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The Law and the Lady - Wilkie Collins

Přečtěte si klasickou detektivní novelu od Wilkieho Collinse, The Law and the Lady. Valeria Woodvilleová se vydá na cestu odhalování tajemství svého manžela a vstoupí do komplikovaného a tajemného světa, plného falešných stop a deceptivních identit.

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Moonlight - Guy de Maupassant

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from…

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Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn''s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany''s is Truman Capote''s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in Penguin Modern Classics.It''s New York…

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The Riddle of the Sands - Childers Erskine

`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.'' Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered…

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Women in Love - David Herbert Lawrence

Introduction and Notes by Dr Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan.Lawrence''s finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics…

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Ethics - Spinoza Benedictus de

Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett.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…

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A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas - Virginia Woolfová

Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture…

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Across the River and into the Trees

A poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.''Luck is a feast which doesn''t stay in one place''Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living…

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A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four (Collector's Edition) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

''Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes'' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science…

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The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories - Michael Newton

"The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible. . . . He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really…

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Fathers and Sons - Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.Translated by C.J. Hogarth.Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev''s finest work. It is a…

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The Day of the Triffids

2021 MARKS THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, THE MOST FAMOUS CATASTROPHE NOVEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ''When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like…

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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow (Collector's Edition) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’ In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant…

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The Blue Castle - Lucy Maud Montgomeryová

Romantická klasika Lucy Maud Montgomeryové, která vás zavede do tajemných hor a srdcí svých hrdinů. Vynikající příběh o svobodě a lásce.

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Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the…

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A Clergyman's Daughter

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school…

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Edition) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

'' … once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.''.Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten…

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The Fire in the Flint - Walter F. White

Kenneth Harper, a Black doctor and WWI veteran, returns to his hometown in Georgia to practice medicine after graduating from medical school in the North and completing a residency in France. Having forgotten the realities…

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Dubliners (Collector's Edition) - James Joyce

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 politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents,…

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Late Victorian Gothic Tales

''He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at…

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The Great Gatsby and Other Classic Works - F. Scott Fitzgerald

This attractively designed edition of the classic novel set in the Roaring Twenties is bound in genuine bonded leather, with gilt-edged pages and a ribbon marker.

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The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddonová

`Isabel Gilbert was not a woman of the world. She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers...she believed in a phantasmal world created out of the pages of poets and romancers.'' The…

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Selected Letters - Charlotte Brontë

''Dangerous as lucifer matches.''That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë''s husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are…

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The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts - Marcel Proust

The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Discovered in 2018 and presented here for the first time in English,…

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