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  • A LITTLE PRINCESS -20%
    A LITTLE PRINCESS
    HODGSON BURNETT, FRANCES
    When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, she arrives looking rather like a princess, with trunks full of the finest clothes. Yet, despite having her own pony and carriage, private room and personal maid, Sara is never a snob to her fellow pupils. Instead, she is kind, thoughtful and generous, and soon she is friends wit...
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    Q. 120Q. 96

  • NO LONGER HUMAN -20%
    NO LONGER HUMAN
    DAZAI, OSAMU
    A completely new translation of Osamu Dazai's great masterpiece by award-winning translator Juliet Winters Carpenter. "A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist" --Damian Flanagan, The Japan Times No Longer Human is the story of Yozo Oba, who, from early childhood, finds it impossible to form meaningful relationships with family or friends. As a ch...
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    Q. 160Q. 128

  • THE NEW DRESS AND OTHER STORIES -20%
    THE NEW DRESS AND OTHER STORIES
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially made for the occasion, is clearly old-fashioned, dowdy and out of place. Everyone seems to be looking at her in dismay or mocking her appearance. Crushed at once by her insecurity,...
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    Q. 120Q. 96

  • ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND -20%
    ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
    CARROLL, LEWIS / ANNA BOND
    Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a deluxe oversized hardcover edition, illustrated in full color by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co. 'That curious, hallucinating heroine Alice, friend of Cheshire cats and untimely rabbits, is turning 150 years old. But she doesn't look a day over a decade in a special new edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice'...
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    Q. 330Q. 264

  • NORTH AND SOUTH -20%
    NORTH AND SOUTH
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial soc...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • FINNEGANS WAKE -20%
    FINNEGANS WAKE
    JOYCE, JAMES
    Presents an experimental novel depicting a dream of world history, with characters from literature and history appearing and disappearing, written in a dream language that is a comical mixture of all the languages of Europe. ...
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    Q. 260Q. 208

  • BABBITT -20%
    BABBITT
    LEWIS, SINCLAIR
    In the Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged real-estate agent George F. Babbitt appears to have achieved the American dream: he has a wife and children, a car and a neat house with a neat yard; he is successful at work, comfortably off, exceedingly well fed and a proud member of all the right clubs - in short, he has all he needs to be happy. Or does he? As we follow his ...
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    Q. 120Q. 96

  • THE CALL OF WILD AND WHITE FANG -20%
    THE CALL OF WILD AND WHITE FANG
    JACK LONDON
    THE CALL OF THE WILD delves into the mind, relationships and adventures of Buck, the dog, in the wilds of Alaska. In WHITE FANG, an orphaned half dog-half wolf struggles to survive in the Yukon wilderness. ...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • 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

  • JUNKY: THE DEFINITIVE TEXT OF -20%
    JUNKY: THE DEFINITIVE TEXT OF "JUNK"
    WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
    Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of post-war America. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, se...
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    Q. 170Q. 136

  • DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES AND OTHER STORIES -20%
    DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES AND OTHER STORIES
    ZOLA, ÉMILE
    In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people.From the cruel irony of ‘Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of ‘Coqueville on the Spree', these stories display the broad range of Zola's imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quie...
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    Q. 130Q. 104

  • MYSTERIOUS ISLAND -20%
    MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
    VERNE, JULES (JULIO)
    Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his ‘extraordinary voyages' was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction.In The Mysterious Island a group o...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • 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

  • VANITY FAIR -20%
    VANITY FAIR
    WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
    Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retir...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • DOMBEY AND SON -20%
    DOMBEY AND SON
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned. 'Girls' said Mr Dombey, 'have nothing to do with Dombey and Son'. When Walter Gay, a young clerk in her father's office, rescues her fro...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • ADAM BEDE -20%
    ADAM BEDE
    GEORGE ELIOT
    ‘Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...'Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • 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

  • LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER -20%
    LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
    LAWRENCE, D.H.
    With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offer...
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    Q. 140Q. 112

  • THIS SIDE OF PARADISE / THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED -20%
    THIS SIDE OF PARADISE / THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his academic failure. A sequence of love affairs with beautiful young women are fatally damaged by the collapse of his family's fort...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • EAST OF EDEN -20%
    EAST OF EDEN
    JOHN STEINBECK
    In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam a...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO -20%
    THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
    A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the tr...
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    Q. 330Q. 264

  • LITTLE WOMEN - LINED JOURNAL & NOVEL -20%
    LITTLE WOMEN - LINED JOURNAL & NOVEL
    CHILTERN PUBLISHING
    Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books feel extra special and look striking on any shelf.This elegant, yet carefully designed gift pack, comes with a copy of the novel Lit...
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    Q. 360Q. 288

  • THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME -20%
    THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
    HUGO, VICTOR
    Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age.In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters - amongst them, Quasimodo, the hunchback of t...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • SELECTED STORIES -20%
    SELECTED STORIES
    ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV / ANTON CHEKHOV
    With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University.Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination.This collection contains some of the most important of his earlies...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • LITTLE DORRIT -20%
    LITTLE DORRIT
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical p...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • HOUSE OF MIRTH -20%
    HOUSE OF MIRTH
    WHARTON, EDITH
    The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slande...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN -20%
    A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
    JAMES JOYCE
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work.This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, ...
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    Q. 70Q. 56

  • HADJI MURAT -20%
    HADJI MURAT
    TOLSTOI, LEV (LEON)
    Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him - and so Murat must find another way to end the struggle.Tolstoy knew as he was writing th...
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    Q. 110Q. 88

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY -20%
    SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Marianne Dashwood can't understand her sister. How could the attractive, witty, and charming Elinor fall for the quiet, self-effacing, and rather dull Edward Ferrars? Meanwhile, Elinor worries that Marianne's heart-first approach to life will hurt her, especially when it comes to the dashing John Willoughby. Meanwhile, both Edward and Willoughby harbor secrets that will force t...
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    Q. 210Q. 168

  • WE: NEW TRANSLATION -20%
    WE: NEW TRANSLATION
    ZAMYATIN, YEVGENY
    We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engi...
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    Q. 110Q. 88