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  • Penguin Publishing Group The Lime Twig

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis volume brings together three early novels by John Hawkes. "The Lime Twig" is set in the underworld of postwar London; "Second Skin" is a tale of suicide and new life on two mythical islands; and "Travesty" is a monologue on fear and eroticism that takes place during a drive at night.Table of Contents"The Lime Twig"; "Second Skin"; "Travesty".

    15 in stock

    £22.12

  • Penguin Publishing Group Four Stories By American Women Life in the Iron Mills the Yellow Wallpaper the Country of the Pointed Firs Souls Belated Rebecca Harding Davis OrneJewett Edith Wharton Penguin Classics

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisRepresenting four prominent American women writers who flourished in the period following the Civil War, this collection includes Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and Souls Belated by Edith Wharton.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Table of ContentsRebecca Harding DavisCharlotte Perkins GilmanSarah Orne JewettEdith WhartonIntroduction by Cynthia Griffin WolffLife in the Iron MillsThe Yellow WallpaperThe Country of the Pointed FirsSouls Belated

    15 in stock

    £15.57

  • Penguin Publishing Group Ruth Hall A Domestic Tale of the Present Time Penguin Classics

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard conversations, it is as unconventional in style as in substance and strikingly modern in its impact.

    15 in stock

    £15.57

  • Penguin Publishing Group Hope Leslie or Early Times in the Massachusetts Penguin Classics

    Book SynopsisSet in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    £18.18

  • Hunger

    Penguin Putnam Inc Hunger

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisA modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novelA Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on “an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body.” Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    3 in stock

    £15.30

  • Kristin Lavransdatter III The Cross

    Penguin Publishing Group Kristin Lavransdatter III The Cross

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £14.40

  • Penguin Putnam Inc Of Mice and Men

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisA controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression, in a deluxe centennial edition   Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him. Of Mice and Men represents an experiment in form, which Steinbeck described as “a kind of playable no

    10 in stock

    £11.72

  • Penguin Random House LLC Captains Courageous Penguin Classics S

    15 in stock

    Trade ReviewBy the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

    15 in stock

    £14.89

  • Penguin Books Ltd Pleasure Penguin Classics

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisPutting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction  Like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. In Andrea’s pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, he plays them against each other, spinning a sadistic web of lust and deceit. This new translation of D’Annunzio’s masterpiece, the first in more than one hundred years, restores what was considered too offensive to be included in the 1898 translation—some of the very scenes that are key to the novel’s status as a landmark of literary decaTrade Review“A fascinating psychological novel about the mind of a seducer . . . Lara Gochin Raffaelli has performed a real service by restoring Pleasure to an English-speaking public, or rather giving it to us, in effect, for the first time. . . . In the wake of Pleasure’s spectacular and scandalous success, [Andrea] Sperelli became for an entire generation a type that many chose to imitate—as Goethe’s Werther was for readers of the Romantic era, or Jay Gatsby for the Jazz Age.” —Alexander Stille, from the Introduction “[A] superb new translation . . . The writing sparkles. . . . Raffaelli preserves the florid musicality of D’Annunzio’s original Italian, its muscular rhythm, and the precious constructions that can make Italian seem like a foreign language in his hands. She also provides a wealth of helpful notes, crucial for entering into D’Annunzio’s museum-like imagination. . . . So much contemporary writing gives us sex without sensuality; D’Annunzio revels in a finer erotic touch. . . . The real events in D’Annunzio’s life were too noisy to ignore, but they shouldn’t drown out the voice of his writing. . . . A close reading reveals an astonishing streak of literary innovation.” —The Times Literary Supplement “Shockingly explicit . . . a kind of portrait of the artist as an irresistible, corrupt young aesthete . . . [It] has now been lushly translated in an uncensored version.” —Jonathan Galassi, The New Republic “Pleasure is truly a pleasure, and its potency is its own. D’Annunzio’s . . . methods and vision are strikingly original, and this novel confidently announces itself not just as a mere echo or harbinger, but as a fully fledged advent of its own. . . . With this new translation, the influence on the subsequent century’s literature is now shockingly apparent. Both Marcel Proust and James Joyce were great admirers of D’Annunzio’s work, and the influence especially on Proust’s In Search of Lost Time makes itself retrospectively evident on nearly every page. . . . Raffaelli’s new translation of Pleasure will perhaps singlehandedly resuscitate D’Annunzio as a world writer and place this glimmering first novel in its key spot among Europe’s great works of Decadent literature.” —Rain Taxi

