Quick view A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for exa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beau… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-centu… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, G… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view 100 Selected Stories by O. Henry Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.Here Henry gives a richly … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had p… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex. Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'.… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull. Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranqu… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Well-Beloved with The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Introduction and Notes by Jane Thomas, University of Hull. The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the sufferin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Les Miserables Volume One : Volume I by Victor Hugo Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862).One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular e… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many bor… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud OBE Montgomery Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Mar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Last Man by Mary Shelley Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London. The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would 'curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.' … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-nov… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: C… Add to Cart The item has been added