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  • A POCKET FULL OF RYE -20%
    A POCKET FULL OF RYE
    CHRISTIE, AGATHA
    u003cpu003eNow with a beautiful new series look, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme.u003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eRex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his "counting house" when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the decease...
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    Q. 170Q. 136

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY -20%
    SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Discover the story of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Classics series! The stunning Sense and Sensibilityspecial edition features sprayed edges, color end pages, a built-in ribbon bookmark, and embossed foil cover. The beautiful design and attention to detail set this special edition book apart, whether ...
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    Q. 210Q. 168

  • THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY -20%
    THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
    WILDE, OSCAR
    Discover the story of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Classics series! The stunning Picture of Dorian Grayspecial edition features sprayed edges, color end pages, a built-in ribbon bookmark, and embossed foil cover. The beautiful design and attention to detail set this special edition book apart, wh...
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    Q. 210Q. 168

  • AND THEN THERE WERE NONE -20%
    AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
    CHRISTIE, AGATHA
    The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks...including And Then There We...
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    Q. 110Q. 88

  • JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH -20%
    JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
    VERNE, JULES (JULIO)
    A Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an 1864 classic by Jules Verne.This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features colour illustrations by Edouard Riou (1833 -1900), a French painter and illustrator who illustrated six novels by Jules Verne, and an Afterword by Ned Halley." ...
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    Q. 150Q. 120

  • MIDDLEMARCH -20%
    MIDDLEMARCH
    ELIOT, GEORGE
    The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, 'Middlemarch' tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. ...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES -20%
    TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES
    HARDY, THOMAS
    After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman lineage and that they can rescue her family from indigence. Unfortunately she is taken under the wing of the immoral libertine scion Alec d'Urbervile, who seduces and scorns her. While...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • PURGATORY -20%
    PURGATORY
    ALIGHIERI, DANTE
    Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, 'Purgatory' features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the 'Divine Comedy'. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind, but Dante's ascent of Mount Purgatory towards Paradise remains fraught with obstacles, not least the burden ...
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    Q. 120Q. 96

  • THE DOUBLE -20%
    THE DOUBLE
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that ...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • LADY CHATTERLEY´S LOVER -20%
    LADY CHATTERLEY´S LOVER
    LAWRENCE, D.H.
    Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century. Lawrence's determination to explore every aspect - sexual, social, psychological - of Lady Chatterley's adulterous liaison with the gamekeeper Oliver M...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • AGNES GREY -20%
    AGNES GREY
    BRONTË, ANNE
    The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking employment as a governess. Soon, however, her idealistic notions regarding the education and care of her wards are dashed as she battles to control the wild Bloomfield children in her first situation, and is then held in low regard by...
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    Q. 110Q. 88

  • TO THE LIGHTHOUSE -20%
    TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the births and deaths, that punctuate the individual lives of the Ramsays. ...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • IN COLD BLOOD -20%
    IN COLD BLOOD
    TRUMAN CAPOTE
    On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, h...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS -20%
    GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    One of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the life of a gentleman, enabling him to escape to London from the prospect of a humble blacksmith's career in rural Kent. In the bustling, unforgiving capital he must learn for himself the pitfalls of love and wea...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL -20%
    THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL
    BRONTË, ANNE
    Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the beautiful and enigmatic woman who has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. He is swift to befriend her, but when local gossip calls Helen's character and behaviour into question, Gilbert begins to repent of his congeniality. It is only when Helen presents Gilbert with her diary and instructs him to read it that the shocking truth...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES -20%
    THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES
    KAFKA, FRANZ
    When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents ...
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    Q. 90Q. 72

  • THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU -20%
    THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU
    H.G. WELLS
    After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods had caused an uproar that left him with no choice but to flee London.Disquieted and appalled by the pained cries of suffering animals, Edward soon realizes that the Doctor is conti...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • TO THE LIGHTHOUSE -20%
    TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia Woolf's finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate occasions, ten years apart. The setting is Mr and Mrs Ramsay's house on a Scottish island, where they traditionally take their summer holidays, overlooking a bay with a lighthouse. ...
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    Q. 150Q. 120

  • A HERO OF OUR TIME -20%
    A HERO OF OUR TIME
    LERMONTOV, MIKHAIL
    On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious exploits of his former comrade Pechorin. Engaging in various acts of duelling, contraband, abduction and seduction, Pechorin, an archetypal Byronic anti-hero, combines cynicism and...
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    Q. 120Q. 96

  • THE ILIAD -20%
    THE ILIAD
    HOMER / EMILY WILSON
    When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilso...
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    Q. 370Q. 296

  • THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ -20%
    THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
    L. FRANK BAUM
    Follow the yellow brick road!"Since it first appeared in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has brought joy to generations. In it, a girl's dream world comes to life as the cyclone lifts Dorothy from Kansas, depositing her in the enchanted land of the Munchkins. H ere she meets the famous Oz characters: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of t...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • PRAISE OF FOLLY -20%
    PRAISE OF FOLLY
    ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS
    The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, poking fun at false pedantry and the aberrations of Christianity. Woven throughou...
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    Q. 120Q. 96

  • MANSFIELD PARK -20%
    MANSFIELD PARK
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person to show her kindness. With the departure of her uncle to the West Indies and the arrival from London of the fashionable Henry and Mar...
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    Q. 120Q. 96

  • NAKED LUNCH -20%
    NAKED LUNCH
    WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
    Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume—that contains final-draft typescripts, numero...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • JOURNEY BY MOONLIGHT -20%
    JOURNEY BY MOONLIGHT
    ANTAL SZERB
    Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihály are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihály prefers to roam around the back alleys and the canals on his own, and as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese there is a growing sense of unrest between them, until Mihály misses the train t...
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    Q. 110Q. 88

  • THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS -20%
    THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
    BUCHAN, JOHN
    When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to sabotage Britain's war capability. Hannay becomes both hunter and hunted as he struggles to unravel the tangled threads of th...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE -20%
    THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
    AUSTER, PAUL
    "One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death". So begins THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man's elusive character. Later the book shifts from Auster's identity as son to his own...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • DON QUIXOTE -20%
    DON QUIXOTE
    DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL
    Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by creating a fictional Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of liter...
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    Q. 110Q. 88

  • THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN -20%
    THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
    STERNE, LAURENCE
    Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out t...
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    Q. 80Q. 64

  • JANE EYRE -20%
    JANE EYRE
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    Discover the story of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Classics series! The stunning Jane Eyre special edition features sprayed edges, color end pages, a built-in ribbon bookmark, and embossed foil cover. The beautiful design and attention to detail set this special edition book apart, whether you're reading for...
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    Q. 210Q. 168