A Vintage Christmas by Penguin Random House UK
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.'There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas' said Charles Dickens. There are also petty jealousies, mournful reminiscences, family feuds, inequalities and injustices, and fakery and excess and shopping, shopping, shopping - all in the name of Ch ...Show more
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man - Essential Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers Kafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his e ...Show more
Shakespeare's Tragedies - Macbeth, Othello, King Lear and Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics
This handsome deluxe slip-case edition of Shakespeare's Tragedies features four of the most important plays ever written, each one a masterpiece in human psychology, with a flawed yet fascinating main character at its heart. Macbeth: a study in overweening pride, driven to commit regicide and ultimately ...Show more
Frankenstein (Bounty Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Classic Works
Mary Shelley's classic work, published when she was just twenty years old, tells the tale of eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a terrifying creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Inspired after a competition between Shelley, her husband Percy, Lord Byron and John Polidori to ...Show more
Cheri Vintage Classic by Colette
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Category: Classics | Series: colette
Cheri, first published in 1920, is considered Colette's finest novel. Exquisitely handsome, spoilt and sardonic, Cheri is the only son of a wealthy courtesan, a contemporary of Lea, the magnificent and talented woman who for six years has devoted herself to his amorous education. When a rich marriage is ...Show more
Irish Gothic Fairy Stories by Steve Lally; Paula Flynn
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Category: Classics
In the four provinces of Ireland there are thirty-two counties. Each county and its people have their own traditions, beliefs and folklore - and each one is also inhabited by the Sidhe: an ancient and magical race. Some believe they are descended from fallen angels, whilst others say they are the progen ...Show more
Aladdin - A New Translation by Paulo Lemos Horta (Editor); Yasmine Seale (Translator)
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Category: Classics
Long defined by popular film adaptations that have reductively portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagination--and occasionally dark themes--finally comes to vibrant new life. "In the capital of one of China's vast and wealthy kingdoms," begins Sha ...Show more
Heart of Darkness and Other Stories: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
"The horror! The horror!" These are the final words spoken by Mr. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," the story of a man who travels into the jungle to seek his fortune and who instead finds an all-consuming moral and spiritual wilderness. Conrad's tale of the darkness that festers in the hear ...Show more
The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
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Category: Classics
A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages of her letters. This handsome celebration of Auste ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics
Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I's court favourites, is the object of many ladies' attentions but, after suffering heartbreak, he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any thoughts of marriage. Having obtained a ambassadorial post in Constantinople, Orlando falls into a long sl ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Part of the ...Show more
The Song of Kieu - A New Lament by Nguyen Du
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A stunning new translation of the legendary Vietnamese epic poem, now for the first time in Penguin Classics Considered the greatest literary achievement in Vietnamese, The Song of Kieu tells the story of the beautiful Vuong Thuy Kieu, who agrees to a financially profitable marriage in order to save h ...Show more