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Wuthering Heights

David Copperfield

authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism
Presents the comprehensive annotated text of Charles Dickens' classic novel and includes a collection of twelve critical essays on the work along with passages from his letters relating to "David Copperfield.".
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The double helix

a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA
A critical edition of James D. Watson's account of he and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery of the DNA double helix, including reviews by Gunther Stent and other scientists and scholars.
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The sound and the fury

an authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
Presents the original text and a critical examination of William Faulker's "The Sound and The Fury" with end notes designed to assist the reader with obscure language and allusions. Contains appendix with background information and historical context.
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Pride and prejudice

The turn of the screw

Red and black

1969
Presents a contemporary colloquial English translation of the nineteenth-century novel based on the 1827 trial of Antoine Berthet, a young man whose dismay over being denied entry into the seminary led him to murder; and includes background and sources, and a sampling of critical commentaries.

Passing

authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
2007
Contains sixteen critical commentaries of Nella Larsen's novel "Passing," that deals with the psychological issues of race and gender and includes reviews, textual notes, chronology, and introduction.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Pride and prejudice

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