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Selected Essays - T. S. Eliot

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface…

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World Classics Library: Friedrich Nietzsche - Frederich Nietzsche

Could it be possible? This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead! - Nietzsche, Thus Spake ZarathustraThis beautiful gilded hardcover brings together three of Friedrich Niezsche''s most…

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The Conquest of Gaul - Julius Caesar

Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns.Caesar''s narrative offers insights into his military strategy…

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Selected Essays - David Hume

In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary…

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Psmith In The City - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

When Psmith finds himself working in the City for the pompous Mr Bickersdyke, he makes it his mission to bring a little sweetness and light into the bank manager''s life. The monocled wit with the…

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The Haunted House - Charles Dickens

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together, and relate the supernatural…

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The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold-Bug - some of the most famous tales of terror and the most macabre detective stories…

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The Monarch of the Glen - Compton Mackenzie

Chester Royde, an American millionaire, travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle, to find out more about Carrie''s Scottish ancestry. Their new ''relatives'' turn out to be a little more authentically…

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A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

In this hauntingly beautiful volume, artist John A. Rice re-envisions Dickens’s seemingly familiar Christmas classic as a true Victorian ghost story, revealing Scrooge’s encounters with the spirits as a soul’s journey from darkness to light.

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Lonesome Traveler - Jack Kerouac

A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac''s Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery, published in Penguin Modern Classics.As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and…

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Starlight - Stella Gibbons

Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in…

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Appointment With Venus - Jerrard Tickell

A brand new edition of the classic wartime adventure by Jerrard Tickell. First published in 1951 and now re-issued by Manderley Press, with an introduction by Rosa Rankin-Gee (author of 'The Last Kings of Sark'…

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The Little Demon - Fyodor Sologub

A dark classic of Russia''s silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher''s descent into sadism, arson and murder.Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies…

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Mary and The Wrongs of Woman - Wollstonecraft Mary

''I have lately written...a tale, to illustrate an opinion of mine, that a genius will educate itself.''Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and…

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The Image of Her - Simone de Beauvoirová

She’s living a perfect life – so why does Laurence feel so torn? Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris – Laurence’s life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money, a…

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Women in Love - John Lawrence Reynolds

‘What beauties the book contains! There are many pages in it so saturated with warm and lovely intimacies that one reads absorbed’ GuardianWomen in Love begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with…

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The Shooting Party - Chekhov Anton

Anton Chekhov''s only full-length novel, this Penguin Classics edition of The Shooting Party is translated and edited by Ronald Wilks, with an introduction by John Sutherland.The Shooting Party centres on Olga, the pretty young daughter…

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Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence

This elegant collector''s edition presents D. H. Lawrence classic love story, Lady Chatterley''s Lover, featuring stunning silver cover embossing and gilded page-edges.Lady Chatterley''s Lover explores the intense affair between the sexually frustrated Connie - whose…

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The First Philosophers

The first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought. Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed…

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The Wreck of the Mary Deare - Hammond Innes

The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking.But this man…

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Pietr the Latvian - Georges Simenon

The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon''s famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn''t have a moustache and he didn''t wear…

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Time Machine - Herbert George Wells

The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely…

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Little Women and Other Novels - Louisa May Alcottová

This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most beloved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the lives of four sisters in…

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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - Peter Abelard

Through the letters between Abelard and Heloise, we follow the path of their 12th-century romance, from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard''s pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret…

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