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The History Press Ltd Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Book SynopsisA captivating new series to spark the imagination and breathe new life into classic works
£9.50
The History Press Ltd The Wind in the Willows
Book SynopsisA captivating new series to spark the imagination and breathe new life into classic works
£10.80
Orion Publishing Co The School At Thrush Green
Book SynopsisNothing can be kept secret for long in Thrush Green...For many years, Dorothy Watson and Agnes Fogerty have taught in the school at Thrush Green, so their imminent retirement provokes rumour and speculation. Who will take Miss Watson''s place as head teacher? As for replacing little Miss Fogerty, it seems impossible to imagine.There are other issues too. Will Winnie Bailey''s eccentric nephew move into the schoolhouse? Who is the strange young man lurking outside The Fuchsia Bush? And what will become of Miss Fogerty''s stray cat?The changing seasons reflect the changing face of Thrush Green as old and new friends learn to live happily together.
£9.49
Headline Publishing Group Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Book Synopsis''Holmes! I cried. Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?''. The one and only Sherlock Holmes is sensationally back from the dead, and devoting his life once more to examining the criminal complexities of the capital. Cases of mysterious codes, persecuted millionaires, stalkers, abductions and a meeting with ''the worst man in London'' are all attacked with renewed vigour. But Holmes'' old enemies are watching his every move. Watching, waiting, plotting...Trade ReviewHe is unique in simultaneously bringing down the curtain on an era and raising one on another, ushering in a genre of writing that... has never been surpassed. His own life, as footballer... eye surgeon, champion of injustice and investigator into the paranormal, is the stuff of legend. Personally, I would walk a mile in tight boots to read his letters to the milkman * Stephen Fry, The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection *
£9.49
Headline Publishing Group The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Book SynopsisIn one of the most fascinating works of fiction of all time, Stevenson examines the inner conflict between good and evil.Lawyer Gabriel Utterson hears of an ambiguous, solitary, violent man called Edward Hyde, who is said to have trampled over a young girl in the street, leaving her bruised and terrified. Utterson becomes concerned when a friend of his, Dr Henry Jekyll, makes a will declaring that in the event of his death or disappearance, Hyde should inherit all his property. When Hyde is seen killing a respected political figure, Jekyll becomes increasingly reclusive, which leads Utterson to suspect that there is more than a casual connection between his friend and this brutal ''apelike'' monster of a man . . .
£9.49
Headline Publishing Group inchancery
Book SynopsisSeparated from his wife Irene for some years now, Soames Forsyte has resigned himself to the fact she''s never coming back. But as he grows older and richer, he yearns for an heir. When he confronts Irene, the raw wounds of his past passion are exposed and he will do anything to claim back what is his. Then his cousin Jolyon Forsyte moves in to protect and champion Irene and the old rift in the family splinters into new jealousy, hatred and fear. But this time it runs too deeply for forgiveness...Trade ReviewPraise for THE FORSYTE SAGA: 'An immortal achievement...it is, at all levels, readability itself * Financial Times *Just because they were set in a world of frock-coats and ornate drawing rooms, we should not be blind to their modern dilemmas... the satire is sharp, the dialogue, elegant and witty, and the characterisation - dazzling * Scotsman *THE FORSYTE SAGA was such a cracking good story...compulsive, as well as very modern and outrageous * Sunday Times *Still a terrific read, a satisfying, long, absorbing family story...which knocks spots off its pale imitators * Susan Hill *The books I most wish I'd written * Penny Vincenzi *
£9.49
Headline Publishing Group The Forsyte Saga 4 The White Monkey 04
Book SynopsisIt''s 1922 and Fleur Forsyte is now married to Michael Mont. Fleur throws herself into the roaring 20s with the rest of London, taking life as it comes. But the marriage is haunted by the ghost of a past love affair, and however vibrant Fleur appears, those closest to her sense her unhappiness. Michael, devoted to Fleur but not blind to her faults, is determined to stand by her through anything. He also finds himself caught up in the tragic and poignant story of a young couple struggling for survival in an age of unemployment and extreme poverty.Trade ReviewPraise for THE FORSYTE SAGA: 'An immortal achievement...it is, at all levels, readability itself * Financial Times *Just because they were set in a world of frock-coats and ornate drawing rooms, we should not be blind to their modern dilemmas... the satire is sharp, the dialogue, elegant and witty, and the characterisation - dazzling * Scotsman *THE FORSYTE SAGA was such a cracking good story...compulsive, as well as very modern and outrageous * Sunday Times *Still a terrific read, a satisfying, long, absorbing family story...which knocks spots off its pale imitators * Susan Hill *The books I most wish I'd written * Penny Vincenzi *
