From Austen to Zola, from medieval to the modern day - all genres are catered for between the covers of these coveted classics.
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Michael Walmer A Greedy Peasant 5 Zephyr Books
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£18.00
Michael Walmer The End of a Childhood
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£17.05
Michael Walmer Tang A Shetland Story 1 Northus Shetland Classics
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£17.05
Michael Walmer Up and Out
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£17.05
Michael Walmer Into Egypt
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£11.35
Penguin Putnam Inc One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Book SynopsisKen Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsBoisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the story through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned. Hailed upon its publication as a glittering parable of good and evil (The New York Times Book Review) and a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them (Time), Kesey's powerful book went on to sell millions of copies and remains as bracing and insightful today as when it was first released. This new deluxe hardcover edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of the novel on February 1, 1962, and will be a must have for any literature lover.
£22.50
Penguin Putnam Inc East of Eden
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£29.60
Harvard University Press The Moralized Ovid
Book SynopsisWritten in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages. It contains descriptions of the gods followed by allegorical interpretations of major myths. This edition presents a new English translation and an authoritative Latin text.
£25.46
Random House USA Inc The Wings of the Dove
Book SynopsisOf the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Theale, an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. To the creation of the other two, Merton Densher and the magnificent, predatory Kate Croy, who conspire in an act of deceit and betrayal, he brought a lifetime's distilled wisdom about the frailty of the human soul when it is trapped in the depths of need and desire. And he brought to the drama that unites these three characters, in the drawing rooms of London and on the storm-lit piazzas of Venice, a starkness and classical purity almost unprecedented in his work.Under its brilliant, coruscating surfaces, beyond the scrim of its marvelous rhetorical and psychological devices, <
£20.80
Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) Of Time and the River
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£40.00
Princeton University Press A Preface to Chaucer
Book SynopsisWhat were the medieval stylistic, aesthetic, and literary conventions that Chancer drew upon and knew that his audience would understand? In this rich study Mr. Robertson has included 118 illustrations-of medieval sculpture, cathedral interiors, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, ornamental devices and decorations-to show how these conventions affTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*Illustrations, pg. xiii*I. Introduction: Medieval and Modern Art, pg. 1*II. Some Principles of Medieval Aesthetics, pg. 52*III. Late Medieval Style, pg. 138*IV. Allegory, Humanism, and Literary Theory, pg. 286*V. Some Medieval Doctrines of Love, pg. 391*Index, pg. 505*Plates, pg. 523
£64.00
Scholastic Animal Farm
Book SynopsisWhen the ill-treated animals of Manor Farm rebel against their masterMr Jones and take over the farm, they believe that this meansfreedom and equality for all. But then a ruthless Napoleon takescontrol and the other animals soon realise that they are not allas equal as they thought.
£6.99
Scholastic African and Caribbean Folktales Myths and Legends
Book SynopsisFrom the trickster tale of Anansi the spider, to the story of howthe leopard got his spots; from the tale of the king who wantedto the moon, to Aunt Misery's magical starfruit tree. This book includestraditional favourites and classic folktales and mythology.
£7.59
Scholastic A Christmas Carol Annotation Edition
Book SynopsisThis annotation edition of Dickens' well-known yuletide tale is perfectfor students and Dickens enthusiasts alike. Extra wide marginsand double spacing leaves lots of room for notes. Contains toptips on effectively annotation and different techniques.
£7.59
Scholastic Animal Farm Annotation Edition
Book SynopsisThis annotation edition of Orwell's well-known satire is perfectfor students and Orwell enthusiasts alike. Extra wide margins anddouble spacing leaves lots of room for notes. Contains top tipson effective annotation and different revision techniques.
£7.19
British Library Publishing The Ghost Stories of M. R. James
Book SynopsisThe second in a series of republished classic literature, The Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery of the ghost story form.
£13.49
British Library Publishing Glimpses of the Unknown
Book SynopsisFrom the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fiction from the early 20th century.Table of ContentsOn the Embankment - Hugh E. Wright; The Mystery of the Gables - Elsie Norris; The Missing Word - Austin Philips; Phantom Death - Huan Mee; The Wraith of the Rapier - Firth Scott; The Soul of Maddalina Tonelli - James Barr; Haunted! - Jack Edwards; Our Strange Traveller - Percy James Brebner; A Regent of Love Rhymes - Guy Thorne; Amid the Trees - Francis Xavier; The River's Edge - Mary Schultze; A Futile Ghost - Mary Reynolds; Ghosts - Lumley Deakin; Kearney - Elizabeth Jordan; When Spirits Steal - Philippa Forest; The House of the Black Evil - Eric Purves; The Woman in the Veil - E. F. Benson; The Treasure of the Tombs - F. Britten Austin
£9.49
British Library Publishing The Question Mark
Book SynopsisIn 1926 Muriel Jaeger set out to explore `The Question Mark’ of what a future society might look like if human nature were properly represented. The result is a pioneering science fiction novel and forerunner of the now-familiar genre of dystopia, in which the utopian society of the future is not the paradise it appears at first glance.
