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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Alice
Book SynopsisThe White Rabbit is late for the Duchess. The Cheshire Cat won't stop grinning. And the Hatter is, well, mad. In the middle of it all is Alice, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a family life that's less than perfect.In this new adaptation by renowned playwright and Sheffield native, Laura Wade, you can follow Alice as she escapes her bedroom to find adventure in a topsy-turvy world. Based on Lewis Carroll's classic tale, Wade's adaptation breathes fresh life into a much-loved story about rabbit holes, pocket watches and talking caterpillars.Trade ReviewFabulous fun, as Laura Wade grabs hold of Lewis Carroll's classic and runs with it. Furiously inventive and wonderfully designed. Lyndsey Turner's production is as mad as a bag of trifle * Sunday Times Culture Magazine *In Laura Wade's engaging new version of Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland a classic is given a wonderfully ingenious twist. -- Lynne Walker * The Independent *Laura Wade grabs hold of Lewis Carrol's classic and runs in this furiously inventive adaptation -- David Jays * Sunday Times *
£11.99
Lulu.com Bartleby the Scrivener
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£20.91
Arcturus Publishing The Necronomicon
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£22.49
Arcturus Publishing Sherlock Holmes A Gripping Casebook of Stories
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£22.49
Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Odyssey
Book SynopsisTrouble is brewing at the home of the hero Odysseus, who has spent years fighting in the Trojan Wars and is now captive of the beautiful nymph Calypso. Hordes of suitors to his wife have invaded the family house, and Odysseus'' son Telemachus sets out to find his father. Freed from the clutches of Calypso after the intervention of Jupiter, Ulysses begins his epic return journey. The timeless themes of the Odyssey - survival, courage, loyalty and hospitality - have resonated with readers through the ages, making it the most enduring classic in western civilization.This edition features a striking graphic cover design, bringing the classic work to new readers.
£9.49
Arcturus Publishing The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories
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£11.69
Random House USA Inc The Painted Veil
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£12.75
Random House USA Inc The Complete Short Novels Everymans Library
Book SynopsisAnton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The Steppe—the most lyrical of the five—is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures—a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility—on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor.The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.Trade ReviewPraise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize:The Brothers Karamazov“One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky’s original.” –New York Times Book Review“It may well be that Dostoevsky’s [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now–and through the medium of [this] new translation–beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.” –New York Review of BooksCrime and Punishment“The best [translation] currently available…An especially faithful re-creation…with a coiled-spring kinetic energy…Don’t miss it.” –Washington Post Book World“This fresh, new translation…provides a more exact, idiomatic, and contemporary rendition of the novel that brings Fyodor Dostoevsky’s tale achingly alive…It succeeds beautifully.” –San Francisco Chronicle“Reaches as close to Dostoevsky’s Russian as is possible in English…The original’s force and frightening immediacy is captured…The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard version.” –Chicago TribuneDemons“The merit in this edition of Demons resides in the technical virtuosity of the translators…They capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life.” –New York Times Book Review“[Pevear and Volokhonsky] have managed to capture and differentiate the characters’ many voices…They come into their own when faced with Dostoevsky’s wonderfully quirky use of varied speech patterns…A capital job of restoration.” –Los Angeles Times
£27.00
Random House USA Inc Pnin
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£22.50
Random House USA Inc The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Book SynopsisThe final, unfinished novel of Charles Dickens that is in many ways his most intriguing—a gripping, haunting masterpiece that foreshadows the detective stories of Conan Doyle and the nightmarish novels of Kafka.The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a highly atmospheric tale of murder. Central to the plot is John Jasper: in public he is a man of integrity and benevolence; in private he is an opium addict. And while seeming to smile on the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, he is, in fact, consumed by jealousy, driven to terrify the boy’s fiancée and to plot the murder of Edwin himself. As in many of Dickens’s greatest novels, the gulf between appearance and reality drives the action. Set in the seemingly innocuous cathedral town of Cloisterham, the story rapidly darkens with a sense of impending evil. Though The Mystery of Edwin Drood is one of its author’s darkest books, it also bustles with a vast roster of memorable–and delightfully named–minor characters: Mrs. Billikins, the landlady; the foolish Mr. Sapsea; the domineering philanthropist, Mr. Honeythunder; and the mysterious Datchery. Several attempts have been made over the years to complete the novel and solve the mystery, but even in its unfinished state it is a masterpiece.
