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Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

A festive treat from a treasured comic writer. It''s Christmas-time at Cold Comfort Farm and it''s the worst sort of family gathering...WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITHThe title story tells of a typical Christmas…

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Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories - Nikolay Gogol

Nikolai Gogol''s short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply influenced later Russian literature with powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base…

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings - Thomas de Quincey

''I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!''Thomas De Quincey''s Confessions…

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The House of the Dead: New Translation - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife. Largely ignored at first by his fellow inmates due…

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Short Stories in Norwegian for Beginners - Olly Richards

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Norwegian."Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive…

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Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley

Crome Yellow (1921) is a novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Inspired by his stay at Garsington Manor with members of the Bloomsbury Group, Crome Yellow, Huxley’s debut novel, satirizes the society of England’s intellectual…

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The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition - Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri

An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000…

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka, Joyce Crick

''When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.''With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short…

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens

''Dickens''s finest work in the genre of the detective story was his last'' The TimesEdwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually…

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Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson

Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision tocreate the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition andthe very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality has met 21stCentury technology. With wonderfully…

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The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.’When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk…

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The Nun - Denis Diderot

''You can leave a forest, but you can never leave a cloister; you are free in the forest, but you are a slave in the cloister.''Diderot''s The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story…

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Monkey King - Wu Cheng’en

One of the world''s greatest fantasy novels, Monkey King: Journey to the West is the inspiration for the new blockbuster game Black Myth: Wukong. Published in a sparkling modern translation and available in the Penguin…

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The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Library Collection) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It was in 1887 that the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the legendary and pioneering…

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Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope

Doctor Thorne was considered by Trollope to be the best of his works – a profound examination of the relationship between money and love, as it shifts away from the city of Barchester to a…

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The White People and Other Weird Stories - Arthur Machen

"Machen''s weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of AMERICAN SUPERNATURAL TALES, THE WHITE PEOPLE AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES is the perfect introduction…

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The Three Theban Plays - Sofoklés

Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles'' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes…

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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections - de La Rochefoucauld François

''Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.''Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld''s shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust,…

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The Consolation of Philosophy - Boëthius

Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the…

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - George Orwell

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives…

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Selected Myths - Plato

''Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.''We are used to thinking of myths as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks,…

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Killing Stella - Marlen Haushofer

Claustrophobic and shattering, this is the story of one ordinary woman unable to save a teenager in her care. It is the story of Stella...Stella is a friend''s nineteen-year-old daughter who has come to live…

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Poems - William Blake

''Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled'' William Blake Patti Smith introduces her favourite selection of Blake''s poems, including the complete poems from Songs of Innocence…

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John Hall, Master of Physicke - Greg Wells, Paul Edmondson

Written by Shakespeare's son-in-law John Hall, The Little Book of Cures is a fascinating look into the life of a doctor in seventeenth-century Stratford-upon-Avon. -- .

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