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Series: Fantastic Tales, The Paperback Iginio Ugo Tarchetti 9780714544045 $16.00 FICTION Aug 27, 2013
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Series: Tales Of Supernatural Paperback Edgar Allan Poe 9781847492104 $14.00 FICTION Jan 29, 2013
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Series: Desire for Chocolate Paperback Care Santos 9781846883941 $20.00 FICTION Nov 29, 2016

Three women, three centuries and the same bone-china chocolate pot: Sara, the scion of a dynasty of chocolatiers from Barcelona, who prides herself on maintaining the family tradition; Aurora, the daughter of a nineteenth-century maidservant, for whom chocolate is a forbidden luxury; Mariana, the wife of the most famous seventeenth-century chocolate manufacturer, an official purveyor to the French court and the inventor of a revolutionary chocolate mill. Through her passion for chocolate, Care Santos takes us on a spellbinding... + Read More
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Series: A Literary Tour of Italy Paperback Tim Parks 9781846883910 $23.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 29, 2016

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 English"--has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his best essays on the literature of his adopted country.From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give Engli... + Read More
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Series: In Search of Mary The Mother of all Journeys Paperback Bee Rowlatt 9781846883781 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 05, 2016

Toddler in tow, Bee Rowlatt embarks on an extraordinary journey in search of the life and legacy of the first celebrity feminist: Mary Wollstonecraft. From the wild coasts of Norway to a naked re-birthing in California, via the blood-soaked streets of revolutionary Paris, Bee learns what drove her hero on and what's been won and lost over the centuries in the battle for equality. On this biographical treasure hunt she finds herself consulting a witch, a porn star, a quiet Norwegian archivist and the tenants of a blighted council estate in Leeds... + Read More
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Series: The Tower Paperback Alessandro Gallenzi 9781846883767 $20.00 FICTION Nov 29, 2016

A thoroughly researched historical novel about Giordano Bruno and the Inquisition, and a technological thriller dealing with the topical issues of digitization, mass control, and espionage.Amman, Jordan. As an ambitious digitization project gathers pace in a vast building outside Amman, some unpublished writings by Giordano Bruno--flawed genius of the late Renaissance, renegade philosopher, occultist with a prodigious memory--disappear together with the Jesuit priest sent by the Vatican to study them.When the priest is found dead and a series o... + Read More
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Series: Angela Merkel The Chancellor and Her World Paperback Stefan Kornelius 9781846883187 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2014

With the Eurozone engulfed in an unprecedented crisis, one political figure looms largest of all, Angela Merkel, the leader of its most powerful economy. While foreign affairs have become the central issues of her chancellorship in this crucial election year, the entire world is anxiously looking to Germany to play its part in Europe’s rescue.This authorized biography sheds light on the person behind the politician – from her youthful days of hitchhiking in Tbilisi to being the guest of honour at a White House state dinner – and examines how a ... + Read More
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Series: The Repercussions Paperback Catherine Hall 9781846883583 $16.99 FICTION Nov 17, 2015

When war photographer Jo returns from her latest assignment in Afghanistan and moves into the Brighton flat she's just inherited, she hopes to restore equilibrium to her chaotic life. But images and events of her recent past and the reading of her great-grandmother Elizabeth's diary haunt her night and day, forcing Jo to come to terms with demons she thought she could leave behind.Written as a long confession to Jo's former lover Susie, alternating with Elizabeth's account of nursing Indian soldiers at the Brighton Pavilion in 1915,The Repercus... + Read More
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Series: My Life in Agony Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt Paperback Irma Kurtz 9781846883552 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 29, 2016

AsCosmopolitan's professional agony aunt for the last forty years, Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers, while having to keep up with the changing mores and attitudes in British and American society. In these memoirs, she looks back on the seismic transformations that have taken place over the last four decades, as well as her own hectic and often difficult life as a single mother from America living in London.Warm, funny, and perceptive, brimming with wisdom and insight,My Life in Agon... + Read More
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Series: Travelling To Infinity, The Paperback Jane Hawking 9781846883477 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2014
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Series: Vanilla Salt Paperback Ada Parellada 9781846883330 $16.99 FICTION Apr 26, 2016

