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Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the…

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All's Well that Ends Well: The Oxford Shakespeare - William Shakespeare

Usually classifed as a ''problem comedy'', All''s Well that Ends Well invites a fresh assessment. Its psychologically disturbing presentation of an agressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery won it little favour…

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Lock No. 1 - Georges Simenon

''The father of contemporary European detective fiction'' Ann Cleeves Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along…

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A Hero of Our Time and Princess Ligovskaya - Mikhail Lermontov

On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious exploits…

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Castle - Franz Kafka

Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. With a new introduction and notes by John Zilcosky The Castle is the story of K., the…

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Aesop's Illustrated Fables - Ezop

A leather bound edition from the popular series. It features a satin-ribbon bookmark, decorative stained edging and marbled endpapers.

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The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including…

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Katerina - Aharon Appelfeld

Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenager in 1880s Ukraine, is taken in by a Jewish family, finding safety in their warmth and rituals. When a pogrom is wrought upon the family, she is alone…

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Daisy Miller - Henry James

When the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland, he is struck by her beauty, but slightly unsettled by her open ways and her…

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Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction - Joseph Conrad

When Charles Marlow travels to Africa to serve as steamboat pilot for an ivory-trading company, he learns he is to rendezvous with Kurtz, a trading-post agent held in high regard. But the deeper Marlow penetrates…

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Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) - Vasily Grossman

Life and Fate is an epic tale of twentieth-century Russia told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad.As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman''s characters…

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Indiana - George Sand

Indiana (1831) is an absorbing and vivid romantic novel, set partly in provincial France, partly in Paris, and partly on a tropical island. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married…

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Collected Ghost Stories - M.R.James

''I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...''Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was…

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Hunger-Artist - Franz Kafka

The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people’s participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later days there were…

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W.B. Yeats Selected Poetry - W.B. Yeats

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The original text…

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Jezebel's Daughter - Wilkie Collins

''The power that I have dreamed of all my life is mine at last!''How far is a mother prepared to go to secure her daughter''s future? Madame Fontaine, widow of an eminent chemist, has both…

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Dreaming Child - Isak Dinesen

‘As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories’ Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen’s short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and imaginative visions of war, longing and tender…

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Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope

''The fact is, Mark, that you and I cannot conceive the depth of fraud in such a man as that.''The Reverend Mark Robarts makes a mistake. Drawn into a social set at odds with his…

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Love and Freindship - Jane Austenová

Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her…

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Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra - Sofoklés

Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe.Recognized in his own…

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

Delve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales and original, iconic illustrations by John Tenniel.The next elegant edition in the Timeless Classics series, Alice’s Adventures…

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The Duke's Children - Anthony Trollope

Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support…

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Genius - Frank O'Connor

Known as Ireland’s Chekhov, Frank O’Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between our selves and our surroundings. The Genius brings together some of his very…

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Lady Susan and Other Works - Jane Austenová

With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager.This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature…

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