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By: Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN: 9780141185873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"The Gift" is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov- Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian emigre intellectuals in Berlin shortly after World War I.


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By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9780099514190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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But she's an heiress, and that's a problem too - because even if he can extricate himself from his grasping fiance Jerry can't be a gold-digger.

Enter The Girl in Blue - a Gainsborough miniature which someone has stolen from Uncle Willoughby.


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By: Honor de Balzac

ISBN: 9781681379067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"Henri de Marsay believes neither in man nor woman, God nor devil. He believes in Paris, a city that readily accommodates his pursuit of sensual pleasure. It is in the Tuileries, just outside the Cafe des Feuillants, that Henri de Marsay first catches sight of the girl with the golden eyes and can almost believe in love"--


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By: Patricia Highsmith

ISBN: 9780349004952
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychological traumas that incarceration can inflict.


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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9781857151176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
UK Publication Date: 26th November 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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James' novel featuring a complex and bizarre battle between two wives - the shy Maggie, who marries an Italian prince, and the prince's former mistress, who marries Maggie's widowed father. Determined to take back her lover, the brilliant Charlotte is nevertheless defeated by her rival.


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By: Alistair MacLean

ISBN: 9780008337469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense.


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By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

ISBN: 9781953861702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2023
Publisher: Archipelago Books
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By: Ford Madox Ford

ISBN: 9780099540670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple.


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By: Patrick Hamilton

ISBN: 9780349141497
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Abacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels for a new audience. In The Gorse Trilogy, Patrick Hamilton creates one of fiction's most captivating anti-heroes.


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By: Harry Crews

ISBN: 9780143135098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Arnold Bennett

ISBN: 9781784872373
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. But when hotel staff begin to vanish and a German prince goes missing, Nella discovers that murder, blackmail and kidnapping are also on the menu.


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By: John Steinbeck

ISBN: 9780241980347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Olivia Manning

ISBN: 9781786091130
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2020
Publisher: Cornerstone
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK

'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters

'Wonderfully entertaining' Observer


Autumn, 1939.


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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9780099577720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYER

The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsbys party. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him

This edition of The Great Gatsby is the result of a unique collaboration between Tiffany & Co.


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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9780593201060
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9781409147442
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2013
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. THE GREAT GATSBY is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.


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By: Charlotte Bront

ISBN: 9781847497611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd November 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Full of tragedy and passion, love and rivalry, the five sweeping tales contained in this volume display the precocious talent, lively imagination and flair for storytelling of the young Charlotte Bront.


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By: W.W. Jacobs

ISBN: 9781847497895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This volume contains a careful selection of the very best stories from Jacobs's 150-strong repertory, and includes well-known standalone pieces such as `The Monkey's Paw', as well as accounts of raucous dockside dalliances and tightly woven tales of poacher Bob Petty's crimes against the unlikely cast of an Essex village.


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By: C. S. Forester

ISBN: 9780753829141
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER series


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By: Herman Melville

ISBN: 9780061773754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Here are 10 stories that represent some of the best short work by American master Melville, including Bartleby, the Scrivener, The Happy Failure, and The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.


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By: Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9781509827824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd March 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A beautiful collector's edition of Oscar Wilde's short stories


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By: Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9780008110642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.


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By: Wilkie Collins

ISBN: 9781847498397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th October 2022
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra material for students.


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By: Wilkie Collins

ISBN: 9781784871154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and suddenly dies. How are these little mysteries connected

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