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By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780375761140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780099540694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The great novel of London: dark, wise, unsentimental' William Boyd
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK HORNBY
John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met.
(Paperback)
By: Samuel Richardson
ISBN: 9780140431407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1980
UK Publication Date: 20th November 1980
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone in the world, is pursued by her dead mistress' son. Although she is attracted to Mr B, she holds out against his demands and threats of abduction and rape, determined to protect her virginity and abide by her moral standards.
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By: Franois Rabelais
ISBN: 9781847497406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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These bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.
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By: John Milton
ISBN: 9780451531834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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With the three works included in this volume--"Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes," and "Lycidas"--Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer as one of the greatest literary geniuses in history. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.
(Hardback)
By: Shaun Whiteside
ISBN: 9781841596204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Everyman
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In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolution.
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By: Christopher Morely
ISBN: 9781935554110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 16th September 2010
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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Originally published: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1917.
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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781784876067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From glittering occasions complete with an orchestra and dancing girls to a fist-fight at the end of a toddlers birthday, this is a dazzling collection of party pieces from the master of celebration.
Selected from The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and Flappers and Philosophers
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.
(Hardback)
By: Nella Larsen
ISBN: 9780143129424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2020
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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"First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1929"--Title page verso.
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By: Nella Larsen
ISBN: 9780593437841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2021
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Nella Larsen
ISBN: 9780241472712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Nella Larsen
ISBN: 9780008554286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: John Donovan
ISBN: 9780720612318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781841591841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2012
Publisher: Everyman
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Monty Bodkin has returned to London from Hollywood, leaving Sandy Miller, his secretary there, heartbroken, because Monty loves English hockey international Gertrude Butterwick instead of her.
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By: Ann Bridge
ISBN: 9781907970597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2015
Publisher: Daunt Books
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An enthralling novel that evokes a vanished era.
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Patricia Highsmith
ISBN: 9780349004976
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness.
(Paperback)
By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780375757297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Featuring the author's satire of England society and love, this edition includes an introduction by Amy Bllom. It also contains a commentary, notes, and reading group guide.
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By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780141198835
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Anne Elliot, who, persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough, has never forgotten him. When he returns, he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness.
(Paperback)
By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780755331499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Persuasion is the ultimate novel of love lost and regained. By turns achingly sad and intensely romantic, it's a Cinderella story for anyone who's ever felt overlooked - or anyone who's ever had their heart broken...
(Paperback)
By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780143106289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Eight years ago, Anne Elliot was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meet again, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of her rejection.
(Paperback)
By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780099511175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want Independent
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth.
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By: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
ISBN: 9781784873363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 9781847493491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Also including the 'Diary of Madman', this new translation of Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.
