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Today, more and more emphasis is placed on successful communiocation, and on the correct and skilled use of words. Better Wordpower is an accessible and readable guide which helps you through the pitfalls and complications of the English language.

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The intensity of its narrative and its naturalistic power|earne

Thady Quirk - or honest Thady& - having lived on the estate of Castle Rackrent for most of his long life, takes it upon himself to &publish the MEMOIRS of the RACKRENT FAMLY.& Speaking in Irish vernacular, he describes the masters he and hi

It is the 150th anniversary of H. G. Wells's birth in 2016|Includes a lively and accessible introduction by a leading scholar of late Victorian popular fiction|Includes an up-to-date bibliography, chronology, and notes to provide addional contextual inter

A man ...is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but|dismay

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Join Winnie and Wilbur for some sticker fun!|Abracadabra! It's time for some sticker magic! This fantastic sticker book has all you need for hours of fun with Winnie the Witch and her cat Wilbur. Find the re-usable stickers to complete the pictures and cr

This new edition features the Magnum text of 1832, the last to be corrected by Scott, and it includes Scott's own notes. This reissue is the only available critical edition and it includes a fine introduction by Kathryn Sutherland, who examines the|histor

The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First Emperor, founder of the dynasty, is told in the Historical Records of Sima Qian, the Grand Historiographer and|

'It's the masters as has wrought this woe, it's the masters as should pay for it.'||Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's

Lord Jim is a book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth, in the exotic setting of post-colonial Patusan, a remote Malay settlement. This new edition uses the first English edition text and includes a new introduction and notes|b

The fairy tales of Perrault--stories that are known and loved around the world--are now available in this scintillating paperback edition, with twenty-six stunning illustrations by Gustave Doré. The superb translation by Christopher Betts exactly|captures

After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the political and social world has subtly changed, parties and policies no longer fixed and advancement dependent upon|schemin

Despite his mysterious antecedents, an unscrupulous financial speculator, Ferdinand Lopez, aspires to marry into respectability and wealth and join the ranks of British society. One of the nineteenth century's most memorable outsiders, Lopez's story is|se