£9.49
Headline Publishing Group The Forsyte Saga 6 Swan Song
Book SynopsisJon Forsyte is back. After years living in America with his mother Irene, he is excited to be home and can''t wait to show off his roots to his new bride. When Fleur Forsyte, now Fleur Mont, his first love, hears of his arrival, she doesn''t know what to feel. She''s married too, though, with a little boy so there''s no reason why they all can''t meet as friends. But feelings so strong are not easily contained. And when their passion is rekindled, no one can halt the devastating events that follow - the secret culmination of an old, old story...Trade ReviewPraise for THE FORSYTE SAGA: 'An immortal achievement...it is, at all levels, readability itself * Financial Times *Just because they were set in a world of frock-coats and ornate drawing rooms, we should not be blind to their modern dilemmas... the satire is sharp, the dialogue, elegant and witty, and the characterisation - dazzling * Scotsman *THE FORSYTE SAGA was such a cracking good story...compulsive, as well as very modern and outrageous * Sunday Times *Still a terrific read, a satisfying, long, absorbing family story...which knocks spots off its pale imitators * Susan Hill *The books I most wish I'd written * Penny Vincenzi *
£9.49
Destiny Image The New Amplified Pilgrims Progress An Unabridged Retelling of John Bunyans Immortal Classic
£15.71
McClelland & Stewart Inc. This Side Jordan
Book SynopsisIn 1957, the British colony of the Gold Coast broke free to become the independent nation of Ghana. Margaret Laurence’s first novel, This Side Jordan, recreates that colour-drenched world: a place where men and women struggle with self-betrayal, self-discovery, and the dawning of political pride.This Side Jordan transcends the traditional limits of the first novel. Its powerful and compassionate characterizations and its themes of exile and community anticipate the five later novels that make up Laurence’s acclaimed Manawaka series. A major work of lasting significance, This Side Jordan creates echoes in the mind of the reader as resonant as the drums of Ghana.
£14.45
McClelland & Stewart The TomorrowTamer
Book SynopsisThe ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom.With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change.
£13.50
Park Row Books The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey
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£16.19
Park Row The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey
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£26.09
Turtleback Books Macbeth Signet Classics
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£15.95
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Persuasion
Book SynopsisThis collector’s edition of Jane Austen’s final novel, Persuasion, is a poignant story of love, loss, and redemption set in Regency-era Britain.
£8.99
McFarland & Company Madness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth
Book SynopsisExamines the concept of identity in the works of 19th century American and British authors, focusing especially on psychologically mad, vague, shifting and dualistic characterization. This study also discusses how each author was influenced by contemporary events, how those experiences shaped contemporary intellectual thought regarding identity.
£32.39
State University Press of New York (SUNY) The Church of Solitude Suny Series Women Writers
Book SynopsisA translation of Grazia Deledda''s final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.The Church of Solitude tells the story of Maria Concezione, a young Sardinian seamstress living with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century. Overwhelmed by the shame of her diagnosis, she decides that no one can know what has happened to her, but the heavy burden of this secrecy changes her life in dramatic ways and almost causes the destruction of several people in her life. This surprising novel paints the portrait of a woman facing the unknown with courage, faith, and self-reliance, and is the last and most autobiographical work of Grazia Deledda, who died of breast cancer in 1936, shortly after its publication. An afterword by the translator offers additional information on the author and examines the social and historical environment of that time.
