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Rich Boy - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . .In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald’s short stories, we meet Anson Hunter, ‘The Rich Boy’, whose opulent,…

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A Clergyman’s Daughter - George Orwell

Twenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after…

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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author’s release from forced military service.…

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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong

A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China''s Han dynastyPart historical and part legend, The Romance of the…

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Of Time and the River - Thomas Wolfe

The second novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman.It is 1920 and Eugene Gant leaves the American…

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Sonnets - William Shakespeare

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Shakespeare's immortal poems with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's…

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World Classics Library: H. G. Wells - Herbert George Wells

"Wells is the Prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction." - Brian Aldiss on H.G. Wells This spectacular hardback collector's edition brings together 5 classic novels…

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Annals - Tacitus

A compelling new translation of Tacitus'' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus'' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the…

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Shakespeare"s Sonnets - William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare wrote some of the greatest poetry in all world literature, in compact sonnets bursting with beautiful imagery and timeless insights about love, life, and human nature. This elegantly designed pocket edition features all…

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Father and Son - Edmund Gosse

''This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.''Father and Son stands as one of English literature''s seminal autobiographies. In it Edmund Gosse recounts, with humour and…

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The Cat and The Masked Woman - Colette

''My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?''Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the…

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Cymbeline (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - William Shakespeare

This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled by mistrust and painfully…

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Njal's Saga

Written in the thirteenth century, Njal''s Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law''s inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men…

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The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Raspe Rudolf Erich

Baron Munchausen’s absurd adventures have entertained adults and children alike for more than two centuries. First published in England in 1785, his traveller’s tales soon became as well known as those of his near contemporaries,…

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History of Rome, Volume VI - Livy

Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC–AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9…

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Selected Stories - Katherine Mansfield

''I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.'' Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield''s work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen…

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Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality hasmet 21st Century technology.…

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Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon - F. Scott Fitzgerald

With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the `Roaring…

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The Leaf Sweeper - Spark Muriel

So speaks the narrator of Muriel Spark''s haunting tale, ''The Leaf-sweeper'', before going on to recount the disturbing and mercilessly witty story of a certain ''madman'' - Johnnie Geddes, hell-bent on outlawing Christmas - who…

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Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven - Wu Cheng'en

Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell’s witty and charismatic translation, we meet one of its heroes:…

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The Grampian Quartet - Nan Shepherd

The Quarry Wood, although published well before Sunset Song, inhabits a similar world; the progress of its heroine could almost be the alternative story of a Chris Guthrie who did go to university. Compassionate and…

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The Man with Six Senses - Muriel Jaeger

The Man with Six Senses is a sensitive depiction of how the different, or supernaturally able, could be treated in 1920s Britain, but also a sharp skewering of societal norms and the expectations of how…

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Religio Medici And Urne-Buriall - Sir Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an  inquiring spirit…

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The Financier - Theodore Dreiser

A master of gritty naturalism, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction…

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