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  • THE VALLEY OF FEAR
    THE VALLEY OF FEAR
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    The Penguin English Library Edition The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher . . . When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house they appear to be too late. The discovery of a body suggests that Moriarty's h...
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  • DEATH ON THE NILE
    DEATH ON THE NILE
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her li...
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  • THE HOUSE OF ULLOA
    THE HOUSE OF ULLOA
    EMILIA PARDO BAZAN
    A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming, The House of Ulloa is one of the greatest works of nineteenth-century Spanish literature. The House of Ulloa follows pure and pious Father Julián Alvarez, who is sent to a remote country estate to put the affairs of the marquis, an irresponsible libertine, in order. When he discovers moral de...
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  • THE PRINCE
    THE PRINCE
    NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
    At the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli’s name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major fi...
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  • CURTAIN
    CURTAIN
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place... ...
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  • PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY HARD TIMES
    PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY HARD TIMES
    CHARLES DICKENS
    The Penguin English Library Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts...
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  • THE GAMBLER AND OTHER STORIES
    THE GAMBLER AND OTHER STORIES
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting ...
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  • WAR AND PEACE
    WAR AND PEACE
    LEO TOLSTOY
    'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.' Isaac Babel Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parall...
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  • DEVILS
    DEVILS
    FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
    Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young rad...
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  • ULYSSES
    ULYSSES
    JAMES JOYCE
    With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive nov...
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  • THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
    THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
    OSCAR WILDE
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord ...
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  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    JANE AUSTEN
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to he...
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  • RESURRECTION
    RESURRECTION
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, a...
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  • WAR AND PEACE
    WAR AND PEACE
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Antony's Brigg's acclaimed translation of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace—presented here in the first new English translation in forty years—is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre B...
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  • LITTLE MEN AND JO'S BOYS
    LITTLE MEN AND JO'S BOYS
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    The two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo's Boys, are worthy sequels to Little Women, one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, and its continuation, Good Wives. In Little Men, Louisa May Alcott takes up the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty but easy-going boys at Plumfield, now a boarding-school run by Professor...
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  • ANIMAL FARM
    ANIMAL FARM
    GEORGE ORWELL
    The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard Fairey 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership o...
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  • MEMOIRS FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
    MEMOIRS FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
    FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
    In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to pa...
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  • FOUR MAJOR PLAYS
    FOUR MAJOR PLAYS
    HENRIK IBSEN
    'A Doll's House provoked uproar when it made its Scandinavian debut in 1879. In it, and its immediate successor, Ghosts, Ibsen brought to light attitudes that a self-righteous, hypocritical society would have preferred to leave unexamined; his heroines' perceptions about society and their position in it are conveyed with a clarity that is still shockingly dramatic. In Hedda Gab...
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  • GIOVANNI'S ROOM
    GIOVANNI'S ROOM
    JAMES BALDWIN
    When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and va...
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  • VINTAGE HUXLEY: ANTIC HAY
    VINTAGE HUXLEY: ANTIC HAY
    ALDOUS HUXLEY
    “Futilitarian” best describes the type of desultory, pleasure-seeking intellectual Huxley pinned so mercilessly to the literary map inAntic Hay. Wickedly funny and deliciously barbed, the novel epitomizes the glittering neuroticism of post-First World War London. ...
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  • THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    "On what slender threads do life and fortune hang." Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unear...
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  • ANNA KARENINA
    ANNA KARENINA
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Now the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is translated by award-winning duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky in Penguin Classics.Starring Keira Knightley (A Dangerous Method) as Anna Karenina, Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes) as her husband Alexei, Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy) as Count V...
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  • A HAPPY DEATH
    A HAPPY DEATH
    ALBERT CAMUS
    Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. In many ways A...
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  • THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creationThis collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from...
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  • A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE
    A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE
    ANAIS NIN
    Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a b...
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  • THE SIGN OF FOUR
    THE SIGN OF FOUR
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large,...
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  • THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
    THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world. ...
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  • CAMUS: THE FIRST MAN
    CAMUS: THE FIRST MAN
    ALBERT CAMUS
    The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother...
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  • MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
    MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    CRIME & MYSTERY FICTION. Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An ...
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  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY / KEITH CARABINE
    Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that...
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