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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.
| E. E. CUMMINGS Book Number: 85839 |
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Xaipe (Greek for 'rejoice') first appeared in 1950 and are some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in English. One of the most inventive American poets, the work is fresh, candid, earthy, t...
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| FOREWORD BY ANTONIA FRASER Book Number: 86023 |
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The celebrated historical biographer Elizabeth Longford only began her writing career in her late 50s. These fascinating memoirs cover the first 60 years of Lady Longford's eventful life, ending i...
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| ZOE BRAMLEY Book Number: 86028 |
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'This throne of kings, this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty' - William Shakespeare's own words celebrate the majesty of the country that praised his work during his life and continued to celeb...
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| Unknown Book Number: 86102 |
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Although come to be a children's book, this novel is read more often by adults since it is aimed to teach the great truths of the gospels. Some of the conversations are in reality short sermons on...
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| ELEANOR H. PORTER Book Number: 86103 |
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"What a most extraordinary child!" Aunt Polly speaks for all of Beldingsville, Vermont, when she summarises her niece Pollyanna's character thus - the young orphan, the eponymous heroine of Eleanor...
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| HOMER Book Number: 86108 |
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The Odyssey is thought to have been written around 800-900 BC and the poem marks the beginnings of Western literature. It is more accurately a lyric or rhapsody as it would originally have been pe...
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| Unknown Book Number: 86306 |
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Set consists of Pollyanna, Pilgrim's Progress and The Odyssey. Buy all three Collins Classics paperbacks and save even more.
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| NATALIDITA NINGTHOUKHONGJAM Book Number: 86310 |
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An exquisitely decorated 124 page lined notebook with excerpts, brief précis and illustrations from favourite characters from English literature for children over the years including Aladdin, Olive...
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| SELECTED BY E. A. CHAPMAN Book Number: 85856 |
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Embossed with gold foil and a luminescent cover, on glossy paper are full page colour illustrations from Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Rossetti, Millais, Waterhouse, Leighton, Godward and others among ...
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| DU MAURIER, DAPHNE Book Number: 86163 |
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First published in 1951 this is the 20th Century Fox film TV tie-in paperback edition of this dark, complex and brooding story. Rachel, a woman of exquisite beauty, descends on the great Cornwall ...
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| CHINA MIEVILLE Book Number: 86174 |
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The London based author has won the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award three times. Horror, noir, fantasy, politics and poetry swirl effortlessly in this dark, some...
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| DAISY GOODWIN Book Number: 86176 |
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By the creator and screenwriter of the TV series Victoria, Daisy Goodwin 'writes deliciously'. Early one morning, less than a month after her 18th birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed...
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| EDITED BY DIANA SECKER TESDELL Book Number: 86178 |
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From the very collectable series and with white pagemarker, here is a colourful bouquet of wedding stories by great writers of the past two centuries. They encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagem...
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| J.P.A. CALOSSE & H-J. DÖPP Book Number: 86469 |
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The testimonies of poets, painters and famous psychiatrists to the fantasy of the perfect woman and feminine mystique is celebrated in this rather special art book. Beginning with the Song of Song...
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| JOSEPHINE HART Book Number: 86348 |
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Set your hearts on fire with some of the most extraordinary poetry literature has known. From Lord Byron, Christina Rossetti and Percy Bysshe Shelley, to John Milton, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bis...
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| DANIEL ANSELME Book Number: 86413 |
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Daniel Rabinovitch was born in 1927 and adopted the name Anselme while serving in the French Resistance and this novel was first published in Paris in 1957. France's engagement in Algeria was beco...
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| E.F. BENSON Book Number: 65529 |
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These three wonderful comic novels, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia, drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the villag...
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| ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Book Number: 86604 |
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Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson and Lestrade face Moriarty, Jabez Wilson and Grimesby Roylott in this collection of 12 stories selected by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself from his 60-story canon. Publis...
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| DAVID SEDARIS Book Number: 86558 |
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In David Sedaris's world, no cow is sacred. Here is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist. A man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world. A teenage suicide tr...
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| DAVID SEDARIS Book Number: 86567 |
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Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters, goes on vacation with his family, gets jobs selling drinks, attends his brother's wedding, mops his sister's floor, gives directions to a lost traveller,...
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| D. H. LAWRENCE Book Number: 86582 |
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The full and unexpurgated text of the novel together with Archibald MacLeish's famous letter on the plan to publish the book, Mark Schorer's comprehensive and informative introduction and extracts ...
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| DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Book Number: 86856 |
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Harper's Magazine 1992-96, the Harvard Book Review and Esquire are some of the publications in which these brilliant essays first appeared and this collection was first published in the USA in 1997...
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| DYLAN THOMAS Book Number: 86863 |
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An incomparable self-portrait of an enchanting, maddening and ultimately tragic poet, we are thrilled to have the two volume reprinted definitive collection of his letters (Volume Two code 86864). ...
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| DYLAN THOMAS Book Number: 86864 |
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An incomparable self-portrait of an enchanting, maddening and ultimately tragic poet, we are thrilled to have the two volume reprinted definitive collection of his letters. (Volume One code 86863)...
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| MARTIN PUCHNER Book Number: 86501 |
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"A story of letters and paper and rocket ships, of ruthless conquerors and elegant court ladies and middle-class entrepreneurs, of the will to power and the dream of freedom." - Stephen Greenblatt....
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| SHAUN USHER Book Number: 86839 |
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Just as he did with Letters of Note, Shaun Usher has trawled the world's archives to produce a rich visual anthology from a To Do List of Leonardo da Vinci's to Charles Darwin on the pros and cons ...
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| BRYAN KOZLOWSKI Book Number: 86852 |
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Forget your fanteegs and roam at a foot-pace through the twisty alleyways of Victorian London using distinctly Dickensian words. It is a super literary romp through Charles Dickens's finest quips,...
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| JEAN LUCEY PRATT Book Number: 86889 |
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Aged just 16 "and just realising life and beginning to think for myself", in April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt began writing a journal and continued to write until a few days before her death in 1986. ...
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| JONATHAN FRANZEN Book Number: 87062 |
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"I was indulging a different sort of compulsion in Ghana. To my shame, I am what people in the world of birding call a lister... I go birding to experience their beauty and diversity, learn more ab...
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| VIRGINIA WOOLF Book Number: 23876 |
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'To the Lighthouse' is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it i...
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