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By: Boccaccio

ISBN: 9781847494122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Evergreen series, J.G. Nichols's new translation stays as faithful to the original as possible while being written in a clear and eminently modern English, capturing the timeless humour of one of the great classics of world literature.


(Hardback)

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN: 9781857151824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Everyman
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Set in mid 19th-century Russia, this book examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers.


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By: Thomas Hardy

ISBN: 9780140435238
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1998
UK Publication Date: 26th February 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity in which Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer, Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's steward Manston.


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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN: 9781847496416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Seen as Dostoevsky's most powerful indictment of man's propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy, is presented here in Roger Cockrell's masterful new translation.


(Paperback)

By: Louisa Young

ISBN: 9780007532902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the bestselling author of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You and The Heroes Welcome, Louisa Young's Devotion is a novel of family, love, race and politics set during the electric change of the 1930s.


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By: Mikhail Bulgakov

ISBN: 9780099529552
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy.


(Hardback)

By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781784876746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Manju Kapur

ISBN: 9780571260645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A stunning repackage of Manju Kapur's classic novel of a family torn apart by an illicit love.


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By: Italo Calvino

ISBN: 9781784874841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work

This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts.


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By: Thomas Mann

ISBN: 9781857150803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
UK Publication Date: 4th June 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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A portrayal of genius possessed, through the biography of the composer Adrian Leverkuhn, narrated by his friend Zeitblom in the years 1943-45, as Germany faces ruin.


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By: Thomas Mann

ISBN: 9780749386573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
UK Publication Date: 28th October 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Adrian Leverkhn is a young man destined for success.


(Paperback)

By: Anthony Trollope

ISBN: 9780099595892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Doctor Thorne was considered by Trollope to be the best of his works a profound examination of the relationship between money and love, as it shifts away from the city of Barchester to a more rural setting.


(Paperback)

By: Anthony Trollope

ISBN: 9780140433265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1991
UK Publication Date: 25th April 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaged estate by making a good marriage to a wealthy heiress.


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By: Rudyard Kipling

ISBN: 9781847493972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th January 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This collection, published in the author's lifetime, gathers Kipling's dog stories written throughout his career, providing a warm tribute to man's best friend and showcasing the lively storytelling talents of one of Britain's most enduringly popular writers.


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By: Elizabeth Hardwick

ISBN: 9781907970504
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 19th February 2015
Publisher: Daunt Books
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A classic of Brazilian realist literature about the powers of jealousy and the deceitful persuasiveness of a mind in the grip of paranoia.


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By: Miguel de Cervantes

ISBN: 9781857150032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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The first great novel - and perhaps still the most influential - Don Quixote contains within it all the seeds of modern fiction.


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By: Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN: 9780141389509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil.


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By: Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN: 9781857150636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
UK Publication Date: 19th March 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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A collection of Stevenson's short stories found in one volume. Titles include "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "Markheim", "Lodging for the Night", "Thrawn Janet", "The Body Snatcher" and "The Misadventures of John Nicholson".


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By: Anthony Trollope

ISBN: 9780140434040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th April 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Mr and Mrs Peacocke arrive as employees of Dr Wortle's school, the discovery of an irregularity in their marriage tests the character of all involved. But as Dr Wortle says, "There are things which a man cannot bear ... now and again a man shall make a stand in his own defence."


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By: Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN: 9780451532251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Stevenson's masterpiece about the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious mind. More than 100 years later, his enduring classic remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of nightmares. Revised reissue.


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By: Bram Stoker

ISBN: 9780307743305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Told through a series of letters and diary entries written by the main characters, this classic work reveals the mysterious story of Count Dracula, the literary figure that popularized vampires.


(Paperback)

By: Bram Stoker

ISBN: 9780143106166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"Dracula (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)."


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By: Bram Stoker

ISBN: 9780141441719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A volume of short stories collected and published by the author's widow after his death. It explores the boundaries between life and death, known and unknown, animal and human, dream and reality.


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By: Dacre Stoker

ISBN: 9780007310340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The official sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker family.

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