The Life of Castruccio Castracani

By Niccolò Machiavelli

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Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of the most powerful and shrewd warlords in Italy. Indeed, Machiavelli argues, so great was his vigour and charisma that – had he not been prevented by his untimely death – he might have surpassed in fame t…

The Prophet

By Kahlil Gibran

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Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Before he departs, a group of people gather round and ask him to share his wisdom. Written as a collection of poetic essays, and detailing such diverse and s…

Uncle’s Dream

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K—, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make…

On the Origin of Species

By Charles Darwin

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The foundation of evolutionary biology and natural selection – perhaps the most important book of scientific observation ever written.

Tender Is the Night

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled p…

Choose Your Own 5-Book Set of Quirky Classics

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To celebrate the beginning of the countdown to Christmas, we’re offering a five-book collection of Quirky Classics – and letting you choose the five you want – a collection of lesser-known humorous works by authors on everyone’s bookcase. Simply enter your name, choose the five books you want, and o…

Chamber Music and Other Poems

By James Joyce

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Universally known for his groundbreaking prose – especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century – James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the…

Dirty Limericks

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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…

The Pushkin Collection

By Alexander Pushkin

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New for Spring 2017, these four beautiful new editions of Pushkin’s masterpieces are once again available. Including: The Queen of Spades This collection of Pushkin’s stories begins with ‘The Queen of Spades’, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. Ruslan and Lyudmila The bas…

Plays

By Anton Chekhov

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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…

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…

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…

We

By Yevgeny Zamyatin

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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…

The Jane Austen Collection

By Jane Austen

£50.92 £25.46

Here you can find our Jane Austen collection, presented in these eye-popping covers. Includes: Emma Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon Love and Friendship Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility The Jane Austen Collection

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two m…

The Quirky Classics Collection

By various authors

£79.90 £39.95

A collection of the first 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 Osca…

Wilhelm Meister

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant’s son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous quest of self-discovery. Along his path he finds himself having to negotiate love, desire and the nee…

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…

The White Guard

By Mikhail Bulgakov

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Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918–19, The White Guard, Bulgakov’s first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contr…

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…