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  • Northanger Abbey

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.' Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about different kinds of peril, both imagined and real. In it, Austen's youngest heroine, Catherine Morland, must navigate financial disadvantage, social constraint, and sometimes quite ruthless manipulation ... Read more

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  • Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded

    Or Virtue Rewarded

    by Samuel Richardson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The publication of Pamela in 1740 marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. It vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. It is a work of pioneering psychological complexity and a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse. This edition is based on the original text of 1740, that aroused widespread ... Read more

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  • The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

    by Samuel Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve.' Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the 'happy valley' in order to make their 'choice of life'. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they may come to understand the nature of happiness, and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and ... Read more

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  • Joseph Andrews and Shamela

    by Henry Fielding ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I beg as soon as you get Fielding's Joseph Andrews, I fear in Ridicule of your Pamela and of Virtue in the Notion of Don Quixote's Manner, you would send it to me by the very first Coach.' (George Cheyne in a letter to Samuel Richardson, February 1742) Both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) were prompted by the success of Richardson's Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy ... Read more

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe, James Kelly ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Vathek

    by William Beckford ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!' The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him boundless treasure and unrivalled power he is willing to sacrifice his god, the lives of innocent children, and his own soul to satisfy his obsession. ... Read more

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe, James Kelly ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Poetics of the Pillory

    English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820

    by Thomas Keymer ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, Thomas Macaulay wrote in his History of England, 'English literature was emancipated, and emancipated for ever, from the control of the government'. It's certainly true that the system of prior restraint enshrined in this Restoration measure was now at an end, at least for print. Yet the same cannot be said of government control, which came to operate ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830

    Edited by Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne

    Edited by Thomas Keymer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an obscure clergyman in rural Yorkshire. But he brilliantly exploited the sensation achieved with the first instalment of Tristram Shandy to become, by ... Read more

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  • Pride and Prejudice

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters ... Read more

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  • Mansfield Park

    by Jane Austen, Jane Stabler ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act."At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her ... Read more

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