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Persuasion (Penguin Classics)

Jane Austen · 2003

Melmoth

Charles Maturin · 2019

Indiana (Oxford World's Classics)

George Sand · 2008

The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this is not only a vivid romance, but also an impassioned plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for a new view of women. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She falls in love with her handsome, frivolous neighbor, but discovers too late that his love is quite different from her own. This new translation, the first since 1900, does full justice to the passion and conviction of Sand's writing, and the introduction fully explores the response to Sand in her own time as well as contemporary feminist treatments.<br/><br/>About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin. Translated from the Russian by Gillon Aitken

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin,Alexander Pushkin,Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin · 2008

The Mysteries of Paris (Penguin Classics)

Eugene Sue · 2015

The Lady of the Camellias (Penguin Classics)

Alexandre Dumas fils · 2013

Shirley (Penguin Classics)

Charlotte Bronte · 2006

<b>A passionate but unsentimental depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations</b><br><br>Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline, who, bored and desperate, lives as a dependent in her uncle's home with no prospect of a career. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert's brother, an impoverished tutor - a match opposed by her family. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled? Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, <i>Shirley </i>(1849) is an unsentimental, yet passionate depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Moby-Dick (The Penguin English Library)

Herman Melville · 2012

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 2012

Oblomov (Penguin Classics)

Ivan Goncharov · 2005

The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics)

George Eliot · 2015

Wives and Daughters (The Penguin English Library)

Elizabeth Gaskell · 2012

Maldoror and Poems

Lautreamont · 1978

The History of a Town

M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin · 2016

Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)

George Eliot · 2003

Demons (Penguin Classics)

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2008

A superb new translation of Dostoyevsky's chilling and prophetic novel of revolutionary fanaticism<br/><br/>Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society, and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to lay down their lives to accomplish their goals. But when the group is threatened with exposure, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own to cover their tracks? Savage and powerful yet lively and often comic, Demons was inspired by a real-life political murder and is a scathing and eerily prescient indictment of those who use violence to serve their beliefs.

The Assommoir

Émile Zola, Robert Lethbridge · 2021

The Red Room

August Strindberg · 2014

It was an evening in the beginning of May. The little garden on "Moses Height," on the south side of the town had not yet been thrown open to the public, and the flower-beds were still unturned. The snowdrops had worked through the accumulations of last year's dead leaves, and were on the point of closing their short career and making room for the crocuses which had found shelter under a barren pear tree; the elder was waiting for a southerly wind before bursting into bloom, but the tightly closed buds of the limes still offered cover for love-making to the chaffinches, busily employed in building their lichen-covered nests between trunk and branch. No human foot had trod the gravel paths since last winter's snow had melted, and the free and easy life of beasts and flowers was left undisturbed. The sparrows industriously collected all manner of rubbish, and stowed it away under the tiles of the Navigation School. They burdened themselves with scraps of the rocket-cases of last autumn's fireworks, and picked the straw covers off the young trees, transplanted from the nursery in the Deer Park only a year ago- nothing escaped them. They discovered shreds of muslin in the summer arbours; the splintered leg of a seat supplied them with tufts of hair left on the battlefield by dogs which had not been fighting there since Josephine's day. What a life it was! The sun was standing over the Liljeholm, throwing sheaves of rays towards the east; they pierced the columns of smoke of Bergsund, flashed across the Riddarfjord, climbed to the cross of the Riddarholms church, flung themselves on to the steep roof of the German church opposite, toyed with the bunting displayed by the boats on the pontoon bridge, sparkled in the windows of the chief custom-house, illuminated the woods of the Liding Island, and died away in a rosy cloud far, far away in the distance where the sea was. And from thence the wind came and travelled back by the same way, over Vaxholm, past the fortress, past the custom-house and along the Sikla Island, forcing its way in behind the Hastarholm, glancing at the summer resorts; then out again and on, on to the hospital Daniken; there it took fright and dashed away in a headlong career along the southern shore, noticed the smell of coal, tar and fish-oil, came dead against the city quay, rushed up to Moses Height, swept into the garden and buffeted against a wall."

Boule de suif

Guy de Maupassant · 2017

The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)

Henry James · 2003

When Isabel Archer, A Beautiful, Spirited American Is Brought To Europe By Her Wealthy Aunt Touchett, It Is Expected That She Will Soon Marry. But Isabel, Resolved To Enjoy The Freedom That Her Fortune Has Opened Up And To Determine Her Own Fate, Does Not Hesitate To Turn Down Two Eligible Suitors. It Is Only When She Finds Herself Irresistibly Drawn To The Cultivated But Worthless Gilbert Osmond That She Discovers That Wealth Is A Two-edged Sword And That There Is A Price To Be Paid For Independence. With Its Subtle Delineation Of American Characters In A European Setting, Portrait Of A Lady Is One Of The Most Accomplished And Popular Of Henry James's Early Novels.

Pot Luck (Oxford World's Classics)

Émile Zola · 2009

The Ladies' Paradise (Oxford World's Classics)

Émile Zola · 2008

Germinal (Oxford World's Classics)

Émile Zola · 2008

The Masterpiece (Oxford World's Classics)

Émile Zola · 2008

Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)

Jose Rizal · 2006

Teleny

Oscar Wilde · 1984

What Maisie Knew

Henry James · 2013

<p>The story of the sensitive daughter of divorced and irresponsible parents, What Maisie Knew has great contemporary relevance as an unflinching account of a wildly dysfunctional family. The book is also a masterly technical achievement by James, as it follows the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity.<br></p>

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Oxford World's Classics)

Frank Norris · 2009