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The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Edmund Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate.

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Sometimes you have to take the law into your own hands...

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The Decameron is a collection of stories within a story. Written in the 14th century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, it is a masterpiece of moral philosophy, and is generally viewed as the work that confirmed his reputation as the founder of Italian prose literature. It is also one of the world's great literary masterpieces.

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Includes stories such as: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,The Cut-Glass Bowl,May Day,The Rich Boy,Crazy Sunday,An Alcoholic Case,The Lees of Happiness,The Lost DecadeandBabylon Revisited.

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Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.

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When European settlers sailed to the bottom of the world, to Down Under, they took with them: tools, seed, livestock and their hope. They did not take monsters. Those crept aboard ... all by themselves.

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The eagerly awaited new collection from award-winning author Frankie McMillan. The work features stories that globe trot all over the planet: from Russia to America to New Zealand. They are laugh-out-loud, surreal, bizarre and full of perceptiveness about human vulnerability and eccentricity.

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Stand by Me meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in this powerful debut

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Another ghost story by the award-winning author of The Ghosts on the Hill. A tale of resilience and recovery, set in the Christchurch Red Zone.

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Sharon is a young widow struggling to cope with a drug addict son. And then, into her life comes a gift - her granddaughter, Mia, precious and needing Sharon's help. his is the story of how Sharon overcomes adversity and past setbacks to turn her life around. Along the way, she discovers, friendships, support, competence and self-respect.

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These two cinematic novellas feature two strong, capable, modern day heroines determined to make their own way in the world.

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Set before the First World War, this title tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe.

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Its 1960s provincial New Zealand, cracks are showing in the conventional middle-class lives. Callum's father is a bully, and the people his parents mix with are keeping secrets. Amongst this, Callum is coming to understand his identity and needs to find a way to resolve internal conflicts to help his family and tell the truth about the past.

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Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

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Alexey Ivanovitch is a young tutor in the household of a general. He is both observer and actor in the tempest which surrounds his impoverished employer. Everyone is waiting for the death of Granny, the general's rich aunt, but so far from dying, she turns up alive and well, and makes her way to the casino...

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Set in 1482, this novel presents a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age.

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Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection.

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Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text and a Glossary of Victorian and Literary Terms. Also includes the Second Jungle Book.

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As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide The reckless and passionate Dmitri The corrosive intellectual Ivan Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha

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Quirky, clever, and poignant. 'The Library of Unfinished Business' is about the magic of storytelling, the importance of living bravely, and the power of love to triumph, even over death.

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In a small village, there are whispers that William is not who he says he is. He was once a doctor, but now he only prescribes books for Emily, Marco and James, whose lives have become entangled with his. They have all been thrown into a liminal space and can no longer stay as they are.

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Set in the heart of the Wessex, this book charts the rise and downfall of a single 'man of character'. It's moving and contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its force, and features some of the author's episodes and passages of description.

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Presents a combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, this novel tells the story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous.