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A scholarly edition of works by Jane Austen, presenting an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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The most famous friendship in English literature arose between a distinguished 18th–century author and his young admirer. The result is this brilliant narrative and its enduring portrait of an age as
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Scientific developments have increasingly been transforming our understanding of the place of human beings in nature. The study of humanity, carried out in a variety of disciplines from anthropology a
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