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To The Lighthouse
Paperback
Virginia Woolf
9781989544068
$21.00
FICTION
May 05, 2021
At their summer home on the Isle of Skye, Mrs Ramsay promises that they will visit the lighthouse located far offshore. Mr Ramsay counters that the weather will not work in their favour. Over the course of ten years – from promise to the actual visit, from carefree summer to post-war realities — the Ramsays and their eclectic group of artist friends each reflect and adjust their perceptions of the world and their own place in it as life (and loss) reshape their personal philosophies.Considered one of the most important books of the twentieth ce...
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Mrs Dalloway
Paperback
Virginia Woolf
9780995013292
$20.95
FICTION
Mar 26, 2019
‘She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.’ On a Wednesday in the middle of June, 1923, a British parliamentarian’s wife decides ‘she will buy the flowers herself’ for the evening party she has planned. What transpires is a walk through post-WWI London set to the inner monologue of Mrs Dalloway, and, as the hours pass, deftly shifts to the thoughts, worries, desires, and histories of those around her...
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The Great Gatsby
Paperback
F. Scott Fitzgerald
9781989544037
$17.00
FICTION
Mar 16, 2021
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’In 1922 Nick, a would-be writer, moves to a waterfront home on Long Island and ends up next door to a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby, who hosts wild parties that are the talk of New York—yet very few of his guests know who he is or where he came from. Directly across the bay from Gatsby lives Nick’s beautiful, wealthy cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom, a brash bully used to getting his own way. As the languid, hot Long Island summer stretches on, Nick...
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Pride and Prejudice
Paperback
Jane Austen
9781989544013
$20.95
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. ‘However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.’ Elizabeth Bennet’s first impression of Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose wealth alone makes him a desirable match, is that he is arrogant and condescending—and the last man she w...
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Wuthering Heights
Paperback
Emily Brontë
9780995013216
$20.95
FICTION
Jul 30, 2018
‘May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you—haunt me, then!’ Heathcliff, a ‘dark-skinned’ orphan, and Catherine Earnshaw, the cruel daughter of his wealthy benefactor, were inseparable: twinned spirits running wild on the Yorkshire moors. But when Catherine’s father dies, those around the lovers conspire to tame Catherine so she will take her place in society, and to humiliate proud Heathcliff, raised to believe he was equal to the Earnshaws and their neighbours, the Lintons, but now forced to labour as a servant. After a...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Paperback
Arthur Conan Doyle
9780995013223
$16.95
FICTION
Sep 29, 2018
‘Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.’ One wet spring night, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the moors near his estate, a look of horror frozen on his face. No foul play is apparent, yet alongside his body are the footprints of a gigantic dog—reviving the spectre of a centuries-old curse that a black hellhound will seek vengeance on all who bear the Baskerville name. Sir Charles’ long-lost heir, Henry, is determined to ...
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The Good Soldier
A Tale of Passion
Paperback
Ford Madox Ford
9781989544020
$20.95
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
Two wealthy Edwardian couples—one American, the other British—meet at a spa in Germany and for nine years enjoy a placid friendship. But over the course of four days, everything falls apart: love affairs are exposed, blackmail schemes uncovered, and deceptions revealed. After a sequence of shocking deaths, the polished public masks of these four respectable citizens are ripped away to reveal the heart (and heartlessness) of their carefully concealed selves. Told from the ever-shifting perspectiveof the American husband— at turns sorrowful and c...
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The Scarlet Letter
A Romance
Paperback
Nathaniel Hawthorne
9781989544006
$20.95
FICTION
Jul 30, 2019
‘She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness.… The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.’ In the strict theocracy of the newly-formed Massachusetts Bay Colony, even private sins are punished. For the sin of adultery, the magistrates of the colony sentence Hester Prynne, her fatherless child in her arms, to wear a red letter A on her breast for the re...
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The Age of Innocence
Paperback
Edith Wharton
9780995013254
$20.95
FICTION
Nov 07, 2018
It was the old New York way of taking life ‘without effusion of blood’: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease… The elite families of Gilded Age New York adhered to rigid social conventions: marry within one’s circle (if not higher); if a man must have a career, make it a profession (and not an overly-??ambitious one); shun the new and risqué; and most importantly, never cause a scandal. For all of his life, Newland Archer followed these rules without question. On the eve of his engagement to shy, well-bred May Welland, her un...
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