edna’s new-found sense of independence and personal freedom mean that she isolates herself from New Orleans societ...
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  • THE FROZEN DEEP
    THE FROZEN DEEP
    COLLINS, WILKIE
    Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage. Unbeknownst to him, Richard Wardour, his spurned rival, joins the crew of another ship belonging to the same expedition. When the ships get trapped in the ice and the men are randomly drawn into the same search party, Richard finds himself torn between hi...
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  • POOR PEOPLE
    POOR PEOPLE
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to eve...
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  • THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO
    THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO
    DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN
    As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt’s southern border, they are kidnapped by a marauding band of dervishes who demand their conversion to Islam. Cut off from the world, deprived of the comforts of civilized society and shaken in their beliefs, they will have to overcome the most arduous obstacles to ...
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  • A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
    A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
    JOYCE, JAMES
    The most extensively annotated edition available with almost 1,000 notes by Marc A. Mamigonian and John TurnerThis text is based on the Egoist Press second edition of 1918James Joyce’s first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a Künstlerroman which chronicles the emotional and intellectual development of Stephen Dedalus – a character partly based on the author him...
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  • THE FOX
    THE FOX
    D.H. LAWRENCE
    Nellie March and Jill Banford manage an ailing Berkshire farm at the time of the First World War, a task which is made all the more complicated by the frequent rampages of a local fox through their chicken coop. When a young soldier turns up and begins to interfere with the farm and the lives of the two women, they must find ways to react to this new fox in their midst.A compel...
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  • BABBITT
    BABBITT
    LEWIS, SINCLAIR
    In the Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged real-estate agent George F. Babbitt appears to have achieved the American dream: he has a wife and children, a car and a neat house with a neat yard; he is successful at work, comfortably off, exceedingly well fed and a proud member of all the right clubs – in short, he has all he needs to be happy. Or does he? As we follow his ...
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  • A JOURNEY AROUND MY ROOM
    A JOURNEY AROUND MY ROOM
    MAISTRE, XAVIER DE
    ‘The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to’ – From the Foreword by Alain de BottonFinding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary trave...
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  • BOULE DE SUIF
    BOULE DE SUIF
    GUY DE MAUPASSANT
    A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain them until one of their party, the prostitute Boule de Suif, consents to sleep with their officer. When Boule de Suif refuses to do so on account of her principles and patriotic sentiments, the solidarity initially manifested by her fellow travellers ...
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    Q. 90

  • CARMEN
    CARMEN
    MERIMEE, PROSPER
    When the Basque dragoon Don José meets a Gypsy woman at the factory he is guarding, he is immediately ensnared by her wiles. After she is arrested for injuring a co-worker and he helps her to flee, he is imprisoned and demoted, but she repays him at their next meeting with a day of excess and a night of love. As Carmen continues to exert her spell, José is dragged further and f...
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  • LOVELESS LOVE
    LOVELESS LOVE
    LUIGI PIRANDELLO
    In ‘The Wave’, a young man falls dangerously in love with the tenant downstairs, who is engaged to be married; in ‘The Signorina’, a flirtatious young woman is caught between her feelings and her parents’ desire for a good match; in ‘A Friend to the Wives’, the peerless Pia Tolosani leaves a trail of regret in the life of a former suitor.In this collection of stories – Pirandel...
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  • BELKIN’S STORIES
    BELKIN’S STORIES
    PUSHKIN, ALEKSANDR
    First published in 1831, Belkin’s Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature. Through a series of interlinked stories purporting to have been told by various narrators to the recently deceased country squire Ivan Belkin, Pushkin offers his own variation on themes and genres that were popular in his day and provides a vivid portr...
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  • THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER AND A HISTORY OF PUGACHOV
    THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER AND A HISTORY OF PUGACHOV
    PUSHKIN, ALEKSANDR
    Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain’s Daughter was Pushkin’s only completed novel and remains one of his most popular works. The inexperienced and impetuous young nobleman Pyotr Grinyev is sent on military service to a remote fortress, where he falls in love with Masha, Captain Mironov’s daughter – but then the ruthless Cossack Pugachov la...
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  • TOBERMORY AND OTHER STORIES
    TOBERMORY AND OTHER STORIES
    SAKI
    ‘Tobermory’ – the title story of this collection – is widely considered one of Saki’s finest pieces, in which a short-sighted dinner-party guest introduces a talking cat to the diners, inadvertently revealing gossip and pushing fickle characters into the limelight – in the process undermining the common perceptions of grandiose and genteel high society.From some of his earliest...
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  • A PERFECT HOAX
    A PERFECT HOAX
    ITALO SVEVO
    Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing littérateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights ...
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  • FAUST
    FAUST
    TURGENEV, IVAN SERGEEVICH
    In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe’s masterpiece. Opening up in front of Vera’s eyes is not only the realm of imagination, but also a world of unbridled feelings and tempes­tuous passions, which can onl...
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  • DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE
    DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE
    TWAIN, MARK
    Mark Twain’s gloriously funny ‘Diary of Adam and Eve’, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes, is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer’s interest in this most famous episode of the Bible.By giving a voice to Adam and Eve, and by hitting all the notes on the literary scale – from the ...
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  • CANDIDE
    CANDIDE
    VOLTAIRE
    Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss. But after committing an indiscretion and being expelled from his family home, Candide finds himself on a journey that will take him to Portugal, Argentina, Britain and Turkey and expose him to torture, war, shipwreck and natural di...
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  • THE ATTACK ON THE MILL AND OTHER STORIES
    THE ATTACK ON THE MILL AND OTHER STORIES
    ZOLA, ÉMILE
    Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume.Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in their settings – from aristocratic drawing rooms to poverty-stricken garrets, f...
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  • DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES AND OTHER STORIES
    DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES AND OTHER STORIES
    ZOLA, ÉMILE
    In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people.From the cruel irony of ‘Captain Burle’ to the Rabelaisian exuberance of ‘Coqueville on the Spree’, these stories display the broad range of Zola’s imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quie...
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  • TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds.Peopled by an unforgettabl...
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  • THE PROFESSOR
    THE PROFESSOR
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    The Professor is Charlotte Brontë’s first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of action, and as a writer Brontë is correspondingly liberated, exploring the ...
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  • SHIRLEY
    SHIRLEY
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman’s role is and can be. Their male counterparts – Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother – also stand at odds to society’s expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchiseme...
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  • VILLETTE
    VILLETTE
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College.Based on Charlotte Brontë’s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid ...
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