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This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.

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"In this early feminist classic, a London spinster breaks free from her controlling family and escapes to the countryside. She soon discovers that her new neighbors are a coven of bohemian witches and eventually encounters Satan himself, who is ready to make a pact"--

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Written in Clines trademark style a headlong rush of slang, brusque observation and quirky lyricism, delivered in machine-gun bursts of prose and ellipses London Bridge recreates the dark days during the Great War with sordid verisimilitude and desperate hilarity.

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Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together

Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens

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Originally published in 1888, this prophetic work revolves around Julian West, a man who falls asleep near the end of the 19th century and wakes up in the year 2000. More than a brilliant visionary's view of the future, it is a guidebook that has stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of the modern age. Revised reissue.

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Celebrates the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

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John Ridd is a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones.

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Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in Parisian literary circles of the early nineteenth century.

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A spirited early novel of Shaw's, offering shrewd insight into the nature of the artistic temperament with inimitable wit and sparkle.

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This edition features the two short epistolary novels Love and Freindship and Lady Susan, as well as a scattering of pieces of writing from Austen's juvenile years.

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In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by bookies and pawnbrokers, bullied by petty officials and living in constant fear of the dole queue and the Means Test. Sally, meanwhile, falls in love with Larry Meath, a self-educated Marxist.

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A unique collection of short stories by the master of Italian modernism.

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"This translation first published ... 2010"--T.p. verso.

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In this iconic French novel of love and betrayal, a small-town doctor's wife pursues both material and physical fulfillment, but never finds it. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating.

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Described by Henry James as 'one of the first of the classics' and so regarded ever since, MADAME BOVARY has touched generations of readers and moulded generations of writers.

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A portrayal of the squalor and brutality of New York life. It tells the story of Maggie Johnson, a young woman who, seduced by her brother's friend and then disowned by her family, turns to prostitution. It provides an exploration of the destructive forces underlying urban society and human nature.

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Here presented for the first time in unabridged form in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, Goncharovs final novel deserves to be reassessed as one of the most important classics of nineteenth-century Russian literature.

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'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs;

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Although causing scandal on its initial publication in 1731 and subsequently being banned, Manon Lescaut proved very popular with eighteenth-century readers, and remains one of literature's finest and most evocative depictions of obsessive love.