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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9780007902286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 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: Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9781847497512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A fascinating exploration on the identity of the mysterious Mr W.H. to whom Shakespeare dedicated his Sonnets.


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By: Stefan Zweig

ISBN: 9780954221720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2009
Publisher: Sort of Books
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Stefan Zweig's Grand Hotel Novel: Cinderella meets Bonnie and Clyde in this 1930s tale of the boom and bust of capitalism.


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By: Thomas Savage

ISBN: 9781784877842
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American that inspired the new Jane Campion film.

Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley.

Phil is the bright one, George the plodder.


(Paperback)

By: Thomas Savage

ISBN: 9781784870621
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American - the inspiration for the new Jane Campion film.

Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley.

Phil is the bright one, George the plodder.


(Paperback)

By: Mary Renault

ISBN: 9781844089604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In a masterful novel that vividly recreates the world of Ancient Greece, Mary Renault tells the story of Simonides, an ugly boy destined to create beauty through his extraordinary poetic talent. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a great novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient world vividly to life.


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By: Anthony Trollope

ISBN: 9780140433494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1994
UK Publication Date: 24th February 1994
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The penultimate novel in the Palliser series. As Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium, supported by Lady Glencora, presides over the coalition government, Trollope reaches into the highest echelons of the English establishment, depicting political realities rather than ideology.


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By: Niccolo Machiavelli

ISBN: 9780451531001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2001
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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For more than 400 years, "The Prince" has been the basic handbook of politics, statesmanship, and power. Witty, informative, and devilishly shrewd, it has long been required reading for anyone interested in politics and power. This edition features a new Introduction and Afterword. Revised reissue.


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By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9781841591971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2015
Publisher: Everyman
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And so it is that, in the process of telling their story, published early in his career, Wodehouse constructs the critique of Europe versus America, privilege versus enterprise, decadence versus adventure, which was to underpin many of his later tales.


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By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780375761126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.


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By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780451528353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Mark Twain's classic tale of two boys, identical in appearance but not in class in English society, who switch identities was both a scathing attack upon social hypocrisy and injustice, and an irresistible comedy imbued with the sense of high-spirited play that appeared during his happiest creative period. Features a new Afterword. (May)


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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9780140432541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 29th January 1987
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism.


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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9781857150506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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When a beautiful, spoilt, aristocratic woman with revolutionary ambitions meets an idealistic young proletarian conspirator who dreams of a better life, the stage is set for The Princess Casamassima in which Henry James explores the London underworld and the political unrest seething there in the later nineteenth century.


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By: Madame Lafayette

ISBN: 9780140445879
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 30th April 1992
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This translation of the novel "La Princesse de Cleves", originally written in 1678, tells of life at Court in 17th-century France.


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By: Nancy Mitford

ISBN: 9781787470583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Nancy Mitford's sparkling translation of this classic French novel: a work of courtly intrigue, unrequited love and concealed passion


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By: James Hogg

ISBN: 9781786891860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2018
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The definitive edition of the all-time Scottish novel - an 'enduring masterpeice' - introduced by Ian Rankin


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By: Charlotte Bront

ISBN: 9781847497178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Alma Classics edition of The Professor is here presented with a comprehensive extra material section, including notes on the text, pictures and information on Bronte's life and works


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By: M P Shiel

ISBN: 9780141196428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth.


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By: Nan Shepherd

ISBN: 9781786891624
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2018
Publisher: Canongate Books
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On its 90th anniversary, the debut novel - one of the most important works of Scottish modernism - from Nan Shepherd, author of The Living Mountain and The Weatherhouse.


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By: Alexander Pushkin

ISBN: 9781847494788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2011
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This collection of Pushkin's shorter fiction contains a number of lesser-known works by Pushkin which are not easily available in English, including the novel Dubrovsky and the stories Egyptian Nights and Peter the Great's Negro.


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By: A. E. Ellis

ISBN: 9781784877378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Will he succeed, or will all the tortures he has endured have been for nothing

When The Rack was first published in 1958, the critical acclaim was universal: reviewers compared it with the works of Proust, Mann, and Camus and declared it a masterwork destined to take its place among the great novels of the 20th century.


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By: Joseph Roth

ISBN: 9780141393421
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the family standards of conduct which he cannot attain but against which he is unable to rebel.


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By: D H Lawrence

ISBN: 9780099541455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Set between the 1840s and the early years of the twentieth century The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, ancient occupiers of Marsh Farm, Nottinghamshire. Through courting, pregnancy, marriage and defiance Lawrence explores love and the conflicts it brings.


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By: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9780143122364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a selection of author's writings that demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. This title follows a man's terrifying descent into madness after the loss of a lover.

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