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  • FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
    FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
    HARDY, THOMAS
    Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep farmer, a handsome soldier and an older, wealthy landowner. As the men vie for her affections, she struggles to retain her independence of spirit in the face of their declarations.Introducing readers to the fictional county of Wessex, Thomas Hardy’s f...
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  • THE WAVES
    THE WAVES
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends – Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda – as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal histories coalesce into a poetic tapestry of human experience.A commercial and...
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  • TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettab...
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  • 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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  • UTOPIA
    UTOPIA
    MORE, THOMAS
    In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe, which were, in More's eyes, impedi...
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  • DUBLINERS
    DUBLINERS
    JOYCE, JAMES
    Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth century. From the unsettling adventure of two truant schoolboys to the crafty schemes of two con men, from a young woman’s refusal to abandon Ireland and elope with a sailor to a ...
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  • NORTHANGER ABBEY
    NORTHANGER ABBEY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    While enjoying a six weeks’ stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense – and, once there, soon begins to form the most grues...
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  • THE INVISIBLE MAN
    THE INVISIBLE MAN
    WELLS, H.G.
    The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be the victim of an accident. However, the true reason for Griffin's outfit is far stranger: underneath those clothes, he is completel...
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  • THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
    THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
    BUCHAN, JOHN
    When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to sabotage Britain’s war capability. Hannay becomes both hunter and hunted as he struggles to unravel the tangled threads of th...
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  • TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
    TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    u003cpu003eReprint of 1927 Edition. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the literary technique of multiple focalization, the novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts an...
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  • JANE EYRE
    JANE EYRE
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    The orphaned Jane Eyre suffers under cruel guardians, a harsh employer and a rigid social order.But her plain appearance belies her indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage.With an Afterword by Sam Gilpin ...
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  • JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
    JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
    VERNE, JULES (JULIO)
    A Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an 1864 classic by Jules Verne.This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features colour illustrations by Edouard Riou (1833 -1900), a French painter and illustrator who illustrated six novels by Jules Verne, and an Afterword by Ned Halley." ...
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  • DEAD SOULS
    DEAD SOULS
    NIKOLAI GOGOL
    A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered on the landowner’s estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It is not clear what Chichikov’s intentions a...
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  • PERSUASION
    PERSUASION
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist, Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and whose reappearance causes her to reflect on her past decisions and contemplate her marital future.Vividly depicting the society holiday towns of Lyme Regis and Bath, and infused with its author's trademark w...
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  • CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH
    CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH
    TOLSTOI, LEV (LEON)
    This trilogy of short novels, taken as a whole, recounts the young narrator’s early life up to his university days, each episode told through the perceptions, points of view and emotions felt by the protagonist at the time. Based on Tolstoy’s own life and experiences, this fictionalized account of a young man growing into the world combines anecdote with frank personal assessme...
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    Q. 120

  • A HERO OF OUR TIME
    A HERO OF OUR TIME
    LERMONTOV, MIKHAIL
    On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious exploits of his former comrade Pechorin. Engaging in various acts of duelling, contraband, abduction and seduction, Pechorin, an archetypal Byronic anti-hero, combines cynicism and...
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  • WINTER NOTES ON SUMMER IMPRESSIONS
    WINTER NOTES ON SUMMER IMPRESSIONS
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see first-hand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan a...
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  • THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
    THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
    STERNE, LAURENCE
    Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne’s novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters – such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman – take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out t...
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  • PURGATORY
    PURGATORY
    ALIGHIERI, DANTE
    Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, 'Purgatory' features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the 'Divine Comedy'. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind, but Dante's ascent of Mount Purgatory towards Paradise remains fraught with obstacles, not least the burden ...
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  • THE CANTERVILLE GHOST AND OTHER STORIES
    THE CANTERVILLE GHOST AND OTHER STORIES
    WILDE, OSCAR
    When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound of rattling chains in the hallways and the appearance of mysterious bloodstains in the living room. However, the ghost struggles to ...
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  • THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTAH
    THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTAH
    MACKINTOSH-SMITH, TIM
    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.Ibn Battutah – ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian ...
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  • THE DOUBLE
    THE DOUBLE
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that ...
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  • THE ADOLESCENT
    THE ADOLESCENT
    DOSTOYEVSKI, FIODOR
    Among Dostoevsky’s later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady – the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna – as he struggles to find his place in society and “become ...
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  • THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
    THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
    TWAIN, MARK
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing the patience of his aunt Polly, the bold and sharp-witted Tom Sawyer frequently skips school in search of excitement, and the scrapes he gets into with his friend Huckleberry Finn range from innocent japes to more serious events such as the witnessing...
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  • THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
    THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
    HOWARD PYLE
    Don your Lincoln green and prepare for merriment!What could be merrier than joining Robin Hood's band of Merry Men for adventures in the English countryside? Pirates of the trees rather than the seas, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and many others ensure that Robin's clever schemes relieve the rich of their excess treasures and redistribute the wealth to those most in n...
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  • THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    JAMES, HENRY
    Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that this windfall will finally ensure the freedom that she yearns for and embarks o...
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  • A GAME OF CHESS AND OTHER STORIES: NEW TRANSLATION
    A GAME OF CHESS AND OTHER STORIES: NEW TRANSLATION
    ZWEIG, STEFAN
    When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him, but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes and, to the surprise of everyone, helps the underdog obtain a draw. When, the next day, Dr B. confides in a compat...
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  • THE WOMAN IN WHITE
    THE WOMAN IN WHITE
    COLLINS, WILKIE
    In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Hartright finds his romantic desires thwarted by her previous engagement to Sir Percival Glyde. But all is not as it seems with Sir Percival, as becomes clear when he arrives with his eccentric friend Count Fosco. The mystery and intrigue are further deepened by the ghostly appearances of a wo...
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  • JOURNEY BY MOONLIGHT
    JOURNEY BY MOONLIGHT
    ANTAL SZERB
    Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihály are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihály prefers to roam around the back alleys and the canals on his own, and as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese there is a growing sense of unrest between them, until Mihály misses the train t...
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  • TREASURE ISLAND
    TREASURE ISLAND
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treas­ure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derring-do has appealed to generations of readers ever since Robert Louis Stevenson penned it in 1881 with the claim: If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.But more than just a children’s classic, the novel is consider...
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