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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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  • 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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  • ROMEO AND JULIET
    ROMEO AND JULIET
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama ...
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  • TREASURE ISLAND
    TREASURE ISLAND
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man's possessions. But Jim soon becomes only too aware that he is not the only one who knows of the map's existence, and his bravery and cun...
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  • THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
    THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
    ERNEST HEMINGWAY
    Traditional Chinese edition of The Old Man and The Sea edited for young adults. The story is told with text and graphics and accompanied with Zhuying (phonetic annotation). A reading guide of this Hemingway classic helps young readers develop their writing skills. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. ...
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  • THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensatio...
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  • THE IDIOT
    THE IDIOT
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately l...
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  • ORLANDO
    ORLANDO
    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the...
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  • THE GREAT GATSBY
    THE GREAT GATSBY
    FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD
    The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hail...
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  • DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE WITH THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER STORIES
    DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE WITH THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER STORIES
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson's reputation as a...
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  • FRANKENSTEIN, OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
    FRANKENSTEIN, OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
    MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY / MARY SHELLEY
    Frankenstein is 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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  • THE THREE MUSKETEERS
    THE THREE MUSKETEERS
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury. One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of thei...
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  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democra...
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  • JANE EYRE
    JANE EYRE
    CHARLOTTE BRONTË
    Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel ...
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  • HAMLET
    HAMLET
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest p...
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  • MACBETH
    MACBETH
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and r...
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  • A CONFESSION AND OTHER RELIGIOUS WRITINGS
    A CONFESSION AND OTHER RELIGIOUS WRITINGS
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was 'a happy man' and in good health - yet life had los...
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  • THE OEDIPUS CYCLE
    THE OEDIPUS CYCLE
    SOPHOCLES / ROBERT FITZGERALD
    The ancient myth of Oedipus, which still reverberates to this day, provided Sophocles with material for three great tragedies -- Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone -- that together recount the downfall of Oedipus, king of Thebes, his death in exile, and the action carried out after his death by his daughter Antigone. These English translations of Sophocles' trilogy w...
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  • MRS DALLOWAY
    MRS DALLOWAY
    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    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. This edition features an afterword by editor and publisher ...
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  • THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
    THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
    MARK TWAIN
    Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this bold edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry Finn's childhood wasn't exactly smooth sailing but everything changed when he met Tom Sawyer. Bound by an oath to make tr...
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  • NIGHT FLIGHT
    NIGHT FLIGHT
    ANTOINE. DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
    Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity. Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupery's soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author's beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who beco...
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  • NO COWARD SOUL IS MINE
    NO COWARD SOUL IS MINE
    EMILY BRONTE
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore; In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure. In this new selection of Emily Brontë's heart-rending poems, we uncover a soul unafraid to confront mortality, tragedy and the wild cruelty - and beauty - of nature. These verses capture her profoun...
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  • EMMA
    EMMA
    JANE AUSTEN
    Chiltern 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.This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately), which mak...
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  • THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
    THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
    J. D. SALINGER
    It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrib...
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  • THE TIME MACHINE
    THE TIME MACHINE
    H. G. WELLS
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely new genre and did it better than any of his imitators. An immediate bestseller, it has delighted and unnerved generations...
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  • MURDER IS EASY
    MURDER IS EASY
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
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