Classic fiction: literary and general
Livres du Dragon d'Or Les Aventures de Barbapapa: L'arbre de Barbapapa
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. A MUSSOORIE MYSTERY
Book SynopsisRemember the old road,The steep stony pathThat took us up from Rajpur,Toiling and sweatingAnd grumbling at the climb,But enjoying it all the same..''From Remember the Old Road'' by Ruskin BondSometimes, a journey can be of discovery. And, in this compilation, Ruskin Bond has discovered hair-raising stories of other people''s journeys, taken many many years ago. Bond describes the old track from Rajpur to Mussorie, surrounded by Oak trees and colonial buildings in The Kipling Road''. Braving blizzards and bandits, M. Huc takes a momentous journey toadakh in Journey to the Forbidden City'', while Osa Johnson, the only woman adventurer in the book, gives her awe-inspiring account of cannibals in A Woman Among Cannibals''. Be it travelling for shikar or search for newands or just for survival, this book is packed with action!
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Selected Stories
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. EYES OF THE CAT
Book SynopsisHer eyes seemed flecked with gold when the sun was on them. And as the sun set over the mountains, drawing a deep red wound across the sky, there was more than gold in Kiran''s eyes. There was anger''Who does not enjoy short stories that are pithy, compelling and gripping? In this collection, Ruskin Bond selects some of the best short stories for his readers. There is O. Henry''s classic story about hunting in the great outdoors; Guy de Maupassant''s Gothic horror classic about a severed hand with a mind of its own; Edgar Allan Poe''s tale about a heart that doesn''t seem to stop beating; and stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens and by Ruskin Bond himself.Always entertaining and completely unputdownable, the stories in Eyes of the Cat will keep readers riveted till the veryast page.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE WISE PARROT
Book SynopsisOnce upon a time, there was a Raja who owned a parrot and its name was Hiramantota.Delving into stories from folklore, epics andegends, Ruskin Bond brings toife a cast of fantastic and extraordinary characters. From the wise parrot Hiramantota who brings the fruit of immortality to the king but suffers grievously for it, to the Green Man of Sinai, who now haunts the desert of Sinai; from the boy wonder Jivaka who can solve all sorts of problems, to Sindbad the sailor, who has magical adventures on his voyages, these stories are as exciting as they are unforgettable.Retold here by Ruskin Bond with his characteristic wit, The Wise Parrot is a treasure trove of tales that is sure to delight and entertain a new generation of readers.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE MAN WHO WAS KIPLING
Book SynopsisA tall, stooping, elderly gentleman sat down beside me. I gave him a quick glance, noting his swarthy features, heavy moustache and horn-rimmed spectacles. There was something familiar and disturbing about his face and I couldn''t resistooking at him again.I noticed that he was smiling at me. The Man Who Was Kipling is a collection of stories which should be on the must-readist of every reader. We are introduced to a man in a museum inondon who claims to be the ghost of Rudyard Kipling. Then there is a schoolboy''s encounter with a mysterious woman, while waiting for their trains to arrive. We have an inspector pitting his wits against a murder mystery and a writer who always takes the same route into the city to catch a glimpse of a balcony belonging to a pastove. And then there is the timeless classic Sita and the River'' that will tug at your heartstrings. Through this collection, Ruskin Bond has us enthralled, yet again, with his effortless storytelling of these tales and more.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. WHEN THE NIGHT FALLS
Book SynopsisA boy with no face seen weeping in the forest. Watchman mimics, revealing he too has no features. Collection of terrifying ghost stories including haunted manor, doomed couple, vengeful spirit, and eerie woods. Prepare to be spooked by the wild elements of the night.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Grihabhanga: A Broken Home
Book SynopsisOne of the most published and translated books in the world, The Little Prince fascinates the reader with its story of a pilot marooned in the Sahara after something goes wrong with his plane, and a little man with golden hair who has ''fallen'' to earth by chance.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. What Mina Did
Book SynopsisA single betrayal can cost you everything... 1998. Twenty-two-year-old Mina is moving to the US from Bangalore to begin a newife with her husband. Then there''s a horrific murder and herife is turned upside down. Mina''s best friend Neelu helps her out of the abyss. Mina graduallyeaves her past behind and settles into a newife in the US. Yearsater, she is forced to return to India and is confronted by the demons from her past. In her fragile mental state, she is unable to support Neelu in her time of need. Their friendship hits rock bottom. Mina goes back to the US and faces further hurdles, this time on the work front. She tries to make amends with Neelu, but their friendship ends with Neelu accusing Mina of something unimaginable related to the murder. Something, that deep down, Mina knows is true... Will Mina redeem herself? Will the people sheoves forgive her for what she did? Alternating between flashbacks and the present day, What Mina Did explores how one betrayal can have catastrophic consequences, while delving into the complex bonds thatink mothers and daughters, and best friends.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. The Duel
Book SynopsisThere is an inexplicable pull that we feel towards stories about horror and mystery. The fear of the unknown, coupled with the thirst to know the truth'', keeps us turning page after page. This is a collection of mysterious horror stories that will make you hold your breath at every turn and gasp with shock at every twist. From a duel gone horribly wrong, and aodger who conducts mysterious experiments in the dead of night; to a fiendish cat who is out for revenge, and a waxwork that eerily seems alivethese tales will make your hair stand on end. Written by the masters of the genre and selected and compiled by Ruskin Bond, here are gems from Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Rudyard Kipling, among others. Dare to read The Duel when you are home alone?
