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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.
| JOAN AIKEN Book Number: 88052 |
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The author was well known for her wit, awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature and much of her writing had a similar gothic flavour. With a likeable heroine narrator, here is cont...
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| ARTHUR WARD Book Number: 87807 |
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Sub-titled 'From Training Guides to Propaganda Posters' here for the first time is a single volume entirely dedicated to a long-overlooked component of wartime collectables. It is designed to comp...
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| GEORGE AND WEEDON GROSSMITH Book Number: 23800 |
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The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody" - Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilario...
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New AESOP'S FABLES |
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Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the gr...
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| OMAR KHAYYAM Book Number: 24273 |
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This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyam. Fitzgerald's masterful translation was firs...
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| ALEXANDRA HARRIS Book Number: 87781 |
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A change in the weather can make us feel we are entering a new world, as both Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf noted, while a painter like John Constable can conjure up a stormy sky with a single l...
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| ALAIN DE BOTTON Book Number: 88179 |
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De Botton brings a philosopher's sensibility to his analysis of the emotions of love resulting in a genre-breaking book shot through with lyricism, acuity and depth, witty, funny and sophisticated ...
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| ANNE FRANK Book Number: 88182 |
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The young Anne Frank kept a diary from 12th June 1942 to 1st August 1944. On 4th August, eight people hiding in the Secret Annexe were arrested and two secretaries working in the building found An...
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| COMPILED BY TRAVIS ELBOROUGH Book Number: 88243 |
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Modern history as told in diaries, letters and journals and compiled by one of Britain's finest pop culture historians, we eavesdrop on the extraordinary and ordinary men and women who lived throug...
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| JOHN KEATS Book Number: 88319 |
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Born in London in 1795, John Keats first studied medicine but preferred to write poetry and published his first sonnets in 1816. His first book of poems appeared in 1817 and a year later he publis...
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| CLIVE JAMES Book Number: 87567 |
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Clive James is celebrated as a superb entertainer, but he was also clever, cultured and outspoken, as this collection of 49 reviews triumphantly demonstrates. Originally published in 2003, the book...
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| J. BRUCE ROSS & M. MCLAUGHLIN Book Number: 88431 |
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One of the most important movements in the history of the world, the Renaissance in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, changed the way people thought and behaved. This collection of 120 extract...
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| E. M.FORSTER Book Number: 88387 |
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Virginia Woolf said of this book 'His is a book to encourage dreaming.' Informal and talkative, in the spring of 1927 at Trinity College Cambridge, the writer E. M. Forster delivered the Clark Lec...
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| HERMAN MELVILLE Book Number: 88408 |
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The author of Moby Dick is here at his most uncompromising and compelling. Herman Melville (1819-91) wrote novels and travelogues inspired by his experiences at sea with Moby Dick and Billy Budd, ...
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| G. K. CHESTERTON Book Number: 23783 |
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Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collect...
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New CHRISTMAS BOOKS |
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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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New PICKWICK PAPERS |
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Published when Charles Dickens was just 25, it established him at a single stroke as a major creative artist. The book reveals the depths of his human sympathy, the breadth of his knowledge and th...
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| JAMES JOYCE Book Number: 23812 |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later w...
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| 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...
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| CHARLES DICKENS Book Number: 23969 |
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Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates...
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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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| GUY MAUPASSANT Book Number: 24277 |
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The master of the short story has themes ranging from the brutality of war and the hypocrisy it spawns, the petty limitations, dissimulations and vanities inherent at different levels of society an...
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| RUDYARD KIPLING Book Number: 24279 |
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Traffics and Discoveries contains three tales in which the subject matter ranges from unexplained mystery and the supernatural to an other-worldly house full of elusive but charming children. The M...
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| 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...
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| ALEXANDRE DUMAS Book Number: 27111 |
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The story of Edmond Dantès, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantès is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a ...
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| HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Book Number: 31853 |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin has earned the title of not only the first bestseller, but also the first protest novel to have a direct impact on political events. The story follows the life and vicissitudes o...
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| J. SMITH AND FOUGASSE Book Number: 83446 |
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Measuring just 3.6 x 4.8cm or 1½" x nearly 2" and ½", this teeny weeny satin miniature book has regal gold decorations on the cream satin cover, satin bookmark and gilt-edged pages and inside, even...
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| MARY NORTON Book Number: 88170 |
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Pale blue clothbound hardback gift edition of the classic children's story with original artwork by Diana Stanley and a stunning navy blue ribbon feature. Deep beneath the floorboards lives the ti...
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| ALLEN GINSBERG Book Number: 88437 |
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The cover quote nails it: "I don't remember much anymore, I can't remember who f**ked who, when, or who wrote what anymore, and this may be one of the last times I'll actually be able to remember t...
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| EDITED BY JOHN BOYES Book Number: 88557 |
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John Boyes has collated best-loved poems which have stood the test of time. The verses are not the most significant or influential but they are the ones closest to readers' hearts, with sections de...
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