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  • CHÉRI AND THE END OF CHÉRI
    CHÉRI AND THE END OF CHÉRI
    COLETTE
    u003cbu003eColette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eColette’s u003ciu003eChériu003c/iu003e (1920) and its sequel, u003ciu003eThe End of Chériu003c/iu003e (1926), are widely considered her masterpieces. In sensuous, elegant prose, the two novels explore the e...
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    Q. 180

  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of...
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    Q. 110

  • AFTER THE FIREWORKS
    AFTER THE FIREWORKS
    ALDOUS HUXLEY / GIDDINS, GARY
    "After the Fireworks is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World.” —Gary GiddinsA striking collection of three lost classic pieces of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition.In the title novella, set in Rome, a renowned novelist sets out on a walk down Via Condotti towar...
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    Q. 110

  • THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (PRETTY BOOK EDITION)
    THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (PRETTY BOOK EDITION)
    FRANK L. BAUM
    This beloved classic tale is now available in an exclusive collector's edition, featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and decorative interior pages, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.Delighting readers for more than 120 years, this time-honored classic is now available as an exclusive collector's edition.Whether you're buying it as a g...
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    Q. 360

  • THE DIVINE COMEDY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION
    THE DIVINE COMEDY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION
    ALIGHIERI, DANTE
    u003cpu003eDante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints – is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. u003cbru003e...
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    Q. 180

  • THE SUN ALSO RISES
    THE SUN ALSO RISES
    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
    Discover the story of The Sun Also Rises with this striking collector's edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Editions series! The classic texts that shaped our culture feature exclusive cover art by distinguished artist Malika Favre. Her bold, graphic style gives each classic literature book a small masterpiece for a jacket. Collect the set or prize this The Sun Also Ris...
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    Q. 190

  • DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
    DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
    JOSEPH JACOBS / ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud’s theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural doppelgänger and the split personality in a timeless tale of gu...
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    Q. 140

  • ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
    ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
    LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
    Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of A...
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    Q. 240

  • PETER PAN
    PETER PAN
    BARRIE, J. M. (JAMES MATHEW)
    Chiltern Publishing 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 titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.Peter Pan is a free-spirited and mischievous young boy whocan fly ...
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    Q. 260

  • ANIMAL FARM
    ANIMAL FARM
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and, led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they overthrow Mr Jones and drive him away from the farm. In the subsequent struggle for power, it is Napoleon who emerges as a victor: he renames the place Animal Farm , gets rid of hi...
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    Q. 80

  • THE GREAT GATSBY
    THE GREAT GATSBY
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    A masterpiece of 20th century literature from F. Scott Fitzgerald, the preeminent chronicler of the Jazz Age—a term he coined.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsThis classic work encapsulating the decadence and excess of the 1920s “Jazz Age” follows the unassuming Nick Carraway on his search for the American Dream, which leads him to the doorstep o...
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    Q. 70

  • GONE WITH THE WIND
    GONE WITH THE WIND
    MITCHELL, MARGARET
    The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara soon realizes that young men can’t resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother’s ladylike ways. Her romantic intrigues lead her to an early marriage, but when the war between the Union and the Southern States breaks out and ...
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    Q. 110

  • ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
    ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
    LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
    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. Published in 1908 to astounding success...
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    Q. 130

  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    AUSTEN, JANE / BARBARA HELLER
    This deluxe edition brings to life the letters exchanged among Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice. Glassine pockets placed throughout the book contain removable replicas of 19 letters from the story. These powerful epistles include Lydia's announcement of her elopement, Mr. Collins's obsequious missives, and of course Darcy's painfully honest letter to Elizabeth.No...
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    Q. 435

  • THE HEROIC SLAVE
    THE HEROIC SLAVE
    FREDRICK DOUGLASS
    u003cpu003eFamed abolitionist Frederick Douglass based his only fictional work on the gripping true story of the biggest slave rebellion in U.S. history. The Heroic Slave was inspired by a courageous uprising led by Madison Washington in 1841. Washington rallied 18 of the 135 slaves aboard a ship bound for New Orleans, the country's primary slave-trading market. The mutineers s...
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    Q. 30

  • A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
    A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the foundations of a history of women’s literature, the text is also a triumph of imaginat...
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    Q. 100

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    DICKENS, CHARLES / RACKHAM, ARTHUR
    With a new Introduction by Dr Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex.Illustrations by Arthur RackhamA Christmas Carol has become a phenomenal touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, stages and filmed, this richly influential novella is powerfully vivid and infallibly moving.S...
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    Q. 70

  • ANNE OF GREEN GABLES & ANNE OF AVONLEA
    ANNE OF GREEN GABLES & ANNE OF AVONLEA
    L.M.MONTGOMERY
    Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of A...
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    Q. 70

  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    MELVILLE, HERMAN
    When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. With some sinister crew members in their midst and the hazardous conditions o...
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    Q. 100

  • THE TRIAL
    THE TRIAL
    KAFKA, FRANZ
    On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureauc...
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    Q. 100

  • THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
    THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
    BULGÁKOV, MIJAIL
    Russia’s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman – a professor of black magic – arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But the Devil’s mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master –...
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    Q. 100

  • ORLANDO
    ORLANDO
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    'He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed 'Truth! Truth! Truth!' we have no choice left but confess - he was a woman.' A young man in the court of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, the beautiful Orlando seems to belong everywhere and nowhere. One morning, Orlando awakens transformed - transported into the eightee...
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    Q. 110

  • TREASURE ISLAND
    TREASURE ISLAND
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    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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    Q. 140

  • PERSUASION
    PERSUASION
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold sepa...
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    Q. 260

  • THE TIME MACHINE
    THE TIME MACHINE
    WELLS, H.G.
    A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads thescientist to believe that they are the remnants of a once great civilization. He is forced to revise this assessment when he c...
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    Q. 80

  • THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
    THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
    WELLS, H.G.
    When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.Inspiring fil...
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    Q. 100

  • ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
    ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
    LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
    Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. When red-headed orphan Anne arrives at the Cuthberts' home,...
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    Q. 140

  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    BRONTË, EMILY
    Wuthering Heights tells the story of a romance between two youngsters: Catherine Earnshaw and an orphan boy, Heathcliff.This tale of hauntings, passion and greed remains unsurpassed in its depiction of the dark side of love.With an Afterword by David Pinching ...
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    Q. 150

  • THE HAPPY PRINCE & OTHER STORIES
    THE HAPPY PRINCE & OTHER STORIES
    WILDE, OSCAR
    Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas are g...
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    Q. 150

  • THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
    THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
    VILLENUEVE, GABRIELLE-SUZANNA BARBOT / MINALIMA
    MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise and the creators of the illustrated Jungle Book and Peter Pan, reimagine the beloved French fairy tale The Beauty and the Beast in this deluxe unabridged edition illustrated with stunning full-color artwork and nine 3-D interactive features--published to coincide with the release o...
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    Q. 340