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A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. And for readers who either seek or escape from solitude,all of the poets in this anthology - from Sappho and Callimachus to Mark Strand and Richard Wilbur - offer words to console and inspire.

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A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge.

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The first of the Blandings Castle novels, introducing Lord Emsworth, his family, his secretary the Efficient Baxter and the mandatory Wodehouse cast of butlers, aunts, younger sons, detectives, lovers and imposters. Take the 4.15 from Paddington Station to Shropshire and arrive in heaven.

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The story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Through the enlightenment of one man the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation.

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A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece".

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A sonnet is a moments monument, said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a sonnet about sonnets. The sonnets in this collection whether they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair or celebration reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight and experience can be concentrated into a mere fourteen lines.

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Published in 1913, this is a fictionalized account of Lawrence's love for his mother. It traces Paul Morel's childhood, his growing into adolescence and adulthood, and the frustrations of his love for Miriam and Clara caused by his mother's possessiveness and his devotion to her.

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An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. Written in this writer's characteristically brilliant, mordant style, this book is also a tender record of lost childhood and youth in pre-Revolutionary Russia.

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When a man needs only two hundred pounds to marry his cook and buy a public house, one would expect his life to be trouble free, but the fifth Earl of Shortlands has to reckon with his haughty daughter, Lady Adela, and Mervyn Spink, his butler, who also happens to be his rival in love.

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Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chekhov and Saki to Isak Dinesen, Jim Crace and Amy Tan.

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From Nathaniel Hawthornes The Artist of the Beautiful and Albert Camuss The Artist at Work to Bernard Malamuds Rembrandts Hat and Aimee Benders The Color Master, the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who create.

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At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first childs birth, and from Frank OConnors comes a hilarious tale of a small boys war against his paternal rival in My Oedipus Complex.

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Byatt, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Anita Desai, Colm Tibn, Lorrie Moore and many others reflect upon all aspects of motherhood in stories lyrical and satirical, realistic and fantastic, hilarious and heartbreaking.

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Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith and J.

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The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoirs and England's aristocrats are all diving for cover, not least Galahad's formidable sister Lady Constance Keeble who fears that her brother will ruin the family reputation with saucy stories of the 1890s.

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Sir Buckstone Abbot owns what is possibly the ugliest stately home in England, and he is naturally eager to dispose of it to an American heiress, Princess Dwornitzchek. But the sale is complicated by the Princess's engagement to Adrian Peake, who is being pursued by Sir Buckstone's daughter, Jane, who is loved by Joe Vanringham.

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Many old friends reappear to take their last bow: the Earl of Emsworth, Dame Daphne Winkworth, Beach the butler, the Empress of Blandings (Lord Emsworths prize pig), Freddie Threepwood (his son), G.

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This collection contains the best of his prose works, including of course the well-known masterpieces 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (the ultimate haunted house story), 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (the very first detective story in fiction).

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St Austin's school (as featured in The Pothunters) is the setting for twelve delightful early Wodehouse stories.

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Several Sherlock Holmes parodies read as what they are high-spirited experiments but the longer stories delve deeper into character: together, they recreate a vanished world of school shops, fagging, Latin prep and hearty teas.

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This collection includes, of course, such celebrated poems as "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Finally, there are many of the short lyrical poems, such as "Come into the Garden, Maud" and "Break, Break, Break," for which he is justly celebrated.

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Set in the bleak, magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Hardy's early work, Tess's cruel story reveals circumstances slowly closing in on her as she attempts to grasp a few moments of happiness with her lover. Patricia Ingham is the author of "Thomas Hardy: A Feminist Reading".