    15 in stock

    £14.99

  • The Power and the Glory

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Power and the Glory

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £15.30

  • Les Miserables

    Penguin Putnam Inc Les Miserables

    4 in stock

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    4 in stock

    £24.30

  • On the Road

    Penguin Putnam Inc On the Road

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisPart of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.On the Road Jack Kerouac’s masterpiece of the Beat era was first published in 1957 and continues to provide a vital portrait of a generation adrift, as well as inspiration for travelers, dreamers, and artists in every generation that has followed.Trade Review"An authentic work of art . . . the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." --Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times "On the Road has the kind of drive that blasts through to a large public. . . . What makes the novel really important, what gives it that drive is a genuine new, engaging and exciting prose style. . . . What keeps the book going is the power and beauty of the writing." --Kenneth Rexroth, San Francisco Chronicle "One of the finest novels of recent years. . . a highly euphoric and intensely readable story about a group of wandering young hedonists who cross the country in endless search of kicks." --Leonard Feather, Downbeat

    3 in stock

    £16.20

  • The Prisoner In Search of Lost Time Volume 5

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Prisoner In Search of Lost Time Volume 5

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe long-awaited fifth volume--representing the very summit of Proust's art (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of the greatest literary work of the twentieth century (The New York Times)A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperCarol Clark's acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The fifth volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.The titular prisoner is Albertine, the tall, dark orphan with whom Marcel had fallen in love at the end of Sodom and Gomorrah (volume 4). Albertine has moved in with Marcel in his family's apartment in Paris, where the pair have a seemingly limitless supply of

    1 in stock

    £20.80

  • The Transit of Venus

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Transit of Venus

    4 in stock

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    4 in stock

    £14.16

  • The Color Purple

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Color Purple

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    Book SynopsisThe inspiration for the new film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musicalCelebrate the 40th anniversary of Alice Walker’s iconic modern classic.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardA powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning nearly thirty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply co

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    £13.39

  • All the Kings Men By Warren Robert Penn

    Harcourt Brace International All the Kings Men By Warren Robert Penn

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £24.64

  • HarperCollins Publishers Inc Keep The Aspidistra Flying

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisA pre-cursor to his more famous works of Animal Farm and 1984, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is Orwell’s social commentary on capitalism’s constraints.

    15 in stock

    £13.60

  • Mrs Dalloway

    Cengage Learning, Inc Mrs Dalloway

    4 in stock

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    4 in stock

    £8.99

  • Oxford University Press The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisFirst published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer for the journal, Pauline Hopkins also served as one of its powerful editorial forces. This volume of her magazine novels, which appeared serially in the journal between March 1901 and November 1903, reveals Hopkins'' commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change. She weaves important political themes into the narrative formulas of nineteenth-century dime-store novels and story papers, which emphasize suspense, action, complex plotting, multiple and false identities, and the use of disguise. Offering both instruction and entertainment, Hopkins'' novels also expose the limitations of popular American narrative forms when telling the stories of black characters.Trade ReviewBrilliant....It is not hard to imagine that, once her fiction is given the attention it deserves, Hopkins could replace Chestnutt as the foremost black novelist of the period. * Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review *The three novels published in the Schomburg Library for the first time since their appearance in The Colored American Magazine from 1901 to 1903 not only represent an early example of black people producing popular fiction for and about themselves, but extend the cultural and political discourse introduced in Harper's novel [Iola Leroy]. * The Women's Review of Books *

    15 in stock

    £35.14

  • Oxford University Press Martin Rivas

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisWidely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel, Martin Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, it is an indispensable source for understanding politics and society in nineteenth-century Chile.The hero of the story is Martin Rivas, an impoverished but ambitious youngster from the northern mining region of Chile, who is entrusted by his late father to the household of a wealthy and influential member of the Santiago elite. While living there, he falls in love with his guardian''s daughter. The tale of their tortuous but ultimately successful love affair represents the author''s desire for reconciliation between Chile''s antagonistic regional and class interests. Indeed, many critics have interpreted Martin Rivas as a blueprint for national unity that emphasizes consensus over conflict. In addition to providing commentary about the mores of ChTrade Review"Blest Gana's work, well known to Chilieans, is presented for the first time in English..."--Booklist "An accomplished and entertaining allegory that waited 137 years to be translated into English."--Library Journal

