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By: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9780141194967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. The story has a dreamlike quality of a fairy tale and has worked its way into the collective imagination of more than five generations of readers.
(Paperback)
By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780241388990
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Henry Miller
ISBN: 9780141399133
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Banned in the US and the UK for more than thirty years because it was considered pornographic, this book features a starving American writer who lives a bohemian life among prostitutes, pimps, and artists.
(Paperback)
By: Henry Miller
ISBN: 9780141399140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells a story of sexual and spiritual awakening. This book includes a mixture of fiction and autobiography.
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By: Peter Carey
ISBN: 9781760896430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Carey
ISBN: 9781760897963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Hardback)
By: Jules Verne
ISBN: 9780241198773
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In this thrilling adventure tale by the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the Nautilus.
(Paperback)
By: Jules Verne
ISBN: 9780141394930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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First published in French as Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Your du monde sous-marin in 1870.
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By: Jules Verne
ISBN: 9780785839934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the story of a kidnapped professor and harpoonist who embarks on an exhilarating undersea journey aboard the submarine of the eccentric Captain Nemo.
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By: Lord Dunsany
ISBN: 9780008159382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd November 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the imagination and reveals the acknowledged master of the short story at his very best.
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By: James Joyce
ISBN: 9781784877712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece
With a new introduction by Anne Enright
Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin.
(Hardback)
By: James Joyce
ISBN: 9780241552636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, 3rd Annotated edition)
By: James Joyce
ISBN: 9781847497765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This third edition, newly revised and updated, includes comprehensive and all-new annotations by Joyce scholar Sam Slote, Trinity College, Dublin, and Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner. It contains over 9,000 notes.
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By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781529157116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 9781435171794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Sterling Juvenile
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(Paperback)
By: Honor de Balzac
ISBN: 9780141396705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society that he had written. In this title, the twin themes of redemption and rebirth are illuminated by a consistently passionate rejection of both philosophic and practical materialism in favour of love.
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By: Saint Thomas More
ISBN: 9781847496256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This extraordinary treatise on the values of rationality and reason is here presented in a sparkling new translation by Roger Clarke and accompanied by copious notes and additional texts.
(Hardback)
By: William Thackeray
ISBN: 9780141199542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George.
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By: Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 9780241189658
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more.
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By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780143566427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade.
(Hardback)
By: Charlotte Bront
ISBN: 9780241198964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There, she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, the hostility of headmistress Madame Beck, and her own complex feelings first for the school's English doctor and...
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By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241723609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9781435172692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Sterling Juvenile
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(Hardback, Bonded Leather)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781435169876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2020
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Tolstoy's epic novel focuses on the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and valour.
