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By: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9781804172230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2022
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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A new collection of Poe's poetry which demonstrates his skilful and imaginative command of the English language. Often regarded as the founder of the modern short story Poe also laid the foundations for the symbolist poets and futurists of the 20th Century, his razor-sharp dissections of the world offering dark romantic notions to the reader.


(Paperback)

By: Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9780141439693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing skill in a range of literary styles. The stories include: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire" and "The Happy Prince".


(Paperback)

By: Franz Kafka

ISBN: 9780749399467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 19th March 1992
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary

'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. Some are well known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9781841593463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2012
Publisher: Everyman
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Mark Twains famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman) have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story.


(Hardback)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9781631067198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 11th August 2020
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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The perfect gift for the Edgar Allan Poe fan, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe is an elegant edition boasting the entire Poe catalog.


(Hardback, Bonded Leather)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9781435154469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 22nd December 2016
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionised modern poetics. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar is part of Barnes & Noble's Leatherbound Classics. This omnibus edition collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single volume.


(Paperback)

By: O. Henry

ISBN: 9780241447468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner

ISBN: 9780241454817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)

By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9780241573778
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alexandre Dumas

ISBN: 9780451529701
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years, Edmond Dants escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold--and a new identity with which to pursue his revenge and redemption. Now with a new Introduction. Reissue.


(Hardback, New edition)

By: Alexandre Dumas

ISBN: 9781839647642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2021
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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The epic adventure of revenge and redemption. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. With a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms.


(Paperback, 2nd Edition)

By: Alexandre Dumas

ISBN: 9781667209715
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2025
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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Hope. Justice. Vengeance. You won't want to miss this classic tale!


(Hardback)

By: Alexandre Dumas

ISBN: 9780141392462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to grim fortress of the Chateau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.


(Paperback)

By: Alexandre Dumas

ISBN: 9780140449266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years imprisoned in grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth treasure and use it to plot destruction of men responsive for his incarceration.


(Hardback, Bonded Leather)

By: Alexandre Dumas

ISBN: 9781435132115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Presents a classic adventure story. This title features an elegant bonded-leather binding, a satin ribbon bookmark, distinctive gilt edging and decorative endpapers.


(Paperback)

By: Kay Boyle

ISBN: 9781782279464
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2024
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Paperback)

By: F Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9780141195117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital, he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a weathered, aged man. As time goes by, young Benjamin comes to no longer require a cane, his hair ceases to be grey, his limbs become less frail, his wrinkles less deep, but still the world around him fails to come to terms with his oddness.


(Paperback)

By: Dorothy Parker

ISBN: 9780241339589
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Edith Wharton

ISBN: 9780143137214
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola"--


(Hardback)

By: Josephine Tey

ISBN: 9781529090352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A gripping mix of historical and contemporary crime, voted the number one crime novel of all time.


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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9781529410570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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This collection forms part of a three-volume edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected and with a preface by Sharon Cameron, and translated by his friends Louise and Aylmer Maude.


(Paperback)

By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9780241251768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...


(Paperback)

By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9780140449617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A devastating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and asks the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time


(Paperback)

By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9780099541066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This intensely moving story of Ivan Ilyich's lonely end is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction.

The ten other stories in this collection include 'The Kreutzer Sonata', 'The Devil', and 'Hadji Murat' which has been described by Harold Bloom as 'the best story in the world'.

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