On the Origin of Species

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

From Mrs Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by

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Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, The Guilty River

Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here.

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Collected Ghost Stories

Includes a lively introduction that explores James's conservative, donnish background and the character traits that contributed to the extraordinary power of his closely focused tales,

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The Alchemist and Other Plays

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in

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An Essay on the Principle of Population

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus remains a byword for concern

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French Decadent Tales

Includes well-known writers such as Maupassant, Lorrain, Mirbeau, and Villiers as well as lesser known figures such as Leon Bloy, Jean Richepin, and the Belgian

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The Professor

The Professor (1845-6), written before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before

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A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections

James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of

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Troilus and Criseyde

`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his

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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his

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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of

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Autobiography and Other Writings

This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women.

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Tom Brown's Schooldays

An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from

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Selected Writings

This is the only general anthology of Ruskin's writing currently available.Growing status of Ruskin as a major Victorian writer his centenary in 2002 prompted a

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Lyrical Ballads. 1798 and 1802

Lyrical Ballads is one of the most important collections of poetry ever published, and includes poems such as 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Lines written a

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Leviathan

Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications

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Late Victorian Gothic Tales

The only mainstream anthology to bring together the defining Gothic tales of the 1890sComplements and deepens the context for the most enduring Gothic fiction of

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Le Morte Darthur. The Winchester Manuscript

The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner'. In a resonant

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The Old Curiosity Shop

`Little Nell' cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the grotesque

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

This revised edition of Sterne's extraordinary comic novel retains the text based on the first editions of the original nine volumes, with Sterne's later changes,

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The Pickwick Papers

In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born:

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Tales of the Elders of Ireland

The first complete translation of the late Middle Irish Acallam na SenorachComplements Thomas Kinsella's translation of the Tain, OUP,1970Relevant to all Celtic and Irish Studies

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Tom Jones

Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous

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The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico

Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640),

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The Woman in White

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into

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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and

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The Mill on the Floss

`But it's bad - it's bad,' Mr Tulliver added - `a woman's no business wi' being so clever it'll turn to trouble, I doubt.'Rebellious and

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The Moonstone

A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many

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Little Women

Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after daughters in the absence of her husband, who is

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The Canterbury Tales

David Wright's acclaimed translation, now partnered with a new critical introduction and invaluable notes by Chaucer scholar Christopher Cannon to make it the best edition

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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Cleland's critics too condemned the 'infamous' and 'poisonous' novel when it first appeared in 1748-9. But the proliferation of editions, adaptations, and translations since then

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Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Game theory has seen spectacular successes in evolutionary biology and economics, and is beginning to revolutionize other disciplines from psychology to political science. This Very Short

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Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction

Despite important advances, clinical applications of stem cells are still in their infancy. Most real stem cell therapy today is some form of bone marrow

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Emotion: A Very Short Introduction

Was love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery really make you happy?

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Probability: A Very Short Introduction

Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The only complete text in paperback, including all the marginal notes of the original, in original spelling.The first edition to include all the original illustrations

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Memory: A Very Short Introduction

This book brings together the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, and weaves in case-studies, anecdotes, and even literature and philosophy, to address these and

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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness

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African Religions: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction offers a wide-ranging look at the myriad indigenous religious traditions on the African continent. Drawing on archeological research, historical evidence, ethnographic studies, and

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Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction draws on the best scientific research to offer a highly accessible explanation of what anxiety is, why it is such a normal and

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Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

For complex cultural and historical reasons, ethics has not received as much attention in traditional Buddhist thought as it has in the West, and publications

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Film Music: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction provides a lucid, accessible, and engaging overview of the subject of film music. Beginning with an analysis of the music from

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Happiness: A Very Short Introduction

In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its importance in our lives, and how

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Madness: A Very Short Introduction

Madness profoundly disturbs our common sense assumptions threatens the social order, both symbolically and practically creates almost unbearable disruptions in the texture of daily living

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Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction

In forensic science, a criminal case can often hinge on a piece of evidence such as a hair, a blood trace, half a footprint, or

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Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Racism: A Very Short Introduction incorporates the latest research to demystify the subject of racism and explore its history, science, and culture. It sheds light not

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David Copperfield

Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse, and in the

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Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction

Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare?

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Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction

Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in

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Free Will: A Very Short Introduction

Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some of them trivial, and some so consequential that they

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Magic: A Very Short Introduction

Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes

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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its

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Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

`Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size but, for

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The Brain: A Very Short Introduction

In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of

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Autism: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction offers a clear statement on what is currently known about autism and Asperger syndrome. Explaining the vast array of different conditions that hide

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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction

his Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and

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Choice Theory: A Very Short Introduction

We make choices all the time - about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to

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Middlemarch

Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian

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Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction

This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject,

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Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction

These are the questions that the field of developmental biology seeks to answer. It is an area that is closely linked to genetics, evolution, and

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