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The Years - Virginia Woolfová

''A brilliant fantasia of all Time''s problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion'' The Times Literary SupplementThe Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and…

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Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others - John Grafton

Assembled from the works of the finest masters of the genre, these compelling narratives promise to raise gooseflesh and accelerate pulses with their supernatural scenarios.Featured stories include J. S. LeFanu''s "An Account of Some Strange…

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Fasti - Ovid

''Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.''Ovid''s poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account…

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Oroonoko and Other Writings - Behn Aphra

''I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero''. (Preface to The Lucky Chance).Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her…

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The Time Machine and Other Works - Herbert George Wells

In these ''scientific romances'' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking…

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Tales of Mystery & the Macabre - Elizabeth Gaskellová

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.''In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing…

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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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Cain's Book - Alexander Trocchi

Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain’s Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky’s life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip through hell. Probably the…

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The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall

''If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.''The Well of Loneliness is among the most famous banned books in history. A pioneering work of…

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Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the…

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Moonfleet - J Meade Faulkner

When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unofficially adopted by…

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More Die of Heartbreak - Saul Bellow

Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described ''plant visionary.'' While his studies take him around the world,…

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Selected Letters - Seneca

''You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!''The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca…

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Prophecies - Leonardo Da Vinci

Found in the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci’s writings and drawings, ‘The Prophecies’ are a collection of enigmatic divinatory pronouncements, some punning and playful, others dire and ominous. While the author’s intentions behind these…

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Monday Morning - Patrick Hamilton

''If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man'' Nick Hornby''I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer…

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The Common Reader - Herbert George Wells

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that…

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Celtic Myths - J. K. Jackson

Populated by gods, High Kings, willful Queens, noble warriors, fairies, goblins and wizards the Celtic myths are unsurpassed in their variety and power. This new book is a dazzling collection of the most gripping Celtic…

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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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All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

The most famous anti-war novel ever written. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism…

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Sons and Lovers - David Herbert Lawrence

As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a battleground. Gertrude turns increasingly towards her two eldest sons, William and Paul, and determines that they…

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Irish Folk and Fairy Tales - W.B. Yeats

In this highly giftable volume, the best-loved legends of the Emerald Isle come to life. Discover the magic of Ireland’s most treasured stories with Irish Folk and Fairy Tales. William Butler Yeats’ charming storytelling style captures…

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Elisabeth Beecher-Stoweová

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘One thing is certain, – that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner…

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Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann

To unlock his full creative potential, Adrian Leverkühn makes a lethal pact with nature and intentionally contracts syphilis.A brilliant young composer, Adrian believes that the disease-induced madness will fuel his genius. But while his music…

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Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskellová

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell''s last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second…

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