£22.30
Johns Hopkins University Press Plautus
Book SynopsisMercator, George Garrett. Truculentus, James TatumTrade ReviewPlays and translators: 'Amphitryon,' Constance Carrier . 'Miles Gloriosus,' Erich Segal . 'Captivi,' Richard Moore . 'Casina,' Richard Beacham . 'Curculio,' Henry TaylorTable of ContentsPrefaceAmphitryonThe Braggart SoldierThe CaptivesA Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The WeddingThe Weevil
£23.85
Black Cat Blue Movie 50th Anniversary Edition
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£11.99
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press PIC
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£11.39
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Lonesome Traveler
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£12.34
University of Nebraska Press A Lost Lady
Book SynopsisDescribes the origin, writing, and reception of the novel, "The Lost Lady". This essay features photographs that illuminate the connection between the novel and the people and places from the author's formative years in Nebraska.Trade Review"This 1923 novel is among the best examples of Cather's experiment with minimalism and one of her finest works overall. As such, it deserves an edition produced to the highest standards of textual scholarship. It has found one here."-Choice Choice
£14.24
Stanford University Press Epic of Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisSince the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia, following him through adventures and encounters with men and gods alike. Yet the central concerns of the Epic lie deeper than the lively and exotic storyline: they revolve around a man''s eternal struggle with the limitations of human nature, and encompass the basic human feelings of loneliness, friendship, love, loss, revenge, and the fear of the oblivion of death. These themes are developed in a distinctly Mesopotamian idiom, to be sure, but with a sensitivity and intensity that touch the modern reader across the chasm of three thousand years. This translation presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative. Table of ContentsA note to the reader; A note on the translation; Introduction; The epic of Gilgamesh; Appendixes.
£45.00
Stanford University Press The Epic of Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisSince the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. This title presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative.Table of ContentsA note to the reader; A note on the translation; Introduction; The epic of Gilgamesh; Appendixes.
£11.39
Tuttle Publishing Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis text represents Kuan-Chung Lo's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 AD. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, loyalty and treachery, victory and death that is as important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West.Trade Review"One of the greatest and best-loved works of popular literature." --Dictionary of Oriental Literatures
£19.99
Tuttle Publishing Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis text represents Kuan-Chung Lo's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 AD. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, loyalty and treachery, victory and death that is as important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West.Trade Review"One of the greatest and best-loved works of popular literature." --Dictionary of Oriental Literatures
£19.99
Cengage Gale Dracula Between Tradition and Modernism no 168
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£44.52
Turtleback Books The Old Man and the Sea
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£20.92
Wildside Press A Gent from Bear Creek and Other Tales
£22.50
Alan Rodgers Books LLC Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs Fiction Classics Action Adventure
£16.16
Northwestern University Press Billy Budd Scholarly 11 Melville
Book SynopsisAs a whole, the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, now complete in fifteen volumes, offers for the first time the total body of Melville's extant writings in a critical text, faithful to his intentions.
£52.25
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Desert and Its Seed
Book SynopsisAn undiscovered modern Argentinian classic, based on the tragic lives of the renowned Raúl Barón Biza (a wealthy politician and notorious writer) and his wife Rosa Clotilde SabattiniTrade Review"A marvel." -- Will Noah - 4Columns"A provocative, meticulous novel that’s both utterly repulsive and morbidly fascinating." -- Booklist"Elegant prose." -- Publisher Weekly"The Desert and Its Seed chronicles the aftermath of an attack identical to the one that Baron Biza's father perpetrated against his mother. Baron Biza maintains [a] mixture of unflinching scrutiny and cool lyricism through the novel. It feels strikingly of the moment, as a resurgent feminist movement draws attention to the wide scope of misogyny." -- Alejandro Chacoff - The New Yorker"An emotionally (and physically) harrowing account of isolation, violence, and hypocrisy." -- Tobias Carroll - Words Without Borders"A cult masterpiece. The author has been compared to Joyce and Proust." -- Enrique Vila-Matas"Grips and perturbs the reader simultaneously." -- Les Monde des Livres"A great novel." -- Alejandro Zambra"A sublime explosion that results from an unpredictable art." -- El Pais"An Argentinian masterpiece." -- La Stampa
