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  • Night and Day

    'Woolf's pivotal novel ... the writer feels her way into becoming the giantess she would be' Paris ReviewVirginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience. Its protagonist, Katharine Hilbery, is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must ... Read more

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  • Measure for Measure

    'Language is his power. His characters are precisely the words they speak' A. S. ByattA young man is condemned to death for breaking a law forbidding sex outside marriage. When his sister pleads with the Lord Angelo to save him, he offers her a bargain - her brother's life in exchange for her virginity. One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Popular Children’s Literature in Britain

    The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of children's books both today and in the past. The essays collected here ask ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • A Room of One's Own

    In her seminal essay, "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf explores the essential conditions for women's literary creativity, particularly focusing on the interplay of gender and socioeconomic status in the realm of literature. Woolf's narrative weaves together personal anecdotes, literary analysis, and historical context, reflecting on the systemic barriers that have historically impeded women ... Read more

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  • Jacob's Room

    [Complete & Illustrated]

    Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them. The entire bay quivered; the lighthouse wobbled; and she had the illusion that the mast of Mr. Connor's little yacht was bending like a wax candle in the sun. She winked quickly. Accidents were awful things. She winked again. The mast was ... Read more

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  • Orlando: A Biography (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Modernist Mock-Biography of Gender, Time, Identity, and Literary Inheritance

    Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography is a dazzling mock-biography that follows its protagonist from the Elizabethan court to the modern age, across four centuries and a miraculous change of sex. Combining historical pastiche, lyrical prose, satire, and fantasy, Woolf transforms biography into an elastic modernist form, questioning the stability of identity, gender, authorship, and time. The novel ... Read more

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  • The Voyage Out

    Published in 1915, but written and revised in stages from 1912, The Voyage Out was Woolf’s first novel. The plot follows Rachel Vinrace on her voyage aboard her father’s ship to South America. During the voyage, Rachel meets a number of well-constructed characters that include Clarissa Dalloway (later given her own novel), and others that have been shown to be based on Llyton Strachey and Vanessa ... Read more

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  • A Daughter of the Snows | The Pink Classic

    A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and ... Read more

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  • The Way We Live Now

    "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope is a sprawling and incisive examination of society, greed, and morality in Victorian England. Set against the backdrop of London's bustling financial district and the tranquil countryside, the novel follows the interconnected lives of a diverse cast of characters as they navigate the complexities of love, power, and ambition.At the center of the narrative ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 17 - Delphi Series One
    Louisa May Alcott’s charming tales of ‘Little Women’ have delighted readers across the world since their 1868 publication, but she was also an author of sensational thrillers, humorous plays and perceptive poetry. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Louis May Alcott, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for ... Read more

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  • Lord Jim (Illustrated Edition)

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    One of the greatest English writers of the 19th century was a Polish-born man who couldnt even speak English fluently until he had entered adulthood. Nevertheless, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) went on to have a well-regarded literary career that bridged Romanticism and Modernism while also covering the zenith and twilight of the British empire. Conrad used his experience within the British empire to ... Read more

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  • The Trial

    by Franz Kafka ...
    The Trial (original German title: Der Process, later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime ... Read more

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