Alex is a brilliant chef, but he struggles to fill his Barcelona restaurant because of his gruff, eccentric personality and his refusal to use ingredients that trace their culinary origins to America, such as potatoes and tomatoes. When he meets the young, enthusiastic, and beautiful Canadian Annette, he finds his ideas and narrow-minded outlook challenged, and discovers that they both share a painful past.Written by one of the most acclaimed Catalan chefs,Vanilla Saltis a sensual and mouth-watering exploration of the kitchen and the human hear... + Read More
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Series: Sketcher Paperback Roland Watson-Grant 9781846883125 $13.99 FICTION Oct 06, 2015

Nine-year-old "Skid" Beaumont's family is stuck in the mud. Following his father's decision to relocate and build a new home, based on a drunken vision that New Orleans would rapidly expand eastwards into the wetlands as a result of the seventies' oil boom, Skid and his brothers grow up in a swampy area of Louisiana. But the constructions stop short, the dream fizzles out, and the Beaumonts find themselves sinking in a soggy corner of 1980s Cold War America. As things on the home front get more complicated, Skid learns of his mother's alleged m... + Read More
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Series: The Skinning Tree Paperback Srikumar Sen 9781846882968 $18.00 FICTION Oct 06, 2015

Winner of 2012 South Asia PrizeSet against the Japanese advance on India during the Second World War, The Skinning Tree centers on nine-year-old Sabby, who lives in a Calcutta family where sophisticated British habits such as bridge and dinner parties co-exist with Indian values and nationalism. When Sabby is sent to a boarding school in northern India, he witnesses a strict regime in which the schoolboys are beaten and brutalized by the teachers.The boys themselves take on their abusers' cruel traits, mindlessly killing animals and hanging the... + Read More
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Series: Il Duce and His Women Paperback Roberto Olla 9781846881831 $19.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2013

Il Duce and His Women charts the main events in Mussolini’s private and public life, from his humble beginnings in Romagna as the son of a blacksmith to his years as the director of a leading Socialist newspaper and his irresistible rise to power, with a particular focus on his renowned appetite for women, and the lesser-known influence they had on his decision-making. The result is a riveting account that will shock and haunt its readers for a long time.
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Series: Alma Classics To The Lighthouse Paperback Virginia Woolf 9781847492111 $14.00 FICTION Aug 05, 2014
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Series: The Beautiful and Damned Paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847492128 $16.00 FICTION Mar 26, 2013

The heir to his grandfather’s considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery. Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience o... + Read More
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Series: Dubliners Paperback James Joyce 9781847492135 $14.00 FICTION Aug 05, 2014

Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth century. From the unsettling adventure of two truant schoolboys to the crafty schemes of two con men, from a young woman’s refusal to abandon Ireland and elope with a sailor to a man’s moment of clarity during an annual dance party, these stories offer a moving portrait of an entire world and era which are about to disappear. James Joyce’s first p... + Read More
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Series: The Great Gatsby Paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847492586 $14.00 FICTION Aug 05, 2014

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 men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby’s impossible love for amarried woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vi... + Read More
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Series: Tender is the Night Paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847492593 $14.00 FICTION Aug 05, 2014

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 past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender Is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sen... + Read More
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Series: Atala - Rene Paperback Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand 9781847492609 $18.00 FICTION Jul 01, 2010

‘Atala’, published in 1801, tells the tragic tale of the eponymous heroine, the mixed-race Christian daughter of a Native American chief, who saves the captured Chactas and tragically falls in love with him. ‘RenÃ©’, published the following year, is the seminal portrait of the sensitive and world-weary young Romantic hero who attempts to flee civilization and pursue a life in the wilderness of Louisiana. Referred to by their author as his passionate twins and intended to providean illustration of the original, primitive virtues of Christianity,... + Read More
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Series: Constantinople Paperback Edmondo de Amicis 9781847492661 $18.00 TRAVEL Aug 01, 2013

A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul – which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author’s ship approaches the harbour – Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking visual observation and entertaining historical information. An invaluable record of the metropolis as it used to be – a fascinating crossroads between Eastern and Western civilization and one of the most cosmopolitan cities of its time – as well as a vivid example of a European tourist’s reactio... + Read More
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Series: Humiliated And Insulted Paperback Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847492692 $17.00 PHILOSOPHY Aug 28, 2012
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Series: Moby Dick or The Whale Paperback Herman Melville 9781847492746 $16.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2013

When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master’s obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. With some sinister crew members in their midst and the hazardous conditions of the sea to contend with, the expedition becomes increasingly dangerous the closer it gets to its quarry.One of the great American novels, if not even the greatest, Moby... + Read More
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Series: The Village Paperback Ivan Bunin 9781847492838 $17.00 FICTION Feb 01, 2013

The Village, Ivan Bunin’s first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centring on episodes in the lives of a landowner and his self-educated peasant brother, the book follows characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human. A triumph of bitter realism, Bunin’s cruel, lyrical prose reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land, foreshadowing the turbulences of Russia in the twentieth century.
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Series: Wilhelm Meister Paperback Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9781847492852 $21.50 FICTION Apr 01, 2013

Seduced by the world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand aspiration of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant’s son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous quest of self-fulfilment, in which he finds himself having to negotiate love, ambition and the need to accommodate freedom with the constraints of society. As he faces the obstacles on his way and encounters many remarkable characters, his objectives gradually widen from personal education and development to the betterment of society as a whole. A landmark i... + Read More
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Series: Sakhalin Island Paperback Anton Chekhov 9781847492913 $19.00 TRAVEL Feb 26, 2013
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Series: Love Poems Paperback Erich Fried 9781847492951 $18.00 FICTION Oct 09, 2012

This collection contains some of the most important works by one of the twentieth century’s most popular and influential poets. The appeal of Fried’s verse lies in its simplicity and directness, whether he is writing – with his customary humanity, honesty and perception – about love, about political and moral issues, or about the problems brought on by illness, bereavement, ageing and death. This bilingual edition – with English translations by Stuart Hood, his long-term friend and colleague at the BBC – enables the reader to get a flavour of t... + Read More
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Series: Ruslan and Lyudmila Paperback Alexander Pushkin 9781847492968 $18.00 POETRY Dec 01, 2012

In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying characters along the way.The basis for Glinka's famous opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila - Pushkin's second longest poetical work - is a dramatic and ingenious retelling of Russian folklore, full of humour and irony.
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Series: Incest Paperback Marquis de Sade 9781847492975 $16.00 FICTION May 01, 2013

When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that involves the two becoming secret lovers. But Franval’s virtuous, God-fearing wife becomes suspicious and confronts him, setting off a tragic chain of events. Part of Sade’s The Crimes of Love cycle, this shocking tale – which was among the writings banned for publication until the twentieth century – tests thelimits of morality and portrays the disastrous consequences of free... + Read More
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Series: Love Poems Hardcover Alexander Pushkin 9781847493002 $16.00 POETRY Jun 01, 2013

One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin’s immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and enduring verse explorations of love, such as ‘I Loved You’, ‘Night’ and ‘I Well Recall a Wondrous Meeting’, pieces which are crowning achievements of the European canon and still have the same timeless emotional resonance today.
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Series: The Double Paperback Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847493019 $16.00 FICTION May 01, 2013

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement. The Double, Dostoevsky’s second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal a... + Read More
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Series: All The Sad Young Men Paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847493040 $14.00 FICTION Aug 05, 2014

Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel’s themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac ‘The Rich Boy’ and ‘Winter Dreams’, deal with wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – as they come to terms with lost love, while ‘Absolution’, in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to The Great Gatsby. Also containing ‘The Baby Party’, ‘Rags Martin-... + Read More
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Series: Leonardo da Vinci: The Resurrection of the Gods Paperback Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky 9781847493064 $16.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2015

This evocative account of the life of the Renaissance’s greatest figure traces Leonardo’s early development as an artist and court figure to his final years in exile, portraying his loves and sufferings, as well as his intellectual curiosity and tireless loyalty to his ideals. But it is the background to his famous painting La Gioconda and his relationship with the mysterious Florentine woman who modelled for it that are at the heart of the novel – here presented for the first time in an unabridged translation. The result is an engrossing and u... + Read More
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Series: Tales of the Jazz Age Paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847493095 $14.00 FICTION Aug 05, 2014

