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In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. It includes the piece Morphine

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A striking novel of truth and soul-searching.

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A story which evokes a bygone rural life, and is charged with a personal passion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption.

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Translation originally published: Patheon Books, 1948.

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Tom Sawyer's pal Huck Finn finds himself on the run, floating down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave. With rich description as well as sharp satire, Twain vividly recreates the world he had known as a child. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

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Jim, a runaway slave, joins Huck Finn, who is fleeing from his cruel father, and together, they journey by raft down the Mississippi River.

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More than 200 fables.

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Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. Written while he was living in California, this is Huxleys response to Hollywoods superficiality and obsession with youth, a powerful cautionary tale which employs all his customary wit and merciless insight.

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A masterful work of comic horror, Jerome K. Jerome's After-Supper Ghost Stories is a witty look at why Christmas Eve is so perfect for ghost stories and why ghosts love the Yuletide season.

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The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated.

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The definitive companion to the MISS MARPLE novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated.

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Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, this title tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title.

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Alberto Moravia's classic, startling portrait of innocence lost was written in 1942 but rejected by Fascist censors and not published until 1944, when it became a best seller and secured the author the first literary prize of his career.

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Alberta Selmer escapes from her cold, suffocating provincial life in Norway to seek out the 'summer riches' of Paris: a city where the bohemians will never die, where there is absinthe, endless talk of 'cubism' and the petrol engine is replacing the horse on the Champs Elyses.

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Willa Cather's debut novel is infused with the themes that would make her famous.

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CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF ALICE

Oh my ears and whiskers, how late its getting!

Would you be surprised to see a white rabbit take a watch out of his waistcoat pocket

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At the bottom she finds herself in a bizarre world full of strange creatures, and attends a very strange tea party and croquet match. This immensely witty and unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, to provide an astute depiction of the experience of childhood.

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When Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, little does she know that she is traveling to a world of magic where common-sense is turned upside-down.

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A fresh, practical approach to two of Carroll's most beloved works, which chronicle the magical, captivating adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Includes a new Afterword and the original illustrations by John Tenniel. Revised reissue.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.

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An intense, atmospheric and expertly-plotted new novel from an exciting young author.

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A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.

When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children.

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The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary.