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  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Regarded as one of Charles Dickens's masterpieces, Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip and his growth to adulthood. Supported by a mysterious anonymous benefactor, Pip travels to London to be educated as a gentleman and make himself worthy of the hand of the beautiful Estella, the ward of the reclusive Miss Havisham. But Pip finds life in London more dangerous and...
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  • THE MUDFOG PAPERS
    THE MUDFOG PAPERS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog – such as the delusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show – and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which t...
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    Q. 120

  • THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    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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  • SKETCHES OF YOUNG LADIES, YOUNG GENTLEMEN AND YOUNG COUPLES
    SKETCHES OF YOUNG LADIES, YOUNG GENTLEMEN AND YOUNG COUPLES
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    When the publishers of the Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, brought out the anonymous 'Sketches of Young Ladies' in 1837, their resounding success prompted the twenty-six-year old Dickens to write, the following year, a companion piece, the 'Sketches of Young Gentlemen', followed two years later - to coincide with the engagement of Princess Victoria and Prince Albert - by the '...
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  • H.G. WELLS SHORT STORIES
    H.G. WELLS SHORT STORIES
    H.G. WELLS
    H.G. Wells, one of the founding fathers of science fiction created a rich universe of short stories, many of which are collected here in this special deluxe edition. The Star, The Time Machine, The Land Ironclads and A Dream of Armageddon are amongst the many gems which have inspired generations of writers (including those who contribute to our own Gothic Fantasy short story ed...
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    Q. 250

  • FLUSH
    FLUSH
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s eponymous cocker spaniel, charting the dog’s early days in the countryside, his adoption by the famous poet, his subsequent life in London and his travels with his owners to Italy.While the resulting narrative is light-hearted and pl...
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    Q. 100

  • THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE: (PENGUIN CLASSICS DELUXE EDITION) ( PENGUIN CLASSICS DELUXE EDITION )
    THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE: (PENGUIN CLASSICS DELUXE EDITION) ( PENGUIN CLASSICS DELUXE EDITION )
    JACKSON, SHIRLEY / LAURA MILLER
    The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pil...
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    Q. 190

  • SELECTED WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
    SELECTED WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
    EDGAR ALLAN POE
    From the mysterious to the macabre, the works of Edgar Allan Poe have the power to evoke readers’ deepest emotions. Poe’s stories and poems explore the darker side of life and still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today. This handsome Word Cloud edition presents many of Poe’s best-known works, including “The Raven,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Tell-Tale ...
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    Q. 160

  • THE ARCHEOLOGIST AND SELECTED SEA STORIES
    THE ARCHEOLOGIST AND SELECTED SEA STORIES
    ANDREAS KARKAVITSAS
    Translated into English for the first time, The Archeologist is a landmark of Greek national literature, and an important document in the history of archeology and classicism. Published for the bicentennial year of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence.A Penguin ClassicThe year 2021 marks the bicentennial of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence. This historical...
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    Q. 180

  • THE TALE OF PRINCESS FATIMA WARRIOR WOMAN
    THE TALE OF PRINCESS FATIMA WARRIOR WOMAN
    MAGIDOW, MELANIE
    Published in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Princess Fatima recounts the thrilling adventures of a legendary medieval warrior universally known throughout the Middle East and long overdue to join world literature’s pantheon of female heroes.A Penguin ClassicA fearsome, sword-slinging heroine who defeated countless men in stea...
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    Q. 170

  • FRANNY AND ZOOEY
    FRANNY AND ZOOEY
    J.D.SALINGER
    Two children of the Glass family appear in separate stories laid in twentieth-century New York. ...
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    Q. 110

  • THE CALL OF THE WILD AND OTHER STORIES
    THE CALL OF THE WILD AND OTHER STORIES
    JACK LONDON
    When Buck is smuggled from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, he must forget the long, lazy Californian days and face a life of constant toil and danger under the whip of cruel or inept masters, where survival itself must be fought for. But with his primal instincts stirred, how long can Buck resist...
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  • WHITE FANG
    WHITE FANG
    JACK LONDON
    Part wolf, part dog, White Fang learns to survive in the freezing wilderness. As well as being forced to confront the harsh realities of nature, the young cub experiences the cruelties of humans – but when his fortunes change, will love and civilization set him on the path to happiness?Set in the Yukon territory of Canada during the gold rush of the 1890s, White Fang is a rolli...
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  • A NEST OF THE GENTRY
    A NEST OF THE GENTRY
    TURGENEV, IVAN SERGEEVICH
    Coming back to the “nest” of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter of one of his cousins, whom he had known when they were children and who rekindles in him long-smothered...
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    Q. 130

  • FINNEGANS WAKE
    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. 260

  • AGNES GREY
    AGNES GREY
    BRONTË, ANNE
    This novel is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century.This is a deeply personal novel written from the author’s own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and...
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    Q. 70

  • THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD /THE GAMBLER
    THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD /THE GAMBLER
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    Dostoevsky’s fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out.The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison. An educated upper-class man is condemned to live among criminals and brutal guards, with arbitrary punishment...
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    Q. 70

  • WOMEN IN LOVE
    WOMEN IN LOVE
    LAWRENCE, D.H.
    Lawrence’s finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The ‘progress’ of the modern industrialised world had l...
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    Q. 70

  • DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON /THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER
    DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON /THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities of imperialism. Both the books in this volume were published in the 1930s, “a low, dishonest decade,” as his coeval W....
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  • BEN HUR
    BEN HUR
    WALLACE, LEW
    An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a genuine American folk possession.This was the book that finally overcame the inherent suspicion of fiction that still prevailed in much of America in the l...
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    Q. 70

  • TREASURE ISLAND
    TREASURE ISLAND
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors whom he fears but, despite all precautions, ...
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  • THE DRUG AND OTHER STORIES (SECOND EDITION)
    THE DRUG AND OTHER STORIES (SECOND EDITION)
    CROWLEY, ALEISTER / BREEZE, WILLIAM / DAVIES, DAVID STUART (ED.)
    This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time.Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fic...
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  • THE CANTERBURY TALES
    THE CANTERBURY TALES
    GEOFFREY CHAUCER
    During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father. Whilst he was doing and ‘being’ all of these things, he was writing. Not only did he write in English – for princes, friends, family and, pr...
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  • PERSUASION
    PERSUASION
    AUSTEN, JANE
    What does persuasion mean – a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen’s quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her ...
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    Q. 140

  • ULYSSES
    ULYSSES
    JOYCE, JAMES
    James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom’s voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery.Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Y...
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    Q. 140

  • JANE EYRE
    JANE EYRE
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life a...
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  • AENEID, THE EPIC TALE COMPLETE
    AENEID, THE EPIC TALE COMPLETE
    VIRGIL
    Virgil's masterpiece, one of the greatest works in Western literature, was written in Latin, between 29 and 19 BCE, recalling events after the Fall of Troy over 1200 years before, as told in the famous Homeric epics of Greek literature the Iliad and the Odyssey. The great adventures of Aeneas' flight from Troy and the prophesy of his founding of a great city linked Roman dynast...
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  • ROBINSON CRUSOE
    ROBINSON CRUSOE
    DEFOE, DANIEL
    Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. After a dramatic shipwreck, Robinson Cr...
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  • HARD TIMES
    HARD TIMES
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Hard Times was published in 1854 and is...
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  • FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
    FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
    THOMAS HARDY
    Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Thomas Hardy’s perennially popular and ...
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    Q. 130