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The Railway Children - Edith Nesbitová

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The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

''Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?''When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly…

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The Invisible Man - Herbert George Wells

With an all-new illustrations, experience this classic pioneering tale of science fiction by H.G. Wells. West Sussex. A mysterious man in a long-sleeved trench coat, gloves, and a wide-brimmed hat arrives at Mr. and Mrs.…

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From A to X - John Berger

From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and…

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The Return of the Native - Hardy

Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her…

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Selected Prose - Charles Lamb

This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers. These pieces include early discussions of…

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Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.''I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific'' Sarah…

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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee''s acclaimed Cider with RosieAbandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a…

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The Art of War - Niccoló Machiavelli

Best known as the political theorist who wrote The Prince, Machiavelli considered The Art of War his most important work. His revolutionary 1520 work clearly states and discusses military organization and strategy: handling recruitment and…

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The Man in a Hurry - Paul Morand

A feverish classic from one of the modern masters of French prose.

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The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu

About Dennis Washburn’s translation“Washburn’s version of Murasaki Shikibu’s masterpiece is lucid and engaging, irresistibly drawing the reader further and further into the story and the exquisite world it creates for us of Japan’s Heian court.…

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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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The Antiquary - Walter Scott

''It was early in a fine summer''s day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland, provided himself with a…

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Ondřej Šindelář, Sergio Azzolini, Risonanza Praga – Duality / Zimmermann, Vaňhal - Fagotové koncerty

Dva skladatelé. Dva fagotisté. Dvě premiéry. Jedna velká hudební hostina. Fagot se coby sólový nástroj nevyskytuje v koncertantní literatuře zrovna často. Koncert pro dva fagoty, to už je teprve rarita; mohla vzniknout jen v prostředí…

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The Enchanter - Vladimír Nabokov

Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order…

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Fathers and Sons - Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.Translated by C.J. Hogarth.Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev''s finest work. It is a…

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The Skeleton's Holiday - Leonora Carrington

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.' These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading…

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Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel García Márquez

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the…

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Lost Lady - Willa Cather

How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . .Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel…

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Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Delve into The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's meditation on human alienation and its effect on the soul in this story set in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.In Nathaniel Hawthorne's dark novel, The Scarlet Letter, a single sinful act…

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A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition - Ernest Hemingway

WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY SEAN HEMINGWAYIn 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came…

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The House of the Dead / The Gambler - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs.Dostoevsky''s fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works…

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare

‘My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.' When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King…

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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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