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Mr Gedge wants none of it - and particularly none of the domineering Mrs Gedge's imperious wish that he should become American Ambassador to Paris. Instead he pines for the simpler life of California, where men are men and filling stations stand tall.

Mrs Gedge has powerful allies - including the prohibitionist Senator Opal.

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Includes "P.S. Insights, interviews & more ..."

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Presenting an account of the author's childhood in Czechoslovakia, this title features the tales of the his father's battle to provide for his family both in wealthy freedom and in terrifying persecution.

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Offers a pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL

'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera

Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true.

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A beautiful story of travel and self-discovery.

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Presents a tale of an old man reminiscing about his youth and unfulfilled love. This book contains "Viola Tricolor", the story of a woman coming to terms with her stepdaughter, and "Curator Carsten", a sombre account of a young man falling into a life of debauchery.

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The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter.

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Abacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels, to bring them to a new audience. Impromptu in Moribundia is the most political work from this master novelist of society.

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Generally agreed to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century and possibly any other Prousts masterpiece is here presented in the latest revision to the classic Scott Moncrieff translation.

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THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION

Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair.

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Describes the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century and exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy.

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THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION

In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine.

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THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION

Time Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I.

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The two novellas and three short stories it contains are all set in the Midwest, and together they offer a mythical reimagining of America's heartland, with its punishing extremes of heat and cold, its endless spaces and claustrophobic households, its hidden and baffled desires, its lurking threat of violence.

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Part of Sades The Crimes of Love cycle, this shocking tale which was among the writings banned for publication until the twentieth century tests the limits of morality and portrays the disastrous consequences of freedom and pleasure.

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Both are the unforgettable creations of the deeply independent and brilliant Charlotte Bront.

Selected from Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre and Villette.

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.

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It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor . . . but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industrious Mr. Brewster; .

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In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger Thomas - a young black man trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago, and unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death - to paint a portrait of insurmountable oppression.

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A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, The King of Detective Story Writers, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.

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To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, The King of Detective Story Writers, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.

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A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, The King of Detective Story Writers, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.