A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald’s name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces – the most notable of which is the novella-length ‘May Day’ – with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, recently made into a Hollywood film. Also containing the now classic story ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’, as well as lesser-known sketches and tales, this diverse selection, compiled by Fitzgeraldhimself from material published in newspapers and magazines, showcases both th... + Read More
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Series: The Dream Paperback Emile Zola 9781847493118 $18.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2013

Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town’s towering cathedral and learns her parents’ trade of embroidery, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the lives of the saints, a passion fuelled by her reading of the ‘Golden Legend’ and other mystical Christian writings. One day love, in the shape of Felicien Hautocoeur, enters the dream world she has constructed around herself, bringing about upheaval and distress. Al... + Read More
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Series: Poor People Paperback Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847493125 $16.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2013

Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate circumstances and seeks refuge in alcohol, looking on helplessly as the object of his impossible love is taken away from him. Introducing the first in a ... + Read More
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Series: Pleasures and Days Paperback Marcel Proust 9781847493170 $15.00 FICTION May 01, 2014

Proust's only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle 'In Search of Lost Time, Pleasures and Days' takes the reader on a journey through the high-society circles of fin-de-siecle Paris, presenting the lives, loves and attitudes of a host of unforgettable characters.
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Series: The Divine Comedy Paperback Dante Alighieri 9781847493200 $18.00 POETRY Feb 01, 2014

Dante’s dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints – is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. The Divine Comedy is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, together with extensive notes, illustrations and a critical apparatus... + Read More
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Series: Evergreens Wuthering Heights Paperback Emily Bronte 9781847493217 $7.99 FICTION Apr 01, 2014

The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy’s ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book’s first readers, with even Emily’s sister Charlotte wondering whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff . Replete with unforgettable characters and situations that have seared themselves into our literary consciousness, Emily Bronte’s intense masterpiece is one of the most haunting love stories in the canon of English literature.
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Series: Evergreens Madame Bovary Paperback Gustave Flaubert 9781847493224 $7.99 FICTION Apr 01, 2014

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after their marriage, Emma soon becomes frustrated with the boredom of provincial life and finds herself seeking escape and contemplating adultery. As Emma’s efforts to make a reality of her fantasies become more dangerous, both she and those around her mu... + Read More
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Series: Evergreens The Prince Paperback Niccolo Machiavelli 9781847493231 $7.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 01, 2014

At the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat NiccolÃ² Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli’s name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures as Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It contains principles as true today as when they were first written almost five centuries ago.
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Series: Memoirs of a Madman and November Paperback Gustave Flaubert 9781847493255 $15.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2014

One of Flaubert's earliest writings, but published only after his death, 'Memoirs of a Madman' presents us with a oung man as he reflects - alternating between musings on the present and memories of the past - on the years that have brought him to madness, recalling the innocence of his boyhood, the first stirrings of sexual awakening and his abrupt initiation into the adult world.
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Series: Memories of London Hardcover Edmondo de Amicis 9781847493262 $18.00 TRAVEL Sep 01, 2014

As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which made him one of the best-selling travel writers of his age. Originally conceived as a series of newspaper articles and later published in volume form, De Amici's 'Memories of London' brings back to life all the bygone charm of the capital of the British Empire. De Amici's impressions are paired here with a piece written by one of his contemporaries... + Read More
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Series: The Sandman Paperback E.T.A. Hoffmann 9781847493279 $15.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2014

The young student Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fears: he is convinced that Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his house to conduct alchemical experiments with his father - the latter dying as a consequence of one of those sessions - was none other than the Sandman, a mythical figure who was said to steal the eyes of children who refused to go to sleep. When a mysterious Italian salesman with a beautiful daughter moves into town, Nathanael's suspicions are reawakened, pushing him to the brink of madness as ... + Read More
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Series: The Testament and Other Poems Hardcover Francois Villon 9781847493286 $28.00 POETRY Jun 01, 2014

Violent, indignant, ribald and often brutally physical, Villon's verse has a formidable satiric thrust, and yet is also encompasses passages of poignant nostalgia and haunting lyric expression, culminating in his digressive autobiographical masterpiece, 'The Testament', which counts among the most popular texts of French poetry.
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Series: Tales of Twilight and the Unseen Paperback Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847493309 $14.00 FICTION May 01, 2014

