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By: Gaston Leroux

ISBN: 9780451531872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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The story that has captured the imagination of readers for a century, this world-renowned gothic novel, the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running musical, is now available in this striking Centennial Edition, featuring a new Afterword. Revised reissue.


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By: Gaston Leroux

ISBN: 9780099560555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Discover the classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running west end hit.

Christine is a beautiful young singer at the Paris Opera.


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By: Gaston Leroux

ISBN: 9780007420278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st January 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: Herman Melville

ISBN: 9781847497222
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This volume, first published in 1856, collects three of Melville's most important pieces of prose fiction: 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', `Benito Cereno' and `The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles'. Also included in this volume are `The Lightning-Rod Man', `The Bell Tower' and a story written especially for the collection, `The Piazza'.


(Hardback)

By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781857152111
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1999
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 1998
Publisher: Everyman
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When young Charles Dickens was commissioned to write the text for a series of sporting illustrations in 1836, no one could have suspected that this journeyman task was to turn in to one of the great comic novels in English literature.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781847498311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2022
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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The quintessentially English Don Quixote, here presented in a new edition based on the authoritative text and accompanied by notes and extra material to help the modern reader.


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By: Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9780375751516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1998
UK Publication Date: 1st June 1998
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The wish spoken by Dorian Gray as he looks at his portrait forms the basis of the plot of this story of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty.


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By: Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9780141192642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.


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By: John Bunyan

ISBN: 9780451531292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A masterpiece of religious allegory transformed into intense drama, "The Pilgrim's Progress's" style is unsurpassed, its characters superbly individualized, indelibly alive, and as memorable as the landmarks on Christian's perilous journey toward salvation. Revised reissue.


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By: John Bunyan

ISBN: 9780007925322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
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: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9780141190624
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A selection the author's critical writings, of short fiction and poetry that demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind.


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By: Albert Camus

ISBN: 9780141049236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.


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By: Freeman Wills Crofts

ISBN: 9780008159313
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed The King of Detective Story Writers.


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By: Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN: 9781612192185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9781857150391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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The talented and beautiful Isabel Archer, courted by several suitors and enriched by her dying uncle, chooses to marry the cold and ambitious Gilbert Osmond. The heroine soon discovers to her cost that freedom of choice is never what it seems.


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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9780141199122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond.


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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9780099511601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. But, on a trip around Europe, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea of adding Isabel to his collection of beautiful artworks.


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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.


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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.


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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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