£8.54
British Library Publishing The Chianti Flask
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1934, this exquisitely crafted novel blends the tenets of a traditional mystery with an exploration of the psychological impact of death, accusation, guilt and justice in the aftermath of murder.
£8.54
British Library Publishing The Open Door
Book SynopsisThis newly edited volume collects six of her greatest ‘Seen and Unseen’ stories – Oliphant’s most popular series in her day – and includes a new introduction exploring the life of this pioneering novelist.
£13.49
British Library Publishing The Port of London Murders
Book SynopsisA moody classic set around London’s historic docks published in 1938, Josephine Bell’s unique and atmospheric writing shines in a mystery weaving together blackmail, bootleg lingerie and, of course, murder.
£8.54
British Library Publishing Murder in the Basement
Book SynopsisA novel pairing dark humour and intelligent detection work, this 1932 ‘whowasdunin?’ mystery is an example of a celebrated Golden Age author’s most inventive work.
£9.49
British Library Publishing Crimes of Cymru
Book SynopsisPresenting fourteen stories from ranging from the 1909 through to the 1980s, this new anthology celebrates a selection of beloved Welsh authors such as Cardiff’s Roald Dahl and Abergavenny’s Ethel Lina White, as well as lesser-known yet highly skilled writers such as Cledwyn Hughes and Jack Griffith.
£10.44
British Library Publishing The Night Wire
Book SynopsisTracing a fiction of speculation and fear from the motion photography of the 1890s to 1950s television, this new collection presents seventeen tales of haunted and uncanny media from a range of writers inspired by its ghastly potential, including Marjorie Bowen, H. Russell Wakefield, Mary Treadgold and J. B. Priestley.
£9.49
British Library Publishing Our Haunted Shores
Book SynopsisThis new collection of fifteen short stories, six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man, including haunting pieces by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bram Stoker and Charlotte Riddell.
£9.49
British Library Publishing Suddenly at His Residence
Book SynopsisAlso known by its American title The Crooked Wreath, this classic mystery novel from 1947 is loaded with sharply drawn characters and devilish misdirection, all capped by one of the genre’s most thrilling denouements.
£9.49
British Library Publishing Playing with Fire
Book SynopsisThis volume collects Doyle's most enduring strange stories - ranging from monster encounters and deadly hauntings to dark tales of mesmerism - and also includes a new introduction along with Doyle's never-before-reprinted essay on his own spiritual experiences, 'Stranger than Fiction'.
£14.44
British Library Publishing The Whisperers and Other Stories
Book SynopsisIn this collection of his most atmospheric and uneasy tales, Mike Ashley provides the facts of Blackwood's life which inspired each story - including experiences as an intelligence agent in the First World War and adventures in New York - to tell the parallel tale of the author's lifetime of the supernatural.
£13.49
British Library Publishing How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel
Book SynopsisWhat would you do if you found yourself in the world of the classic crime novel? How would you avoid being framed for murder – or evade an untimely demise? Let classic crime expert Kate Jackson give you the tools to survive the golden age murder mystery.
£11.69
British Library Publishing Fear Stalks the Village
Book SynopsisRevelling in the wickedness that lies beneath the idyllic veneer of village life, White’s 1932 mystery is an inventive interwar classic and remains one of the foundation stones of the village mystery sub-genre of crime fiction.
£9.49
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd The Serious Game
Book SynopsisArvid, an ambitious and educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, one summer and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Arvid is frightened of being tied by his emotions. Years later, now trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, the two struggle to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results--back cover.
£11.40
Alma Books Ltd A Long Day in a Short Life
Book SynopsisA Long Day in a Short Life - Maltz's first novel to be published in the UK - is a powerful indictment of the penal system and a strong reminder about the underlying humanity of each individual.
£8.54
Voltaire Foundation Candide Les Oeuvres Compltes de Voltaire Vol 48
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£122.85
Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 20B Mahomet Oeuvres
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£122.85
Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 57B Contes de
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£128.28
McClelland & Stewart Inc. Wacousta Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Book SynopsisNOW A PENGUIN MODERN CLASSIC: Twining revenge tragedy with gothic romance, John Richardson's Wacousta is a story of betrayal, false identity, and wasted love during one of the most violent episodes in the history of the Canadian frontier. On the northwest frontier in 1763, a mysterious man named Wacousta lies at the heart of a violent attack on the British garrison Fort Detroit. Consumed by a thirst for vengeance that borders on madness, this monstrous figure assists Pontiac's Indian alliance to satisfy a deeply personal vendetta--one whose roots stretch back across decades and continents. Thrilling and suspenseful, Wacousta creates a world of deception and terror in which motive is ambiguous and the boundary between order and anarchy unclear.
