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By: Henrik Pontoppidan

ISBN: 9781841593906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Everyman
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By: Gustave Flaubert

ISBN: 9780143123804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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"This translation first published ... 2010"--T.p. verso.


(Paperback)

By: Gustave Flaubert

ISBN: 9780451418500
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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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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By: Gustave Flaubert

ISBN: 9780007420308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.


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By: Gustave Flaubert

ISBN: 9780143106494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Gustave Flaubert

ISBN: 9781857151404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1993
UK Publication Date: 11th March 1993
Publisher: Everyman
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Crane

ISBN: 9780140437973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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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By: Georges Simenon

ISBN: 9780141397047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Maigret's peaceful retirement in the countryside is disrupted when a relative unwittingly embroils himself in a crime he did not commit and the inspector returns to Police Headquarters in Paris once again.


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By: Ivan Goncharov

ISBN: 9781847498380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th November 2020
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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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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By: Samuel Beckett

ISBN: 9780571244638
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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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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By: Antoine Franois Prvost

ISBN: 9781847498144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9781909621718
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 14th July 2016
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A beautiful hardback gift edition of Jane Austen's remarkable novel


(Paperback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780755331475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Jane Austen's most sophisticated love story, Mansfield Park is a bewitching tale of intrigue, redemption and love lost and found.


(Paperback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780099511861
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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But when the glamorous and exciting Henry and Mary Crawford arrive in the area, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before.

'Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion and vanity' Margaret Drabble


(Paperback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780451531117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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"Mansfield Park" encompasses not only Jane Austen's great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal, but her personal credo as well--her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency, and wit. Revised reissue.


(Paperback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9781847495983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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As Fanny becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the conduct of her companions, she finds herself isolated and forced to face the conflict between her sense of integrity and social expectation.


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By: E. F. Benson

ISBN: 9780141187686
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mapp and Lucia are the centrepiece of E.F. Benson's series of Lucia novels, bringing together the eponymous middle-aged doyennes of polite 1930s society, Miss Mapp and Miss Lucas.


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By: E F Benson

ISBN: 9780099528425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Look out for the new BBC adaptation starring Anna Chancellor, Miranda Richardson and Mark Gatiss!

Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling...until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to her friends.


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By: Madeleine Bourdouxhe

ISBN: 9781907970764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2016
Publisher: Daunt Books
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A sensual and striking novel about desire and independence, first published in Belgium in the 40s


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By: Thomas Mann

ISBN: 9780749386627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1996
UK Publication Date: 28th October 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Manns short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780940450363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1992
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Hardback)

By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780940450738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1992
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Hardback)

By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780940450820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1994
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Hardback)

By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780940450073
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1982
Publisher: The Library of America
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