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Selected stories from each period of Chekhov's career offer a humorous look at ordinary people in trying situations.

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Found in the Street is a haunting psychological thriller, by the queen of the genre, in which there is only a breath between nightmare and reality.

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A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plant a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind. Reader's Guide available. Reissue.

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"Bantam Spectra science fiction"--Spine.

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Shining examples of American literature at its best, these four novels explore timeless themes through compelling narratives. Includes the complete and unabridged texts of Hawthornes "Thea Scarlet Letter," Herman Melvilles "Billy Budd," Mark Twains "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and Stephen Cranes "The Red Badge of Courage." Revised reissue.

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A beautiful new hardback edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the book's first publication

INCLUDES A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEINS MONSTER

Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps.

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In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness.

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What on earth could have induced Mr Anstruther to fall in love with Fraulein Schmidt He is an eligible English bachelor from a good family with great expectations; But Rose-Marie Schmidt is also funny, intelligent, brave and gifted with an irrepressible talent for happiness. The real question is, does Mr Anstruther know how lucky he is

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One of du Maurier's most popular novels, in a beautiful new hardback VMC set of Daphne du Maurier classics.

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After making careful plans, three ingenious and courageous men fly through space towards the moon.

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The `Frozen Assets' of the title belong to Edmund Biffen Christopher and they are the legacy of his Godfather which he will receive if he manages to avoid been arrested, something of a previous habit of Biffen's, until after his thirtieth birthday one week hence.

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A Blandings novel

When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the commissioning of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show.

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Lord Emsworth's prized pig, the Empress of Blandings, is at the centre of Wodehouse's hilarious tale of mistaken identity, the triumph of young love, and general mayhem among the twits at Blandings Castle.

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Fischer's classic biography, the basis for the Academy Award-winning film "Gandhi," tells the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph over tyranny. Includes an 8-page photo insert. Revised reissue.

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Presents the moral stories of Rabelais that expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy.

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Rabelais's hilarious, scabrous and often scatological fantasy of life amonth the monks and friars of sixteenth-century France remains a satirical and comic classic.

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This is a documentary-style account of political unrest and personal travail in a late 19th-century French coalfield. Despite the grimness of his subject and the accuracy of his description, Zola tells an irresistible tale above and below ground among the families of Montsou.

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Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt this selection of superbly spooky tales selected and introduced by Ruth Rendell. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window - ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense.

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A collection of rare ghosts and horror stories by the brothers of one of the finest writers of the genre, E. F. Benson.

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These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Taken together the sagas reveal the richness and variety of the saga tradition.

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Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus.

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Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way of Dostoevsky and Kakfa.