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Fasti - Ovid

''Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.''Ovid''s poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account…

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Despair - Vladimír Nabokov

''A work of rapture - jolting, hilarious and incredibly racy'' Martin Amis, The TimesSelf-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then…

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The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling''s philosophy of life is…

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Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit and Other Stories - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

‘Does one desire the Yule-tide spirit, sir?’‘Certainly one does. I am all for it.’Aunts, engagements, misunderstandings and hangover cures; this delightful collection from ‘the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness’ (Julian Fellowes) brings…

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Peter Schlemihl - Adelbert von Chamisso

Unsuccessful in his endeavours, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow for the purse of Fortunatus, thereby gaining everlasting riches. But when he is…

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Mr Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow

Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of…

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Persians and Other Plays - Aeschylus

Aeschylus is the first of the great Greek playwrights, and the four plays in this volume demonstrate the remarkable range of Greek tragedy. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contemporary history, the…

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The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence - Baltasar Gracián

A unique collection of advice for life, Baltasar Gracián''s The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence is a philosophical gem, and perhaps the first ''self-help'' book ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from…

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Tales from 1,001 Nights - Anonymous

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Every night for three…

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The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West

'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing…

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Lolly Willowes - Townsend Warner Sylvia

''A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul'' Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is…

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Agnes Grey/The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontëová

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte''s second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author''s more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a…

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The Green Years - A. J. Cronin

From one of the great Scottish authors of the twentieth century A. J. Cronin, who wrote The Stars Look Down and The Citadel, and the creator of Dr Finlay's Casebook.

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The Annals - Cornelius Tacitus

''He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden... In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike''Such is Tacitus'' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less…

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They're a Weird Mob - Nino Culotta

Nino Culotta arrived in Australia fresh off the boat - he came to Sydney as an Italian journalist on behalf of an Italian publishing house, to tell the readers at home all about life Down…

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The Masnavi, Book Five - Jalal al-Din Rumi

''If something else can capture your attention Then it''s not love, but just a trivial passion -Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.''This is the first ever…

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel García Márquez

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude. ''The year…

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The Little Women Collection - Louisa May Alcottová, Suzuki Hiroyuki

All three novels in the beloved Little Women series are collected in this elegant leather-bound volume.Follow the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they advance from young ladies to mature women through domesticity,…

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The Stars Look Down - A. J. Cronin

From the author of The Green Years and The Citadel, and the creator of Dr Finlay’s Casebook, A. J. Cronin was one of the great Scottish authors of the twentieth century

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Persuasion (Vintage Classics Austen Series) - Jane Austenová

**FEATURED IN THE TIKTOK BOOKCLUB**''In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want'' Independent Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and…

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Persuasion - Jane Austenová, Barbara Heller

This special edition invites fans inside the world of Anne Elliot. It includes the full text of Persuasion, plus gorgeous, removable replicas of the characters' letters and other paper ephemera. Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne…

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The Major Works - W.B. Yeats

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats''s poetry and prose - all the major poems,…

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The Open Heart

Catherine Wells (1872–1927) was the wife of H.G. Wells and the author of short stories, poems and an unfinished novella, The Open Heart, a haunting study of a woman’s sense of unfulfilment that adds significantly…

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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions) - William Saroyan

I hadn't had a haircut in forty days and forty nights, and I was beginning to look like several violinists out of work.Depression-era San Francisco, home to the lost souls of many races: immigrants, struggling…

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