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Thoughts
By Giacomo Leopardi
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Admired for the poetical heights of his Canti, the gentle wit of his prose dialogues and the soul-searching questionings of his Zibaldone (Notebooks), Leopardi was also an acute social commentator and a sharp dissector of the human mind. Thoughts – a collection of philosophical and critical observat…
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Dirty Limericks
By Anonymous
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Inside these covers you will find a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years. Until quite recently, few of these verses had ever appeared in print for public consumption, although many had bee…
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The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles’ Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
By Leslie Cavendish
£14.99–£25.00 £10.49–£25.00
The Beatles’ hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural revolution as the most tangible symbol of the Sixties’ psychedelic dream of peace, love and playful rebellion. In the midst of this epochal change was Les…
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Jack Fortune and the Search for the Hidden Valley
By Sue Purkiss
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An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his crotchety widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. His naughtiness knows no limits, and when one day he goes a step too far, Aunt Constance decides that she’s had enough: from now on, his bachelor uncle can take care of him. Uncle Edmund is in n…
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The Plays
By Anton Chekhov
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BUY >The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines. Collected in this volume are Ch…
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To the Lighthouse
By Virginia Woolf
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When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the…
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A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens
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Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie. There, the gifted but dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles…
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We
By Yevgeny Zamyatin
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BUY >We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship…
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Tales from Shakespeare
By Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
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In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare’s plays for children. While making sure that the pieces were accessible for a younger audience, they took care to stay faithful to the language and vocabulary of the Bard as much as possible. Rang…
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The Blind Owl and Other Stories
By Sadeq Hedayat
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Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story – an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader’s subconscious. A young man, an old man and a beautiful young girl perform, as if framed within a Persian miniature, a ritual of de…
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The Quirky Classics Collection
By various authors
£79.90 £39.95
The full collection of all ten wonderfully different Quirky Classics – lesser-known humorous works by authors on everyone’s bookcase. Includes: Napoleon Bonaparte’s Aphorisms Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of the Books Jonathan Swift’s The Benefit of Farting Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Crocodile Osc…
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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visit…
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The Lost Book of the Grail
By Charlie Lovett
£8.99 £7.19
Academic and bibliophile Arthur Prescott finds respite from the drudgery of his professorship in the Barchester Cathedral Library, where he devotes himself to researching the Holy Grail and writing his long-delayed guide to the history of the medieval cathedral. His peaceful existence is shattered b…
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Silent Music
By Jane Hawking
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Growing up in London in the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth is an observant and thoughtful child who finds herself in a confusing and mysterious adult world. She seeks refuge in her memories of her idyllic stays with her grandparents in the picturesque East Anglian countryside – which provid…
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Love and Friendship
By Jane Austen
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These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen’s mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly. ‘Love and Friendship’ and ‘Lesley Castle’ provide parodies of the ge…
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Locus Solus
By Raymond Roussel
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Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which in its innocence and extravagance is unlike anything in the literature of the twentieth century. Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous wealth…
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Jealousy
By Alain Robbe-Grillet
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In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principle preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen through the eyes of a narrator who never appears in person, never speaks and never acts. He is a poin…
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Five Children and It
By E. Nesbit
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When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home, they make an unexpected and very curious discovery. The gravel pit is home to a Psammead, a sand fairy. This ugly creature has eyes like a snail, ears like a bat and the body…
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Diaries and Selected Letters
By Mikhail Bulgakov
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The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita – now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature – was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his perso…
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Death on Credit
By Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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When Céline’s first novel, Journey to the End of the Night was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and savagely attacked by its horrified opponents. Four years later came the sequel, Death on Credit. Both were a new kind of novel, fra…
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The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles’ Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
The Beatles’ hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cul…
READ MORE > The Plays
The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre…
READ MORE > To the Lighthouse
When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following…
READ MORE > A Tale of Two Cities
Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonmen…
READ MORE > We
We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the al…
READ MORE > Tales from Shakespeare
In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare’s plays for children. While making s…
READ MORE > The Blind Owl and Other Stories
Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story – an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries f…
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The Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
A special collection of all 15 fiction works by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A must-have for fans of Fitzgerald and ideal as a gift. Includes: All t…
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The Complete Bulgakov Fiction Collection
To celebrate the publication of The White Guard, translated by Roger Cockrell, we’re offering our complete fiction works of Mikhail Bulgakov…
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The Horror Handbook
What happens to a vampire when he dies? How does somebody become a werewolf? How can you protect yourself from witches? All of these questio…
READ MORE > Locus Solus
Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a worl…
READ MORE > Jealousy
In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principle preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is s…
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Cain’s Book
Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain’s Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a…
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A Literary Tour of Italy
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks – who was described in a recent review as “one of the best living writers of Engl…
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A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as “humbug”. One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited…
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