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation A Childs Christmas in Wales
Book SynopsisThe classic Christmas tale, with beautiful new illustrationsTrade Review"A merrier and more pungent celebration of the season for family reading aloud has not been written in our time." -- The Nation"Enchanting." -- Chicago Tribune"Surely this Christmas story ranks among the great experiences of the language." -- Harper’s Magazine"The language is enchanting and the poetry shines with an unearthly radiance." -- The New York Times
£8.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Lost Writings
Book SynopsisA windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael HofmannTrade Review"Kafka himself stays well enough afloat. Even when he fumbles, he never falls wholly flat: at his worst, he is provocative yet provisional. But at his best, he is hilarious and mordant, mired in the impossibilities that he could neither live with nor without." -- Becca Rothfeld - Bookforum"This delightful collection features dozens of untitled fragments, false starts, and unfinished work by Kafka, found and chosen by biographer Stach...Opening sentences such as “I was allowed to set foot in a strange garden” and “The city resembles the sun,” make the reader’s pulse heighten with the thrill of entering the space of great literature. This offers precisely the kind of fare Kafka enthusiasts would hope for from the legendary writer’s archives. " -- Publishers Weekly"They have been translated by polyphonic, wizardly Michael Hofmann, who has made of Kafka a marvelous, often very humorous writer of eccentric English prose." -- Reading in Translation"These marks make visible the fourth wall that is implicit in each work Kafka left in some way unfinished, and even in those whose publication he permitted. It’s not only the characters, but Kafka himself who could find no way out. The Lost Writings helps us linger with him, in his impassable doorways." -- Nathan Goldman - The Baffler"I think of a Kafka story as a perfect work of literary art, as approachable as it is strange, and as strange as it is approachable." -- Michael Hofmann"Kafka is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him." -- Vladimir Nabokov"If the mundane is, for Kafka, the domain of improbability and impossibility—wherein even the simplest of gestures cannot be guaranteed—the extraordinary is evoked with an air of sheer certitude." -- Ari Linden - Public Books
£14.24
New Directions Publishing Corporation Mazurka for Two Dead Men
Book SynopsisA New York Times Best Book of the Year Nobel Prize Laureate Trade Review"Cela never forgets that the mazurka is a dance. He writes with gusto about that fundamental two-step of human existence: sex and death." -- Los Angeles Times"The definitive novel of how the Spanish Civil War was actually experienced by ordinary people." -- Newsday"If there is any Spanish novelist who deserves the Nobel Prize on the merit of narrative experimentation alone, it is without a doubt Camilo José Cela." -- Miguel Ugarte - The Nation"His most mesmerizing fiction, about life during the first four decades of the twentieth century, a life so brutal that the Spanish Civil War, when it occurs, seems a mere continuation of the ordinary. A fiendishly haunting story." -- The New York Times"Cela is the Goya of Franco’s Spain." -- Paul West"There is a secret slot for Cela at his best, as one of the great prose stylists, plural, of Spain—a man dangerously like us." -- Roberto Bolaño
£14.24
New Directions Publishing Corporation Michael Kohlhaas
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary masterpiece of German literature, now in a gripping new English translation Trade Review"Kleist’s two abiding concerns, politics and metaphysics, come together powerfully in Michael Kohlhaas, his longest and best-known narrative, which now appears in a lively new translation by Michael Hofmann." -- Ratik Asokan - Bookforum"It is this critical combination of fiction and philosophy that accounts for Kleist’s enduring originality and Michael Kohlhaas’s appeal to writers like Walser and Kafka. Despite the novella being set amid the tumult of the German Reformation, Kleist’s portrait of a man ‘in the Hell of unsatisfied vengeance’, beset on all sides by bureaucratic obstacles and governmental corruption, possesses a stubborn timelessness." -- Literary Review"The most inscrutable of all Kleist's works, newly translated by the incomparable Michael Hofmann. Set in the sixteenth century, the book follows its namesake, a petty horse trader who grows enraged when a nobleman subjects him to a minor injustice. Kleist's sentences, hypnotic and exquisitely controlled, span entire pages, rippling into ever wider and ever dreamier rings." -- Becca Rothfeld - The Baffler"Kleist is a giant, Cervantes's heir, and a one-man avant-garde of the modern German novel." -- The Guardian"Heinrich von Kleist is one of the great neglected figures of European literature. His work is at once tragic, grotesque, hectic, tender, hilarious and heartbroken, a powerful current in that underground of European literature that includes Holderlin, Buchner, Diderot, Kafka, Rilke, Witold Gombrowiez, Thomas Bernhard, Paul Celan, Samuel Beckett, upon many of whom Kleist had a direct influence. His work is