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. ALTARS OF YEARNING: How India Prays
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Snakes in the Meadows
Book SynopsisJammu And Kashmir, 1987. In the hilly village of Pathri Aali, whereegends appear true, Aslam and Ashwar, two youngovers, dream of marriage and of good things ofife. But that is not to be. Unable to cope, Aslameaves Pathri Aali forever. Yearsater, as men migrate to Saudi Arabia for employment, Pathri Aali is populated mostly by women and children. Soon they realize the Mujahideen, who guise themselves as theiriberators, are the worst perpetrators, and misery seems inescapable. Ashwar refuses to be cowed down by this reign of terror and is determined not toet it devastate the once-peaceful village. The only one she can bank on is Aslamand she calls out to him across the distance of time and space, to return andive up to theegends of their village. Snakes in the Meadows is a saga of the onset of militancy, and the suffering and the resilience of Pir Panjalthe And'' of Jammu And Kashmir.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. JAYA GANGA
Book SynopsisA remarkable journeypart pilgrimage, part romantic odysseydown India''s mightiest river, the Ganga. Nishant, a young Indian writeriving in Paris, is haunted by the memory of an enigmatic Parisienne who claims to be two personsJaya and Nadja. He decides to journey down the Ganges, from its source in the Himalayas to where it meets the sea, with a desire to write about this voyage and his memories of Jaya. On the banks of the Ganga, he meets Zehra, an irresistible dancing girl in the tradition of the great tawaiffs, who performs in a nearby brothel. Zehra resurrects the memory of Jaya. With Jaya and Zehra inhabiting his mind, Nishant undertakes an entrancing journey down the Ganga replete with unexpected encounters with sadhus, boatmen, engineers, vernacular journalists, pimps, administrators, Bollywood starsike Amitabh Bachchan, and the omnipresent pandas. When Jaya Ganga was first published in French, it created more than a stir initerary circles. It was hailed as a unique travelogue-novel which brought the author''s inner and outer worlds effortlessly together. Jaya Ganga was adapted in cinema in 1995. A cult film today, Jaya Ganga, written and directed by Vijay Singh, played for a record 49 weeks in the UK and France after being screened in 40 other countries.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. MAYABHARATA: The Untold Story Behind the Death of
Book SynopsisThe Great War at Kurukshetra is over, leaving the Kuru clan in crisis. Yudhishthira and his brothers are sorrowful over the deaths. A new dilemma arises as the kingdom needs a child to continue. Krishna seeks Maya's help, but Maya refuses, causing further turmoil. The narrative explores post-Mahabharata events with imaginative storytelling.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. ANAMIKA: A Tale of Desire in a Time of War
Book SynopsisIt is the eighteenth century. Emperor Aurangzeb has fallen, the Mughal Empire is a shadow of its former self, and India is rife with civil war. In these times of gardi, you''d have to be aion to win power, and a wolf to keep it. When the beautiful Savitri, the only daughter of the Chief Minister of Purana Zilla, marries into a rich merchant household in Ranipur, she becomes Anamika. Her future seems assuredshe is to bear heroving husband Abhi many children, eventually becoming theady of the house and perpetuating the family''s fortunes. But a tragic accident on their wedding day renders Abhi paraplegic, seemingly dooming their perfect future. Anamika still finds bliss in herove for her husband, but her in-laws'' unfulfilled dreams of progeny threaten to consume and destroy her. But into herife enters Abdulthe illegitimate son of Shah Ahmad Khan,ocked in a deadly war with his brother Hassan for the throne. This powerful, magnetic stranger upsets the balance of her everydayife, thrusting both Anamika and Abhi into a newfound world of intoxicating freedom, conflicting desires and deadly deceit. Crossing paths with the enigmatic courtesan-turned-bodyguard Nadya, the motherly Niloufer, the spirited young warrior princess Sonal, and a wide and motley cast of soldiers, assassins, courtesans, eunuchs, princes and queens, Anamika must make bold choices and adopt many names for the sake of both desire and survival.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. 50 GREATEST DETECTIVE STORIES
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Alta Hensley Delicate Revenge: A Dark Secret Society Romance
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Hachette Livre - BNF Le Prince Bonifacio La Dame Blanche de Bade Le
