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The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope

Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness, Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthy…

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Dill Pickle - Katherine Mansfield

She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bearKatherine Mansfield was a magician of the short story, whose work was described by Virginia Woolf as…

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Selected Works - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome''s finest orators, Cicero''s Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome''s Republic, Cicero…

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Campbell's Kingdom - Hammond Innes

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDY MCNABHe was a man without hope, until a lawyer and a crazy inheritance spurred him to one last desperate roll of the dice.The old man was convinced, against all evidence,…

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About Love and Other Stories - Chekhov Anton

''the greatest short story writer who has ever lived''Raymond Carver''s unequivocal verdict on Chekhov''s genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While…

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Level 1: Little Women+CD (Secondary ELT Readers) - Louisa May Alcottová

Little Women tells the story of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March growing up in nineteeth-century America. Born into a poor but loving family, the girls must overcome personal difficulties and challenges to…

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Chimes - Charles Dickens

Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are irredeemable. But, on New Year’s Eve, summoned to the church tower by a…

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The Masterpiece - Émile Zola

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While…

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To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) - Virginia Woolfová

Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf''s greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. ''My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again''…

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The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her into all manner of misunderstandings. Praised by Fielding,…

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Les Miserables Volume Two - Victor Hugo

With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862).One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich…

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Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen

Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly... Jewels in storytelling, these magical fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen…

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Amerika - Franz Kafka

''Karl continued to push through, but he no longer had any real hope of achieving anything.''Unexpected adventures and whirlwind encounters await Karl Rossman when he arrives in New York from Europe. Cast out by his…

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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition - Joseph Heller

Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel''s strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller''s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage.Set in the closing months of World War II, this…

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Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) - Virginia Woolfová

''Sheer magic'' Eileen Atkins, Daily MailDiscover one of the most famous and ground-breaking pieces of twentieth century literature about one day in the mind of woman as she prepares to give a party. In this…

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The Kill - Émile Zola

''It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at…

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Three Japanese Short Stories - Kafú Nagai, Rjúnosuke Akutagawa, Chiyo Uno

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim. Penguin Modern: fifty…

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The Ghost Stories of M. R. James - Montague Rhodes James

This anthology brings together the classic short fiction of M.R. James, one of the most acclaimed ghost story writers of all time who influenced the likes of Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft.M. R. James''…

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Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to nameNuns, maidens, adventurers – with electricity, The Story…

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Nana - Émile Zola

''She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.''Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually…

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Secondary Level 2: Great Expectations - book+CD (do vyprodání zásob) - Charles Dickens

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for handpicked classics of English literature that are simplified and adapted for students in an accessible and engaging way. Great Expectations…

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The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4) - Chris Bradford

Jack Fletcher is on the run with no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the…

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Night and Day - Virginia Woolfová

As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets’ Corner, is helping her mother write the biography of their illustrious progenitor, she becomes engaged to William Rodney, a budding writer…

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Original, experimental, and charmingly nonsensical, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’​s Adventures in Wonderland follows seven-year-old Alice down a rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy dream world of Wonderland. In this fantastical place, food can shrink you to…

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