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By: H. P. Lovecraft

ISBN: 9780586063248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Crawling, clawing, sliming horror, seeping from the night-tipped pen of that Grand Master of heart-stopping supernatural terror H.P. Lovecraft.




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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9780141199757
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions


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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9781847498656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2021
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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One of Henry James's most enduringly popular works, Daisy Miller, here published in its original 1879 version, is a masterly, psychologically nuanced dissection of social mores and a merciless critique of convention and staid respectability.


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By: George Eliot

ISBN: 9781857151633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2000
Publisher: Everyman
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George Eliots last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him towards Zionism.


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By: George Eliot

ISBN: 9780375760136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: John Fowles

ISBN: 9780099478348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to reconcile with a dying friend, and also to visit his own forgotten past in an attempt to discover himself.


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By: Arthur Koestler

ISBN: 9781784873196
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9780099511465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9780451530042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Among the most-read novels of all time, this classic tale showcases memorable characters, skillful plotting, and Dickens's passionate concern with social issues making this book one of his finest achievements. Revised reissue.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9780141343822
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Among the memorable cast of characters the author encounters along the way are his brutal stepfather, Mr Murdstone; bubbly Nurse Peggotty; but unworthy schoolmate Steerforth, his eccentric aunt, Betsy Trotwood, the scheming clerk Uriah Heep, the enchanting Dora and the magnificent Mr Macawber - a character much like Dickens' own father.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9780679783411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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A young boy endures hardships as a child laborer in this partly autobiographical classic reflecting social conditions in nineteenth-century England.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781857150315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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In a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes his life experience into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists he so much admired.


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By: mile Zola

ISBN: 9781847496966
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people.


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By: Nikolai Gogol

ISBN: 9781590173763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls is an undisputed masterpiece of world literature.


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By: Nikolai Gogol

ISBN: 9781857152807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Everyman
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Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale;


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By: Kim Harrison

ISBN: 9780007459759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From New York Times best-selling author, Kim Harrison, comes the first book in her brilliant Hollows series; packed with the perfect balance of wry humour and thrilling action, which will delight fans of thrillers and fantasy alike.


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By: Lord Dunsany

ISBN: 9780007314270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The classic humorous novel about an alcohol-loving clergyman who thinks he is the reincarnation of a dog. Complete with the award-winning film screenplay that expands upon the tale.


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By: Agatha Christie

ISBN: 9780008196325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd March 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC


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By: Willa Cather

ISBN: 9781784874452
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A portrait of an enduring friendship, from one of Americas most celebrated novelists.

Quite simply a masterpiece
Daily Telegraph

Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexico to reinvigorate Catholicism among the locals, knowing little of the challenges that await them.


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By: Thomas Mann

ISBN: 9780060576172
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A new translation of the Nobel laureate's famous classic follows the story of successful aging writer Gustave von Aschenbach, whose search for spiritual fulfillment in Venice leads to erotic ruin when he becomes obsessed with an alluring Polish youth, Tadzio. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.


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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.


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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.

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