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Literature & Classics
Literature & Classics
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| Thomas Hardy Book Number: 100507 |
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'Far from the Madding Crowd' is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene...
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'Moll Flanders' follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportatio...
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| F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Book Number: 100768 |
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An ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal ...
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| WALT WHITMAN Book Number: 101011 |
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Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It fits into no previously defined genre and skilfully combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes with...
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| SIR WALTER SCOTT Book Number: 10905 |
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Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats and equally memorable characters.
Scott explores the conflicts between the Cr...
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New AGNES GREY |
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This novel is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century. This is a deeply...
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| CHARLES AND MARY LAMB Book Number: 23980 |
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'The Tales from Shakespeare' by Charles and Mary Lamb were written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved pla...
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New REPUBLIC |
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The ideas of Plato (c.429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over 2,000 years. The Republic deals with the great range of Platonic thought combining argument and myth to advocate a lif...
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New NJAL'S SAGA |
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Njal's Saga is the finest of Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's great prose works. Written in about 1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into three parts: the first ...
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| LOCKE Book Number: 30592 |
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John Locke (1632-1704) was a key figure in 17th century philosophy, politics and society. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was his greatest achievement, and encompasses a broad spectrum of ...
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New ETHICS |
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Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his dea...
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New DEVILS |
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In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoev...
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| ALEXANDRE DUMAS Book Number: 37598 |
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The final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some 35 years on, the bonds of c...
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| H. RIDER HAGGARD Book Number: 64452 |
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King Solomon's Mines tells of the search by Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and the narrator, Allan Quatermain, for Sir Henry's younger brother George. He has been lost in the interior of Afric...
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| ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Book Number: 76215 |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limi...
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| SELECTED DAVID STUART DAVIES Book Number: 88930 |
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A wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from...
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| THOMAS HUGHES Book Number: 10835 |
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Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding and Alec Waugh. The book describes To...
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Introduction and Notes by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and s...
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| VIRGINIA WOOLF Book Number: 68840 |
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Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society, the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where the representatives of the you...
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| Virginia Woolf Book Number: 68845 |
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This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (194...
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| ELIZABETH GASKELL Book Number: 33036 |
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Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in 19th century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother...
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| GASTON LEROUX Book Number: 58181 |
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Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured creature has made his home in the labyrinthine cellars of this opulent buil...
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| EDITED BY ROSEMARY GRAY Book Number: 62735 |
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Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season. The title poem, familiar to children and adults the world over, introduces a collec...
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| CAROL ANN DUFFY Book Number: 90625 |
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The prize-winning author Hs teamed up with talented illustrators to produce these beautiful decorated small square gift books. Inspired by the medieval tradition of appointing a Lord of Misrule, h...
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| BEATRIX POTTER Book Number: 90670 |
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A stunning visual guide to the world of Beatrix Potter this is the updated 150th anniversary celebration edition. Since it was first published in 1902, The Tale of Peter Rabbit has captured the he...
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| REBECCA MEAD Book Number: 90881 |
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A poignant testimony to the power of fiction, the New Yorker writer revisits George Eliot's classic which she has read every five years since the age of 17. Published when George Eliot was 51, Mid...
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| STELLA GIBBONS Book Number: 84848 |
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If you are yet to read this, it is probably the funniest book ever written. 'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm...' Sensible, sophistic...
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| DAVID DAY Book Number: 89100 |
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Tolkien scholar and bestselling author David Day for over four decades has had an enduring fascination with complex mythologies which led him to J. R. R. Tolkien. Here he describes the history and...
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| WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM Book Number: 10627 |
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early p...
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