A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have become part of our collective imagination, these stories - concerned with ghosts, obscure scientific experiments and other unexplained phenomena - are now unjustly neglected.
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Series: The Intelligent Woman's Guide Paperback Bernard Shaw 9781847493330 $16.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2014

The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism, and FascismAs a lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of human life, perverting family affections and the relations between the sexes. According to him, all British institutions were “corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest” – and idealism, integrity and any piecemeal attempts at political reform were futile in the face of the gross injustice built into the Empire’s economic system.Begun in 1924 – the year of the Brit... + Read More
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Series: Evergreens Inferno Paperback Dante Alighieri 9781847493408 $9.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2014

Dante’s dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth – is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time.Inferno, the first part of Dante’s Comedy, is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, together with the original text facing, extensive notes, illustrations ... + Read More
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Series: Memoirs of a Mother in Law Hardcover George R. Sims 9781847493415 $18.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

Jane Tressider has never been afraid of speaking her mind, even if she admits that she may have occasionally given offence by doing so. But as a busy mother of nine children, she cannot let such a small foible get in the way of her job, which is to keep her feckless husband on his toes while ensuring the perfect management not just of her own household but also of that of her married daughters and sons.Since mothers-in-law have always been misunderstood and no one has ever taken up their side of the argument properly, Jane is determined to set ... + Read More
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Series: Basil and Josephine Paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847493422 $14.00 FICTION Aug 05, 2014

Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry – based on Fitzgerald himself and a combination of his first love Ginevra King and his wife Zelda. As one struggles to gain the acceptance of his peers and becomes consumed by ambition, the other finds herself obsessed by teenage crushes and has to confront the pitfalls of popularity.Written for the Saturday Evening Post while the author was working on Tender Is the Night, these stories form a realistic and enter... + Read More
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Series: Evergreens The Idiot Paperback Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847493439 $9.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2014
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Series: Love Poems Hardcover Dante Alighieri 9781847493453 $16.00 POETRY Jan 01, 2015
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Series: Flappers and Philosophers Paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847493460 $14.00 FICTION Aug 05, 2014

Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author’s first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while ‘The Ice Palace’ features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted wi... + Read More
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Series: Monday or Tuesday Paperback Virginia Woolf 9781847493477 $16.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2014

Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development of themes that would blossom in her later masterpieces.From the impressionist description of four groups of people walking by a flowerbed in the botanic gardens at Kew to the soaring flight of a heron above the teeming life of towns and cities below and the reveries of a woman as she looks at a mark on the wall, ... + Read More
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Series: The Mudfog Papers Paperback Charles Dickens 9781847493484 $16.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2014

The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog – such as the delusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show – and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrious scientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research.Written at the same time as Oliver Twist – indeed the serialized vers... + Read More
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Series: Evergreens Petersburg Tales Paperback Nikolai Gogol 9781847493491 $9.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2014

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant faÃ§ade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Ove... + Read More
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Series: Evergreens Frankenstein Paperback Mary Shelley 9781847493507 $9.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2014

Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost story, Frankenstein narrates the chilling tale of a being created by a bright young scientist and the catastrophic consequences that ensue.Considered by many to be the first science-fiction novel, the tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the to... + Read More
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Series: Belkin's Stories Paperback Alexander Pushkin 9781847493514 $16.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2014

First published in 1831, Belkin’s Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature. Through a series of interlinked stories purporting to have been told by various narrators to the recently deceased country squire Ivan Belkin, Pushkin offers his own variation on themes and genres that were popular in his day and provides a vivid portrayal of the Russian people.From the story of revenge served cold in ‘The Shot’ to the havoc wreaked by a blizzard on the life of two young lovers, from the bittersweet to... + Read More
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Series: Evergreens The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Paperback Franz Kafka 9781847493521 $9.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2014

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and hefeels increasingly alienated.One of the masterpieces o... + Read More
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Series: Evergreens Anna Karenina Paperback Leo Tolstoy 9781847493682 $10.00 FICTION Jul 16, 2014

Leo Tolstoy’s most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, “moral” life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in.Acclaimed by critics and readers alike, Anna Karenina ... + Read More