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Complete Richard Hannay Stories - John Buchan

Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the…

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The Black Ball - Ralph Ellison

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the…

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Selected Writings - John Ruskin

''To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being…

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If I Were You - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Anthony, fifth Earl of Droitwich, is engaged to Violet, a millionaires daughter which was a result of their families planning rather than natures course. Their plan to maintain the family coffers is undermined by the…

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Dylan Thomas Omnibus - Dylan Thomas

All Dylan Thomas'' major works gathered together and featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.A rich collection of Dylan Thomas'' best-loved poems and stories, such as PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST…

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The Collected Peter Pan - Sir J. M. Barrie

''To die will be an awfully big adventure.''Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children''s literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living…

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The Monk - Gregory Matthew Lewis

"A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later so…

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The Tragedy of Coriolanus: The Oxford Shakespeare - William Shakespeare

Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics. The introduction to this new edition considers Shakespeare''s…

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Hungry Hill - Daphne du Maurier

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA''Daphne du Maurier has no rival'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ''du Maurier is a magician, a virtuouso'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ''A storyteller of cunning and genius'' SALLY BEAUMAN ''I tell you your mine…

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The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Raspe Rudolf Erich

Baron Munchausen’s absurd adventures have entertained adults and children alike for more than two centuries. First published in England in 1785, his traveller’s tales soon became as well known as those of his near contemporaries,…

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Anne of Avonlea (Collector's Edition) - Lucy Maud Montgomeryová

Anne of Avonlea continues Anne’s story. Now half-past sixteen but as strong-headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher at her old school and dreams of its improvement. But her responsible position and mature…

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The Lusiads - Luis Vaz de Camoes

First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal''s voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco…

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Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book''s publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the…

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The White Guard - Michail Bulgakov

Kiev - Kyiv - is in chaos. Russia has withdrawn from World War I but the Germans have set up a puppet government in Ukraine. Civil war rages: the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia,…

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Journey to the Moon - Jules Verne

''How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?''Written in the first half of the career of Jules Verne, the twin volumes of From the Earth to the Moon and…

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Vanity Fair - William Thackeray

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 designIn William Thackeray''s Vanity…

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The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy

A brilliant short novel based on Tolstoy''s early life as a soldier in the Caucusus, THE COSSACKS has all the energy and poetry of youth while at the same time foreshadowing the great themes of…

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Pride and Prejudice (Heritage Collection) - Jane Austenová

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim – that…

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Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak''s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original.Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago…

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories - Lewis Carroll

Witty, whimsical, and often nonsensical, the fiction of Lewis Carroll has been popular with both children and adults for over 150 years. The newest edition to the Leatherbound Classics series from Canterbury Classics, Lewis Carroll…

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The Labyrinth - Jens Baggesen

''This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the grave.'' Jens Baggesen''s The Labyrinth (1792-93) is a…

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Caligula and Three Other Plays - Albert Camus

In brand new translations by Ryan Bloom, four theatrical masterpieces from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Outsider and The Plague are brought together for the first time in English, alongside deleted scenes and alternate…

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Rosy Is My Relative - Gerald Durrell

This comic novel tells the uproarious, 'almost true' tale of Adrian Rookwhistle, a shy clerk whose quiet life is thrown into hilarious chaos after he inherits Rosy, an elephant with a weakness for alcohol. From…

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James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl

‘We are now about to visit the most marvellous places and see the most wonderful things!’This beautiful edition of James and the Giant Peach, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material…

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