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This year Oxford World's Classics have been relaunched with a stunning, clean design that lends a fresh and contemporary feel to both the familiar and the more unusual works in this breathtaking range of over 750 titles of world literature. Books which can be read for pleasure as much as for study, Oxford World's Classics encompasses classic fiction, Shakespeare, poetry, ancient philosophy, and well as some surprising and unusual gems.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë

A passionate tale of betrayal, this story of a man's alcoholic decline, marital breakdown and its effect on children, and the position of women in Victorian society is told with shocking vividness and power. This new edition combines an authoritative text with wide-ranging critical discussion.

17 April 2008 | £6.99 | Paperback | 496 pages
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Persian Letters
Montesquieu

Two Persian travellers arrive in Paris and report on the European society of the Enlightenment in their letters home. With biting satire they compare East and West, while unsettling news from the harem provides a suspenseful plot of jealousy and passion. This is the first English translation based on the original text.

17 April 2008 | £9.99 | Paperback | 320 pages
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Win a weekend in London to see MARGUERITE at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
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From the creators of LES MISERABLES and the Oscar winning composer Michel Legrand, comes MARGUERITE. A love story set in Paris during the Second World War, MARGUERITE draws inspiration from one of the greatest of romantic novels, La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas.

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