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Love - Stendhal

A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal''s Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight in Penguin Classics.In 1818, when he was…

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The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships are strained…

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Frankenstein - Mary W. Shelley

Frankenstein is considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. Written by Mary Shelley it tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein and the catastrophic consequences of his attempts to create a…

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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Wordsworth Library Collection) - Jane Austenová

Jane Austen is without question, one of England’s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature’s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers…

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A Laodicean - Thomas Hardy

The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love…

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The Complete Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm

Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection.Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected…

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Le Pere Goriot - Monsieur Honore de Balzac

After the elderly Goriot is abandoned by his daughters, he is forced to live in Parisian hostel where he meets the young and ambitious Eugène de Rastignac. The two form an unexpected friendship as Goriot…

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Crime and Punishment (Collector's Editions) - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart…” Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into…

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Essential Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in these pages are Edgar Allan Poe's best-loved and most-feared literary creations: the clever C. August Dupin, precursor to Sherlock Holmes; the terrifying ghouls of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; as well as the…

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The Wizard of Oz (Collector's Edition) - Lyman Frank Baum

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em…

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare

‘My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.' When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King…

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Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic – a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a…

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Alice Through the Looking Glass (Collector´s Edition) - Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters…

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Blandings Castle - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Take a pig, a fat-headed earl, a country house, several pairs of frustrated lovers, some scheming outsiders, and all sorts of people who aren’t who they say they are. Mix thoroughly and apply the Wodehouse…

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The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett

Roderick Random (1748), Smollett''s first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life''s many…

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The Book of Enoch - Enoch Enoch

An excluded book of the Bible that tells the story of the fallen angels in Genesis who took human wives, created the giant Nephilim, revealed the secrets of advanced technology to mankind, and ultimately, brought…

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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman - E. W. Hornung

Art for art''s sake is a vile catchword, but I confess it appeals to me''Gentleman by day and thief by night, A. J. Raffles lives a double life. Taking ''Art for art''s sake'' as his…

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Purgatorio - Dante

In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only…

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Faust, Part II - Goethe

In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with…

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The American - Henry James

`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!'' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in…

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A Dog's Heart: New Translation - Michail Bulgakov

“There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway. Nevertheless, if you live in Moscow and have a brain in your head, you’ll pick up reading willy-nilly, and…

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The Flight to Italy - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

''At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn''t have let me go if I hadn''t. I wasn''t going to be stopped, for it was time.''This is the authentic day-to-day record never…

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Selected Letters - Seneca

''You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!''The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca…

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The Complete Odes and Epodes - Horace

Horace (65-8 BC) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Horace''s Odes and Epodes constitute a body of Latin…

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