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The Pontellier family are spending a hot, lazy holiday on the Gulf of Mexico. When an illicit summer romance awakens new ideas and longings in Edna, she can barely understand herself, and cannot hope for aid or acceptance in the stifling attitudes of Louisiana society.

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Kate Chopin's classic, an American Anna Karenina, joins Canongate's Canons series.

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The best of Kate Chopin's powerful feminist short stories, edited and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.

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Contains Chopin's watershed novel and selected stories. This book has been edited by Nina Baym and includes an introduction by Kaye Gibbons.

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The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a drama of innocence betrayed yet preserved. Conceived like a play terms of scenes and conducted largely through witty dialogue, the novel bears the triumphant signs of his painful apprenticeship in the theatre

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Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uninvited guests converge upon them from a Balkan exile to Kens old flame and the siblings own raffish father the household struggles to preserve its precious peace.

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Imprisoned in his tyrannical uncle's ruined mansion, the young hero of Adalbert Stifter's The Bachelors must confront his past in order to regain control of his life

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Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty.

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Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And with their inheritance still distant, Anthony and Gloria must grow up and face reality.

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From Collins Classics and the author of The Great Gatsby comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age.

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Fitzgerald's second novel, which followed the successful "This Side of Paradise," paints a portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent as depicted in the lives of the very wealthy Anthony Patch and his willful wife, Gloria. Revised reissue.

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Helps you celebrate the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. This book takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe.

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Amazing Meg Rosoff Extraordinary Maggie Alderson

What some might call beauty, I find monstrous

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Amazing Meg Rosoff Extraordinary Maggie Alderson

What some might call beauty, I find monstrous

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Wilde's brilliance and timeless wit are showcased in this collection that includes "The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, " and "Salome." Also included are two interviews with Wilde and selections from his acclaimed criticism. Revised reissue.

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Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself.

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Daphne du Maurier's chilling short-story collection, the title story was famously made into a film by Hitchcock - perfect for the Halloween and Christmas markets.

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. Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA

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Diana Beauleigh is caught between two men.

Seven long years ago, Jack Carstares, the Earl of Wyncham, sacrificed his honour for his brother and has been in exile ever since.