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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"--
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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780241610534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Rolf Boldrewood
ISBN: 9781920897666
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2004
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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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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By: Petronius
ISBN: 9780872205109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9781847494849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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"Sense and Sensibility" is famously characterised as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of 'civilised' society and the human desire for romantic passion.
(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.
(Hardback)
By: George Eliot
ISBN: 9781513205403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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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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By: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781847496096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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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.
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By: Iris Murdoch
ISBN: 9781784875183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Jeremias Gotthelf
ISBN: 9781847499240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2024
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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New edition of one of the most powerful novellas which Thomas Mann saw as foretelling the advent of Nazism. Now part of Alma 101-pages series of lesser-known classics.
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By: Geoffrey Chaucer
ISBN: 9781847497413
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 22nd January 2020
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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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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By: Clarice Lispector
ISBN: 9780241371343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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, 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.
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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9781847496560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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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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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9781847493828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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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
(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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By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781847493521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th June 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, 'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as 'The Judgement', 'In the Penal Colony' and 'A Country Doctor' - all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.
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By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781847499103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2024
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Written in 1924 and perhaps intended for inclusion in Mrs Dalloway, a book Woolf was working on at the time, The New Dress is here accompanied by most of the short stories she published in her lifetime.
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By: Arunava Sinha
ISBN: 9780241562642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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