Classic fiction: literary and general
Legend Press Ltd Emma (Legend Classics)
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£8.54
Legend Press Ltd The Scarlet Letter (Legend Classics)
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£8.54
Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Book SynopsisJane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator. Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.Table of ContentsSense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Northanger Abbey Persuasion Lady Susan
£12.34
Little, Brown Book Group The Tortoise And The Hare
Book SynopsisWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY HILARY MANTEL 'The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit' AMANDA CRAIG, GUARDIAN 'Wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it' JILLY COOPER'A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style' HILARY MANTEL, SUNDAY TIMESImogen, the beautiful wife of barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, tweedy, middle-aged and ungainly - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding - for in affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.Trade ReviewAs smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream -- Hilary Mantel * Sunday Times *The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit -- Amanda Craig * Guardian *My best book of almost all time is The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins . . . wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it -- Jilly CooperOne of my favourite classics. Elegant and ironic, its continuing charm lies in its quirky and enigmatic love story which becomes more beguiling with each re-reading -- Carmen CallilDeliciously subtle . . . A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets . . . a classic novel of the fifties * Daily Mail *My best book of almost all time is THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE by Elizabeth Jenkins ... wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it * Jilly Cooper *As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream * Hilary Mantel *One of my favourite classics. Elegant and ironic, its continuing charm lies in its quirky and enigmatic love story which becomes more beguiling with each re-reading * Carmen Callil *Deliciously subtle...A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets...a classic novel of the fifties * DAILY MAIL *
£9.99
Alma Books Ltd The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Book SynopsisAlexander Pope was, at one time, the world’s most celebrated poet. His trenchant satirical works – in which the foibles of all the critics, hacks and bad poets of his day are exploded – and his masterful heroi-comic poem The Rape of the Lock continue to inspire generations of writers and readers to this day. Alongside his more prominent poetical production, Pope engaged with some of the sharpest wits of his era – including Jonathan Swift and John Gay, the author of The Beggar’s Opera – in writing a number of satirical prose works, of which Scriblerus is perhaps the greatest achievement. As he prepares to become father for the fi rst time, the scholar Cornelius is determined to settle on nothing less than a child of the “learned sex” – a boy – and give him the most thorough education so that he can become the greatest critic who ever lived. An account of the birth, the infancy, the schooling, the diet-planning, the unconventional love affairs and the attainments of this child prodigy,The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is surely the funniest imaginary biography ever written.Trade ReviewYou can almost taste the Swiftian tang in its bitterer moments. This is great satire, not simply the working out of a private joke among a powerful literary clique. Its subject is that old favourite, the perfectibility of mankind: an old favourite because it's the most comically useless of all enterprises. And this is why it's still fresh and worth reading today. -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *
£9.70
Alma Books Ltd Tales of Terror and Mystery
Book SynopsisWhile he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful tales he wrote outside of that cycle. In this collection, first published in 1922, he compiled various pieces of short fiction which fall into the categories of horror and detective fiction, two genres for which he has become a byword. These eclectic, captivating tales - dealing with topics such as mysterious jungles in the sky, seventeenth-century torture techniques, a bloodthirsty Brazilian cat and a train mysteriously disappearing between two stations - showcase Arthur Conan Doyle at his creative best.Trade ReviewStart a story by Conan Doyle and you cannot stop reading, whether you are ten or sixty. -- Michael DirdaTable of ContentsContains: The Horror of the Heights, The Leather Funnel, The New Catacomb, The Case of Lady Sannox, The Terror of Blue John Gap, The Brazilian Cat, The Lost Special, The Beetle-Hunter, The Man with the Watches, The Japanned Box, The Black Doctor, The Jew s Breastplate, The Nightmare Room.
£999.99
Alma Books Ltd Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories
Book SynopsisIn contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of ‘Captain Burle’ to the Rabelaisian exuberance of ‘Coqueville on the Spree’, these stories display the broad range of Zola’s imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quietly cynical to the compassionate, from the playful to the tragic. Contains: Dead Men Tell No Tales Coqueville on the Spree Captain Burle Shellfish for Monsieur ChabreTable of ContentsContains: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Captain Burle, Coqueville on the Spree, Shellfish for Monsieur Chabri.
