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From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon - Jules Verne

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on ‘extraordinary voyages.’ His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote…

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Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics Austen Series) - Jane Austenová

Read Jane Austen''s unsung masterpiece. ''The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal'' Virginia Woolf Fanny Price''s rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be…

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Hopscotch and Blow-Up - Julio Cortázar

With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortázar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of an Argentinean writer living in Paris with…

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Selected Plays - Oscar Wilde

Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde’s drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the…

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The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo

A first-person diary of a prisoner’s final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo’s poignant tale vividly conveys the mental anguish of a man confronted with the intransigent mechanism of justice, as…

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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales - Bram Stoker

Menacing tales from one of the masters of horror fictionAlthough Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. Comprised of spine-chilling…

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Memed, My Hawk - Yashar Kemal

Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the thistle-clad plains of Turkey’s Taurus region. When his plan to escape is dashed, and the young woman he loves murdered, Memed makes for the…

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The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger' The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides…

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Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

A stunning clothbound edition of William S. Burroughs's cult classic, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith.Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland…

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Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea - Lucy Maud, OBE Montgomery

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew…

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The Skull - Jon Klassen

A #1 New York Times bestseller!“Reading this, I accidentally rediscovered the power of a good story.”Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2024–2026From Jon Klassen, Caldecott Medalist and bestselling creator of This Is Not My Hat, comes…

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Silas Marner (Legend Classics) - George Eliot

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”Silas Marner is a simple weaver from Lantern Yard, an impoverished area of Northern England. He is the main protagonist who is wrongly accused of being a robber.…

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Anne of Avonlea (Collector's Edition) - Lucy Maud Montgomeryová

Anne of Avonlea continues Anne’s story. Now half-past sixteen but as strong-headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher at her old school and dreams of its improvement. But her responsible position and mature…

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Seducer's Diary - Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

'What does love fear? Limitation.' Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not by love or sex but by sensation and experiment,…

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The Abyss and Other Stories: New Translation - Leonid Andreyev

As the young Zinaida and her sweetheart, the student Nemovetsky, stroll through the idyllic Russian countryside, their memories, dreams and thoughts about life and the future mingle in the evening breeze. But when night falls,…

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The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories - O. Henry

O. Henry was a master of the short story and one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century. This selection of tales from across his writing career ranges from New York apartments…

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Greatest Works of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde

Discover the brilliance of Oscar Wilde with this Deluxe Hardbound Edition, showcasing his greatest works. Immerse yourself in the witty charm and profound insights of Wilde's literary masterpieces, presented in a luxurious and durable format.…

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The Little Prince (Heritage Collection) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book’s brevity. Written and published first by…

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Jack on the Gallows Tree - Leo Bruce

Ushers a new highly-regarded and prolific author into the series; a key player of the mid-century crime fiction scene. A comedic crime novel, played partly for laughs but with a strong central puzzle at its…

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Constantinople - Edmondo de Amicis

A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul – which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author’s ship approaches the harbour – Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking…

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Mozart's Journey to Prague - Eduard Mörike

While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the grounds of a stately home. But when the resident family find…

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Bacchae - Eurípidés

This stunning translation, by the acclaimed poet Robin Robertson (Forward Prize, Man Booker shortlist 2018), has reinvigorated Euripides'' devastating take of a god''s revenge for contemporary readers, bringing the ancient verse to fervid, brutal life.Dionysus,…

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Walden - Henry David Thoreau

`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a…

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Phaedo - Plato

The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato''s greatest masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of…

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