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(Paperback)
By: Cao Xueqin
ISBN: 9780140442939
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1976
UK Publication Date: 13th December 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A novel of Chinese literature that contains the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty Dai-yu.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Cao Xueqin
ISBN: 9780140443264
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1982
UK Publication Date: 30th June 1977
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of the changing fortunes of the Jia dynasty, focussing on Bao-yu, now married to Bao-chai, after the tragic death of his beloved Dai-yu. Against such worldly elements as death, financial ruin, marriage, decadence and corruption, his karmic journey unfolds.
(Paperback, 3rd edition)
By: Cao Xueqin
ISBN: 9780140443707
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1981
UK Publication Date: 25th September 1980
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A novel of manners in Chinese literature.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9781846976827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydefollows the story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug: a chemical that can turn him into something else his monstrous alter-ego. This new edition features an introduction by Denise Mina.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9780008509446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 22nd July 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
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By: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9780008195670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
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By: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9780007351008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
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: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9781435163096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2017
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Since his first literary appearance in 1886, the murderous Mr Hyde has embodied the evil that even good men including his alter ego, Henry Jekyll - are capable of when the constraints of civilized life are loosed. This chilling anthology also collects nine of Stevenson's best-known tales of horror.
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By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780241487099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9781841594057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2022
Publisher: Everyman
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(Hardback)
By: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9781949846454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Murasaki Shikibu
ISBN: 9780142437148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At the core of this epic is Prince Genji, the son of an emperor, whose passionate character, love affairs and shifting political fortunes offer a glimpse into the golden age of Japan.
(Hardback)
By: Anne Bront
ISBN: 9780241198957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced.
(Paperback)
By: Anne Bront
ISBN: 9780140434743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1996
UK Publication Date: 29th February 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced.
(Paperback)
By: Anne Bronte
ISBN: 9781784870751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal' Daily Mail
When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her.
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By: Alexander Pushkin
ISBN: 9781847492159
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 18th April 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Set against the backdrop of the the Pugachev rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and remains one of his most popular works.
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By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9780099583165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The young DArtagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to defend their honour or that of the King and Queen of France.
(Paperback)
By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9781784878429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9780141442341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join King's Louis XIII's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends.
(Hardback)
By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9781841593364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2011
Publisher: Everyman
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Interwoven amongst them are vivid fictionalized portraits of major historical figures, amongst them the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu, the weak and ineffectual Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, his unhappy Spanish queen.
(Paperback)
By: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780141199344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture.
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By: Gnter Grass
ISBN: 9780099540656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.
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By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780241197790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780241678893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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