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Product Description: I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure; nor in relating the truth, design to adorn it with any accidents but such as arrived in earnest to him: and it shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits and natural intrigues; there being enough of reality to support it, and to render it diverting, without the addition of invention...read more
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9781612193243, titled "Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave, a True Story" | Melville Pub House, August 12, 2014, cover price $12.00 | also contains Oroonoko | About this edition: The bestselling story by a legendary female writer--a tale of love, slavery, and rebellion.
9781500517212 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 14, 2014, cover price $5.99 | also contains Oroonoko | About this edition: Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year.
9781499390919 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 20, 2014, cover price $5.99 | also contains Oroonoko | About this edition: Oroonoko is Aphra Behn's story about a slave in Surinam during the 17th century, mixed with her own life experiences there.
9781495385308 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 30, 2014, cover price $9.95 | also contains Oroonoko | About this edition: Oroonoko is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688, concerning the love of its hero, an enslaved African in Surinam in the 1660s, and the author's own experiences in the new South American colony.
9781482079630 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 28, 2013, cover price $10.95 | also contains Oroonoko
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Product Description: The accident of death makes Persuasion Jane Austen's final novel. It deserves its position by its innovative treatment of passion and rhetorical style and its development of those themes of memory and time, public and private history, inner and outer lives, language and literature, emotion and restraint that have marked all Austen's work...read more
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9780521824187 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2006, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The accident of death makes Persuasion Jane Austen's final novel.
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9781107620452 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 30, 2013, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The accident of death makes Persuasion Jane Austen's final novel.
Product Description: First published in 1976, this was the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraftâs works and most of the critical and biographical comments on her in English written between 1788 and 1975. It is designed both as a research tool for scholars and students and as a revelation of the quantity and variety of comment...read more
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9780415628068 | Reprint edition (Routledge, October 9, 2012), cover price $125.00 | About this edition: First published in 1976, this was the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraftâs works and most of the critical and biographical comments on her in English written between 1788 and 1975.
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9780521858069 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2006), cover price $99.99
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9780521674690 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2006), cover price $25.99
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9780521826440 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $145.00
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9780521688536 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $34.99
Product Description: This is the first study of the posthumous life of Aphra Behn, the extraordinary vicissitudes of her critical reception, and the personal vilifications of her reputation through three centuries. Beginning with the reception of Behn's work during her lifetime, which she herself helped to orchestrate by performing herself as a seductive woman, a beleaguered lady writer, and a serious intellectual, among other roles, the work ends with the late 20th-century reception of Behn, when the interest in gender, race, and class has made of her almost a postmodern writer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781571131652 | Camden House, August 1, 1998, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This is the first study of the posthumous life of Aphra Behn, the extraordinary vicissitudes of her critical reception, and the personal vilifications of her reputation through three centuries.
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9781851962754 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, March 1, 1996, cover price $45.01
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9780826405982 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, September 1, 1993, cover price $24.95
Product Description: Mary Wollstonecraft is widely recognized as a social and political thinker of major significance and as one of the most important and influential of the early feminists. Some of her works, such as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, have become central texts of feminist thought...read more
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9780231072502 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1990), cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Mary Wollstonecraft is widely recognized as a social and political thinker of major significance and as one of the most important and influential of the early feminists.
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9780231072519 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $34.00
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9780231045636 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1983), cover price $42.00
Product Description: In the introduction to her book, Women's Friendships in Literature, Janet Todd says that the main reason for writing the book is to prove Virginia Woolf wrong. In A Room of One's Own, Woolf claims that she has never encountered a description of real female friendship in the course of her reading...read more
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9780231045629 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1980, cover price $106.50 | About this edition: In the introduction to her book, Women's Friendships in Literature, Janet Todd says that the main reason for writing the book is to prove Virginia Woolf wrong.
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9780820111490 | Reprint edition (Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint, March 1, 1975), cover price $75.00
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