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Utopia

a revised translation, backgrounds, criticism
1992
Presents a revised translation of Sir Thomas More's classic novel "Utopia, " and includes five critical essays plus a selection from Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward.".

The prince

a revised translation, backgrounds, interpretations, marginalia
1992
An annotated translation of the classic treatise on political power, statecraft, and the qualities of the ideal ruler; with notes clarifying Machiavelli's sources and the historical and political context of his time, and including several critical articles.

Oliver Twist

authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, early reviews, criticism
1993
Presents the complete text of Charles Dickens' classic novel along with background and source information and twenty essays that critically examine his work.

Frankenstein

1996
Presents the 1818 text of the novel about a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own and learns to loathe himself and hate his creator; and includes explanatory annotations, a selection of related writings, and a collection of critical essays.

The sound and the fury

an authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
1994

Woman in the nineteenth century

1998
Presents an annotated edition of the 1845 treatise championing women's rights; and includes selections from other writings by Fuller, and a collection of critical essays.

Pride and prejudice

Wuthering Heights

Nathaniel Hawthorne's tales

authoritative texts, backgrounds, criticism
1987
Contains fully annotated reprints of twenty-one tales and sketches by nineteenth-century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne; selected commentary by the author on his works; and several examples of criticism from contemporaries such as Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe and more recent writers.

Uncle Tom's cabin

1994
Presents an annotated edition of the nineteenth-century novel about Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the inhumane circumstances of slavery; and includes backgrounds and contexts, and a selection of critical essays.

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