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By: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
ISBN: 9781847492401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. This edition contains a foreword by John Banville.
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By: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780241382691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women.
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By: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781847498076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society's attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women. This edition is fully annotated and contains extra material.
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By: Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 9780241215005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Wheeler Thackston
ISBN: 9781624668081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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By: D.H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9781925773187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2019
Publisher: Text Publishing
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A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia.
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By: Aharon Appelfeld
ISBN: 9780241681190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A gentle peasant in pre-World War II Ukraine goes to work in the home of a Jewish family, and her life is transformed in ways she could never have imagined.
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By: D.J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781472133106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A new and definitive edition of Keep the Aspidistra Flying, introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer. With additional content from Orwell himself.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9781847498632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2021
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence. This edition is enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141194738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary can challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life.
(Hardback, New edition)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9781804177877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2024
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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A gorgeous new edition. Admired for its pace and storytelling, Kidnapped is an enthralling read. A dramatic tale set in the aftermath of the Jacobite uprising, it tells of the kidnap of David Balfour and his desperate journey across Scotland, chased by redcoats, barely surviving until he reclaims his rightful place in society.
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By: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN: 9780141442372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother, and the lama, an old ascetic priest, are on a quest. Kim was born and raised in India and plays with the slum children as he lives on the streets, but he is white, a sahib, and wants to play the "Great Game of Imperialism"; while priest must find redemption from the Wheel of Things.
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By: Mary Durack
ISBN: 9780143790730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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By: Natsume Soseki
ISBN: 9780143106036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Deals with the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei.
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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9781529042306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Dante Alighieri's heartfelt book of poetry and prose about love.
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By: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9781847494085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Containing autobiographical elements and set in the author's native Nottinghamshire, Lawrence's final novel had a profound impact on twentieth-century culture and sexual attitudes, while confirming his standing as one of the most eminent fiction writers that England has produced.
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By: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9781454953128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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By: D H Lawrence
ISBN: 9781841594224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Everyman
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By: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9780141192482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper.
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By: Nikolai Leskov
ISBN: 9780141396743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An outsider by birth and instinct, the author was one of the most undeservedly neglected figures in Russian literature. He combined a profoundly religious spirit with a fascination for crime, an occasionally lurid imagination and a great love for the Russian vernacular. This volume includes a collection of his stories.
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By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780241251331
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780241582527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780140431025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th November 1974
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Collects three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors: "Lady Susan", "The Watsons" and "Sanditon". This book examines the works in the context of her major novels and her life, and discusses the social background of her fiction.
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By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9781784878214
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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