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Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica) - Apollonius of Rhodes

The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason''s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea. The only extant Greek epic poem to bridge the gap between Homer and…

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Babylon Revisited - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from…

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Esther Waters - George Moore

''I daresay I shall get through my trouble somehow.''Esther Waters is a young, working-class woman with strong religious beliefs who takes a position as a kitchen-maid at a horse-racing estate. She is seduced and abandoned,…

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Little Women - Louisa May Alcottová, Barbara Heller

For anyone who loves Little Women, or still cherishes the joy of letter writing, this book illuminates a favorite story in a whole new way. Louisa May Alcott's classic tale follows the March sisters as…

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Barry Lyndon - William Makepeace Thackeray

Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty…

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The Plays of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.'Including some of…

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Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

''Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science''For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and…

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Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall

''Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!''When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she…

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No Fond Return Of Love - Barbara Pym

INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKIN 'No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle…

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Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolfová

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.JACOB’S ROOM, Virginia Woolf’s third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob’s childhood in Cornwall and his education at…

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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Lives and the Eminent Philosophers of Diogenes Laertius is a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins of philosophy in Greece. The work covers a larger number of figures and a…

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A Dylan Thomas Treasury - Dylan Thomas

An exclusive and detailed collection of Dylan Thomas'' poems, stories and broadcasts, featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. A must-have for all literature lovers.This selection provides the perfect introduction…

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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs…

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Victorian Fairy Tales

''The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...''The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written.…

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Daisy Miller and Other Tales - Henry James

A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James''s favourite ''international theme'': the experiences of Americans in Europe, and the meeting of the old world and new. Daisy Miller is one of Henry James''s great…

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The Satires - Juvenal

Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses, and follies of the big city have been admired and…

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The Ramayana - Narayan R. K.

The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world''s supreme masterpieces of storytelling ''Almost every individual living in India,'' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this…

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The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

With an Introduction and Notes by Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury.The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy''s Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing…

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The Water Babies - Kingsley Charles

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very…

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Carmilla - Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu

Sledujte osud krásné a temné Carmilly, která se vrací z hrobky a láká na sebe pozornost všech kolem ní. Klasická novela o lásce a smrti, která vás uchvátí od první stránky.

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The Complete Poems - Emily Brontëová

The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime -…

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New Grub Street - Gissing George

Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. But the brilliant…

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The Rainbow - David Herbert Lawrence

With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.In 1915, Lawrence''s frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as…

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Life's Little Ironies - Thomas Hardy

Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury.The proverbial phrase ''life''s little ironies'' was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the…

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