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  • THE VILLAGE OF STEPANCHIKOVO AND ITS INHABITANTS -15%
    THE VILLAGE OF STEPANCHIKOVO AND ITS INHABITANTS
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author’s release from forced military service. Gogolian in style and tone, and waspish in its description of the villainous Opiskin, it is a sustained exercise in caricatural cruelty and a comedic to...
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    Q. 120Q. 102

  • THE NEW DRESS AND OTHER STORIES -15%
    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. 102

  • PARIS SPLEEN -15%
    PARIS SPLEEN
    CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
    Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women.Published posthumously in 1869, ...
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    Q. 140Q. 119

  • ETHAN FROME -15%
    ETHAN FROME
    WHARTON, EDITH
    Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome’s days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena’s youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband’s feelings for Mattie go beyond simple affection, and that they seem to be reciprocated, the scene is set for a confrontation that wi...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER -15%
    A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    Twenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, a local atheist and libertine, she is glimpsed in his arms by the village gossip, Mrs Semprill, Dorothy suffers ...
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    Q. 110Q. 94

  • WOMEN IN LOVE -15%
    WOMEN IN LOVE
    D.H. LAWRENCE
    First encountered in Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow, sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are now grown-up women living in the English Midlands at the time of the First World War. Each becomes involved in a love affair: Ursula with the misanthropic intellectual Rupert Birkin, and Gudrun with Gerald Crich, a successful industrialist. The contrast between the two relationships – the ...
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    Q. 110Q. 94

  • THE CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES -15%
    THE CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN
    Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client employs him to rescue the daughter of a famous personage from the clutches of a roguish aristocrat and suspected murderer; a retired art-supply dealer asks him to investigate the suspicious disappearance of his wife with a neighbour and a stash of mon...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • HIS LAST BOW -15%
    HIS LAST BOW
    DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN
    A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret submarine plans, the sudden descent into madness of two brothers – these are only some of the apparently unsolvable cases contained in this volume, which the great sleuth, assisted by his trusted friend Doctor Watson, is challenged to clear up with the aid of...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • THE PICKWICK PAPERS -15%
    THE PICKWICK PAPERS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, consisting of its founder Mr Samuel Pickwick and Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, who travel around the country and then report back to the club concerning their extraordinary adventures and expe...
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    Q. 120Q. 102

  • THE VOYAGE OUT -15%
    THE VOYAGE OUT
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Helen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne, a ship belonging to Helen’s brother-in-law Willoughby Vinrace. Travelling with them is his daughter Rachel – a quiet, unremarkable girl raised in the London suburbs by her spinster aunts after the death of her mother. Along the way other people come aboard, s...
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    Q. 120Q. 102

  • HOMAGE TO CATALONIA -15%
    HOMAGE TO CATALONIA
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican efforts to overturn Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Having enrolled in the POUM militias, the young writer was soon forced to experience first-hand the hardships and da...
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    Q. 120Q. 102

  • SELECTED POETRY -15%
    SELECTED POETRY
    SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE
    During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which he propounded his philosophical views and radical political ideas. These, together with his highly unconventional itinerant life and his literary connections, make him one of the most important and intriguing figu...
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    Q. 110Q. 94

  • THE YEARS -15%
    THE YEARS
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter siblings: twenty-year-old Eleanor, whose concern is to help the poor; her younger sisters Milly, Delia and Rose; her brothers Morris, Martin and Edward, who is at Oxford and in love with his cousin Kit...
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    Q. 110Q. 94

  • BETWEEN THE ACTS -15%
    BETWEEN THE ACTS
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    It is a variable early summer’s day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote village in the very heart of England. The local community is all astir, intent on putting the finishing touches to preparations for the annual pageant, which is to be performed there that evening. Among the medley of attendees are Mr Oliver, the owner o...
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    Q. 120Q. 102

  • NIGHT AND DAY -15%
    NIGHT AND DAY
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets’ Corner, is helping her mother write the biography of their illustrious progenitor, she becomes engaged to William Rodney, a budding writer with an exaggerated opinion of his own poetical talent. Meanwhile, the suffragette Mary Datchet is in love with Ralph Denham, a lawyer and reviewer from a lo...
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    Q. 110Q. 94

