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  • THE SIGN OF THE FOUR
    THE SIGN OF THE FOUR
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE / DARRYL JONES
    'I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.' Mary Morstan receives a large pearl through the post once a year without any clue as to the sender. When her intriguing correspondent requests a meeting, Holmes and Watson take on the case. Together the trio race through London to u...
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  • LITTLE WOMEN (PAINTED EDITION)
    LITTLE WOMEN (PAINTED EDITION)
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    Featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this fine exclusive collector's edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is a must have for book lovers or Alcott fans. Cozy up and read the sweeping family saga of the March sisters as they discover true love and sibling bonding in one of America's most beloved coming of age classics. The Harper Muse Classics: Painted...
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  • FRANKENSTEIN (PRETTY BOOK EDITION)
    FRANKENSTEIN (PRETTY BOOK EDITION)
    MARY SHELLEY
    Featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this fine exclusive collector's edition of Mary Shelley's iconic frightening tale Frankenstein is a must have for book lovers or horror fans. Relive the classic tragedy of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature in this pretty edition of the Gothic favorite and cornerstone of genre literature. Beloved by horror fans across t...
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  • EMMA
    EMMA
    JANE AUSTEN
    'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own he...
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  • FRANKENSTEIN
    FRANKENSTEIN
    MARY SHELLEY
    Frankensteinis the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would 'curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.' The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller. Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experim...
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  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    EMILY BRONTE
    Explore Bronte's world of crime and punishment, nature and culture, and love and loss. Since its original publication in 1847, the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine has long echoed on the moors. After being spurned by his lover and degraded by his adoptive family, Heathcliff leaves his home in Yorkshire, only to return wealthy, educated, and seeking r...
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  • ANIMAL FARM
    ANIMAL FARM
    GEORGE ORWELL
    Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.George Orwell's Animal Farm is a short novel written during World...
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  • MADONNA IN A FUR COAT
    MADONNA IN A FUR COAT
    SABAHATTIN ALI
    The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1...
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  • THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to contribute a series of twelve short stories, which began with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in 1891 and were published monthly for the next year. The stories, in which the master sleuth receiv...
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  • ORTHODOXY
    ORTHODOXY
    G. K. CHESTERTON
    Orthodoxy, as G. K. Chesterton employs the term here, means "right opinion." In this, the masterpiece of his brilliant literary career, he applies the concept of correct reasoning to his acceptance of Christianity. Written in a down-to-earth and familiar style, he presents formal and scholarly arguments in the explanation and defense of the tenets underlying his faith. Paradox ...
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  • THE ODYSSEY
    THE ODYSSEY
    HOMER
    A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of Circe Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; ...
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  • THE JUNGLE BOOK AND SECOND JUNGLE BOOK
    THE JUNGLE BOOK AND SECOND JUNGLE BOOK
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the mos...
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  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    JANE AUSTEN
    Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold sepa...
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  • JANE EYRE
    JANE EYRE
    CHARLOTTE BRONTË
    Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold sepa...
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  • PARKER PYNE INVESTIGATES
    PARKER PYNE INVESTIGATES
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A collection of short stories featuring the 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: 'ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE'. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker ...
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  • WHITE NIGHTS
    WHITE NIGHTS
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around t...
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  • THE FLOATING ADMIRAL
    THE FLOATING ADMIRAL
    AGATHA CHRISTIE / DOROTHY L. SAYERS / G. K. CHESTERTON
    Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a sta...
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  • ENDLESS NIGHT
    ENDLESS NIGHT
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl a...
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  • DEAD SOULS
    DEAD SOULS
    NIKOLAI GOGOL
    A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town andproceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual andsomewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who arestill registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It is notclear what Chichikov's intentions are w...
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  • A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED
    A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    An ordinary village A shocking announcement One morning the villagers of Chipping Cleghorn wake to find a strange notice in their papers: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm.' Suspecting this is just a joke, they gather for some evening entertainment. Then a gunshot is heard. In desperation, the police...
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  • THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
    THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
    LAURENCE STERNE
    Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Lawrence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters – such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman – take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out t...
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  • HAMLET
    HAMLET
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to off...
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  • 4.50 FROM PADDINGTON
    4.50 FROM PADDINGTON
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Two trains Side by side for a brief moment In that moment, a murder Elspeth McGillicuddy is positive she witnessed a man strangling a woman to death. But it was only the merest glimpse through a carriage window as the trains drew parallel. She is the only witness, there are no suspects, and, most importantly, there is no corpse. Who, apart from her friend Jane M...
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  • THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY
    THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A young woman found murdered A scandal in the making When Mrs Bantry wakes to find a body in her library, there's only one woman to call: her good friend Jane Marple. But she hasn't called her old friend for comfort. The body in her library has been murdered and Miss Marple is so very good at solving murders. Her investigations uncover a scandal far darker than eit...
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  • THE LITTLE PRINCE
    THE LITTLE PRINCE
    ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
    "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is no...
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  • ANNA KARENINA
    ANNA KARENINA
    LEO TOLSTOY
    At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levi...
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  • THE BEAUTIFULL CASSANDRA
    THE BEAUTIFULL CASSANDRA
    JANE AUSTEN
    'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers' fingers... Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Cla...
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  • THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES
    THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES
    GRAF LEO TOLSTOY
    "No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied." As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuma...
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  • DUMB WITNESS
    DUMB WITNESS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A simple accident? Or attempted murder? Everyone blamed the dog. When a wealthy spinster trips on the stairs, it seems only natural to assume it was an accident - a rubber ball left there by her lively terrier. And yet the more Emily Arundell thought about it, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. Seeking answers, she writes to t...
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  • THE ESSENTIAL KAFKA
    THE ESSENTIAL KAFKA
    FRANZ KAFKA
    Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentles...
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