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The history of Tom Jones, a foundling
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2005
[New ed.] / edited with explanatory notes by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely /with an introduction by Thomas Keymer
This is a funny, scandalous and picaresque tale of a young lad, reared by a magnanimous benefactor who becomes entangled in the life of an amorous 'Lady...
A rogue's life
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Hesperus, 2006
A tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, 'A Rogue's Life' follows the very mixed fortunes of an endearing young man
Chronicle of a death foretold
Book. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2007
Angela Vicario's new husband is furious when he discovers she's not a virgin, and he returns her to her family home. Angela's mother beats her and her...
One hundred years of solitude
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2000
In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community in which the political, the personal and the...
No one writes to the colonel
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2008
Set in the decaying Colombian town of Macondo, the Colonel is scraping together the money for food and medicine. It is the Colonel's rooster that gives...
The autumn of the patriarch
Book. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2014
As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through the dusty corridors of the presidential palace in search of their tyrannical leader, they...
One hundred years of solitude
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2007
In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community in which the political, the personal and the...
Tom Jones
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
[New ed.] / edited by John Bender and Simon Stern /with an introduction by John Bender
This is a carefully modernised version of Fielding's classic work, based on his amended fourth edition text. The introduction uses the latest scholarship...
The history of Tom Jones: a foundling; and, The female husband
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Vintage, 2007
Tom Jones is a funny, scandalous and picaresque tale of a young lad, reared by a magnanimous benefactor who becomes entangled in the life of an amorous...
Roxana: the fortunate mistress: or, a history of the life and vast variety of fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards called the Countess de Wintselsheim in Germany: being the person known by the name of the Lady Roxana in the time of Charles II
Book. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
[New ed.] / edited with an introduction and notes by John Mullan
'Roxana', Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune...