    15 in stock

    £18.49

  • Oxford University Press Iracema

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisJose de Alencar''s prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar''s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed love between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden. Iracema reflects the gingerly way that mid-nineteenth cenury Brazil dealt with race mixture and multicultural experience. Precisely because of its nineteenth-century romanticism, Iracema strongly contributed to a Brazilian sense of nationhood - contemporary Brazilian writers and literary critics still cite it as a foundation for their own work.Trade Review"Another historically and culturally significant addition to the Library of Latin America series."--Booklist

    15 in stock

    £14.99

  • Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The ShadowLine

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe masterpiece of Joseph Conrad’s later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the “shadow-line” between youth and maturity.This brief but intense story is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrad’s first command as a young sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed, fever-wracked, and seemingly haunted ship. With no wind in sight and his crew disabled by malaria, the narrator discovers that the medicine necessary to save the sick men is missing and its absence has been deliberately concealed. Meanwhile, his increasingly frightened first mate is convinced that the malignant ghost of the previous captain has cursed them. Suspenseful, atmospheric, and deceptively simple, Conrad’s tale of the sea reflects the complex themes of his most famous novels, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.

    15 in stock

    £12.62

  • Doctor Zhivago Vintage International

    Random House USA Inc Doctor Zhivago Vintage International

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisFirst published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and Volokhonsky masterfully restore the spirit of Pasternak's original—his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone—in this beautiful translation of a classic of world literature.

    3 in stock

    £17.00

  • This Side of Paradise Vintage Classics

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group This Side of Paradise Vintage Classics

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisF. Scott Fitzgerald’s cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Published in 1920, when the author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise recounts the education of young Amory Blaine—egoistic, versatile, callow, imaginative. As Amory makes his way among debutantes and Princeton undergraduates, we enter an environment heady with the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America after World War I. We experience Amory’s sailing hopes, crushing defeats, deep loves and stubborn losses. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood unfolds with continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Fitzgerald’s remarkable formal inventiveness couches Amory’s narrative among songs, poems, dramatic dialogue, questions and answers. The novel’s freshness and verve—praised upon publication, now renowned by history&mdash

    3 in stock

    £10.44

  • Ficciones  Fictions

    Random House USA Inc Ficciones Fictions

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £16.16

  • Beneath the Wheel

    St Martin's Press Beneath the Wheel

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn Hermann Hesse''s Beneath the Wheel, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the narrowly circumscribed world of the academy. Finally sent home after a nervous breakdown, Hans is revived by nature and romance, and vows never to return to the gray conformity of the academic system.

    1 in stock

    £15.30

  • One Dark Window

    Orbit One Dark Window

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    £17.09

  • The Catcher in the Rye

    Back Bay Books The Catcher in the Rye

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    £17.09

  • Rebecca

    Back Bay Books Rebecca

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe multi‑million‑copy bestseller that has enthralled generations of readers. A haunting tale of obsessive love. A mesmerizing psychological thriller. In Monte Carlo, our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at Manderley, her husband’s cavernous estate on the Cornish coast, that she realizes how vast a shadow his late wife, Rebecca, will cast over their lives—introducing a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their love from beyond the grave. This universally acclaimed novel has remained consistently in print since its original publication in 1938 and has frequently been adapted—for television, radio, the theater, and film—most notably in 1940 by Alfred Hitchcock, whose Rebecca received the Academy Award for Best Picture, and in the 2020 Netflix film