£18.36
McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Sacrifice
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£13.60
McClelland & Stewart Inc. The FireDwellers
Book SynopsisThe Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.Stacey MacAindra burns--to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past. Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine--human, compelling, full of poetry, irony, and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone's soul.
£12.71
Simon & Schuster The Most of P.G. Wodehouse
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£18.70
Simon & Schuster Yearling the
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£16.99
Simon & Schuster Look Homeward Angel A Story of the Buried Life
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£15.40
Atria Books Once Upon a River
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£16.14
Simon & Schuster Flappers and Philosophers Enriched Classics
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£5.99
Simon & Schuster Puddnhead Wilson
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£6.55
Simon & Schuster Audio Islands in the Stream
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£37.46
Edinburgh University Press Waverley
Book SynopsisA critical edition of Scott's first novel about Edward Waverley, a young, cultured man whose sensibilities lead to his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.Trade ReviewThe new edition of the Waverley Novels is important not just for those interested in Scott and Scottish literature, but also for those in the fields of bibliography, textual criticism and the History of the Book... If any scholar was well placed to establish an 'ideal text' of Waverley, it is Peter Garside... The meticulous care with which the numerous emendations to the texts have been considered makes these volumes a landmark series for modern editing, as well as serving the practical purpose of restoring Scott's texts to their original form. -- Fiona Stafford Scottish Literary Review The new edition of the Waverley Novels is important not just for those interested in Scott and Scottish literature, but also for those in the fields of bibliography, textual criticism and the History of the Book... If any scholar was well placed to establish an 'ideal text' of Waverley, it is Peter Garside... The meticulous care with which the numerous emendations to the texts have been considered makes these volumes a landmark series for modern editing, as well as serving the practical purpose of restoring Scott's texts to their original form.
£103.50
Edinburgh University Press Guy Mannering
Book SynopsisGuy Mannering; or, The Astrologer, first published in 1815, was Walter Scott''s second novel. Guy Mannering only half-believes in his art, but does believe in the ability of patriarchal power, wealth, and social position to sort out social confusion. However, he has to learn the limits of a nabob''s authority in a society that (in the 1780s) is no longer a single hierarchy but has many subsets, each with its own laws - gypsies, smugglers, Edinburgh lawyers, the Border store farmer, the traditional landowner.This is the first modern edition of one of Scott''s finest works. It is based on the first edition, but is corrected from the manuscript, and restores around two thousand readings lost through error or misunderstanding. For the first time it includes Scott''s extended portraits of the Edinburgh literati which were unaccountably omitted from the printed version.Trade ReviewThe volumes have been carefully and critically edited from the original manuscripts and now the texts, which in each case capture large numbers of readings never before printed and clear away elements of corruption in existing editions, are as close to what Scott originally wrote as the skills of the editorial team can make them. The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott's methods of compostion and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. The Edinburgh Edition is essential to any Scott scholar![the student] will turn first to the superbly specific textual essays that follow the readings. Unique to this handsome edition is Scott's graphic depiction of characters from Edinburgh's literary scene. The latest additions to the monumental Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels ! all three editors maintain consistently high quality in preparing what will surely be the standard edition of Scott's complete novels ! as might be expected, the Essays on the Text are of central importance in the editions, because of the minutely detailed yet lucid accounts of the textual choices made. The volumes have been carefully and critically edited from the original manuscripts and now the texts, which in each case capture large numbers of readings never before printed and clear away elements of corruption in existing editions, are as close to what Scott originally wrote as the skills of the editorial team can make them. The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott's methods of compostion and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. The Edinburgh Edition is essential to any Scott scholar![the student] will turn first to the superbly specific textual essays that follow the readings. Unique to this handsome edition is Scott's graphic depiction of characters from Edinburgh's literary scene. The latest additions to the monumental Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels ! all three editors maintain consistently high quality in preparing what will surely be the standard edition of Scott's complete novels ! as might be expected, the Essays on the Text are of central importance in the editions, because of the minutely detailed yet lucid accounts of the textual choices made.Table of Contents"Guy Mannering"; essays on the text; emendation list; end-of-line hyphens; historical note; explanatory notes.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Rob Roy
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1817, Rob Roy was not only a resounding success but also one of the first historical novels of its time. Full of swashbuckling action and intrigue, it tells the story of Frank Osbaldistone, the son of a wealthy British businessman, who travels to Scotland, where he is drawn into the lawless world of the fiercely noble outlaw Robert Roy MacGregor. Osbaldistone and Rob Roy, along with the witty Diane Vernon, embark on numerous adventures during the height of the Jacobite uprising. With sweeping descriptions of Scottish landscapes and vivid characterizations, Rob Roy is an epic tale of heroism set against the backdrop of true Scottish history.
£103.50
