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Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being.

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A beautiful, enigmatic story by one of the greatest German-language novelists.

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Stifter's rapturous and enigmatic tale of village life begins with a small anecdote-one Christmas eve, a brother and sister lose their way amid snowdrifts while crossing the Alps-and opens onto vast questions of faith and destiny.

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In addition to the text of the tragedy this study includes notes on Shakespeare and the play's sources and content.

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A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.

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When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. As Cutter's business grows across Asia, so does Shaklin's fame, until he is widely regarded as a unifying deity.

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RSVP is a sumptuous family saga, packed with sex, love and betrayal. Now who could refuse an invitation like that...

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Rudin, Turgenev's first novel, is a subtle examination of human weakness which foreshadows many of the themes in the author's later work, with its lead character personifying the type of the "superfluous man" which came to dominate much of the literature of nineteenth-century Russia.

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A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION OF LAXNESS' TALE OF POVERTY AND GREED

Set at the start of the twentieth century in a fictional Icelandic fishing village, Salka Valka follows the struggles of a penniless woman, Sigurlna, and her daughter, Salka Valka.

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Another magnificent tale of treachery at sea from a storytelling genius.

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Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination.

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The volume is arranged in two parts, with the mature stories in Part 1 edited for easy reading, and the juvenilia collected by Austen herself presented exactly as she wrote them in Part 2.

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When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant and privileged aristocrat he swears to avenge his death. His ensuing adventures involve hair-raising duels, romance, treachery and shocking family secrets all handled with brilliance and wit by this extraordinary hero.

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A dark psychological thriller featuring Diane Fry and Ben Cooper, in which a small community is ripped apart by arson and murder. Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric Reginald Hill.

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In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics and society itself are in upheaval.

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A GERMAN CLASSIC FROM A FORGOTTEN AUTHOR

Schlump is seventeen, a romantic, a chancer and a dreamer. But when he gets to the trenches, where death and mindless destruction are the everyday, he starts to understand something about war. Funny, brutal and charming, heres the First World War from the perspective of the inimitable Schlump.

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"Secretum" - Petrarch's best-known work in Latin - is a fascinating and pioneering example of the autobiographical genre.

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A gorgeous gift edition of William Wordsworth's greatest poems, with an introduction by Peter Harness.

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A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society.

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Two sisters, both on the brink of falling in love and living happily ever after. But can life ever be that simple