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By: Paul Begg
ISBN: 9780718178246
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Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2013
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Whitechapel, 1988: a spate of brutal murders becomes the most notorious criminal episode in London's history. The killer, chillingly nicknamed 'The Whitechapel Murderer', 'Leather Apron' and, most famously, 'Jack the Ripper', is never brought to justice for the slaughter and mutilation of at least five women in the slums of East London.
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By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780141189680
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Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
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Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.
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By: Dr Geza Vermes
ISBN: 9780141197319
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Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2011
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Discovered on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the decade after the Second World War, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a historical and religious record of immense significance, altering our understanding of Jewish and early Christian history. This book transforms our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism and the origins of Christianity.
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By: John Donne
ISBN: 9780140422092
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Publication Date: Oct 1976
UK Publication Date: 28th October 1976
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It has been argued that no poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods.
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By: Michel Montaigne
ISBN: 9780140446043
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Publication Date: Jan 1993
UK Publication Date: 25th February 1993
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Containing various essays, this work discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience.
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By: Aesop
ISBN: 9780140446494
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Publication Date: Apr 1998
UK Publication Date: 29th January 1998
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In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, the author creates a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. It shows you a wily fox being outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock the author.
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By: G K Chesterton
ISBN: 9780141193854
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Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
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Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself.
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By: Richard Restak
ISBN: 9780241635346
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Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
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By: Nick Cave
ISBN: 9780241990155
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Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
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By: Art Spiegelman
ISBN: 9780141014081
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Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
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Tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. In this title, Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.
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By: Vivien Noakes
ISBN: 9780140424652
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Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2006
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'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. Gently pointing out human follies and the absurdities of the conventional Victorian society in which he lived, Lear's nonsense has enchanted children and adults alike for generations.
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By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780141993744
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Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2020
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By: John Keats
ISBN: 9780140422108
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Publication Date: Oct 1977
UK Publication Date: 27th January 1977
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John Keats lost both his parents at an early age. His decision to commit himself to poetry, rather than follow a career in medicine, was a personal challenge, unfounded in any prior success. His first volume of poetry, published in 1817, was a critical and commercial failure. This book tells his story.
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By: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9780140424515
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Publication Date: Aug 2004
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2004
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In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American.
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By: Andrew Marvell
ISBN: 9780140424577
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Publication Date: Apr 2005
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2005
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Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity to the full, and includes lyrical love-poetry, religious works and biting satire.
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By: William Blake
ISBN: 9780140422153
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Publication Date: Nov 1977
UK Publication Date: 24th November 1977
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One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of philosophy, religion and myth, to create a poetic worlds illuminated by his spiritual and revolutionary beliefs that have fascinated, intrigued and enchanted readers for generations.
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By: Samuel Coleridge
ISBN: 9780140423532
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Publication Date: Apr 1997
UK Publication Date: 24th April 1997
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One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of his best-known poems, from "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan" to "Dejection: An Ode" and the ballad "Christabel".
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By: George Herbert
ISBN: 9780141392042
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Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
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George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry, recording in a variety of forms his inner experiences of grief, recovery, hope, despair, anger, fulfilment and - above all else - love. This volume collects Herbert's complete poetry - including such classics of English devotional poetry as The Altar, and Love.
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By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780141439693
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Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
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Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing skill in a range of literary styles. The stories include: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire" and "The Happy Prince".
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By: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9781405910101
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Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2013
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Collects adult short stories, in which the author begins by using his experiences in the war to write fiction. In 27 stories, written between 1944 and 1953, this title includes tales such as 'Man from the South'; 'Lamb to the Slaughter'; and 'The Sound Machine'.
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By: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780141188089
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Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2005
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A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
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By: Dr Larisa Corda
ISBN: 9780241524466
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Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th December 2023
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The Confession Room: The jaw-dropping and twisty new thriller: If you have a secret, theyll find you
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By: Lia Middleton
ISBN: 9781405954549
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Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2023
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By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN: 9780140440331
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Publication Date: Jan 1964
UK Publication Date: 29th March 1973
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Argues against the inequality the author believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. This title features the first fifty-three years of his radical life, including his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood; and the development of his philosophical and political ideas.
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