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  • ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
    ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
    CARROLL, LEWIS
    Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. ‘I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,’ wrote Dodgson, describing h...
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    Q. 270

  • LITTLE WOMEN (WITH GOOD WIVES)
    LITTLE WOMEN (WITH GOOD WIVES)
    ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of...
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    Q. 270

  • OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
    OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also Bella's guardian. Disguise and concealment play an important role in the novel and individual identity is examined...
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    Q. 130

  • THE SUN ALSO RISES
    THE SUN ALSO RISES
    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
    Capturing the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation, this poignantly beautiful story is now released in an 80th anniversary edition. ...
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    Q. 180

  • MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS
    MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS
    CAPOTE, TRUMAN
    "The selections in this book have previously appeared in the following publications: Esquire, Interview magazine, McCall's magazine and The New Yorker"--Copyright page. ...
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    Q. 170

  • JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
    JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
    VERNE, JULES (JULIO)
    The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the geologist—together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans—discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric propor...
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    Q. 110

  • ANIMAL FARM AND 1984
    ANIMAL FARM AND 1984
    ORWELL, GEORGE / A. M. HEATH
    George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball e...
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    Q. 260

  • OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
    OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters...
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    Q. 70

  • A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
    A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
    TRUMAN CAPOTE
    Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory", "One Christmas", and "A Thanksgiving Memory". All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision. ...
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    Q. 210

  • ANIMAL FARM
    ANIMAL FARM
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As readers witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, they begin to recognize the seeds of ...
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    Q. 110

  • THE COMPLETE STORIES
    THE COMPLETE STORIES
    KAFKA, FRANZ
    The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial."An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic." --T...
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    Q. 210

  • FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
    FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
    In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of lo...
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    Q. 200

  • 100 SELECTED STORIES
    100 SELECTED STORIES
    O. HENRY
    This selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas.These stories are famed for their ‘trick endings’ or ‘twists i...
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    Q. 70

  • ANSWERED PRAYERS
    ANSWERED PRAYERS
    TRUMAN CAPOTE
    Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly. --The New York Times Book ReviewTracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a lo...
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    Q. 160

  • OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS
    OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS
    TRUMAN CAPOTE
    Truman Capote's first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in...
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    Q. 180

  • SILAS MARNER
    SILAS MARNER
    GEORGE ELIOT
    Although the shortest of George Eliot’s novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner – a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England – and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie.Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repen...
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    Q. 70

  • WAR AND PEACE
    WAR AND PEACE
    TOLSTOI, LEV (LEON)
    War and Peaceis a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illust...
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    Q. 70

  • DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE WITH THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER STORIES
    DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE WITH THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER STORIES
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    ‘…man is not truly one, but truly two.’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 spl...
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    Q. 70

  • TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
    TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
    THOMAS HARDY
    Set in Hardy’s Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d’Urbe...
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    Q. 70

  • THE SCARLET LETTER
    THE SCARLET LETTER
    NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
    This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book’s po...
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    Q. 70

  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab’s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual r...
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    Q. 70

  • ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
    ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
    L.M. MONTGOMERY
    As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever... but would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing hea...
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    Q. 90

  • AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
    AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
    VERNE, JULES (JULIO)
    Jules Verne Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne’s most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story. Together with his manservant, Passepar...
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    Q. 70

  • THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
    THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
    TWAIN, MARK
    Fresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six thousand dollars in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who wants Huck's fortune and will stop at nothing to get his hands on it. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets Miss Watson's slave, Jim, who has run away after learning that Miss Watson may sell him. Jim plans to head north, find work, and buy his wife and...
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    Q. 190

  • THE GREAT GATSBY
    THE GREAT GATSBY
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the lavishly outfitted mansion next to his modest house is home to Jay Gatsby. Eventually, Nick becomes aware of Gatsby’s intense interest in his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and when Daisy’s brutish husband Tom probes into Gatsby’s background, he uncovers unsavory revelations about his rival’s wealth. First publi...
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    Q. 190

  • A TALE OF TWO CITIES
    A TALE OF TWO CITIES
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance—does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. The result is...
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    Q. 210

  • THE COMPLETE PETER PAN
    THE COMPLETE PETER PAN
    BARRIE, J. M. (JAMES MATHEW)
    The boy who wouldn’t grow up, Peter Pan has the power of flight and lives on a magical island. But he is fascinated by Mary Darling’s bedtime stories for her children and makes covert night-time visits to their Bloomsbury home. One evening he loses his shadow, and after Mary’s daughter Wendy helps him reattach it, he invites her to fly away with him on an extraordinary adventur...
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    Q. 90

  • THE CANTERBURY TALES
    THE CANTERBURY TALES
    GEOFFREY CHAUCER
    “And specially from every shires endeOf Engelond to Caunterbury they wende,The hooly blisful martir for to seke,That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.”Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a group of pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on the long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the...
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    Q. 120

  • THE STORY OF A NOBODY
    THE STORY OF A NOBODY
    CHÉJOV, ANTÓN P.
    A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task – an ailing, world-weary “nobody” – seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to em...
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    Q. 90

  • THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
    THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
    JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
    After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro’s Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable sisters turn to the scout Hawk-eye and the Mohicans Chingachgook and Uncas to lead them to Fort William Henry, where their father is in command. Yet Magua is sure to return with his fellow Huron warriors, a...
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    Q. 120