peculiarly apt for our fractured times, and speaks in a voice which, despite the occasional High Romantic inflection, sounds startlingly modern." -- John Banville - The Independent"Michael Kohlhaas could be called a pathology of obsession, or a juridical riddle, or even a kind of magnificent taunt, though none of these is right, or right enough. One must merely read it, and then read it again, staggered by its sheer acceleration, its furious savagery, its vertiginous authority, its exquisite prolongment of closure as event follows improbable event. Kohlhaas is one of literature’s eternal characters because he outpaces any interpretive framework. His indomitable reality exceeds our own." -- Dustin Illingworth - The New Yorker"A masterwork—at once a savage indictment of a corrupt legal system and an object lesson in the ways that all-out combat can ignite from the most picayune personal slights. In Michael Hofmann, whose own writing style is frenetic and steeply erudite, the novella may have found the perfect translator. Absurdities compound with a devil’s logic that presages Kafka (who adored the book)." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal"Kleist is a great master. He wrote a kind of chronicle fiction which to this day dazzles me as no other." -- E. L. Doctorow"Kleist tells you what sort of people his characters are—often impetuous, wrongheaded, overly emotional, but essentially good at heart—and lets them run around the narrative at the speed of windup toys. He has no time for their motives, nor do they, as they struggle, like the reader, to keep up with the pace at which one surprise follows another." -- Francine Prose"His sentences are remarkable—great hatchet-blows of thought, an implacable narrative speed, a pulverizing sense of inevitability. No wonder Kafka liked him so much…" -- Paul Auster"Our sort is nothing compared to Kleist." -- Rainer Maria Rilke"Michael Kohlhaas: a story about bravery and its twin, stupidity." -- Roberto Bolaño"What revolted the mature Goethe in the young Kleist, who submitted his works to the elder statesman ‘on the knees of his heart’—the morbid, the hysterical, the sense of the unhealthy, the enormous indulgence in suffering out of which Kleist’s plays and tales were mined—is just what we value today. Today Kleist gives pleasure, most of Goethe is a classroom bore." -- Susan Sontag"Perhaps the strongest of all German stories. Michael Kohlhaas seems to me to have a peculiar resonance to the present time, when apathy toward the law, callousness toward injustice, a limp acceptance of "the way things are" exercise a paralyzing influence all over the world. Kleist shows us, incidentally, with a superb, mordant humor, the predicament into which a society accustomed to constant abuse of the law is thrown by a man who refuses to put up with such abuse; how his associates gradually withdraw from the doltish robber baron who created the whole mess—with whom they would have continued to get along easily had it not been for the unpleasant consequences of his insolent act... We are filled with anxiety and terror, shudder in the face of mystery, doubt in the powers of reason, and, indeed, in the power of God himself—all our 'affects are confounded.' Kleist knows how to put us on the rack and—such is his triumph as an artist—succeeds in making us thank him for that torture." -- Thomas Mann"Sometimes you find a brother, and you instantly know that you are no longer alone. I experienced this with Kleist." -- Werner Herzog"I did not write to you last night, it got too late because of Michael Kohlhaas (have you read it? If not, don’t! I shall read it to you!); apart from a short section which I had read the day before, I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time. This is a story I read with true piety; it carries me along waves of wonder." -- Franz Kafka
£11.39
New Directions Publishing Corporation Sevastopol
Book SynopsisThree subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, showcasing a powerful new Brazilian voiceTrade Review"Like the writers I most admire, Fraia sets for himself the hardest and most respectable task a writer can face: unraveling the mystery without revealing the secret." -- Javier Montes"A literary jewel." -- Fernanda Torres"Three stories track the wanderings of contemporary Brazilians in Fraia’s subtle and melancholy English-language debut, a collection inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Sketches." -- Publishers Weekly"With deft precision, Fraia bares his characters just enough to reveal only these stories—nothing is extraneous." -- Kirkus"A truly beautiful book that is hard to describe without using words like precision, subtlety and, mostly, wisdom." -- Alejandro Zambra"These tales don’t operate the way most tales do; they adhere to their own separate sense of languid time." -- Tope Folarin - Vulture"As Sevastopol masterfully demonstrates, all one can do against time’s attrition is organize the losses into a story of the self." -- Marshall Shord - Southwest Review"Quite excellent." -- Erin Bloom - Full Stop"A vibe is, by definition, inexplicable. To say Sevastopol’s vibe is a bit gloomy, desolate, styled in a color palette that includes grays, greens, and violets, is both true and inexact. The vibe accumulates over time and amounts to something. But exactly what remains evasive, thrillingly open-ended." -- Melanie Broder - Public Books