  • PYGMALION -15%
    PYGMALION
    SHAW , GEORGE BERNARD
    When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a ...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • SONS AND LOVERS -15%
    SONS AND LOVERS
    D.H. LAWRENCE
    Part of Alma Classics' Evergreens series of popular classics, Sons and Lovers is presented here with an extensive critical apparatus and extra material, including a section of photographs and notes.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 eldes...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • THE TURN OF THE SCREW -15%
    THE TURN OF THE SCREW
    JAMES, HENRY
    An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that something dark is threatening her young charges. But are supernatural forces at work, or is the danger something altogether more earthly?Henry James’s masterpiece, and widely considere...
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    Q. 80Q. 68

  • BLEAK HOUSE -15%
    BLEAK HOUSE
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    The interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has gone on for so long that it has become a subject of mirth in legal circles and a source of great profit to those professionally engaged in it. Held in its inexorable grip – along with a diverse cross section of mid-Victorian society, from baronets to crossing-sweepers – are two wards of court, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, wh...
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    Q. 110Q. 94

  • THE WARDEN -15%
    THE WARDEN
    ANTHONY TROLLOPE
    When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus Harding, the kindly but unworldly warden who is responsible for the care of the establishment's twelve elderly residents, finds himself in conflict with his daughter's suitor, the zealous reformer John Bold, who unwittingly unleashes the full might of ...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • SELECTED POETICAL WORKS: BLAKE -15%
    SELECTED POETICAL WORKS: BLAKE
    WILLIAM BLAKE
    Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and draughtsman as in the field of poetry, he created works that are often difficult to categorize and that, while harking back to a classical and biblical past, also look forward to the future – with authors such as T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and the Beat po...
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    Q. 120Q. 102

  • KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING -15%
    KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme royal and devoting his life to literature. But when poverty begins to damage his self-esteem and...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • THREE YEARS -15%
    THREE YEARS
    CHÉJOV, ANTÓN P.
    On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father’s Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him and live with him in the capital, where the couple’s relationship is marred ...
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    Q. 80Q. 68

  • THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES -15%
    THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN
    “Holmes!” I cried. “Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?”London's criminal underworld has risen once again, and a dangerous individual with an air gun is prowling the streets. The capital is in greater need of its protector Sherlock Holmes than ever.Three years have passed since Holmes and ...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • JACOB’S ROOM -15%
    JACOB’S ROOM
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanders’s story is told by the women in his life, whether through his mother’s correspondence, the conversations of a friend or the thoughts and remembrances of those who love him.An extraordinary dep...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER -15%
    THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER
    SMOLLETT, TOBIAS
    Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is the story of Squire Matthew Bramble and his family’s journey across England and Scotland. From the gouty hypochondriac squire eager to take the waters in various spa towns to his malapropistic sister Tabitha, who is keenl...
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    Q. 100Q. 85

  • THE PROPHET -15%
    THE PROPHET
    KAHLIL GIBRAN
    Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Before he departs, a group of people gather round and ask him to share his wisdom.Written as a collection of poetic essays, and detailing such diverse and sprawling topics as love, death, pleasure and prayer, The Prophet was an immediate...
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    Q. 90Q. 77

  • THE VINDICATIONS -15%
    THE VINDICATIONS
    WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY
    Written as a passionate riposte to Talleyrand’s report to the French National Assembly, in which he declared that women needed only a domestic education, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the traditional view of decorative femininity and deplored the educational restrictions and the “mistaken notions of female excellence” that degraded women and kept them in a state...
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    Q. 120Q. 102

  • UNCLE’S DREAM -15%
    UNCLE’S DREAM
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K—, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make such a union come about, she must contend with rival matchmakers and Zina’s wil...
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    Q. 110Q. 94

  • MOLL FLANDERS -15%
    MOLL FLANDERS
    DEFOE, DANIEL
    Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childhood to make her own way in the world and to live off her wit and beauty. Her desire to climb the rungs of society leads her through a tangled web of incest, adultery, prostitution, deception and theft, before she is eventually transported to the New World for her crimes. Presented a...
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    Q. 80Q. 68