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Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam'sSons, 1989.

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'One of the most compassionate of all writers...you feel a kind of agony of helpless tenderness in the writer for all troubled souls The Times

Jude Fawley is a young man who longs to better himself and go to Christminster University.

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Hardy's last novel is the story of a young working man destroyed by the partial fulfilment of his dreams. He is torn between his desires for the life of the body and the life of the mind, as represented by two women - the vulgar but lustrous Arabella and the refined and frigid Sue.

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Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society's attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women. This edition is fully annotated and contains extra material.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMANHave you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots Or how the camel got his hump Rudyard Kipling's witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant's Child, the Cat that Walked by Himself and the Butterfly that Stamped.

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Drawn from the wondrous tales told to Kipling as a child by his Indian nurses, "Just So Stories" creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. Features an Introduction by Newbery Medalist Avi. Revised reissue.

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Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit.

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In the court of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is favoured above all the noblemen of England. It is rumoured that the Queen may chose him for her husband. This story is a depiction of intrigue, power struggles and superstition in a bygone age.

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Stevenson's classic tells the high-adventure story of David Balfour, whose uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and has him kidnapped and sold into slavery. Features a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

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Orphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative, miserly and reclusive Uncle Ebenezer. But Ebenezer is far from welcoming, and David narrowly escapes being murdered before he is kidnapped and imprisoned on a ship bound for the Carolinas.

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When young David Balfour is orphaned he discovers some surprising truths about his family. His meeting with his uncle Ebenezer turns out to have disastrous consequences leading to kidnap and imprisonment on board a ship bound for the Carolinas. David finds himself in a daredevil chase across the Scottish Highlands.

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'For God's sake, hold on!'

On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test yet. But then the ship hits a reef, it's every man for himself, and David must battle against the raging sea itself!

BACKSTORY: Learn about the true stories that inspired this adventurous tale!

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Robert Louis Stevensons classic swashbuckling adventure, inspired by true events, introduced by Louise Welsh.

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Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands.

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The story of a half-caste boy, part Indian part Irish who journeys throughout the subcontinent with an aged lama in search of religious enlightenment, the nominal plot revolves around the Great Game: the struggle between Britian and Russia for control of Afghanistan.

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'No summary can do this marvellous, rich and unforgettable novel anything like justice' Philip Pullman

Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore.

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Reared in the teeming streets of India at the turn of the century, the orphan Kim is the 'Friend of the all the World', a cheeky imp with an endless interest in the extraordinary characters he meets daily. One of them, an old Tibetan lama, sets him on the path that will lead him to travel the Great Trunk Road, and become a spy for the British...

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First published in 1940, this daring novel of adultery and passion marked out a bold, new voice.

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'Enchantment is just what Rider Haggard exercised . . . [his] books live today with undiminished vitality'
Graham Greene

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"Originally published in Norwegian as Kransen by H. Aschehoug & Company, Oslo, 1920"--T.p. verso.