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Pharos, the Egyptian: (Forthcoming) - Guy Boothby

"This powerful novel is weird and soul-thrilling." — The Scotsman. Cyril Forrester, a young Englishman traveling on the Continent, chances to meet a secretive old man and his ward, a lovely young violinist named Valerie.…

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Witches, Wizards and Sorcerers: Myths and Legends

The supernatural figure of the sorcerer, someone with magic powers for both good and evil, features in storytelling and legends all over the world. As shown in this collection of wonderful stories, wicked Witches and…

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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil WarHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent…

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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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Animal Farm

One of the most celebrated works of modern literature, Animal Farm is George Orwell''s satire on the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Stalin''s subsequent rule. It tells the story of the animals of Manor Farm,…

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Greenmantle - John Buchan

In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan''s heroes: Peter Pienaar,…

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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures - Clarice Lispectorová

''One of the very great writers of the last century'' Guardian''Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before'' Colm Tóibín''He''d wait for her, she knew that now. Until she…

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Inferno - Dante

Discover Dante''s original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante''s descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation…

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Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

This major milestone in the history of English literature is presented in a sumptuous hardback edition with printed page edges, lavishly illustrated by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.The Canterbury Tales is an enduringly fascinating work - both…

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The Missing Girl - Shirley Jacksonová

' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature…

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In Search of Lost Time, Vol 6 - Marcel Proust

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONTime Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war''s end, Proust''s narrator returns to Paris…

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True At First Light - Ernest Hemingway

The book opens on the day Hemingway''s close friend Pop, a legendary hunter, leaves him in charge of the camp. Tensions have heightened among the various tribes and news arrives of a potential attack on…

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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: Gilded Pocket Edition - Lewis Carroll

This elegant hardback edition presents Lewis Carroll's best loved work, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with gilded page edges and original pen and ink illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.First published in 1865, this perennially popular tale…

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoirová

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent…

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Grimm´s Fairy Tales - Jacob Grimm

This beautiful hardback treasury brings together the best-loved tales of Brothers Grimm, with a deluxe cover design, decorative page edges and classic illustrations by Arthur Rackham.Filled with cunning witches, dragon hoards and goblins spinning straw…

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The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the…

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The Human Comedy - Honoré De Balzac

An NYRB Classics OriginalCharacters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks,  unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots,  and…

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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Gilded Pocket Edition - Oscar Wilde

A luxurious gift edition of Oscar Wilde's classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, presented with gold foil embossing and gilded page edges.In this cautionary tale, the handsome Dorian Gray wishes that his portrait should age…

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Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus (Legend Classics) - Mary W. Shelley

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”The young scientist Victor Frankenstein experiments with alchemy to fulfil his greatest ambition: to create life. Once he succeeds and his creature…

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Ashenden - William Somerset Maugham

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries and a celebrated writer, Maugham…

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The English Constitution - Walter Bagehot

''An ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not…

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Two on a Tower - Thomas Hardy

The Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...'Hardy's…

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Michael Morpurgo’s Tales from Shakespeare - Michael Morpurgo

Ten stunning Shakespeare retellings from the master storyteller, with an introduction by Benedict CumberbatchFeaturing re-tellings of ten of Shakespeare’s plays, and beautifully written with Michael Morpurgo’s warm, accessible and inimitable style, this wonderful collection offers…

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Smoke: New Translation - Ivan Sergejevič Turgeněv

On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancee Tatyana. However,…

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