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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141023496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane A silver-tongued poet or a pervert A tortured soul or a monster ...Or is he all of these
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780241951644
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane A silver-tongued poet or a pervert Or is he all of these
(Hardback)
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9780241573785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"In this early feminist classic, a London spinster breaks free from her controlling family and escapes to the countryside. She soon discovers that her new neighbors are a coven of bohemian witches and eventually encounters Satan himself, who is ready to make a pact"--
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Stephen Alford
ISBN: 9780141978116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dr Matthew Green
ISBN: 9781405919142
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 16th June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Monica Murphy
ISBN: 9781405966061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141184906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.
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By: Thomas Wolfe
ISBN: 9780241215746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world.
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By: C.S. Forester
ISBN: 9781405936941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 14th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Lucy Jones
ISBN: 9780141992617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Herbert Hunt
ISBN: 9780140442519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1976
UK Publication Date: 24th June 1976
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in Parisian literary circles of the early nineteenth century.
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By: Alex Kerr
ISBN: 9780141979748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Originally written in Japanese, this book offers an insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future.
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By: Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9780141983134
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780140433340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. This edition includes all of Austen's juvenilia, including her 'History of England', and the novella 'Lady Susan', in which the anti-heroine schemes and cheats her way through high society.
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By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780141395111
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Featuring early stories, sketches by the author, this book includes an introduction, notes and other useful editorial materials.
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By: William Trevor
ISBN: 9780241989487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Haemin Sunim
ISBN: 9780241331149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 9780141181493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners.
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By: Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 9780241974698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle 'Boy' Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite expect...
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By: Shon Faye
ISBN: 9780241605981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780241978924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780141189208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. But now her husband is dead. Finally Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited
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By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780241968567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina.