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Editions Larousse 100 poemes classiques et contemporains
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Librairie generale francaise Gatsby le magnifique (film tie-in)
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Pocket La chamade
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Next Chapter The Eternals: Beneath The Fading Sun
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Aiora Press Pope Joan
Book SynopsisRoïdes' irreverent, witty and delightful novel tells the story of Joan who, according to a popular medieval legend, ascended to the Papal Throne as Pope John VIII. The truth of the legend is of little importance as the book is far more than a historical novel and, in fact, parodies the popular historical romances of the time. In Joan, Roïdes has created one of the most remarkable characters in modern Greek literature and in so doing has assured his place as one of its classic authors.Trade Review"Pope Joan has a double claim on our attention for it occupies a central position among the popular books of modern Greece; and it is also in its own way a small masterpiece which might occupy a position on the bookshelf of the discerning reader midway, say, between Candide and Thaïs." -- Laurence Durrell"... the only Greek novel of the nineteenth century to have found a place, albeit a modest one, in the European canon." -- Roderick Beaton
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OM Books International Sense and Sensibility-Om Illustrated Classics
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Flame Tree Publishing The Awakening
Book SynopsisWritten in the late Victorian era, The Awakening features a young woman who flings aside the norms of society and rejects her role as wife and mother. She abandons her family for a hedonistic and contrarian lifestyle before eventually committing suicide. The novel deals with the issues of interracial marriage and contains passages of overt sexuality, both of which contributed to the widespread outcry upon its original publication in 1899. Today it is seen as a portent of the future and admired for its direct and naturalistic style. Flame Tree 451 presents a new series, The Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a quiet revolution in literature previously dominated by male adventure heroes. Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze to write from a different gender perspective, sometimes with female protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on any subject whatsoever. Each book features a brand new biography and a glossary of literary terms.
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Flame Tree Publishing The Job
Book SynopsisSinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and a writer lauded both for his craft and his principles, wrote The Job as a statement of female empowerment, and self-determination over societal expectation. Written in the early years of the 1900s Lewis' central character, highly unusual for the era, is a woman, Una Golden, who gains work in an exclusively male world of commercial real estate. Golden struggles for the recognition of her male peers while balancing romantic and work life; she marries, divorces, continues to work hard and finally emerges triumphant on her own terms. Flame Tree 451 presents a new series, The Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a quiet revolution in literature dominated by male adventure heroes. Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze to write from a different gender perspective, sometimes with female protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on any subject whatsoever. Each book features a brand new biography and a new glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms.
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Flame Tree Publishing Imperium in Imperio
Book SynopsisWritten in 1899, Grigg's moving, terrifying book describes the Jim Crow era life of a black man inhabiting a living dystopia. Belton Piedmont is from a poor background, he works hard to become educated but is subjected to the full range of discrimination and racism as he grows older. At the point where he has lost all hope he is introduced to the notion of a shadow state, 'Imperium in Imperio', a utopia where black people are treated equally and attempt to bring their values into the heart of government in Texas, altering his life forever. Grigg's unflinching narrative explores nationalism, civil disobedience, voter suppression, poverty and education, all still familiar themes today. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. The Foundations titles also explore the roots of modern fiction and brings together neglected works which deserve a wider readership as part of a series of classic, essential books.
