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Three Bedrooms in Manhattan - Georges Simenon

''One of his most erotic and emotionally charged stories'' The Times Two people who didn''t know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city, and who now clung desperately…

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Spring Fever - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

When a man needs only two hundred pounds to marry his cook and buy a public house, one would expect his life to be trouble free, but the fifth Earl of Shortlands has to reckon…

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Oroonoko and Other Writings - Behn Aphra

''I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero''. (Preface to The Lucky Chance).Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her…

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Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories - Herman Melville

A new, definitive edition of Herman MelvilleÂ’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty   Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of…

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The Bhagavad Gita

''I have heard the supreme mystery, yoga, from Krishna, from the lord of yoga himself.''Thus ends the Bhagavad Gita, the most famous episode from the great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. In its eighteen short chapters…

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The Complete Fables - Ezop

A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables, to convey his key points. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the…

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Celestina - Fernando de Rojas

Presents the tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century Spain.

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The Complete Short Stories of Saki - Saki

The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki''s bomb-like stories. In ''The Open Window'' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life.…

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The Lonely Skier - Hammond Innes

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTONIt lies somewhere beneath the snow, high in the Dolomites: Nazi gold, tainted with the blood of murdered men. Only a few know its secrets, and one by one they…

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Mlle de Scuderi - E. T. A. Hoffman

This unique edition, translated by critically-acclaimed translator Andrew Brown, is one of the earliest examples of the classic murder mystery and it has been an inspiration for a host of thriller and crime writers.

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Devils - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky''s five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study…

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Sons And Lovers - John Lawrence Reynolds

Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It traces emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different…

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Therese Desqueyroux - François Mauriac

Nobel-prize winner François Mauriac''s masterpiece is Thérèse Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial life. First published in 1927, this astonishing and daring novel has echoes of Madame Bovary and has recently…

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Professor - Charlotte Brontë

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is…

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Aesop’s Fables (Special Edition) - Ezop

Discover the “Aesopica” with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.’s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Aesop's Fables special edition features sprayed edges, color end pages, a built-in ribbon bookmark, and embossed foil…

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Notes From Underground - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

''I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .''In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious…

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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (riverrun editions) - Chekhov Anton

A man and woman fall in love in a seaside town. The only trouble is, they''re both married to other people. A schoolmaster is scandalized by his sweetheart riding a bicycle.A woman falls in love…

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Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Glinda of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum

The Wonderful World of the Wizard of Oz, which the the Library of Congress named as 'America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale', is one of the great works of children's literature. The story concerns Dorothy,…

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Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality hasmet 21st Century technology.…

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The Complete Fairy Tales - Charles Perrault

''Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!''Charles Perrault''s versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and…

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The Character of a Trimmer and Other Writings - George Savile, Marquess of Halifax

To know when to let things alone is a high pitch of good sense.George Savile, Marquess of Halifax was among the greatest statesmen of late seventeenth-century England and was a central figure in the Glorious…

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Notes From Underground & Other Stories - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great…

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Bestiary - Julio Cortázar

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar''s sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.''Julio Cortázar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories''…

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Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

This volume demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which Poe probed the darkest corners of the human mind. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by…

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