North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
North and SouthBy Elizabeth GaskellA study in contrasts between rural southern England and industrial northern England. The protagonist is the daughter of a parson whose religious doubts have forced him to resign his Hampshire living and to move his family to an industrial manufacturing town in Darkshir ...Show more
Ross Poldark: A Poldark Novel 1 by Winston Graham
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Category: Classics | Series: Poldark Ser.
Book 1 of the beloved Poldark novels * A forthcoming major new series on Masterpiece(tm) on PBS® The enthralling first book behind Poldark, the major new TV series from Masterpiece on PBS... In the first novel in Winston Graham's hit series, a weary Ross Poldark returns to England from war, looking fo ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more
Tender is the Night (Macmillan Collector's Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, Tender is the Night explores the new world of moneyed leisure found by the first generation of idle-rich Americans to take refuge in the French Riviera, bracketed between the horrors of the Great War and the Great Depression to come. It ...Show more
How Much Land Does A Man Need? : Little Black Classic by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's ...Show more
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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Category: Classics
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and pl ...Show more
Frankenstein (Pretty Book Edition) by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Pretty Books - Painted Editions Ser.
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, one of literature's most beloved stories and the inspiration for numerous film adaptations, is now available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and distinctive interior treatments, making it ideal for fiction lover ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Volume 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.' This is the opening sentence of the most influential novel of the century, in English or in any of the sixty or more languages which boast a translation. Nineteen Eighty-Four has bee ...Show more
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov; Michael Glenny (Translator); Orlando Figes (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
Kiev - Kyiv - is in chaos. Russia has withdrawn from World War I but the Germans have set up a puppet government in Ukraine. Civil war rages- the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia, but the anti-revolutionary White Guard who have fled to Ukraine, are rallying to resist. In the meantime, Ukrainian na ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady (Vintage Classics) by Henry James
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Category: Classics
Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea o ...Show more