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Flame Tree Publishing Blake; or The Huts of America
Book SynopsisNew edition with a new introduction. Delany's tale of Blake, an escaped slave in the era before the US Civil War, depicts the harrowing detail of life under slavery and offers a call to action for resistance. Casting beyond the misery of slavery, Delany's novel, located in the Southern United States and Cuba, demonstrates that alternatives are possible if only widespread insurrection could be ignited. A new title in the Foundations of Black Science Fiction series. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. The Foundations titles also explore the roots of modern fiction and brings together neglected works which deserve a wider readership as part of a series of classic, essential books.
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Oldcastle Books Ltd Robinson Crusoe
Book SynopsisCannibals! Captives! Coconuts! Cannibals! Captives! Coconuts! One man's love of the sea leaves him stranded on a desert island with nothing but a few goats, a bible and a parrot for company. Will he ever escape? Will his new pal Friday learn to efficiently press a goatskin jerkin? Or will solitude send him totally barmy?
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Bedford Square Publishers The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisSherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled streets of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London. Yet Holmes and Watson were not the only ones solving mysterious crimes and foiling the plans of villainous masterminds in Victorian and Edwardian England. The years between 1890 and 1914 were a golden age for English magazines and most of them published crime and detective fiction. The startling success of the Holmes stories that appeared in The Strand magazine spawned countless imitators. This volume highlights some of those 'Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'. In the fifteen tales which Nick Rennison has brought together in this anthology, readers can meet: THE THINKING MACHINE - Jacques Futrelle's dazzlingly intellectual genius Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, aka the Thinking Machine, even more capable than Holmes himself of solving the most baffling of mysteries through brainpower alone CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER - detective of the occult created by the legendary horror writer William Hope Hodgson, author of The House on the Borderlands EUGENE VALMONT - a sophisticated and urbane French detective, created by Robert Barr, who lives in exile in London and uses his Gallic wit and wisdom to learn the truth about the mysteries that regularly come his way NOVEMBER JOE - Hesketh Prichard's Canadian woodsman who uses his extraordinary powers of observation to track down villains and bring them to justice It may well be true that there never has been and never will be a detective quite like Sherlock Holmes but he did not stand alone. He did have his rivals and, as this collection of short stories shows, many of their adventures were as exciting and entertaining as those of the master himself.Trade Review[an] intriguing anthology * Mail on Sunday *a book which will delight fans of crime fiction * Verbal Magazine *it's good to see that Mr Rennison has also selected some rarer pieces - and rarer detectives, such as November Joe, Sebastian Zambra, Cecil Thorold and Lois Cayley -- Roger Johnson * The District Messenger (Newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London) *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Dud Avocado
Book Synopsis'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN 'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true' EVENING STANDARDThe Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador. But an education like this doesn't come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence?Trade ReviewReaders turn to it again and again for its jokes, which are very funny and remain so after a dozen readings -- Rachel Cooke * Guardian *A champagne cocktail . . . Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste . . . One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence * Observer *As delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I've ever read * Sunday Times *I had to tell someone how much I enjoyed The Dud Avocado. It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which, incidentally, is a great name for a law firm)For a highly likeable and amusing narrator, who throws herself into Parisian life. A cult classic to reconnect me with France and feed my love of sharp observational humour . . . a hedonistic whirlwind in Paris and the South of France, pulled along by its whip-smart American heroine, Sally Jay Gore (out of the way, Emily In Paris). This is someone I am desperate to drink Pernod with. Where life has felt so constrained, this was such a liberating read -- Emma Reed * Daily Telegraph *Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true * Evening Standard ***'A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height... * OBSERVER *** 'As delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I've ever read’ *SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Both funny and true * EVENING STANDARD *
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Bonnier Books Ltd The Song in the Green Thorn Tree: A Novel of the
Book SynopsisAlthough he died at the age of just 37, Robert Burns had an extraordinary life. Born into deprivation and hardship, young Robert's intelligence and passion were obvious from an early age. This is the second book in James Barke's quintet of novels about Robert Burns, following "The Wind that Shakes the Barley". "The Song in the Green Thorn Tree" tells of Burns as a young poet, struggling with poverty in rural Ayrshire, and finally being parted from his lover and children as he leaves the village on his way to meet men of letters in fashionable Edinburgh. James Barke's novels sympathetically and vividly portray the life of Scotland's National Bard.
