Mansfield Park (Collector's Edition) by Austen J
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheer ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it." Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
De Profundis And Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
"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 Toibin. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, "An Ideal Husband". But by May of ...Show more
Doctor Pascal by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart series. Pascal Rougon has spent his life chronicling the hereditary patterns and illnesses of his family, using medicine to attempt cures, whilst his niece Clotilde places her faith in God. 'There's something of everything th ...Show more
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming ...Show more
Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The famous classic Scottish tale based on the true story of a dog's devotion to his master, first published in 1912, loved and widely read all over the world.Bobby, a sparky silver-haired Skye terrier, adopts lonely shepherd Auld Jock, for his master and the two become inseparable. When Jock is dismisse ...Show more
The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he ta ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chartwell Classi by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
Dorian Gray pays a hefty price for years of sin and vice in this completely unabridged edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Explore Wilde's lavish world of Gothic fiction, and his study of lost innocence, full of captivating characters with this gorgeous, jacketed hardcover edition. Artist Basil Hallw ...Show more
Scoop: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells; Howie Green (Illustrator); Geoff Redknap (Foreword by)
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Category: Classics
Griffin, the Promethean hero of The Invisible Man (1897), is one of Wells's most striking and tragic conceptions--a scientist whose apparently omnipotent power of passing unseen among his fellow humans rebounds on him as a terrible curse. From its opening in a small village inn, the narrative moves inex ...Show more
Moby Dick (Collins Classics) by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee...' Few literary masterpieces cast quite ...Show more