    15 in stock

    £16.19

  • Franny and Zooey

    Little, Brown & Company Franny and Zooey

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    £15.29

  • The Fellowship of the Ring

    Random House USA Inc The Fellowship of the Ring

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £8.54

  • Planet of the Apes

    Random House USA Inc Planet of the Apes

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe original novel that inspired the films! First published more than fifty years ago, Pierre Boulle’s chilling novel launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history. In the not-too-distant future, three astronauts land on what appears to be a planet just like Earth, with lush forests, a temperate climate, and breathable air. But while it appears to be a paradise, nothing is what it seems. They soon discover the terrifying truth: On this world humans are savage beasts, and apes rule as their civilized masters. In an ironic novel of nonstop action and breathless intrigue, one man struggles to unlock the secret of a terrifying civilization, all the while wondering: Will he become the savior of the human race, or the final witness to its damnation? In a shocking climax that rivals that of the original movie, Boulle delivers the answer in a masterpiece of adventure, satire, and suspense.

    2 in stock

    £9.49

  • Giovannis Room Vintage International

    Random House USA Inc Giovannis Room Vintage International

    Book SynopsisFrom one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love—“a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction” (The Atlantic).One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsIn the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella’s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night—“the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.” With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a deeply moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

    £13.60

  • Earth Abides

    Harper Voyager Earth Abides

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £15.19

  • William Morrow & Company The History of MiddleEarth Part One

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £60.00

  • The History of MiddleEarth Boxed Set

    William Morrow & Company The History of MiddleEarth Boxed Set

    4 in stock

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    4 in stock

    £187.50

  • William Morrow & Company Tales from the Perilous Realm

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £17.09

  • William Morrow & Company Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl and Sir

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £16.14

  • William Morrow & Company The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by the Author

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £67.50

  • Lulu.com And Then The Town Took Off

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £10.02

  • Lulu.com Lord of the World

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £15.76

  • Lulu.com The Haunted Hotel

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £12.84

  • Lulu.com The Haunted Hotel

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £24.37

  • The Song of the Lark

    Random House USA Inc The Song of the Lark

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Thea Kronborg, a minister''s daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. But as her path to the world stage leads her ever farther from the humble town she can''t forget and from the man she can''t afford to love, Thea learns that her exceptional musical talent and fierce ambition are not enough.  It is in the solitude of a tiny rock chamber high in the side of an Arizona cliff--a cleft in the heart of the world--that Thea comes face to face with her own dreams and desires, stripped clean by the haunting purity of the ruined cliff dwellings and inspired by the whisperings of their ancient dust. Here she finds the courage to seize her future and to use her gifts to catch the shining, elusive element that is life itself--life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop,

    3 in stock

    £11.39

  • The Transylvanian Trilogy Volume I

    Random House USA Inc The Transylvanian Trilogy Volume I

    4 in stock

    Book Synopsis**Washington Post  Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Miklós Bánffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism in Hungary, Bánffy’s novels were translated in the late 1990s to critical acclaim and now appear for the first time in hardcover.They Were Counted, the first novel in the trilogy, introduces us to a decadent, frivolous, and corrupt society unwittingly bent on its own destruction during the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Bánffy’s lush depiction of an opulent lost paradise focuses on two upper-class cousins who couldn’t be more different: Count Balint Abády, a liberal politician who compassionately defends his homeland’s downtrodden Romanian peasants, and his dissipated cousin László, whose life is a whirl of parties, balls, hunting, and gambling. They Were Counted launches a story that brims with intrigues, love affairs, duels, murder, comedy, and tragedy, set against the rugged and ravishing scenery of Transylvania. Along with the other two novels in the trilogy—They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided—it combines a Proustian nostalgia for the past, insight into a collapsing empire reminiscent of the work of Joseph Roth, and the drama and epic sweep of Tolstoy.

    4 in stock

    £27.20

  • Random House Publishing Group Klondike Tales Modern Library

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisAs a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted to survive. As Van Wyck Brooks observed, “One felt that the stories had been somehow lived-that they were not merely observed-that the author was not telling tales but telling his life.”This edition is unique to the Modern Library, featuring twenty-three carefully chosen stories from London’s three collected Northland volumes and his later Klondike tales. It also includes two maps of the region, and notes on the text.

    15 in stock

    £15.52

  • Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Death of the Heart

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    £999.99

  • WW Norton & Co In the Shade of Spring Leaves The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo with Nine of Her Best Stories

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisHiguchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multi-volumed diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine representative stories.

    15 in stock

    £20.42

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