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The Saga of the Volsungs

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien''s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings''They summoned their…

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Humorous Tales - Rudyard Kipling

First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations – a drunken Irish soldier waking up to…

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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales - Edgar Allan Poe

A masquerade ball in a secluded abbey; a vendetta settled in the wine cellars of an Italian palazzo; a gloomy castle in a desolated landscape; the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards: the plots…

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Twilight of the Idols with The Antichrist and Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche

Translated by Antony M. Ludovici. With an Introduction by Ray Furness.The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche''s last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of…

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Teenage Writings - Jane Austenová

''Jane Austen practising'' Virginia WoolfThree notebooks of Jane Austen''s teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and…

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The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales - Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

For over a century, the Grimm brothers' fairy tales have captivated the popular imagination. Their enduring magic and wonder have led to countless adaptations in film, theatre, opera, and animation, firmly establishing them as part…

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Hellenistic Lives - Plutarch

Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * FlamininusThis selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of…

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The Blue Fairy Book - Lang Andrew, Leanora Blanche Alleyne Lang

Enjoy over 35 best-loved fairy and folk tales in this classic collection selected by Andrew Lang, beautifully presented with cover gilding, sprayed page edges and magnificent illustrations. The Blue Fairy Book was the first in…

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Dialogues and Essays - Seneca

''No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.''In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to…

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Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeare - William Shakespeare

In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare''s designs. Yet the degree and nature of its…

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

In addressing the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, Adam Smith made one of the most potent contributions to subsequent ideological history. In the west since the early nineteenth century he has been…

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The House on the Hill - Cesare Pavese

''Pavese''s novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings'' Italo CalvinoJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its knees. Every evening, after a…

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First Love and Other Stories - Ivan Sergejevič Turgeněv

This collection brings together six of Turgenev''s best-known `long'' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge…

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The Years / Between the Acts - Virginia Woolfová

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 (1941), an account of…

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The Devil’s Dictionary: The Complete Edition - Ambrose Bierce

A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce’s began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years these were then compiled and expanded into…

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The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith

`Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a `Somebody''…

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War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

''If you''ve never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don''t read War and Peace, you live it'' The Times Tolstoy''s enthralling epic depicts Russia''s war with Napoleon and its…

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The Man Who Was Thursday - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton''s The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont.The Central Anarchist Council is…

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The Secret History - Procopius

A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire''s official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor''s reign. Yet all the while the…

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Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy

In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the…

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Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

Eichendorff’s prose masterpiece – a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his father, and who eventually finds love with the girl of his dreams –…

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Armadale - Wilkie Collins

An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins''s Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as ''the best of [his] romances''. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by…

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The Art of War - Tzu Sun

Written over two thousand years ago, The Art of War contains penetrating insights into the nature of power, inter-state rivalry, realpolitik and military success, relevant to any age. It was first translated into English in…

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A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales - kolektiv autorů

The perfect gift for anyone interested in Irish folklore. These lrish tales are reprinted from nineteenth-century sources, but they date back to a centuries-old oral tradition of storytelling that had yet to be committed to…

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