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By: Gaston Leroux

ISBN: 9780060809249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1993
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A facsimile of the 1910 Paris edition, including the original Andre Castaigne water colour illustrations.


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By: Marquis De Sade

ISBN: 9780143039013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood.


(Hardback)

By: Anthony Trollope

ISBN: 9781857152388
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: Everyman
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In the second volume from Trollopes series of six Palliser novels, we probe deep into the life of British politics.


(Paperback)

By: Anthony Trollope

ISBN: 9780140430851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
UK Publication Date: 29th September 1977
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.


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By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9780099513889
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise.


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By: Nevil Shute

ISBN: 9780099530220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Nevil Shutes classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story.

John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France.


(Paperback)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9780099513988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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A Blandings novel

Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running


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By: John Bunyan

ISBN: 9780340980156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2009
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A new edition of the classic allegory of Christian life


(Paperback, Main)

By: Carlo Collodi

ISBN: 9781590172896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Pinocchio the novel, no less than Pinocchio the character, is one of the great inventions of modern literature. The book merges the traditions of the picaresque, of street theater, and of folk and fairy tales into a work that is at once adventure, satire, and a powerful enchantment.


(Paperback)

By: Carlo Collodi

ISBN: 9780007920716
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 13th September 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.


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By: Marcel Proust

ISBN: 9781847493170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2013
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Rich in language and detail, and by turns satirical and moving, Proust's stories - presented here in Andrew Brown's nuanced translation, the only edition currently in print - are layered with imagery and feeling and foreshadow the themes and psychological atmosphere of his later masterpiece.


(Hardback)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9781841591537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2007
Publisher: Everyman
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A collection of stories featuring familiar Wodehouse characters includes Jeeves and Wooster, Ukridge and his fearsome Aunt Julia, Bingo Little and his wife, romantic novelist Rosie M.


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By: Angela Thirkell

ISBN: 9781844089710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Alice Barton finds adventure during a Friday-to-Monday at a grand country house in Angela Thirkell's classic, deliciously diverting 1930s romantic comedy.


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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN: 9781847493125
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 20th November 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Introducing the first in a long line of underground's characters, Poor People, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction, is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels.


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By: Desiderius Erasmus

ISBN: 9781847493248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2013
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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In addition to a new translation of Praise of Folly, this volume also includes other works by Erasmus: Pope Julius Barred from Heaven, Epigram against Pope Julius II and a selection of his Adages. Together with the extensive annotation of the texts, these help to set Erasmus's masterpiece.


(Paperback)

By: Christopher Isherwood

ISBN: 9780099561132
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' - Edmund Wilson

An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry.


(Hardback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780143123163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th December 2012
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Elizabeth Bennet's early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to true feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved. Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, typographer, and web designer.


(Paperback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780679783268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.


(Hardback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9781857150018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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Probably the popular favourite among Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice was the first to be written (1796-7), when the author was just twenty-one.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780755331468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2006
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Perhaps her best-loved, certainly her most well-known book, Pride and Prejudice is the classic romantic comedy.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780553213102
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1998
UK Publication Date: 1st December 1983
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Austen's comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18-century drawing-room intrigues. Reissue.


(Paperback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780143105428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.


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By: Josep Maria de Sagarra

ISBN: 9780914671268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Archipelago Books
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"Originally published as Vida Privada by Llibreria Catalnia, 1932 Barcelona"--Title page verso.


(Paperback)

By: Leonardo da Vinci

ISBN: 9781847497697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This volume also contains a further selection of Leonardo da Vincis fragmentary writings, in the form of fables and aphorisms. Taken together, these pieces provide an invaluable insight into the thought processes of one of the Renaissances most productive minds.

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