£999.99
Alma Books Ltd Pantagruel and Gargantua: Newly Translated and
Book SynopsisWith his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his escapades with the knave Panurge and his prowess in battle. The second work in this volume deals with the history of his father Gargantua, whose biography is equally if not more outlandish and larger than life. But these bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as François Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.Trade ReviewAndrew Brown... creates a wholly credible, modern, reinvigorated Rabelais who still jumps off the page after more than 450 years. * TLS *Long before there was James Joyce, there was the experimental literary chaos of Rabelais. * The Guardian *
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Alma Books Ltd The Grey Parrot and Other Stories: Annotated
Book SynopsisW.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a laugh from the most mundane of scenarios. In ‘The Grey Parrot’, a sailor buys a parrot for his wife, whom he suspects isn’t faithful in his absence, hoping that the bird will inadvertently repeat anything untoward it hears. Unfortunately for him, the parrot exceeds his expectations, and it’s not only his wife who is left blushing. This volume contains a careful selection of the very best stories from Jacobs’s 150-strong repertory, and includes well-known standalone pieces such as ‘The Monkey’s Paw’, as well as accounts of raucous dockside dalliances and tightly woven tales of poacher Bob Petty’s crimes against the unlikely cast of an Essex village. Showcasing a unique assortment of stories spanning his writing career, this edition hopes to shine a light on a hugely talented writer who inspired many of the literary giants we now consider masters of the genre.Trade ReviewW.W. Jacobs represented to me perfection. He was unique, and still is. -- P.G. WodehouseThe Mozart of the English short story -- P.G. WodehouseW.W. Jacobs was a writer who… developed an exquisite precision of narrative. -- Evelyn WaughTable of ContentsContains: `A Love Passage’, `The Skipper of the Osprey’, `Rule of Three’, `An Intervention’, `The Grey Parrot’, `Twin Spirits’, `Sam’s Boy’, `A Will and a Way’, `Jerry Bundler’, `The Peacemaker’, `The Monkey’s Paw’, `The Well’, `Cupboard Love’, `In the Library’, `Captain Rogers’, `A Mixed Proposal’, `An Adulteration Act’, `Blundell’s Improvement’, `Bill’s Lapse’, `The Persecution of Bob Pretty’, `The Third String’, `Captains All’, `The Boatswain’s Mate’, `The Changeling’, `Mixed Relations’, `His Lordship’, `Her Uncle’, `Matrimonial Openings’, `The Toll House’, `Head of the Family’, `Fairy Gold’, `Watchdogs’, `The Bequest’, `Back to Back’, `Keeping Watch’, `Stepping Backwards’, `The Three Sisters’, `The Vigil’, `Easy Money’, `Made to Measure’, `Husbandry’
£11.37
John Murray Press An Unsocial Socialist
Book SynopsisSidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with class and sexual exploitation.Henrietta, his adoring wife, 'loves' him: he must abandon her. Son of a millionaire, he gives up everything to pose as an 'umble peasant'. But when this unsocial socialist goes to work as a gardener in the vicinity of a girls' school he meets his match - for Agatha Wylie is a new kind of woman, perfectly armed: and she doesn't love him.With the character of his clown-prophet Trefusis, George Bernard Shaw presented for the first time his view of what the relationship between the sexes should be. Galloping, exuberant, and irresistibly entertaining, AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST is a brilliant satire on social prejudice from a great author of the past.
£12.34
Clarity Wuthering Heights (Dyslexic Specialist edition)
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£28.67
Clarity The Wind in the Willows (Dyslexic Specialist
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£28.67
Clarity Treasure Island (Dyslexic Specialist edition)
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£28.67
Clarity The Jungle Book (Dyslexic Specialist edition)
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£999.99
Clarity Hard Times (Dyslexic Specialist edition)
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£28.67
Clarity The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Dyslexic
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£28.67
Clarity The Railway Children (Dyslexic Specialist
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£999.99
Clarity Three Men in a Boat (Dyslexic Specialist edition)
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£999.99
Clarity The Underground Railroad (Dyslexic Specialist
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£28.67
Clarity The Mayor of Casterbridge (Dyslexic Specialist
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£28.67
Clarity Pride and Prejudice (Dyslexic Specialist edition)
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£28.67
Clarity Gulliver's Travels (Dyslexic Specialist edition)
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£28.67
Clarity The Thirty-Nine Steps (Dyslexic Specialist
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£999.99
Clarity The Turn of the Screw (Dyslexic Specialist
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£28.67
Clarity Black Beauty (Dyslexic Specialist edition)
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£28.67
Clarity Silas Marner (Dyslexic Specialist edition)
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£28.67
Chiltern Publishing Heart of Darkness
Book SynopsisChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile embossed layers, golden edges, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.
£17.00
Chiltern Publishing The Moonstone
Book SynopsisChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, golden edges, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.
£17.00
Chiltern Publishing Huckleberry Finn
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£17.00
Jantar Publishing Ltd The Science of the Stars
Book SynopsisWritten and published in 1856, before Jules Verne published any of his novels. A young explorer sets off to map the stars in a balloon. The first ever SF novel written in Slovak.
£14.25
Aspal Press Limited A Well Full of Leaves
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£7.49
Random House USA Inc The Awakening: A Novel
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£10.66
Random House USA Inc Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories,
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£12.34
Lasavia Publishing Ltd Stench
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£999.99
Hachette Cinq contes - with audio download
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£10.50
Editions Larousse Lettre a Menecee
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£7.24
Gallimard Catherine Certitude
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£11.95
Gallimard Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
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£10.66
Gallimard Contes de ma mere l'Oye
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£999.99
Editions Flammarion L'inutile beaute et autres nouvelles (incl. Le
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£11.76
Gallimard-Jeunesse La potion magique de Georges Bouillon
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£13.75
Gallimard La Princesse de Cleves
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£7.36
Fernand Nathan Contes et legendes: Les Samourais
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£12.27
Librairie generale francaise Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
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£7.24
Le Livre de poche La Guerre et la Paix (Tome 2)
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£11.95
Livres du Dragon d'Or Les Aventures de Barbapapa: Le theatre de
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£16.10
Prashant Publications Animal Farm
Book SynopsisAnimals overthrow human, but power corrupts leading to new dictatorship. Orwell's 'fairy story' critiques idealism and corruption. Almost unpublished due to Stalin criticism, now a classic.
£6.51
Lector House Barry Wynn: Or The Adventures Of A Page Boy In
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