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  • The Life of J.-K. Huysmans

    by Robert Baldick ...
    Like Froude's biography of Carlyle, Holroyd's Shaw, and Ellmann's Joyce, Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the writing of the author whose life it chronicles, but a work of literature in its own right. First published fifty years ago, Baldick's classic biography presents a compelling narrative of Huysmans' life ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Sentimental Education

    by Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall ...
    Translated by Robert Baldick ...
    Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more of an anxious quest than a happy one, echoing Flaubert's own life experience of unrequited love. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

    by John Polidori ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' 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 London, Polidori's tales is a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Devil in the Flesh

    by Raymond Radiguet ...
    Translated by Robert Baldick ...
    As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river banks. When she receives letters from her husband, they burn them together. Intoxicated by passion, they cannot bear to end their affair, even when ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Downstream

    by Joris-Karl Huysmans ...
    Translated by Robert Baldick ...
    Downstream, the shortest and most autobiographical of Huysmans’ novels, is the perfect example of what the French naturalists wanted a novel to be. This dark and mordantly comic masterpiece of everyday pessimism about a Parisian clerk seeking spiritual contentment is the perfect introduction to the pleasures of Joris Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), whose exquisite style is ironically the most perfect ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    A Gothic Story

    by Horace Walpole ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Dracula

    by Bram Stoker ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'it was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam' Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world, an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London, the very heart of the British Empire. Only a handful of men and women stand between Dracula and his long-cherished goal, but they are ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Sentimental Education - An Autobiographical Novel (Complete Edition) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A realist, ironic tale of youthful passion amid the 1848 Revolution and Second Empire

    by Gustave Flaubert, Linden Castermere ...
    Sentimental Education - An Autobiographical Novel (Complete Edition) follows Frédéric Moreau, a provincial youth in Paris, through frustrated love, social ambition, and the upheavals surrounding the Revolution of 1848. Flaubert transforms the bildungsroman into an anti-romance: desire is deferred, history is witnessed obliquely, and every ideal is compromised by vanity, money, or inertia. Its cool ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jane Eyre

    by Charlotte Brontë ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Moonstone

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer? A celebrated Indian yellow diamond is first stolen from India, then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Who took it? And where is it now? A dramatist as well as a novelist, Wilkie Collins gives to each of his narratorsa household servant, a detective, a lawyer, a cloth-eared Evangelical, a dying medical ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Frankenstein

    or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text

    by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
    By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...' Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Wuthering Heights

    by Emily Brontë ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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