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This elegant hardback edition brings together 25 celebrated short stories by Anton Chekhov, including such classics as 'Vanka', 'The Lady with a Dog' and 'Gooseberries'. Featuring foil cover embossing, gilded page-edges and patterned endpapers, it makes a wonderful collector's item for lovers of classic literature.

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Describes the journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just - in circling the globe within eighty days. Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour to the race against time.

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Provides an account of the 'No Popery' riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. This novel tells the tale of a long unsolved murder, and a romance that combines forbidden love, passion, treachery and heroism.

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An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession.

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Represents a city's underworld, and the laws of corruption and delay. This novel projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin.

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The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories.

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Voltaire was the nom de plume of Franois-Marie Aroue, an 18th-century philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. Candide, a biting satire on the philosophy of the time, is considered his finest work.

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The Library of America turns its attention to Carson McCullers, one of the Deep South s most iconic novelists, to celebrate her centenary.

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The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyles wonderful tales of the inimitable consulting detective at work.

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Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include "A Christmas Carol", "The Chimes", "The Battle of Life" and "The Cricket on the Hearth".

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This stunning chapbook--perfect reading for the Christmas holidays--includes three classic winter tales by Hans Christian Andersen: "The Little Match-Girl," "The Fir-Tree," and "The Snow Man."

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Contains six of her finest stories that have been selected to demonstrate the variety and accomplishment of her shorter fiction, and to trace the development of her art.

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Follows lives of the beautiful but spoiled Gwendolene Harleth and selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, this book charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism.

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Following the life of David Copperfield through sufferings and adversity, this book helps reader find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family.

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Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it Who will rumble him

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Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.

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In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated.

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Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned.

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First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes a collection of Stevenson's short stories

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Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by.