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By: Ivan Turgenev

ISBN: 9780940322455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: New York Review Books
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This rich and complex book, at once a love story, a devastating, and bitterly funny social satire, and, perhaps most movingly of all, a heartfelt celebration of the immense beauty of the Russian countryside.


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By: Ivan Turgenev

ISBN: 9781847493750
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 21st August 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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First translation for over a century of Turgenev's last and most ambitious novel, now presented in an edition which contains pictures and an extensive section on Turgenev's life and works.


(Paperback)

By: Georges Perec

ISBN: 9780099552352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to search for him, who discovers W, an island state based on the rules of sport.


(Hardback)

By: Henry David Thoreau

ISBN: 9780679600046
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experience living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond as well as his philosophy concerning man's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature.


(Paperback)

By: Henry David Thoreau

ISBN: 9781611806007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9781849908467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 31st December 2015
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Accompanied by a stellar cast including Paul Dano (12 Years a Slave, Prisoners, There Will Be Blood) as the idealistic Pierre, James Norton (Happy Valley, Belle, Grantchester) as the ambitious Prince Andrei and Lily James (Cinderella, Downton Abbey) as the impulsive beauty Natasha.


(Hardback)

By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9781857150964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
UK Publication Date: 29th October 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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This is a three-volume boxed set of Tolstoy's historical chronicle of Russia's struggle with Napoleon. The novel is an affirmation of life itself, focusing on the lives of individuals and the physical reality of human experience and its bewildering complexity.


(Paperback)

By: Karel Capek

ISBN: 9780241343456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)

By: Henry James

ISBN: 9781841593524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Everyman
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When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune hunter after his daughters inheritance. He forbids the marriage but Catherine persists in her affection, encouraged by her foolish aunt Lavinia who has a weakness for Maurice herself.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Samuel Beckett

ISBN: 9780571244744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This edition of Beckett's novel, which was first published in 1953, offers for the first time a corrected text based on a scholarly appraisal of the manuscripts and textual history.


(Paperback)

By: Sir Walter Scott

ISBN: 9780099589631
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Young Edward Waverley is caught in the middle: son of a Hanoverian yet nephew and heir to a Jacobite, a captain in the King's army yet drawn to the brave Highlanders and their romantic history. Edward must choose where his loyalties lie, even as his heart is torn between gentle Rose Brawardine, and the passionate, principled Flora Mac-Ivor.


(Paperback)

By: Walter Scott

ISBN: 9780140436600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Edward Waverley, a naive, sensitive young man, is posted to Scotland with his regiment, and becomes caught between the clans of the Jacobite Rising and the forces of the Hanoverian regime. He must decide whether he will follow the civilization he has always known, or be drawn into an older world of honour and loyalty.


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By: Raymond Queneau

ISBN: 9781847497123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is still in the lavatory some time after they have shot or expelled the rest of the staff.


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By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9780099558149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Including stories featuring all his finest creations, including Jeeves, Lord Emsworth of Blandings, Ukridge and the disreputable members of the Drones club, this collection is an ideal introduction to the writer described by Douglas Adams as the greatest comic writer ever.


(Paperback)

By: Joseph Roth

ISBN: 9780241307441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Stella Gibbons

ISBN: 9780099528722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS

'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century' The Times

Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is not the type that attracts men.


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By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9780099551287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
Publisher: Cornerstone
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We all know Jeeves and Wooster, but which is the best Jeeves story This bumper anthology allows you to choose, bringing you the cream of the crop of stories by the twentieth century's greatest humorous writer.

There are favourites aplenty in this selection, which has been compiled with enthusiastic support from P.G.


(Paperback)

By: Henry James

ISBN: 9780141441375
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by her selfish mother, Ida, and her vain father, Beale, who value her only as a means of provoking one another.


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By: E. M. Forster

ISBN: 9780141199252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Lilia Herriton, who proves to be an embarrassment to her late husband's family as, in the small Tuscan town of Monteriano, she begins a relationship with a much younger Italian man - classless, uncouth and unsuitable.


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By: Compton Mackenzie

ISBN: 9781784870942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It's 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. There's no conversation, no jolity, no fun - until a shipwreck off the coast brings a piece of extraordinary good fortune...


(Paperback)

By: Jack London

ISBN: 9780007558124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.


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By: Angela Thirkell

ISBN: 9781844088843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 22nd November 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A sparkling 1930s English romantic comedy, perfect for fans of Stella Gibbons, PG Wodehouse or EF Benson, Angela Thirkell's classic Wild Strawberries is now available as a Virago Modern Classic.


(Paperback)

By: Johann Wolfgang Goethe

ISBN: 9781847498458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2020
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A landmark in the history of European literature, Goethe's novel is not only one of the key works of Weimar Classicism and the prototype for the Bildungs-roman genre, but also a timeless tale of coming into one's own and a fascinating portrayal of the late-eighteenth-century theatre world.


(Hardback)

By: William Dean Howells

ISBN: 9780940450042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1982
Publisher: The Library of America
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