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Presents a story woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.

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Spookily topical Guardian

Read the worlds first political thriller.

London is under threat.

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A classic children's tale that includes cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that appeal to the Etsy[trademark]-loving world of handmade crafts.

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A new selection of Conrad's shorter fiction, with an introduction from eminent Conrad scholar, Neil Rennie.

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A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance.

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A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood.

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One vital convoy can break Mussolini's stranglehold on Malta - but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships... This title recounts life aboard a British warship during some of the darkest days of the Second World War.

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Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels--"Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row," and "The Pearl."

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This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-six of the very best of Mark Twain's short pieces. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning Twain scholar and biographer Justin Kaplan, this volume features a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

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A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age one of the first to feature a serial killer by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years since the death of the author.

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Poor George - he doesn't seem to stand a chance.

How George eventually triumphs over the bossy Mrs Waddington makes for a dizzying plot featuring some of Wodehouse's most appealing minor characters - Mullett the butler and his light-fingered girlfriend Fanny, J.

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The Small Bachelor

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A Wodehouse pick-me-up that'll lift your spirits, whatever your mood.

Cheaper and more effective than Valium.*

Offers relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour.*

Read when youre well and when youre poorly;

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Draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising powers of planet earth that have turned us all into machines.

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The second novel in Willa Cathers Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life.

'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates

Thea Kronberg, gifted with a beautiful voice, defies her humble beginnings in Colorado and finds success far from her small hometown.

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Grouped together under this new title and in newly revised translations, these stories ("The Stoker", "The Metamorphosis" and "The Judgment") take on fresh, compelling meaning. Includes his famous "Letter to his Father".

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Partly autobiographical, and the prototype for many later Romantic works in its depiction of the sensitive, tortured Romantic hero, Goethe's seminal classic is a timeless masterpiece of world literature.

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Goethe's immortal tale of unrequited love, collected with essays on its influence, selections from the author's memoirs, and other stories. Includes an Introduction by Marcelle Clements and a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

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First published in 1903 and one of our country's most influential books, "The Souls of Black Folk" reflects the mind of a visionary who inspired generations of readers to remember the past, question the status quo, and fight for a just tomorrow. Revised reissue.

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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess

'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph

'Wonderfully entertaining' - Observer

Bucharest, 1940.

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In this brilliant novel, Dunbar presents a grim, ironic look at the urban black experience. The story of a displaced Southern family's struggle to survive and prosper in Harlem, "The Sport of the Gods" was one of the first novels to depict the harsh realities of ghetto life. Revised reissue.

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Presents an uproarious and alcohol-soaked shaggy-dog story from one of Russia's great comic masters.

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Primarily known as a dramatist, Chekhov also wrote short stories. This selection of his work includes "The Swedish Match", "Easter Eve", "Mire", "On the Road", "Verotchka", "Volodya", "The Kiss", "Sleepy" and "The Steppe".