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Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage t...

Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library editions of Shakespeares plays put readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. E...

In the dark recesses of the Bastille, a young prisoner known only as Phillipe has spent eight years of his short life. When Aramis, posing as his c...

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened...

In Northanger Abbey, a young womans penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart. Austens first, t...

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters with opposing temperaments – Elinor is prudent, rational and responsible; Marianne is passionate, excitabl...

As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel De...

This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in ...

The Pilgrims Progress

The central drama of the book is that of Mr.Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock who, falsely accused of theft, suffers bitterly with his family. Thi...

Librarians note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book here (Andrew Betsis ELT edition), here , here , here and here . I...

A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new...

If I ever saw a murderers mouth it was there - a cruel, hard gash in the face, compressed, inexorable, and terrible. In 1901, Conan Doyle finally b...

John Cole has had a ringside seat on the British public life for the past 40 years.During that time he kept notes of his conversations with politic...

Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St. Juliot, where Thomas Hardy began the book du...

Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favori...

Each Play In The Series Has An Extensive Range Of Students Notes Containing Detailed Explanations Of Difficult Words And Passages, A Synopsis Of Th...

THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN Author : Jane Austen

With an introduction by Ian Thomson Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him...

Middlemarch

A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century America.  is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin a...

Scotts magnificent historical romance Rob Roy is set against the background of the 1715 Jacobite Rising In the foreground of the novel we meet youn...