£11.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation No Longer Human
Book SynopsisNow in a gift cloth edition, No Longer Human ponders profound alienationTrade Review"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide." -- Yukio Mishima"From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai’s writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant." -- Yasunari Kawabata"No Longer Human is his masterpiece, though all his work is worthy. Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe." -- Patit Smith"Dazai’s brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment." -- Andrew Martin - The New York Times
£18.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Setting Sun
Book SynopsisNow in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literatureTrade Review"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide." -- Yukio Mishima"From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai’s writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant." -- Yasunari Kawabata"Dazai offers something permanent and beautiful." -- The New York Times Book Review
£18.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Baron Bagge
Book SynopsisThis astonishing short novel concerns the unfathomable, otherworldly experiences of an aristocratic young calvary officer in WWITrade Review"[For I Was Jack Mortimer] Brilliant, extra stylish, excellently written and fearsomely gripping." -- The Times (UK)"A rare and special pleasure—your Baron Bagge is a masterpiece! It is positively magical the way dream and reality glide seamlessly into one another, creating a realm of visionary luminescence, a visual plenitude whose color derives from fever and coursing blood: in this flawless chef d’oeuvre, every word and every sentence rests lightly right where it belongs. Truly you wrote this unforgettable novella in a state of grace" -- Stefan Zweig, in a letter to Lernet-Holenia, from the Afterword"But nowhere, as often as he has dealt with it, has this walk to ‘that unknown country from which no wanderer returns’ been traced with such visual power, vividness and dream fantasy as in Baron Bagge, the most beautiful novel written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia." -- Hilde Spiel"Fog-of-war tales are always abundant, but this one conjures a unique spell. An unsettling tale of war trauma, cleanly and uniquely told." -- Kirkus Reviews"A pupil of Rilke, admired by Borges, Lernet-Holenia has a literary reputation as a sort of continental necromancer, a conductor of the underworldly and oneiric, uprooting tangled lineages and raising the closeted skeletons of guilty nations." -- Trevor Quirk - Bookforum
£10.44
Turtleback Books The Crucible Penguin Plays
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£23.89
Turtleback Books Lord of the Flies
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£18.30
Perfection Learning Romeo and Juliet Folger Shakespeare Library
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£16.02
SlaughterhouseFive
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£19.08
Random House Publishing Group Agnes Grey Modern Library Classics
Book SynopsisConcerned for her family’s financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Brontë’s own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure. As Barbara A. Suess writes in her Introduction, “Brontë provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting.”
£9.99
Random House USA Inc The Wings of the Dove
Book SynopsisSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeSet amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, “The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”
£10.48
Random House Publishing Group Life Death Of Harriett Frean 20th Century Rediscoveries
Book Synopsis“In a few short pages,” writes Francine Prose in her Introduction, “May Sinclair succeeds in rendering the oppressive weight and strength of the chains of family love.” Young Harriett Frean is taught that “behaving beautifully” is paramount, and she becomes a self-sacrificing woman whose choices prove devastating to herself and to those who love her most. An early pioneer ofstream-of-consciousness writing, Sinclair employs the technique brilliantly in this finely crafted psychological novel. Evoking the style and depth of her contemporaries Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair’s haunting narrative also reflects her keen interest in the theories of Jung and Freud. The text of this Modern Library 20th Century Rediscovery was set from the first American edition of 1922.
£9.49
Random House USA Inc Barbary Shore
Book SynopsisPublished at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer’s audacious novel of socialism is at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But when Lovett rents a room in Brooklyn, he finds that his housemates have secrets of their own: One betrays a husband no one ever sees; another may have been a Communist executioner. Combining Kafkaesque unease with Orwellian paranoia, Barbary Shore plays havoc with our certainties and delivers its effects with a force that is pure Mailer. Praise for Barbary Shore “A work of remarkable power, of amazing penetration, both into people and the determining forces of American life.”—The Atlantic Monthly “Vibrant with life, abundant with real people . . . [Mailer has] a scintillating ski
£12.59
