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  • WHITE NIGHTS
    WHITE NIGHTS
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • BUSHIDO
    BUSHIDO
    INAZO NITOBE
    One of the best early explorations of Japanese culture and samurai ethics written in the English languageInazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding "the soul of Japan."Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the w...
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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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  • 1984 NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
    1984 NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
    GEORGE. ORWELL
    THE JURA EDITION with new introduction by Alex Massie'For him Jura was home' - Richard Blair on his father George Orwell'The book of the twentieth century . . . haunts us with an ever-darker relevance' - Ben Pimlott, Independent'The greatest British novel to have been written since the war' - Time Out'His final masterpiece . . . enthralling and indispensable for understanding m...
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  • MONKEY KING
    MONKEY KING
    CHENG'EN WU
    One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published in a Clothbound Classics edition. A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he can transform himself into whatever...
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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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  • GIACOMO JOYCE
    GIACOMO JOYCE
    JAMES JOYCE
    Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future. ...
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  • THE WAVES
    THE WAVES
    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York TimesTracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner li...
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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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  • TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.'Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into th...
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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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  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    JANE AUSTEN
    Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Jane Austen's original books (particularly Pride and Prejudice) from the 1800s were our inspiration. So, using a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality has met 21st Century technology. The specification of our books reflects the size and...
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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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  • TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
    TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
    ERNEST HEMINGWAY
    Ernest Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics. 'Listen,' I told him. 'Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.' Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living during the Depression from his motor boat in Key West, Florida. Although he normally takes out fishing parties, somet...
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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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  • 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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  • DRACULA
    DRACULA
    BRAM STOKER
    Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalis...
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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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