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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'.
(Paperback)
By: Raymond Radiguet
ISBN: 9780241372616
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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First published in France as Le Diable au Corps in 1923. This translation first published in Great Britain by Calder & Boyars Ltd, 1968.
(Leather / fine binding)
By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9781607109914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall
(Paperback)
By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9781784871987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Now Ellis's translation of the entire poem is published here for the first time, and Dante's epic can be experienced afresh and in new glorious life and colour, the physicality and immediacy of Dante's verse rendered in English as never before.
A NEW TRANSLATION BY STEVE ELLIS
(Hardback)
By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780691212777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9781847496034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.
(Paperback)
By: mile Zola
ISBN: 9780140449549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on path to a decent, respectable life at last.
(Paperback)
By: Anton Chekhov
ISBN: 9781787475960
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd January 2020
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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This unique collection offers a perfect introduction to one of Russia's - and the world's - greatest writers.
(Paperback)
By: Janet Frame
ISBN: 9781804271186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2024
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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The third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand's foremost writers,The Edge of the Alphabetis a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, publishedon the centenary of her birth.
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9781847497215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Here presented in a new edition to include pictures and an extensive section on von Arnim's life and works, The Enchanted April has inspired generations of readers since and established Portofino and the Italian Riviera as a mainstay of the tourist circuit
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9781784878054
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780241619742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780141191829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A notice in "The Times" addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer, escaping dreary London for the sunshine of Italy.
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9781784870461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN
Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday.
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780008663858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9780241338971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Henry James
ISBN: 9780141441405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.
(Hardback)
By: G K Chesterton
ISBN: 9781841593371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Everyman
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Included here are some of the well-loved Father Brown detective stories, surely among the best in the genre, and a range of poetry, serious and light-hearted - Chesterton wrote some of the best nonsense and satirical verse in the language.
(Paperback)
By: Patrick White
ISBN: 9780143791041
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN: 9781847493712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 17th July 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire of the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge.
(Paperback)
By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780241339077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9780241476086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Henry Handel Richardson
ISBN: 9781921922282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Text Publishing
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He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all...deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue of vitality...It was like a buried treasure, jealously kept for the event of his one day catching up with life: not the bare scramble for a living that here went by that name, but Life with a capital L.
(Hardback)
By: Vincente Blasco Ibez
ISBN: 9781513135588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: West Margin Press
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