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The Ladies’ Paradise
By Émile Zola
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Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society – obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification – Ladies’ Delight vividly depicts the workings of a new commercial entity, the department store. The novel centres around the story of Denise, a young shopgirl from the provi…
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The Dream
By Émile Zola
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Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town’s towering cathedral and learns her parents’ trade of embroidery, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the lives of the sai…
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Poor People
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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…
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Selected Poems
By W.B. Yeats
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The present selection traces the development of Yeats’s verse, encompassing the poet’s interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the rich symbolism that is the hallmark of his work and a reflection of his lifelong fascination with th…
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Sepulchres and Other Poems
By Ugo Foscolo
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Expressing the author’s political, civic and sentimental concerns, these poems will surprise the English reader with their immediacy and intimacy. “On Sepulchres”, Foscolo’s masterpiece, as well as being one of the pinnacles of European neoclassical literature, is still one of the most widely studie…
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The Haunted House
By Charles Dickens
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Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together, and relate the supernatural experiences they have had. The resulting ghost stories thrill, shock and amuse by turn…
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The Dream Woman
By Wilkie Collins
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When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him, he is unsure whether she is real or an apparition. Years later, against the wishes of his mother, he marries Alicia, a woman with a strange resemblance to the mysterious…
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Hadji Murat
By Leo Tolstoy
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Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him – and so M…
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Belkin’s Stories
By Alexander Pushkin
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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 variat…
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Supernatural Short Stories
By Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection provides an invaluable insight into the author’s storytelling apprenticeship and his steady growth towards excellence. As well…
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
By Leo Tolstoy
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The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ily…
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New Arabian Nights
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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Stevenson published this collection of his early fiction in 1882, after the pieces had appeared in various magazines. The first half features two popular detective-story cycles, The Suicide Club and The Rajah’s Diamonds, which deal with a macabre secret society and the intrigues and escapades involv…
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Little Women
The four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth – live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been dr…
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Decameron
In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselve…
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A Journey Around My Room
Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it…
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