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By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ISBN: 9780099575511
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO

Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as moralist, as hero Edward Crankshaw

After years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13.


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By: Voltaire

ISBN: 9781857151305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity - of its hero and his absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss.


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By: Voltaire

ISBN: 9781529021080
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A beautiful edition of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece with an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky.


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By: Francois Voltaire

ISBN: 9780143039426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells of the adventures of the naive Candide, who doggedly believes that all is for the best even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair.


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By: Sander Voltaire

ISBN: 9781847497284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This edition of Candide is here presented in a brand-new translation which contains extra material with pictures and a section on Voltaire's life and work.


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By: John Steinbeck

ISBN: 9780241980385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Rudyard Kipling

ISBN: 9780451465658
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Alistair MacLean

ISBN: 9780008337490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 11th June 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.


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By: Prosper Merimee

ISBN: 9781612192260
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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By: Compton Mackenzie

ISBN: 9781848547704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The moving romance of dancer Jenny Pearl: a story which helped establish Mackenzie among the foremost novelists of his generation


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By: George Bernard Shaw

ISBN: 9781848547476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A deliriously delightful novel of George Bernard Shaw's, full of miscommunication, drawing-room comedy and love.


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By: Dino Buzzati

ISBN: 9781847497369
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati, author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature.


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By: Georges Simenon

ISBN: 9780141397054
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the far-reaching consequences of their actions.


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By: Alan Burns

ISBN: 9780714549194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Celebrations, Alan Burnss third novel, brings the inherent violence and oppression so apparent in Europe after the Rain into the setting of a family-owned factory, where social hierarchies, legal structures and humiliation keep the workers in line.


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By: Henry De Montherlant

ISBN: 9781590173046
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Don Celestino is old and bitter and afraid. In exile from his native Spain for more than twenty years, he lives with his daughter in Paris, but in his mind he is still fighting the Spanish Civil War.


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By: Angela Thirkell

ISBN: 9780349013411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th August 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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War arrives in rural Barsetshire.


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By: Colette

ISBN: 9780099422761
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.

La de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career.


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By: Andrey Platonov

ISBN: 9781843431527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A celebrated masterpiece available in its full version in English for the first time.

A Soviet Don Quixote from one of the greatest 20th-century prose writers, author of The Foundation Pit and Soul.

Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler


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By: Annie Groves

ISBN: 9780007550807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A brand new series from the bestselling author of A Christmas Promise. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn.


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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9781857150131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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Tolstoys lightly fictionalized account of his own early experience ranks with Turgenevs Sportsmans Notebook as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Russian pastoral life.


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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9781847496003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Tolstoy's first published work, which launched him on a successful writing career, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth - besides offering an early display of his storytelling and stylistic abilities - provides the reader with invaluable insight into the personal and literary development of one of the greatest writers of all time.


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By: Colette Colette

ISBN: 9781681376707
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"Cheri is a novel by Colette published in France in 1920. The title character's true name is Fred Peloux, but he is known as Cheri to almost everyone, except, usually, to his wife. This novel was followed by a sequel, La Fin de Cheri, published in 1926"--


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By: Angela Thirkell

ISBN: 9780349004303
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An exclusive, never-before-collected selection of sparkling stories by Angela Thirkell that will charm, delight and entertain.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9780008110628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

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