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The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
This title is winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school.... [more]
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Thumbelina and Other Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Children's & Educational
CD-Audio
This delightful selection of stories by one of the classic masters of the genre includes some well-known and lesser known... [more]
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Paperback
'It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread... [more]
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Children's & Educational
CD-Audio
The dreams, prayers, illnesses and courtships of the March sisters -- Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy -- form a lively family portrait,... [more]
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The Annotated Peter Pan: Centennial Edition
J. M. Barrie
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Classic fiction (Children's&YA)
Hardback
One hundred years after J.M. Barrie published Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revisits a story that bridges the generations,... [more]
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The Woman In Black
Susan Hill
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps,... [more]
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Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Stories and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Horror & ghost stories; Short stories
Hardback
This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting tales ever written. They range from the poetic... [more]
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
Collected inside this book are diary entries, letters and newspaper clippings that piece together the depraved story of the... [more]
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Emma
Jane Austen
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances'... [more]
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by... [more]
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The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation
Paperback
Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes... [more]
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Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Children's & Educational
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Alice's adventures, funny, inventive and disturbing, have fascinated children and adults alike since their publication. This... [more]
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Moby-Dick: or, the Whale
Herman Melville
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Paperback
Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before... [more]
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Golden Lotus: Jin Ping Mei
Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation
Paperback
A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, this classic novel--admired in its own time for its literary qualities and... [more]
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
<p> One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their... [more]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim: Mark Twain's Classic with...
Mark Twain, W. Bill Czolgosz
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Adventure; Horror & ghost stories
Paperback
Free at last! Free at last! This ain't your grandfather's Huckleberry Finn. It's nineteenth century America and a mutant strain... [more]
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his... [more]
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
This title is presented with an introduction by Monica Ali. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing... [more]
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
This is an epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age.... [more]
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The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
This title is presented with an introduction by John Burnside. When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in... [more]
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My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing... [more]
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Bel-ami
Guy de Maupassant
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La... [more]
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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Henry Handel Richardson
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all...deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue... [more]
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The Middle Parts of Fortune
Frederic Manning
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
The drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great... [more]
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Jasmine Nights
Julia Gregson
Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback
From the bestselling author of EAST OF THE SUN comes an extraordinary love story. It is 1942 and the war is tearing Europe... [more]
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