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  • Fanny Hill

    or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

    by John Cleland ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Fanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without literary merit, even earning its author a jail sentence for obscenity.The tale of a naïve young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London who slowly rises to respectability, the novel–and its popularity–endured many ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

    Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte GordonNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThe original 1818 text of Frankenstein preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and ... Read more

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  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

    by Mary Shelley ...
    Series series Enriched Classics
    A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it’s Frankenstein” (The New York Times Book Review).A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy.This edition includes:-A concise introduction that gives readers important background ... Read more

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  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

    Series series Vintage Feminism Short Editions
    Discover Wollstonecraft’s classic feminist text in an abridged, digestible form.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMSThe term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist writing. In these pages you will find the essence of her argument – for the education of women and for an increased female contribution to society. Her work made ... Read more

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  • Frankenstein

    The 1818 Text

    Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written and one of the best-selling books of all time. It is the tale of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist whose unbridled quest for the secret of life unleashes a creature that embodies our deepest fears about the moral bounds of human progress. Ever since its publication in 1818, readers have been fascinated with the iconic image of ... Read more

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  • Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

    A terrifying account of the fallibility of the human mind and, by extension, of democracy itself, Wieland brilliantly reflects the psychological, social, and political concerns of the early American republic. In the fragmentary sequel,Memoirs, Brown explores Carwin’s bizarre history as a manipulated disciple of the charismatic utopian Ludloe.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the ... Read more

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  • The Portable Hawthorne

    A critical vantage point from which to see Hawthorne's career as a whole—his artistic rise, triumph, and final worksThe Portable Hawthorne includes writings from each major stage in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales, all of The Scarlet Letter, excerpts from his three subsequently published romances—The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and ... Read more

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  • Mathilda

    Mathilda" a semi-autobiographical work is a brilliant example of Shelley's genius. Emotional at times it is a strong psychological portrait skilfully written by a gifted and knowledgeable author. Published posthumously it explores themes of incest familial relations and mental suffering. Wonderful! ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD

  • Mathilda

    by Mary Shelley ...
    Mary Shelley's "Matilda" - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the incestuous passion of her father. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Lord Alfred Tennyson

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by John D. Jump ...
    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. ... Read more

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  • Women in the Eighteenth Century

    Constructions of Femininity

    Edited by Vivien Jones ...
    Series series World and Word
    This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women, ranging from `conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on eighteenth-century ... Read more

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  • What is Love

    A Treatise Based on Great Authors Essays

    What is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves. If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within ... Read more

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