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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781784878955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780099512240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times
Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict.
(Paperback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780140447934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. In this book, the author entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and faith - with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in its imperfection and grandeur.
(Hardback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780241265543
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever.
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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781784871949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wife's death in childbirth, the author conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life.
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By: Anton Chekhov
ISBN: 9780140447866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells stories from the middle period of the author's career - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor. In this title, all the stories feature characters who face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence.
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By: Henry James
ISBN: 9780141441368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When timid and plain Catherine Sloper is courted by the dashing and determined Morris Townsend, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, delivers an ultimatum: break off her engagement, or be stripped of her inheritance.
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By: Yevgeny Zamyatin
ISBN: 9780099511434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
UK Publication Date: 31st December 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities - love and rebellion.
Banned on its publication in Russia in 1921, We is the first modern dystopian novel and a satire on state control that has once again become chillingly relevant.
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By: Joseph Roth
ISBN: 9781805330653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2024
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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By: Various Authors
ISBN: 9781782279303
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2023
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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By: E. M. Forster
ISBN: 9780141199252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Lilia Herriton, who proves to be an embarrassment to her late husband's family as, in the small Tuscan town of Monteriano, she begins a relationship with a much younger Italian man - classless, uncouth and unsuitable.
(Hardback)
By: Jack London
ISBN: 9781423661450
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2022
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Jack London
ISBN: 9780241652664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780241619780
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780241252086
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: Mario Benedetti
ISBN: 9780241350997
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Lorrie Moore
ISBN: 9780571268559
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The brilliantly funny and sharply observant novel from one of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation.
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By: Hans Fallada
ISBN: 9780241339244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: A. A. Milne
ISBN: 9781667203133
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2023
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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These classic stories of Pooh Bear and his friends from Hundred Acre Wood will warm your heart.
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By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9780571375462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This Christmas, bask in these 'diminutive masterpieces'(Guardian) by the English genius behind Lolly Willowes.
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By: Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 9780140434781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1996
UK Publication Date: 30th May 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepfather. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets.
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By: Hans Fallada
ISBN: 9781922070302
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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This sweeping saga of love in dangerous times -- the 1923 collapse of the German economy, when food and money shortages led to rioting in the streets and unemployed soldiers marauding through the countryside--is deemed by many to be Hans Fallada's greatest work.
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By: Conn Iggulden
ISBN: 9780007353255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants.
(Hardback)
By: Marissa Constantinou
ISBN: 9781529069228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A powerful collection of poems and stories written by women of colour during the Harlem Renaissance.
