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By: William Dean Howells

ISBN: 9780940450516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1989
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Paperback)

By: Sherwood Anderson

ISBN: 9780099589082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SARA WHEELER

'He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing' William Faulkner

This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest.


(Paperback)

By: Sherwood Anderson

ISBN: 9780451529954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Inspired by Anderson's Midwestern boyhood and his observations in early 20th-century Chicago, the loosely connected stories in "Winesburg, Ohio" gave birth to the American story cycle, for which Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and later writers were forever indebted. Reissue.


(Paperback)

By: Sherwood Anderson

ISBN: 9781847492166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A landmark work of American naturalism and a priceless chronicle of rural life, Winesburg, Ohio has been compared to the writings of Turgenev, Chekhov, Dreiser and Twain, and hugely influenced authors such as Steinbeck, Hemingway and Faulkner.


(Paperback)

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans

ISBN: 9781847498342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th November 2020
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This 1882 novella, a key work in Huysmans literary development prefiguring in its protagonist the figure of Jean des Esseintes, the hero of rebours, written two years later is accompanied here by another masterly study of human despair, M. Bougrans Retirement.


(Paperback)

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN: 9780141389462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets.


(Paperback)

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN: 9780099540724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Molly Gibson is the spirited, loyal daughter of the local doctor. Their peaceful close-knit home is turned upside down when Molly's father decides to remarry. Whilst Molly struggles to adjust to her snobbish stepmother, she forms a close relationship with her glamorous new stepsister Cynthia. But the strength of this friendship is soon tested.


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By: Megan Lindholm

ISBN: 9780007425433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The compelling sequel to The Reindeer People , a saga of magic and triumph in an ancient world.


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By: D H Lawrence

ISBN: 9780099512080
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The bonds between the couples quickly become intense and passionate but whether this passion is creative or destructive is unclear.In this astonishing novel, widely considered to be D.H.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Thomas Bernhard

ISBN: 9780571349999
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Reissued with stunning artwork by Leanne Shapton and a new afterword, Woodcutters is Thomas Bernhard's most famous novel: a blistering European classic.


(Paperback)

By: Emily Bront

ISBN: 9780593244036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2021
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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"Printed from the Shakespeare Head ed., 1931"--T.p. verso.


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By: Emily Bronte

ISBN: 9780451531797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than the story of the tormented Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. Revised reissue.


(Hardback)

By: Emily Bront

ISBN: 9781857150025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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This love story tells the tale of Heathcliff, the waif brought to Yorkshire by Mr. Earnshaw, and his passionate but doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw.


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By: Emily Bronte

ISBN: 9780307455185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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"Wuthering Heights," first published in 1847, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. This edition contains a biographical note and Preface by the author's sister Charlotte Bront, and an Introduction by Diane Johnson.


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By: Emily Bront

ISBN: 9780143105435
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him.


(Paperback)

By: Alexander Trocchi

ISBN: 9780714544625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN: 9781847496522
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Rich in allegory and symbolism, these tales delve into the conflict between good and evil, explore the concept of Original Sin and repeatedly invite the reader to make their own judgements concerning what they can and cannot trust.


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By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9780099514039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Meet the Young Men in Spats - all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes nonexistent fortunes on unlikely outcomes - that's when they're not recovering from driving their sports cars through rather than round Marble Arch.

These wonderful comic short stories are the essence of innocent fun.


(Paperback)

By: Raymond Queneau

ISBN: 9780142180044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)

By: Italo Svevo

ISBN: 9781857152494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2001
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2001
Publisher: Everyman
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Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Svevo's charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. 1 map.


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By: Jules Verne

ISBN: 9781472907189
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This classic adventure follows Captain Nemo on his quest for knowledge and revenge, as told by the men he takes prisoner aboard his impossible vessel, the Nautilus.


(Paperback)

By: E. W. Hornbug

ISBN: 9781513280622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Paperback)

By: Zolio Galang

ISBN: 9781513297040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Paperback)

By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9781513271156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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