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By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN: 9781784870522
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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What would happen if society was run by women Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result...
When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere.
(Hardback)
By: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780940450240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1985
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781787462045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2018
Publisher: Cornerstone
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By: Neil M. Gunn
ISBN: 9781782118848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A dark and uplifting modern classic of Scottish literature. Introduced by Diarmid Gunn.
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By: John Collier
ISBN: 9781907970788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Daunt Books
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A comic masterpiece about a most unexpected love triangle.
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By: Leopoldo Alas
ISBN: 9781681370187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Dona Berta, the heroine of the title, an aged, poor but well-born woman forfeits her beloved estate in search of a portrait that may be all that remains of the secret love of her life.
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By: Honor de Balzac
ISBN: 9780140443011
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1978
UK Publication Date: 29th August 1974
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The three short novels that make up this book are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France.
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By: Claude McKay
ISBN: 9780143138587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099514152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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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.
(Paperback)
By: N. Scott Momaday
ISBN: 9780062909954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Includes "P.S. Insights, interviews & more ..."
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By: Ota Pavel
ISBN: 9780141192833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780141397740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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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By: Bohumil Hrabal
ISBN: 9780099540939
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Alistair MacLean
ISBN: 9780008337322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense.
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By: Ann Bridge
ISBN: 9781907970078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2012
Publisher: Daunt Books
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A beautiful story of travel and self-discovery.
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By: Theodor Storm
ISBN: 9781847494597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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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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By: Raymond Roussel
ISBN: 9780714548586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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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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By: Patrick Hamilton
ISBN: 9780349141626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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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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By: Saki
ISBN: 9781907970009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2010
Publisher: Daunt Books
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Eighteen sharply satirical and deliciously disturbing tales by Saki, the Edwardian master of the short story.
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By: Lorraine Heath
ISBN: 9780061355578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A proper young lady risks more than her reputation when consorting with the roguishly handsome Lucian Langdon, but Lady Catherine Mabry believes she has no choice. When danger closes in, Catherine discovers a man of immense passion and he discovers a woman of immeasurable courage.
(Hardback)
By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9781857152500
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2001
Publisher: Everyman
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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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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780099362319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
UK Publication Date: 5th December 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780099362517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
UK Publication Date: 5th December 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780099362616
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
UK Publication Date: 5th December 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.
