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  • THE PUFFIN IN BLOOM COLLECTION
    THE PUFFIN IN BLOOM COLLECTION
    PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP / PENGUIN YOUNG READERS GROUP / L.M. MONTGOMERY / JOHANNA SPYRI / ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY / BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON / ANNA BOND
    Puffin in Bloom: A collection of classics with stunning cover art by renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.'s principal artist, Anna Bond, now available as an exquisite gift set! Featuring all four Puffin in Bloom classics with illustrated covers by Anna Bond in a charming keepsake box designed in her signature style. Box includes: Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Little Women,...
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  • ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
    ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
    CARROLL, LEWIS / ANNA BOND
    Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a deluxe oversized hardcover edition, illustrated in full color by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co. 'That curious, hallucinating heroine Alice, friend of Cheshire cats and untimely rabbits, is turning 150 years old. But she doesn’t look a day over a decade in a special new edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’...
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  • A CALENDAR OF WISDOM
    A CALENDAR OF WISDOM
    TOLSTOI, LEV (LEON)
    Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world’s greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of everyday life.Banned in Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy’s...
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    Q. 120

  • THE GOOD SOLDIER
    THE GOOD SOLDIER
    FORD, FORD MADOX
    The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships are strained and gradually disintegrate, with tragic consequences.Drawing inspiration from his personal life, Ford Madox Ford innovatively used non-chronological flashbacks as well a...
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    Q. 100

  • TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES
    TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES
    HARDY, THOMAS
    After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman lineage and that they can rescue her family from indigence. Unfortunately she is taken under the wing of the immoral libertine scion Alec d'Urbervile, who seduces and scorns her. While...
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  • FATHERS AND CHILDREN
    FATHERS AND CHILDREN
    TURGENEV, IVAN SERGEEVICH
    Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 – the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist intent on rejecting all existing traditional values and institutions, providing a trenchant critique of the established order.Turgenev’s masterpiece investigates the g...
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  • HADJI MURAT
    HADJI MURAT
    TOLSTOI, LEV (LEON)
    Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him – and so Murat must find another way to end the struggle.Tolstoy knew as he was writing th...
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    Q. 110

  • THE MOONSTONE
    THE MOONSTONE
    COLLINS, WILKIE
    When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voiced narrative that sustains the tension all the way to its stunning ending. ...
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  • LADY CHATTERLEY´S LOVER
    LADY CHATTERLEY´S LOVER
    LAWRENCE, D.H.
    Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century. Lawrence’s determination to explore every aspect – sexual, social, psychological – of Lady Chatterley’s adulterous liaison with the gamekeeper Oliver M...
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  • IMAGE ON THE HEART AND OTHER STORIES
    IMAGE ON THE HEART AND OTHER STORIES
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    When Tudy’s first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go to study in France. After she and her benefactor become close, she agrees to marry him in Provence later that year. But as the wedding approaches, Tom discovers that his fiancée has become involved with Riccard, a dashing French pilot and his near-double.A tale of bro...
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    Q. 110

  • THE INTIMATE STRANGERS AND OTHER STORIES
    THE INTIMATE STRANGERS AND OTHER STORIES
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was a soldier about to go to battle. When, years later and after the death of her husband, Cedric contacts her out of the blue, Sara finds herself eager to see him again – against the ...
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    Q. 110

  • THE LAST OF THE BELLES
    THE LAST OF THE BELLES
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    Inspired by Fitzgerald’s own courtship of his future wife Zelda, ‘The Last of the Belles’ centres on the Southern beauty Ailie Calhoun from Tarleton, Georgia, who finds herself the object of attention of all the officers at a nearby army base, including the narrator, Andy. A wistful and melancholy exploration of unfulfilled dreams and lost youth, the story is considered one of ...
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    Q. 110

  • THE LOVE BOAT AND OTHER STORIES
    THE LOVE BOAT AND OTHER STORIES
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where he meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Mae. As the match is not considered socially advantageous enough, Bill moves on, marries and has a career, but he remains painfully nostalgic for that episode on the river.A poignant tale which t...
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    Q. 110

  • THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED STORIES
    THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED STORIES
    KATE CHOPIN
    This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin’s extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and twelve uncollected tales.The Awakening is a strikingly modern, evocative story of self-discovery and female emancipation, set in the sensuo...
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  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    One of Dickens’s finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the life of a gentleman, enabling him to escape to London from the prospect of a humble blacksmith’s career in rural Kent. In the bustling, unforgiving capital he must learn for himself the pitfalls of love and wea...
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    Q. 100

  • JANE AUSTEN: THE COMPLETE WORKS
    JANE AUSTEN: THE COMPLETE WORKS
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she painted vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close. Each of these novels is a love story and a story about marriage marriage for love, for financia...
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    Q. 1.740

  • DON QUIXOTE
    DON QUIXOTE
    DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL
    Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by creating a fictional Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of liter...
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    Q. 110

  • OLIVER TWIST
    OLIVER TWIST
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld of London. Teeming with unforgettable characters such as the villainous Fagin, the virtuous Nancy and the brutal Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist combines dark humour, elements of melodrama and social polemic...
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  • INFERNO
    INFERNO
    ALIGHIERI, DANTE
    On the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintances and famous persons from history as he witnesses the strange and gruesome sufferin...
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    Q. 120

  • FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS
    FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author’s first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowd...
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    Q. 110

  • TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE
    TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald’s name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces – the most notable of which is the novella-length ‘May Day’ – with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, recently made into a Hollywood film. Also containing the now classic story ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’...
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    Q. 110

  • BABYLON REVISITED AND OTHER STORIES
    BABYLON REVISITED AND OTHER STORIES
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, ‘Babylon Revisited’ tells the story of the widower Charlie Wales, a reformed alcoholic and successful businessman returning to Paris to convince his in-laws to give him back the daughter he abandoned. As the old haunts of the city he used to carouse in seem more and more alien to him, he find...
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    Q. 110

  • BASIL AND JOSEPHINE
    BASIL AND JOSEPHINE
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry – based on Fitzgerald himself and a combination of his first love Ginevra King and his wife Zelda. As one struggles to gain the acceptance of his peers and becomes consumed by ambition, the other finds herself obsessed by teenage crushes and has ...
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    Q. 110

  • THE PAT HOBBY STORIES
    THE PAT HOBBY STORIES
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes – such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive – to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he emba...
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    Q. 110

  • THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND THE DEVIL
    THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND THE DEVIL
    TOLSTOI, LEV (LEON)
    The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich then starts to question the futility and barrenness of his previous existenc...
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    Q. 120

  • PRAISE OF FOLLY
    PRAISE OF FOLLY
    ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS
    The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus’s world, poking fun at false pedantry and the aberrations of Christianity. Woven throughou...
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  • ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN
    ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel’s themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac ‘The Rich Boy’ and ‘Winter Dreams’, deal with wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – as they come to terms with lost love, ...
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    Q. 110

  • THE LAST TYCOON
    THE LAST TYCOON
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his business empire. In his ruthless rise to the top, the young widower has had little time for sentiment, until he mets the beguiling Kathleen Moore and the two embark on an intense but ill-fated relationship.Told in parts from the perspective of Cecelia Brady...
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    Q. 110

  • A GRAIN OF WHEAT
    A GRAIN OF WHEAT
    NGUGI WA THIONG’O
    u003cbu003eu003cbu003eu003cbu003eBarack Obama, via Facebook "A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships."u003c/bu003e u003cpu003eThe Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writeru003cbu003e'u003c/bu003es best-known novelu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eSet in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp o...
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  • MARY BARTON
    MARY BARTON
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the process...
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