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A Christmas edition of the award-winning Eva Ibbotson's historical short story collection, A Glove Shop in Vienna.

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A delicious collection of romantic, atmospheric and witty stories.

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Rich in fictional delights, this complete collection of Woolf's shorter fiction ranges from 1906 until the month before she committed suicide in 1941. It offers a valuable insight into the writer's development, demonstrating her evolving characterizations, narrative methods and themes.

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Set in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries - which makes it all the more ironic that the main character, Pushkin, (like the author) was killed in a duel.

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'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian Barnes from his preface.

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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition includes Princess Ligovskaya

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Acerbic, brutal and mordantly funny: Ivy ComptonBurnett's most unsparing dissection of the patriarchal family, finally back in print.

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Accompanied in this volume by its equally superb sequel, Nocturnal Expedition around My Room, in which a similar voyage is made at night several years later, Journey around My Room is a masterly and innovative piece of writing, which was immensely popular in its time and would later influence Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust, among others.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

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This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.

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These humorous and polemical writings provide an invaluable introduction to Swift as a master satirist and pamphleteer.

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Hailed as a masterpiece of Russian literature, A Nest of the Gentry - Turgenev's most successful and widely read novel, here presented in a new translation by Michael Pursglove - deals with the personal struggles of the individual in a period of turbulent social change.

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When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith, she is attracted to his handsome face and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. But, societal pressures, and the advent of the superior Henry Knight, eventually displace her affections. But, Knight proves to be an uncompromising moralist. This book is about the struggle between classes and sexes.

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A classic novel, irresistibly repackaged for Christmas.

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Blandings Castle lacks its usual balm for the Earl of Emsworth, as his stern sister Lady Constance Keeble is once more in residence. With a painting of reclining nude at the centre of numerous intrigues, Gally's genius is once again required to sort things out.

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A Blandings novel

Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle - particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives unexpectedly from New York.

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In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age parodies elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological portrait of a person who has lost touch with reality.

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A witty story about the twists and turns of human relationships, as true now as it was in 1954.

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An original selection of short fiction from one of the greats of Russian literature

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This edition, based on the Egoist Press second edition of 1918, is the most extensively annotated edition available, with almost 1,000 notes by James Joyce scholars Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner

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WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY DR DIETER FUCHS AND JOSEPH O'CONNOR

Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion transforming from supports into shackles;

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The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arrival at the school of a mischievous young boy called Farnie, who turns out to be the uncle of the older "Bishop" Gethryn, a prefect, cricketer and popular figure in the school.