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Classic Stories from the Age of Decadence - Desmarais Jane

As the nineteenth century drew to a close, decadent authors boldly decided it was time for something new.Their work was was radical, daring and controversial, and it captured a unique feeling and exciting atmosphere. Rich…

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Crook o' Lune - E.C.R. Lorac

Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based partly on the author’s own experiences of life in the Lune valley, E.C.R. Lorac’s classic rural mystery returns to print for the first time since 1953.

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Something Fresh - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

''P.G. Wodehouse should be prescribed to treat depression. Cheaper, more effective than Valium and far, far more addictive'' Olivia Williams''P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else…

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The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain

''Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?''So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His…

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Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others - John Grafton

Assembled from the works of the finest masters of the genre, these compelling narratives promise to raise gooseflesh and accelerate pulses with their supernatural scenarios.Featured stories include J. S. LeFanu''s "An Account of Some Strange…

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Arabian Nights - Lang Andrew

The king’s new bride Scheherazade is to be put to death. Each night, she cleverly delays her imminent execution by recounting a series of interlinked stories, each leading into the next. Full of adventure, mystery…

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Mystery in White - J. Jefferson Farjeon

A new special edition of Sunday Times bestseller from British Library Publishing's genre defining Crime Classics series.Heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt. The passengers trapped together for Christmas, seek to unravel the secrets…

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The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas: New Translation - Ivan Sergejevič Turgeněv

Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family’s fall from grace…

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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Arthur Doyle

This edition of the Sherlock Holmes short stories is one of a series consisting of unabridged versions of 19th-century classics, with introductions, glossaries, and activities for individuals, pairs and groups.

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Classic Tales of Horror - Ernest Hilbert

This chilling collection of scary stories will keep you awake for hours! Psychological horrors, disturbing dramas, and gruesome ghosts compose this compendium of confessions made in the dead of night. From vampires and a monkey…

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The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather

The second novel in Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life. ''Lingers long in the memory'' Joyce Carol Oates Thea Kronberg, gifted with a beautiful…

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This Is Shakespeare - Smith

A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019''The best introduction to the plays I''ve read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop'' Alex Preston, Observer''It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays…

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Agricola and Germany - Tacitus

`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.'' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome''s greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first…

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Alice in Wonderland (Heritage Collection) - Lewis Carroll

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful…

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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

''This century''s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism'' Angela DavisWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon''s Wretched of the Earth…

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Narrative of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass''s other works.The pre-eminent American slave narrative published in 1845, the Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist Frederick…

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The Wild Irish Girl - Sydney Owenson

`I long to study the purely national, natural character of an Irishwoman'' When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father''s Irish estate as punishment for gambling debts and dissipated living,…

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The Complete Bronte Collection - Anne Brontëová, Emily Brontëová, Charlotte Brontë

The perfect gift for any Brontë Sisters lover.. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Brontë Sisters'' best and much-loved works. Beautifully packaged in a rigid, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic…

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Cry Freedom - Briley John

Under South Africa''s brutal apartheid regime, black activist Steve Biko has been working tirelessly for years to undermine the system when he meets white journalist Donald Woods. Initially suspicious of Biko and his motives, Woods…

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RUR & War with the Newts - Karel Čapek

Written against the background of the rise of Nazism, War With the Newts concerns the discovery in the South Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, which is enslaved and exploited by mankind. In time they rebel,…

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The Golden Bough - Sir James George Frazer

A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in…

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The Essays - George Orwell

Includes 'The Freedom of the Press', intended as the preface to 'Animal Farm' but undiscovered until 1972. Considered by Noam Chomsky to be Orwell's most important essay. These essays demonstrate the life and work of…

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The Wild Ass's Skin - Honoré De Balzac

''Who possesses me will possess all things,But his life will belong to me...''Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates…

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Tales of Wrykyn And Elsewhere - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

The stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse’s own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good deal more. Although among his earliest attempts at fiction they give fascinating glimpses of a time…

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