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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) - Yukio Mishima

'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness…

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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 - Chekhov Anton

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by…

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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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Augustus - John Williams

A compelling fictional portrait of Augustus Caesar follows the ancient Roman leader from his youth to his rise to power following the murder of his uncle, Julius Caesar, in the midst of fierce competition, intrigue,…

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A Nervous Breakdown - Chekhov Anton

"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that''s what I''d like to know!''From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and…

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A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway''s captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties.''If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays…

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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde

In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde''s texts. It contains his only novel, "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with…

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) - Haruki Murakami

Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami. Toru Okada''s cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.…

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Guy Mannering - Walter Scott

Vynikající klasická fikce od slavného autora Waltera Scotta. Připravte se na dobrodružství a emocionální zážitek!

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and The Natural History of Religion - David Hume

David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the…

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Moses Ascending - Sam Selvon

Moses thinks he''s got it made. Originally a poor Caribbean immigrant, he is now the proud landlord of a ramshackle house in Shepherd''s Bush, London. He has visions of being master of his own domain,…

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Stories and Poems - Rudyard Kipling

''Hear and attend and listen...''Rudyard Kipling is a supreme master of the short story in English and a poet of brilliant gifts. His energy and inventiveness poured themselves into every kind of tale, from the…

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Little Women & Good Wives - Louisa May Alcottová

Little Women is one of the best-loved children''s stories of all time, based on the author''s own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England…

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In Search Of Lost Time Volume 3 - Marcel Proust

In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and…

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The Heart of Mid-Lothian - Walter Scott

Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie…

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Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction - Virginia Woolfová

''The ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in the earth, with a curious expression. . .So heavy the woman came to a standstill opposite…

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Le Morte Darthur - Thomas Malory

The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner''. In a resonant prose style, Malory charts the tragic disintegration of the fellowship…

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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life - Émile Durkheim

''If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.''In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Émile Durkheim set himself the task of…

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The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins

"Oh, my God! to think of that kind-hearted, lovely young woman, who brings happiness with her wherever she goes, bringing terror to me! Terror when her pitying eyes look at me; terror when her kind…

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Waverley - Walter Scott

Objevte romantický příběh Waverley, klasiku skotské literatury od W. Scotta. Načtěte se do historie a emocí hrdiny, který se musí rozhodnout mezi civilizací a čestí tradicemi.

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The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob - George Eliot

`She had believed that my wild poet''s passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.''The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood''s…

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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings - Oscar Wilde

De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde''s prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín.At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast…

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Little Red Riding Hood & Other Grimm's Fairy Tales - Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

A world of adventure, enchantment, and danger awaits in this collection of fairy tales first penned by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Packed with magic and wonder, the assortment within showcases the clever Little Red Riding…

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The Prelude - William Wordsworth

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth''s death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme ''the growth…

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