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Literature & Classics
Literature & Classics
Literature and the classics are the foundation of human thought and imagination. Read the world's greatest writers here.
| FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Book Number: 35316 |
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From the beginning of this remarkable detective novel we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. Our brand new 485 page ...
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| PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Book Number: 40196 |
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The generous selection in this volume represents the wide range of his writing, both poetry and prose. Arranged chronologically, the accompanying introductory essays set Shelley's works in their hi...
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| SHERIDAN LE FANU Book Number: 57491 |
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In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight'. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are t...
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| WILKIE COLLINS Book Number: 58192 |
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Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and 'The Woman in White' is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, t...
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| F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Book Number: 65531 |
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Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. ...
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| KARL MARX Book Number: 70769 |
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Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his d...
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| KARL MARX Book Number: 71171 |
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Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his d...
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| WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Book Number: 71174 |
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Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic c...
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| L. FRANK BAUM Book Number: 71893 |
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In the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever...
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| ALFRED TENNYSON Book Number: 10735 |
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Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. H...
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| CHARLES DICKENS Book Number: 23788 |
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Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories ...
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| JOHN BUCHAN Book Number: 66180 |
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Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent...
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| MARGARET ATWOOD Book Number: 92308 |
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'We slept in what had once been the gymnasium... there was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, for something that w...
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| EDIT BY DEMARIA, FIX, WEINBROT Book Number: 92311 |
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Samuel Johnson was the towering literary figure of the 18th century, an awkward-looking native of Lichfield who made his way in the London political and literary world by sheer force of intellect a...
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| GEORGE ELIOT Book Number: 24280 |
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George Eliot drew heavily on her own knowledge of country life in the writing of this book and many of the characters are based on people she knew and loved. Set in the countryside of the English M...
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| FREDERIC RAPHAEL Book Number: 92641 |
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Frederic Raphael is an Oscar and BAFTA winning screenwriter, biographer, novelist and journalist, but it is to his greatest love, the Classics, he returns here. The culmination of a writing life of...
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| EDWARD WELCH Book Number: 92652 |
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Sub-titled 'History, Folklore and Victorian Pedantry' from the pages of 'Notes & Queries', a weekly magazine founded in London in 1849. It was a 'medium of inter-communication for literary men, ar...
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| ED. JAMES DAYBELL & A. GORDON Book Number: 92656 |
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The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in the digital age, faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate tho...
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| NICHOLAS JUBBER Book Number: 92659 |
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On a journey through Europe from Turkey to Iceland, here prizewinning travel author Nicholas Jubber also takes a literary journey through our continent's most enduring epic poems, to learn how they...
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| ZADIE SMITH Book Number: 92662 |
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As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and finalist in the National Book Critic Circle Award, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth is back with an unmissable collection of essays and ...
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| JODY ENDERS Book Number: 92668 |
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12 Medieval French plays rendered into modern English by the translator of 'The Farce of the Fart', scurrilous, sexy, stupid, satirical, scatological, side splitting.' Enders is unafraid to refere...
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| NICK HORNBY Book Number: 92669 |
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Printed monthly in The Believer, Hornby's book reviews are suffused with wit, ire and loving insight and his choices often strike into the deeper and odder reaches of the literary world, big books ...
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| D. J. TAYLOR Book Number: 92684 |
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Winner of the Whitbread Book Award for Biography for his Orwell: The Life in 2003, the literary critic D. J. Taylor unearths the origins, maps of its creation and lasting impact of George Orwell's ...
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| THOMAS A. PRENDERGAST Book Number: 92686 |
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In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey are interred the bodies of over 70 men and women, primarily writers, poets and playwrights, and many more are memorialised. Ever since the reburial of Geo...
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| NICK HORNBY Book Number: 92687 |
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A hilarious and true account of one man's struggle with the monthly tide of the books he has bought and the books he has been meaning to read, here is another collection of 14 months? of Nick Hornb...
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| ELAINE FANTHAM Book Number: 92693 |
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Drama, comedy and tragedy in this, the second edition concerning the best-attested generation of Roman writers and the community around Cicero in the period from 50BCE when the autocratic control o...
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| NICK HORNBY Book Number: 92696 |
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Sub-titled 'Two Years of Reading Begat More Reading', presented in easily digestible, hysterical monthly instalments. This is the final collection of Hornby's monthly column for The Believer magaz...
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| ROBERT WYATT & ALFIE BENGE Book Number: 92697 |
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As a founding member of the influential English rock bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole and with a solo career which has lasted for over 40 years, Robert Wyatt has collaborated with artists inclu...
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| SEL. BY CHRISTINA HARDYMENT Book Number: 92794 |
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A British Library publication which is beautifully decorated with antiquarian botanical woodcuts and close up details of natural history drawings and paintings and book illustrations by Walter Cran...
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| MICHAEL MORPURGO Book Number: 92809 |
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First published in 1982, we are thrilled to have this paperback reprint of what is now regarded as a modern classic. The story begins: 'My earliest memories are a confusion of hilly fields and dar...
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