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By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780141439693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing skill in a range of literary styles. The stories include: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire" and "The Happy Prince".
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By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780749399467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 19th March 1992
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary
'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. Some are well known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world.
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By: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781631067198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 11th August 2020
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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The perfect gift for the Edgar Allan Poe fan, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe is an elegant edition boasting the entire Poe catalog.
(Hardback, Bonded Leather)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781435154469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 22nd December 2016
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionised modern poetics. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar is part of Barnes & Noble's Leatherbound Classics. This omnibus edition collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single volume.
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By: O. Henry
ISBN: 9780241447468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9780241454817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780241573778
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9780451529701
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years, Edmond Dants escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold--and a new identity with which to pursue his revenge and redemption. Now with a new Introduction. Reissue.
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By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9780141392462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to grim fortress of the Chateau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.
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By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9780140449266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years imprisoned in grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth treasure and use it to plot destruction of men responsive for his incarceration.
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By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9781435132115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Presents a classic adventure story. This title features an elegant bonded-leather binding, a satin ribbon bookmark, distinctive gilt edging and decorative endpapers.
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By: Sarah Orne Jewett
ISBN: 9780241752203
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kay Boyle
ISBN: 9781782279464
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2024
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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By: F Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780141195117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital, he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a weathered, aged man. As time goes by, young Benjamin comes to no longer require a cane, his hair ceases to be grey, his limbs become less frail, his wrinkles less deep, but still the world around him fails to come to terms with his oddness.
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By: Dorothy Parker
ISBN: 9780241339589
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780143137214
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola"--
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By: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780241752135
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781529410570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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This collection forms part of a three-volume edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected and with a preface by Sharon Cameron, and translated by his friends Louise and Aylmer Maude.
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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780241251768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...
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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780140449617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A devastating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and asks the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780241720486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Raymond Radiguet
ISBN: 9780241372616
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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First published in France as Le Diable au Corps in 1923. This translation first published in Great Britain by Calder & Boyars Ltd, 1968.
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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780691212777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9781784871987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Now Ellis's translation of the entire poem is published here for the first time, and Dante's epic can be experienced afresh and in new glorious life and colour, the physicality and immediacy of Dante's verse rendered in English as never before.
A NEW TRANSLATION BY STEVE ELLIS
