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Read the thrilling Victorian blockbuster, with an introduction from Booker prize-winning author Margaret Atwood.

A note from The Editor:

I feel it incumbent upon me to explain how this wonderful and mysterious history found its way into my hands.

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A unique anthology for crime aficionados six perfect murder stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved.

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Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and 30s.

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The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. A tormented man, he carries a heavy burden that locks him in the past.

As the villagers of South Riding adjust to Sarah's arrival and face the changing world, emotions run high, prejudices are challenged and community spirit is tested.

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With an introduction by Tony Horwitz, this work is edited by Christopher Gair, and also has a notes by him.

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A title that lets you enter a world like a nightmare, haunted by dark fears, guilty secrets and the bloody consequences of rage, revenge and obsession.

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This volume presents 10 novellas from the collections "Stories of Zurich, Seven Legends," and "The People of Sedwyla," many newly translated for this edition.

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The sleeping giant of India is beginning to stir to the dwelling reverberations which herald the great struggle for independence. For like his family and friends, Swami has been immutably moulded by his British rulers - and though he might happily demonstrate against them, he wouldn't dream of missing cricket practice.

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Contains five novelettes that include a cast ranging from the ageing rake Northangerland and his Byronic son-in-law Zamorna, King of Angria, to Mary Percy, Zamorna's lovesick wife, and Charles Townshend, the cynical, gossipy narrator.

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If you know London primarily through novels like WHITE FANG, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight London's concern with social issues.

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The German Library Series...Volume 89. Book Very Good in heavy card covers. This volume includes 'The Visit'....'Romulus the Great'.... 'Problems of the Theatre'....'The Judge and His Hangman'....and, for the first time in English, ' A Monster Lecture on Justice and Right.'

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A tale of love, seduction and betrayal.

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Lord and Lady Clonbrony are more concerned with fashionable London society than with their responsibilities to those who live and work on their Irish estates. Concerned by this negligence, their son goes incognito to Ireland to observe the situation. Can he find a solution that will bring prosperity and contentment to every level of society

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"Originally published in Italian as Le avventure di Pinocchio: storia di un burattino by Felice Paggi Libraio-Editore, 1883"--Title page verso.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK

A model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on the village below. Roy, coming of age in the messy, violent and adulterous world of the villagers, is simultaneously attracted and repelled by this strange place and by the powerful figure of the Air Vice-Marshal.

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Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted. Bound together by poverty and grief, they set out to make a future for themselves. They are adopted by the Reverend Pennhallow and his wife, and become immersed in study. But, after a chain of disturbing events, they realize that the cleric and his wife are not all they seem to be.

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War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved friend, he plunges back into the battle to seek his bloody revenge.

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Suitable for reading groups, and, of course, for Janeites everywhere, this title offers hundreds of annotations and illustrations on facing pages, along with a chronology, maps, and an introduction. It includes historical and social context; definitions of archaic words; and all kinds of details that illuminate the plot.

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Two rather young women, Amy and Helen, traveling with an older uncle, are doing the 'tour' of Europe, and are supposedly soaking up education but secretly yearning for adventures and romance. At this wish for adventure, a pair of gloves suddenly drops beside them from a balcony above their hotel room near Coblentz. Ah, whose gloves

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