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A collection of three works exploring the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. The first story offers a depiction of London's fashionable horse riding set. The second story portrays the intimacy between an aloof woman and her male guide, while the third deals with a woman's religious quest.

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An enthralling tale of courtroom drama, blackmail and high adventure in Hong Kong in the last year of British rule, from the bestselling author of Hold My Hand Im Dying and Roots of Outrage.

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A story of the Mexican Zapatista uprising, a battle between ruthless suppression of rebels, and the desire to win hearts and minds in the fight for oil which sits beneath the soil in Chiapas.

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Offers a collection of short stories including "The Yellow Wall-Paper", the novel "Herland", and poems.

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Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own century in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers.

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In This Quiet Dust, the first book of non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie's Choice, William Styron addresses great moral issues with passion and precision.

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Here, in one volume, are three major novels by the Marquis de Sade, including the only authentic and complete British edition of his most famous work JUSTINE: one of his most daring works, PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM: and the eighteenth-century masterpiece, EUGENIE DE FRANVAL.

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First published in 1889 Jerome K. Jerome's classic tale of boating misadventure has become the quintessential example of the charm and wit of Victorian England.

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Nineteen year old Lily Bart is in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to gossip.

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The Club in central London holds the quarters of Queen Victoria's finest regiment: the First Bloods. Inside the mighty building, with its two exquisite glass towers, the First Bloods and their regimental servants tussle over a portion of recreational ground.

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A family is divided when its favourite daughter is forced to flee rural Ireland and to seek her living in war-torn Birmingham.

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In the millenniums last great sf novel, Stephen Baxter takes us a short step byond Y2K. The year is 2010. We have survived so far.

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From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction.

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A tale of modern espionage and military adventure.

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"[This is] as much a book for browsing as it is for reference use [and is] a labor of love that will surely please the many admirers of Trollope." Reference Books Bulletin

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Collects brief fictional works and legends by the nineteenth-century New England literary master.

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The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior. Her husband's death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a legacy forces them apart.

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An extraordinary family and an unrelenting landscape combine to create an epic story of survival and redemption.

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The sins of the past come home to roost in the New South Africa in the action-packed new novel from a master of the international thriller.

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A story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to the halls of Eblis, or Hell, in the pursuit of knowledge. It exhibits the author's exuberant day-dreaming imagination as well as the deeply emotional, aesthetic themes and detailed physical descriptions of his writing.

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Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This book portrays one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire.

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Lucy flees from England and finds work as a school teacher in the town of Villette, but her struggle to remain independent is overshadowed by despair and desire. This novel disguises the author's own life when she ventured away from the infamous Yorkshire parsonage to study, but fell passionately - and dangerously - in love.