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Swann's Way - Marcel Proust

The definitive translation of a truly great French novel - Proust''s beautiful, atmospheric story of memory and loss.This is the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest French novels of…

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Esther Waters - George Moore

''I daresay I shall get through my trouble somehow.''Esther Waters is a young, working-class woman with strong religious beliefs who takes a position as a kitchen-maid at a horse-racing estate. She is seduced and abandoned,…

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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 Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain

''Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?''So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His…

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The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad

''A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.''link title to catalogue entry](exact date?)Written in…

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Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy

This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic…

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The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope

''If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be ... But is love the only thing?''Anthony Hope''s The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a mythical…

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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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Exemplary Novels - Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra

Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic

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His Excellency Eugene Rougon - Émile Zola

''He loved power for power''s sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'' His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola''s twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel…

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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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A Christmas Carol (Heritage Collection) - Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol has become a phenomenal touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, stages and filmed, this richly influential novella is powerfully vivid and infallibly moving.Scrooge himself, Marley's…

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HOMER: The Iliad & the Odyssey - Homér

Embark on a literary odyssey through ancient Greece with Homer's timeless epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. In The Iliad, witness the ravages of the Trojan War as gods and mortals clash in a tale…

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Elegies - Tibullus

''Delia, when flames engulf my bier you''ll weep for me, and then you''ll mix your kisses with sad tears.''Tibullus (?55-18 BC) was one of a group of poets known as the Latin elegists, whose number…

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Ashenden - William Somerset Maugham

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries and a celebrated writer, Maugham…

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Art of Rhetoric - Aristotle

Aristotle (384–322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the history of philosophy, theology, and science. Rhetoric, probably composed while he was still a member…

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The Red and the Black - Stendhal

Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal''s The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics.Handsome,…

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The Sea is My Brother - Jack Kerouac

'His first novel is a revelation ... the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ... wonderful' The Times The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant…

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Alice in Wonderland (Heritage Collection) - Lewis Carroll

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful…

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The Annotated Emma - David M. Shapard

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Emma that makes her beloved tale of an endearingly inept matchmaker an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text…

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Gilgamesh - Sophus Helle

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace

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Background for Love - Helen Wolff, Marion Detjen

A lush autobiographical story of young love, 1930s Côte dÂ’Azur, and rising fascism in Nazi Germany — by the famed publisher of Calvino, Pasternak, and Gunter GrassIn a giddy rush, a young woman and her…

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Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a…

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Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis

Martin Arrowsmith, a young medical student at the University of Winnemac, is driven by a sincere passion and a desire to make a positive contribution to the world. But events get in the way, and…

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