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Corentyne Thunder
Book SynopsisRamgolall, an old Indian cow-minder, has punished himself to save money and has built a sizeable herd. His first daughter is the long-established mistress of a well-to-do white planter. Their son, his grandson, Geoffry, light-skinned and ambitious, seems destined for success. But when Geoffry becomes involved with Kattree, his daughter by a second marriage, Ramgolall's world begins to fall apart.This classic work of West Indian fiction, first published in 1941, is much more than a pioneering and acute portrayal of the rural Indo-Guyanese world; it is a work of literary ambition that creates a symphonic relationship beween its characters and the vast openness of the Corentyne coast.This beautiful new edition features an introduction by Mittelholzer scholar Juanita Cox.
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Stranger at the Gate
Book SynopsisSet in a colonial Caribbean country in the post-war years, Stranger at the Gate has the narrative drive of a Hemingway novel, the ominous sense of fate of classical Greek tragedy, a sensuous appreciation of a landscape, domestic interiors and food that draws on Hearne’s own Jamaica, and an acute, if indulgent, portrayal of the white and light-brown landed and commercial elite. Stranger at the Gate was originally published in 1956 by Faber and Faber, and is part of the Peepal Tree Caribbean Modern Classics series.The stranger is a revolutionary leader escaping from certain death in a Francophone Caribbean state that has suffered a counter-coup aided by the big state to the north. As a leading member of a small communist party in the imagined state of Cuyuna, Roy McKenzie, has the dangerous task of hiding the escaped Etienne and then getting him off the island to be picked up by a passing Polish ship. McKenzie, a lawyer, a light brown man of elite background, radicalised by his wartime experiences, has to acknowledge that his party’s roots among the black working class are very shallow, and that his only hope of helping Etienne is to turn to his friends among the very elite he is supposedly committed to destroy. When he involves his oldest friend, Carl Brandt, and the woman who becomes his lover, in his mission, he sets in train a sequence of events that test the boundaries of the personal and the political in the deepest and most tragic ways.Set in a colonial Caribbean country in the post-war years, Stranger at the Gate has the narrative drive of a Hemingway novel, the ominous sense of fate of classical Greek tragedy, a sensuous appreciation of a landscape, domestic interiors and food that draws on Hearne’s own Jamaica, and an acute, if indulgent, portrayal of the white and light-brown landed and commercial elite.When Hearne’s novel was first published it was heavily criticised by Caribbean radicals for its evasive politics. Reading Stranger at the Gate over 60 years later, those reservations must still apply, but the passing of time allows us to see what a fine handler of character, structurer of narrative and fine writer of prose John Hearne was; and his portrayal of the Caribbean upper-class – at least in its own self-perceptions – is unrivalled, and still pertinent, since this is a class that has scarcely gone away.The cover of Stranger at the Gate features Ralph Campbell's, Gully (oil on canvas, 1951). Courtesy of the University of the West Indies Library, Mona, Jamaica.
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The History Press Ltd The Fires and the Shadows: A Collection of the
Book Synopsis'The Fires and the Shadows' is a collection of some of the world's finest tales of the supernatural, from some of the literary world's most darkly glittering imaginations. Including works from Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce (The Devils Dictionary), Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling, this compilation is a volume that will terrify and delight, and ultimately to treasure.Table of ContentsWashington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart Conan Doyle - The Silver Mirror Ambrose Bierce - The Secret of Macarger's Gulch Daniel Defoe - The apparition of Mrs Veal Nathaniel Hawthorne - An Old Woman's Tale M.R. James - Number 13 J.S. Le Fanu - Green tea Sabine Baring-Gould - The Red-Haired Girl Rudyard Kipling - The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
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Birlinn General Prester John: Authorised Edition
Book SynopsisAfter his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent to South Africa to seek his fortune. A strange encounter on the voyage suggests that a tribal uprising is afoot, and David soon finds himself involved - at great risk to his life - with the charismatic leader, John Laputa. Prester John was John Buchan's first adventure story and is comparable in style and place to Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson. With an introduction by Trevor Royle. This edition is authorised by the John Buchan Society.Trade Review'Rejoice in the pre-war prose ... and in Buchan's beautifully observed landscapes' * Sunday Telegraph *
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John Murray Press Cashel Byron`s Profession
Book SynopsisAfter poleaxing his mathematics master with a perfect right, Cashel Byron, the unloved son of a successful actress, runs away to Australia. He returns to England and becomes the most famous prizefighter of his age, only to be floored himself by the lovely and impossible Lydia Carew. Can Lydia, with her reputation for vast learning and exquisite culture, be wooed by the ruffian Cashel? Can Cashel successfully hide his illegal professional? And so follows, with Shaw's inimitable wit and sparkle, a tale of miscommunication, drawing-room comedy and love.Trade ReviewGenuine and remarkable narrative talent...a talent of strength, spirit, capacity...It is all mad, mad and deliriously delightful...All I ask is more of it * Robert Louis Stevenson *
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John Murray Press Carnival
Book SynopsisJenny Pearl, a dancer, falls in love with Maurice Avery, a young dilettante who leaves her when she refuses to become his mistress. Despairingly, she falls into a loveless marriage with Trewhella, a Cornish farmer who becomes insanely jealous when Avery reappears on the scene...Vivid, moving and ultimately tragic, CARNIVAL was first published in 1912 to wide critical acclaim, helping to establish Mackenzie as one of the foremost British novelists of his generation. It has since been filmed three times and adapted for the stage and as an opera.
