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"Shocking at the time of its original publication, startling in its relevance today, Stendhal's masterpiece is a scorching social satire, a ... detailed portrait of a fraught moment in history and, as perhaps the first psychological novel, a ... precursor to modern literature at once comical and tragic, cerebral and passionate"--

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(Paperback)

Rolf Boldrewood's most significant work was Robbery Under Arms, published in serial form in the Sydney Mail 1882-83, and published as a novel in London in 1888.

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(Paperback)

This book is a new translation of Henry Murger's influential Scnes de la vie de bohme, first published in French in 1851.

(Hardback, 2nd New edition)

Hermann Hesse's classic novel in a new and improved edition of the collectible Cased Classics series, now features a trompe l'il die-cut dust jacket, over a stunning work by British contemporary artist Andy Harper.

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Silas Marner is a simple weaver from Lantern Yard, an impoverished area of Northern England. He is the main protagonist who is wrongly accused of being a robber. Silas loses his sweetheart, reputation, and as a result, has to move out of the town.

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Immensely popular both during and after his lifetime, and a powerful influence on generations of writers and film-makers to this day, Edgar Allan Poe is still counted among the greatest short-story writers of all time and seen as one of the initiators of the detective, horror and science-fiction genres.

(Paperback, Bonded Leather)

In 1899 Kate Chopin stunned the literary world with thepublication of The Awakening

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(Paperback, Annotated edition)

Caroline Leakey, writing as Olin Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. In this new critical edition, editor Jenna Mead restores material that was cut when the novel was reissued in a radically abridged version in 1886.

A box set that brings together the Bronte sisters' four greatest novels in beautiful Penguin editions. From the bleak moors of Wuthering Heights to the Belgian capital in Villette, and the mysterious, gloomy country estates of Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, it features the most famous siblings in literature at the peak of their powers.

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This edition contains a wealth of material and over 3,000 notes which will help all students of Chaucer's masterpiece.

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A brilliant story of intrigue, retribution, revenge and redemption.

Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dants spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon.

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Set in nineteen sixties Glasgow,The Dear Green Placeis an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions. Published in 1966, it won theGuardianFiction Book of the Year and Yorkshire Posts Best First Work.

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This intensely moving story of Ivan Ilyich's lonely end is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction.

The ten other stories in this collection include 'The Kreutzer Sonata', 'The Devil', and 'Hadji Murat' which has been described by Harold Bloom as 'the best story in the world'.

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The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.

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Here presented in a brand new translation by Hugh Aplin, The Eternal Husband shows Dostoevsky at his best as a ruthless dissector of the quirks and foibles of the human character

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Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series at GBP4.99, this edition of the gambler in a brand new translation includes pictures and an extensive section on Dostoevsky's life and works

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In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult.