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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin authentic texts)

Oscar Wilde

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Part of the "Penguin Authentic Texts" series of books that examine English language fiction, focusing on literature and language in literature. This book includes notes on language to help clarify text for both native and non-native readers of English. On its publication in 1891, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was widely condemned for its immorality ...more

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A Journal of the Plague Year (English Library)

Daniel Defoe

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In this novel, set in 1665, when the plague was rampant in Europe, a group of Londoners leaves the city and takes refuge in Epsom Forest. Daniel Defoe used the novel as an opportunity to express his disagreement with the unpopular proposed policy of quarantining London. It is notable for its intensely realistic scenes of terror, suffering, and deat...more

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Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Anthony Burgess

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'Nothing Like The Sun' is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will's maturation into sex and writing.

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Oedipus Rex (Minnesota drama editions)

Sophocles

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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the sense of poetry evident in the origin...more

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The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard

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First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard's voice and v...more

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The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Anthony Burgess

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A Dead Man in Deptford (Burgess, Anthony)

Anthony Burgess

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With A Dead Man in Deptford, Burgess concluded his literary career to overwhelming acclaim for his re-creation of the Elizabethan poet Christopher Marlowe. In lavish, pitch-perfect, and supple, readable prose, Burgess matches his splendid Shakespeare novel, Nothing Like the Sun. The whole world of Elizabethan England-from the intrigues of the court...more