£18.90
Harperenfoque Matar a un ruiseñor
Book SynopsisDispara a todos los grajos que quieras, si puedes acertarle, pero recuerda que es pecado matar a un ruiseñor.
£10.78
IndyPublish.com The Innocents Abroad
£29.27
Read Books Stories Essays and Poems
£20.89
Read Books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
£14.99
Read Books Thunder on the Left
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£21.84
Scholastic Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Book SynopsisWhat is the mystery that binds respectable Dr Henry Jekyll and despicablelowlife Edward Hyde together?
£6.99
Cengage Learning, Inc Little Women
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£16.20
Simon & Schuster The Red Badge of Courage Enriched Classics Red
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£6.96
Simon & Schuster Les Miserables Enriched Classics
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£8.54
Simon & Schuster The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
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£7.59
Kensington Publishing A Duke for Diana
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£8.54
Kensington Publishing What Happens in the Ballroom
Book Synopsis“Anyone who loves romance must read Sabrina Jeffries!” –Lisa Kleypas, New York Times bestselling author Fans of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton won’t want to miss this new story from the legendary New York Times bestselling author as she brings a fresh new hook to Regency romance with her series about three event planners who’ve rejected working as governesses to become party planners to London’s elite ton.A young military widow, Eliza Pierce is enjoying both freedom and financial success as part of Elegant Occasions. When her late husband’s best friend, Nathaniel Stanton, the Earl of Foxstead, hires Elegant Occasions to help another young widow of an officer become part of high society, Eliza wonders why. Is the woman a relative? Or is she the earl’s mistress and her adorable toddler his child? If so, why does he take Eliza in his arms every chance he gets . . .Foxstead’s f
£8.54
Neeland Media The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson
£9.09
Digireads.com Pan
£9.09
Digireads.com Phantastes
£9.93
Neeland Media The Count of Monte Cristo
£22.99
Digireads.com Demons
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£17.67
1st World Library - Literary Society Tarzan of the Apes
£17.75
1st World Library - Literary Society Tarzan the Terrible
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£17.75
1st World Library - Literary Society The Picture of Dorian Gray
£18.18
1st World Library - Literary Society Humorous Tales
£18.72
1st World Library - Literary Society Treasure Island
£18.72
1st World Publishing, Inc. A Christmas Carol
£9.05
1st World Publishing, Inc. The Lost World
£10.67
1st World Publishing Siddhartha
£9.59
1st World Library Mike and Psmith
£10.12
1st World Publishing, Inc. A Short History of England
£17.66
1st World Publishing, Inc. Sir Nigel
£19.97
1st World Publishing Siddhartha
£17.66
1st World Publishing, Inc. Around the World in 80 Days
£18.72
1st World Library The Importance of Being Earnest
£17.66
Outskirts Press Summer Hill lnn
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£9.95
Editorium MobyDick
Book SynopsisTowards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell''s heart I stab at thee; for hate''s sake I spit my last breath at thee. To the final moment of his death beneath the waves, Captain Ahab pursues the enigmatic White Whale that took off his leg--Moby-Dick, a symbol of all that is deep and undecipherable. In this greatest of all American novels, Herman Melville spins a gripping tale of whales and whalers, but more than that, he examines the mysteries and paradoxes that lie at the very heart of existence itself. Newly designed and beautifully typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
£15.09
Wildside Press 1984
£18.63
Wildside Press Daymare and Other Tales from the Pulps
£10.78
Wildside Press Daymare and Other Tales from the Pulps
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£18.99
Union Square & Co. This Side of Paradise
Book SynopsisAmory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, is convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future. The reader follows Amory as he falls in love with Isabelle Borgé, a wealthy young debutante; a cruel and narcissistic flapper named Rosalind Connage; and Eleanor, a reckless eighteen-year-old atheist. An autobiographical novel and a portrait of the dawning Jazz Age, This Side of Paradise launched F. Scott Fitzgerald's career and turned him into an overnight literary sensation.
£8.54
Scribner Book Company Clear Pictures First Loves First Guides
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£16.00
