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  • LITTLE WOMEN
    LITTLE WOMEN
    ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
    With an Afterword by Anna South.Timeless in its evocation of idealised family life and robustly enduring, Little Women is recognised as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a 'girls' story', its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. ...
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    Q. 150

  • TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
    TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with t...
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    Q. 100

  • THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
    THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured, and dedicate their lives to the reckless pursuit of happiness. But this intimate story turns tragic, as their marriage disintegrates under the weight o...
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    Q. 170

  • MOBY-DICK
    MOBY-DICK
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Teeming with...
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    Q. 180

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as "humbug". One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a series of ghosts who reveal to him the innocence he has lost, the wretchedness of his future and the poverty of the present, which he has so far ignored. This experience teaches Scrooge the true meaning of the holiday and leaves him a...
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    Q. 100

  • THE LITTLE PRINCE
    THE LITTLE PRINCE
    DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, ANTOINE
    'All grown-ups were once children - although few of them remember it.' A pilot forced to crash land in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince who is visiting the Earth from his own small planet with its three volcanoes and a beautiful flower. Through this meeting, the aviator comes to discover many of life's universal truths which illuminate the human condition with all i...
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    Q. 130

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Sense and Sensibility is the story of the two Dashwood sisters, who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of "civilized" society and the human desire for romantic passion. Elinor is cautious and unassuming about sentimental matters, while Marianne is wild and passionate, falling hopelessly in love with Mr. Willoughby. But the lessons in life and romance see the two ...
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    Q. 80

  • ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND
    ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND
    CARROLL, LEWIS
    Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice’s encounters with the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, has captured the imaginations of young and old throughout the world since it was first published in 186...
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    Q. 110

  • LITTLE WOMEN
    LITTLE WOMEN
    ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
    The four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth – live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. As the four come of age and their distinct personalities develop, destiny has contrasting fortunes in store for them – in the form of marriage, career, European travel or fatal illness – but the bonds holdin...
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    Q. 100

  • THE ILIAD
    THE ILIAD
    HOMER
    Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amid devastation and destruction. Perhaps the Western world’s first and best storyteller, Homer draws the reader in with bated breath. His masterful tale contains some of the most famous episodes in all of literature: the curse on the prophet Cassandra; the siege of Troy; the battle between Hector and A...
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    Q. 80

  • THE SCARLET LETTER
    THE SCARLET LETTER
    HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
    Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and her illegitimate child in the hostile environment of seventeenth-century Pur...
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    Q. 90

  • MRS DALLOWAY
    MRS DALLOWAY
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hall...
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    Q. 80

  • EMMA
    EMMA
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen’s crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women’s autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse’s self-confidence and self-knowledge, and her determination to arrange marriages for her friends while avoiding one for herself, leads to a painful series of misunderstand...
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    Q. 100

  • DECAMERON
    DECAMERON
    BOCCACCIO
    In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for “ten days”, Boccaccio’s book of stories draw...
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    Q. 110

  • NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
    NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    Includes pictures and section on Dostoevsky's life and works The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical, and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, including his obse...
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    Q. 100

  • THE GAMBLER
    THE GAMBLER
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    "Immediately I put a hundred guilders on rouge - it won; all four hundred noir - it won; all eight hundred on mangue - it won; including what there had been previously, that was one thousand seven hundred guilders, and that in less than five minutes!" Inspired by Dosteoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rig...
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    Q. 100

  • THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE AND OTHER STORIES
    THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE AND OTHER STORIES
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    One of Stevenson’s most famous and enduringly popular works, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split personality, and obscure science, with its chilling final revelation, became an instant horror classic ...
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    Q. 100

  • THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
    THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
    WILDE, OSCAR
    Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian’s own face. The stage is now set for a mast...
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    Q. 80

  • THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES
    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. 80

  • THE IDIOT
    THE IDIOT
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and intense works of fiction presented here in a new translation. After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to...
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    Q. 110

  • FRANKENSTEIN
    FRANKENSTEIN
    SHELLEY, MARY
    Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost story, Frankenstein narrates the chilling tale of a being created by a brigh...
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    Q. 70

  • HEIDI (PUFFIN IN BLOOM)
    HEIDI (PUFFIN IN BLOOM)
    JOHANNA SPYRI / ANNA BOND
    The classic story of a little orphan girl in the Swiss Alps, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.At the age of five, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi is fascinated by his long beard and bushy grey eyebrows. She lo...
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    Q. 180

  • A LITTLE PRINCESS (PUFFIN IN BLOOM)
    A LITTLE PRINCESS (PUFFIN IN BLOOM)
    BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON / ANNA BOND
    Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to settle in and make friends at boarding school. But when she learns that she'll never see her beloved father gain, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for hard work and a room in the attic. Will she find that kindness and genorosity are all the riches she...
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    Q. 180

  • LITTLE WOMEN
    LITTLE WOMEN
    ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY / ANNA BOND
    Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn’t be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the ...
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    Q. 190

  • ANNA KARENINA
    ANNA KARENINA
    TOLSTOI, LEV (LEON)
    Leo Tolstoy’s most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, “moral” life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Lev...
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    Q. 110

  • JANE EYRE
    JANE EYRE
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre, leads a lonely life until she finds a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls at night. What is the sinister secret that threatens Jane and her new found happiness? Step into Classics(TM) adaptations feature easy-to-read texts, big type, and short c...
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    Q. 100

  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    BRONTË, EMILY
    The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with even Emily's sister Charlotte wondering whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff . Replete with unforgettable characters and situations that have seared thems...
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    Q. 80

  • ORLANDO
    ORLANDO
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I’s court favourites, is the object of many ladies’ attentions, but after suffering heartbreak he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any thoughts of marriage. Having obtained an ambassadorial post in Constantinople, Orlando falls into a long sleep and wakes up suddenly transformed into a woman. Also blessed with the gi...
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    Q. 110

  • THE GREAT GATSBY
    THE GREAT GATSBY
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby’s impossible love for a ...
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    Q. 100

  • FINNEGANS WAKE
    FINNEGANS WAKE
    JAMES JOYCE
    Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family – their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce’s last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape.This ‘language’ is based on English vocabulary and syntax...
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    Q. 70