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Set in the late Victorian period, this novel is perceptive novel of provincial life in the Staffordshire potteries. It provides a sympathetic account of the dismal, harsh and occasionally squalid lives of the characters in such a way that they app...

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This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it. London in the 1840s worships money at the expense of love. Mr Dombey, cold, proud and successful, pins all his hopes and affection on his little son Paul and neglects his loving d...

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From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostraciz...

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Charting the neglected contribution made by women to the development of the 19th-century stage and the development of the theatre of realism, these plays include work by the Scottish playwright Joanna Baille and the dramatization of Mrs Henry Wood...

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This is a study of a tale of royal gossip, natural and national disasters, political and religious intrigue, set amidst the pomp and splendour of the 17th-century Spanish court. Spain is at war, supernatural forces are at work and, most disturbing...

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Written as diversionary pieces to be performed between the main acts of a play, these eight interludes are comic glimpses of a world far removed from courtly elegance or military heroism. This study edition contains both the texts and commentary u...

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Set in the whaling port of Monkshaven, this text unravels the unscrupulous activities of press gangs. Sylvia's lover Charley Kinraid is carried off and believing him dead, she marries her cousin Philip Hepburn. This study edition contains both the...

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Under solemn oath to lead a solitary life during her husband's absence, Lady Viviette Constantine is consumed by boredom and loneliness. Desire for something to do takes her to a lonely tower on her estate, where she finds the young astronomer Swi...

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Robert Burns has become the very personification of all that is best in Scottish writing and he was equally comfortable writing in either English or in his native Scots. This study edition contains both a selection of his poems and commentary upon...

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At turns witty and light-hearted, thoughtful and nostalgic, Goldsmith was seen by many as a true voice of the Englightenment. This is a selection of his poetry.

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These translations of some of Heinrich Heine's poems capture his wicked wit and incisive irony as he exposes the hypocrisies and ills of German society at the end of the 19th century.

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This is a collection of poems chosen by listeners to BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please! programme. The collection features ballads, satires, songs and prayers to suit every taste.

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Sensuous, passionate, erotic - this is a collection of poems on love through the ages.

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A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century western philosophy.

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From the writer who invented contemporary science fiction comes a chilling fable on the dubious nature of progress. A Victorian scientist invents a machine which enables him to visit the future - and undergo a terrifying encounter with his descend...

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This handbook outlines a system for parents and teachers to match children to the instrument that is most suitable to their individual emotional and physical needs, thereby avoiding the dropping out due to an instrumental incompatibility.

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This is Jant Shira's life before the drugs took over, as a hunter in the mountains. Awian exiles are building a stronghold in the Darkling mountains, where the Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed and Shira Dellin, a Rhy...

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This is the seventh 'Inspector Rebus' novel.

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This is the third 'Inspector Rebus' novel.

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This is the fourth Inspector Rebus novel.

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Roy Dillon is young and charming. Lily is his mother. Moira Langtry is Roy's mistress, and Carol Roberg is the nurse brought in to look Roberg when a bad choice of mark means he has an encounter with a baseball bat and a case of internal bleeding....

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'Shots rang out across the cathedral. Sporadic. Cries suddenly silenced. Death stalked the cathedral as the monks slaughtered the few remaining survivors... All for a sack of bones. Why? Why steal the bones of the Magi?' When a group of ...

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Chris Jericho worked his way into the big time of wrestling after training in Canada. He had his first pro fight at just 19, but it wasn't until he was 25 that he made the big time, joining the WCW. Within a year he had won his first title. Finall...

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Using previously unseen material from British and American archives, and interviews with some of the last surviving witnesses to the Enigma saga, this book tells the story of how the World War II German Enigma code was broken, leading Churchill to...

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East and West, two brothers from Stepney, are fleeing for their lives. East accidentally pushed one of the Garner gang's family members to her death down the stairs, and now the whole Garner gang, plus assorted hired hit men, are after them.

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This is the inside story of the Rolling Stones according to the Rolling Stones themselves.

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The first in a brand new series from legendary bestseller Joe Abercrombie.

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