Literature & Classics

Literature & Classics

Literature & Classics

Literature & Classics

Literature and the classics are the foundation of human thought and imagination. Read the world's greatest writers here.

 

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COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF SAKI
Hector Hugh Munro    Book Number: 100541
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Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidit...
LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES:
THOMAS HARDY    Book Number: 24266
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The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the...
ANIMAL FARM
GEORGE ORWELL    Book Number: 88926
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In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin's brutal regime was either censored or discour...
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
GEORGE ORWELL     Book Number: 88929
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The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about f...
THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
T. E. LAWRENCE    Book Number: 25266
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As Angus Calder states in his Introduction to this edition, Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War. Lawrence's younger brothers,...
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
F. NIETZSCHE    Book Number: 27113
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This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernal of Nietzsche's thought. God is dead, he tells us. Christianity is decaden...
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
CHARLES DICKENS    Book Number: 10990
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The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky ...
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
CHARLES DICKENS    Book Number: 24282
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Dickens' last complete novel of Victorian society is a vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his fathe...
DUBLINERS

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JAMES JOYCE    Book Number: 100422
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Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt ...
OLIVER TWIST
CHARLES DICKENS    Book Number: 100682
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Dickens had already achieved renown with 'The Pickwick Papers'. With 'Oliver Twist' his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding povert...
DICKINSON: The Selected Poems
EMILY DICKINSON    Book Number: 10800
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The daughter of a lawyer from Amhurst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was initially a vivacious, outgoing person, but she progressively withdrew into a reclusive existance. Emily was a...
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
JULES VERNE    Book Number: 23648
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Jules Verne's third great science fiction novel describes the discovery and exploration of a secret tunnel which leads through a volcano to the centre of the Earth. The leader of the expedition is ...
ADVENTURES AND MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Book Number: 100345
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective the readers of The Strand Magazine. In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have s...
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR
SIR THOMAS MALORY    Book Number: 25244
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The legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring in world literature. Its scenes of love, war, religion, treachery and family loyalty are timeless as are the...
UTOPIA

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THOMAS MORE    Book Number: 25255
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Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought. Utopians live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, hold all posse...
RETURN OF THE NATIVE
THOMAS HARDY    Book Number: 10906
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The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye. As character after character is driven to self-destruction, t...
WESSEX TALES
THOMAS HARDY    Book Number: 22668
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Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbu...
PICKWICK PAPERS
CHARLES DICKENS    Book Number: 23791
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Published when Charles Dickens was just 25, it established him at a single stroke as a major creative artist. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the sportsman Winkle a...
MIDDLEMARCH
GEORGE ELIOT    Book Number: 23796
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'Middlemarch' is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unre...
KIM

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RUDYARD KIPLING    Book Number: 23813
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Tells the story of Kimball O' Hara (Kim), who is the orphaned son of a soldier in the Irish regiment stationed in India during the British Raj. It describes Kim's life and adventures from street va...
TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN
MARK TWAIN    Book Number: 23871
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Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series o...
CALL OF THE WILD & WHITE FANG
JACK LONDON    Book Number: 24307
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Call of the Wild (1903) describes the adventures of a dog who escapes civilisation to lead a wolf pack. White Fang (1906) is a moving account of a ferocious wolf who is tamed as he learns to love a...
COLLECTED POEMS OF RUDYARD KIPLING
RUDYARD KIPLING    Book Number: 39654
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This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet La...
HOUSE OF THE DEAD and THE GAMBLER
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY    Book Number: 62726
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The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevsky's own experience of penal servitude in Siberia. In graphic detail he describes the suffering of the convicts - their squalor and degradation...
KARAMAZOV BROTHERS
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY    Book Number: 63648
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As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? ...
RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS
Robert Tressell    Book Number: 68844
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the instit...
WEALTH OF NATIONS
Adam Smith    Book Number: 68851
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First p...
LADY SUSAN AND OTHER WORKS
JANE AUSTEN    Book Number: 72384
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This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her fragmentary juvenilia s...
AN ODE TO DARKNESS
SIGRI SANDBERG    Book Number: 89964
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Under the dark polar night of northern Norway, journalist Sigri Sandberg meditates on the cultural, historical, psychological and scientific meaning of darkness, all the while testing the limits of...
NINA X
EWAN MORRISON    Book Number: 89752
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'This moving tale of growing up in a Maoist cult, and the traumatic aftermath, explores ideas of freedom, control and identity with warmth and humour.' - Observer. This award-winning novel is 'lit...
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