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By: Honor de Balzac
ISBN: 9781517905439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN: 9780140449129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating.
(Paperback, Authorised Edition)
By: John Buchan
ISBN: 9781846975332
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2020
Publisher: Birlinn General
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(Hardback)
By: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780141199603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features Captain Ahab who is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. This title is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature.
(Paperback)
By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781945186783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Sigrid Undset
ISBN: 9781517915414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780143138211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9781435171565
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2023
Publisher: Sterling Juvenile
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(Paperback)
By: Stendhal
ISBN: 9781517911447
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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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"--
(Paperback)
By: Petronius
ISBN: 9780872205109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Hardback, 2nd New edition)
By: Hermann Hesse
ISBN: 9780720620115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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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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By: George Eliot
ISBN: 9780141439754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life.
(Hardback)
By: George Eliot
ISBN: 9781513205403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Paperback)
By: George Eliot
ISBN: 9781915054883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
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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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By: Mike Ashley
ISBN: 9780720615166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Iris Murdoch
ISBN: 9781784875183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Mary Kelly
ISBN: 9780712353106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2019
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find the body of Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution. Taking place in the three days leading up to Christmas, Nightingale's enquiry takes him to a gramophone shop and a jewellers, culminating in the wrapping of the mystery on Christmas Eve.
(Paperback)
By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9780099518945
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.
(Paperback, Reissue)
By: Archie Hind
ISBN: 9781846976865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Katherine Mansfield
ISBN: 9781513271187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Hardback)
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781949846379
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 9781949846157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: George Eliot
ISBN: 9780141439624
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family.
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By: David Tod Roy
ISBN: 9780691016146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous "Chin P'ing Mei", an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines.