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Atlantic Books Tony and Susan: Now the major motion picture
Book SynopsisMany years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and corruption. How could such a harrowing story be told by the man she once loved? And why, after so long, has he sent her such a disturbing and personal message...?Trade ReviewAbsorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved it... Unforgettable -- Ruth RendellA superb and thrilling novel... Extraordinary -- Ian McEwanTony and Susan is unbeatable. I was bowled over by this disturbing, bold novel * Observer *A f***king masterpiece. I wish that Wright was still alive so that I could tell him so... It's going to become a living, breathing, knock-out classic. Astonishing -- MJ HylandAstute, cunning and thrilling in equal measure, this is one lost novel that deserves to be found by a whole new generation of readers * Independent on Sunday *I want to read it all over again... Not since Cormac McCarthy's The Road have I been so gripped and unsettled by a piece of fiction -- Sarah WatersMarvellously written - the last thing you would expect in a story of blood and revenge. Beautiful -- Saul BellowCompelling... Mesmerizing... Absolutely irresistible * New York Times *A nail-biter and a penetrating portrait of guilt and revenge * Sunday Times *
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The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Book SynopsisIn 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', John Utterson, a respectable London lawyer, is compelled to uncover the strange connection between his old friend, the brilliant scientist Dr Henry Jekyll, and a brooding and dangerous stranger called Edward Hyde. A horrifying and brilliant story of deception, the story is sometimes interpreted as one of the best late Victorian gothic novels. This edition is suitable for teachers and use in schools. This book has illustrations by Cam Kennedy.
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Darf Publishers Ltd The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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Darf Publishers Ltd Zainab
Book SynopsisZainab, a name which aptly reflects the beauty of this tale''s protagonist is also the title of the first modern Egyptian novel written in native vernacular. Crafted in 1910 by a privileged member of society and a student at the time living in Paris, Mohamed Hassein Heikal later rose through the ranks of Egyptian politics and media. Heikal successfully humanises and contextualises Egypt''s societal issues without too reproachful a voice. As Heikal wrote in his room in Paris he was undoubtedly influenced by his nostalgia and depicts Egyptian scenes as only an Egyptian could.
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Bodleian Library Aesop's Fables
Book SynopsisFor 25 centuries, the animal stories which go by the name of Aesop’s Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. They are still as fresh and poignant today as they were to the ancient Greeks who composed them. This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved fables, including the Boy who cried Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, the Hare and the Tortoise, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with 35 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980), one of the greatest British wood engraving artists of the twentieth century. Parker was influenced by the art of Wyndham Lewis and the Cubist and Vorticist movements which flourished in the period between the wars. Her distinctive work is strikingly stylised and deceptively simple. Commissioned in the 1930s by the fine press publisher, Gregynog Press, for their edition of the work, these exquisite wood engravings inspired by the fables are among Parker's finest.
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Edinburgh University Press Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Book SynopsisStowe's second anti-slavery novel is a primary text for students of literature and history - less well-known but now more pertinent than Uncle Tom's Cabin. This vigorous and compulsive read combines thought-provoking themes, rich characterisation, satire and sentiment.
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Honno Ltd Stranger Within The Gates: A Collection of Short
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1912, this collection of witty short stories will appeal to everyone interested in fin de siecle women's writing, first wave feminism' and the New Woman.'
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Hansib Publications Limited Web Of Tradition
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Hansib Publications Limited Modern Book Of Muslim Names
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