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By: John Sutherland

ISBN: 9780140430493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1980
UK Publication Date: 25th September 1980
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in the reign of Queen Anne, this title presents a story that follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future.


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By: J I M Stewart

ISBN: 9780140430769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A portrait of England in the 1830s and 40s. It presents the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London.


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By: Charles Chesnutt

ISBN: 9780812966169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina in order to achieve the American dream.


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By: Emile Erckmann

ISBN: 9780008265380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A collection of the finest supernatural tales by two of the best Victorian writers of weird tales ErckmannChatrian, authors who inspired M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many others.


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By: H. G. Wells

ISBN: 9780375760969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Following a shipwreck, a young naturalist finds himself on an island run by a mad scientist intent on creating a strain of beast men.


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By: Harry Crews

ISBN: 9780143137931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9780812968231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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This title is an example of Tolstoy's thought on spiritual crisis, Christianity and sexuality and an exquisite introduction to the great Russian writer. This edition also includes the controversial Sequel to the Kreutzer Sonata.


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By: John Gordon Davis

ISBN: 9780007574421
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A heart-stopping adventure A chilling Nazi legacy in todays Southern Africa.


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By: Michael Pearce

ISBN: 9780006510819
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Novel set in the Egypt of the 1900s.


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By: Michael Pearce

ISBN: 9780008259495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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In this classic mystery from Michael Pearces award-winning series, set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt investigates the discovery of a young womans body at the site of a dam.


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By: Mary Shelley

ISBN: 9780143137900
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN: 9780140390247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1986
UK Publication Date: 27th November 1986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country.


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By: Washington Irving

ISBN: 9780375757211
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Presents a collection of the author's travel writings, reflections on nineteenth-century English society, and several short stories.


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By: Laurence Sterne

ISBN: 9780099519157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Doomed to become the 'sport of fortune' by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor's forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window.


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By: Laurence Sterne

ISBN: 9780375761195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Giorgio Vasari

ISBN: 9780375760365
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 14th February 2006
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Celebrates the lives and times of the great Renaissance artists of Italy, written by sixteenth-century artist and historian Giorgio Vasari.


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By: Owen Chase

ISBN: 9780140437966
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was sailing in the South Pacific when it was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The ship sank, leaving twenty crew members floating in three small boats for ninety days. This edition brings together the harrowing tales of the survivors.


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By: Alejo Carpentier

ISBN: 9780143133896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sara Shepard

ISBN: 9780007237425
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling PRETTY LITTLE LIARS comes a killer new series, THE LYING GAME.


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By: Alexandre Dumas

ISBN: 9780140439243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the final adventure of the Musketeers, the Man in the Iron Mask sees D'Artagnan remain in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have gone their separate ways. Meanwhile a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask languishes in the Bastille, where he has been for eighteen years.


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By: Dominic Smith

ISBN: 9781760296377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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An atmospheric and brilliant novel of Paris, love, madness and photography by the bestselling writer of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith.


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By: Franz Kafka

ISBN: 9780812985146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Franz Kafka

ISBN: 9780805210576
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1995
UK Publication Date: 14th November 1995
Publisher: Schocken Books
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The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment", "A Country Doctor", and "A Hunger Artist". New Foreword by Anne Rice.


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By: Frederic Manning

ISBN: 9780141393414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a world gone mad.

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