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Styles of Radical Will

Styles of Radical Will

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Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'One of the most interesting and valuable critics we possess' New Republic Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays...
Pnin

Pnin

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Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling...
The Harp in the South Trilogy PMC

The Harp in the South Trilogy PMC

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Author: Ruth Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth Cracknell Three of Ruth...
Ulysses

Ulysses

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Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests

The Path to the Spiders' Nests

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages...
The Secret Pilgrim

The Secret Pilgrim

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The final novel featuring Smiley, Le Carre's most enduring character, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance The...
Wind, Sand and Stars

Wind, Sand and Stars

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Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars...
Just an Ordinary Day

Just an Ordinary Day

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Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious...
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

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Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...
Let Me Tell You

Let Me Tell You

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Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure...
Americana

Americana

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Author: Don DeLillo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment...
If Not Now, When?

If Not Now, When?

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of Calvino's influential last work Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
The Sundial

The Sundial

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Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Fans of Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House will enjoy this disquieting tale of people awaiting the end of...
Under the Jaguar Sun

Under the Jaguar Sun

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by...
Love in a Cold Climate

Love in a Cold Climate

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Author: Nancy Mitford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the...
Johnno

Johnno

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Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing up in the bustle of steamy, wartime Brisbane. Later, as teenagers,...
We: Introduction by Will Self

We: Introduction by Will Self

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Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New WorldSpecial futuristic 3D cover edition! Comes...
Dracula

Dracula

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Author: Bram Stoker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Rediscover a dread of Dracula in this handsome new Vintage Classics edition Within the pages of this book can...
Dubliners

Dubliners

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Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A collection of fifteen stories, evoking the voices and lives that teem in Joyce's vision of his native city...
The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

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Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

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Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon...
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to...
Brave New World: Special 3D Edition

Brave New World: Special 3D Edition

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Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses!'One of the most important books to have been published...
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

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Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a...
To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird

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Author: Harper Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 One of the world's best-loved books 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember...
The Essential Hemingway

The Essential Hemingway

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 'Hemingway's style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality' Guardian The Essential Hemingway...
Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Another iconic title from the brilliant space-wanderer Kurt Vonnegut - rejacketed in a new, witty series style Discover Vonnegurt's...
The Swimming-Pool Library

The Swimming-Pool Library

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Author: Alan Hollinghurst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny' Daily Telegraph Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time,...
The Collector

The Collector

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Author: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Brilliant - an artist of great imaginative power' Sunday Times Discover John Fowles' compelling classic first novel 'Short and...
Life and Fate

Life and Fate

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Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during...
Island

Island

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Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Read and loved Brave New World? Now experience Aldous Huxley's utopia. Special 3D cover edition - every copy comes...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Magnificent new translation of Tolstoy' fiction by the acclaimed duo behind War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich...
A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written In...
The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory

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Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John Updike During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky...
Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage

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Author: W. Somerset Maugham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 OF HUMAN BONDAGE is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It tells the story of Philip...
To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics. Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living...
The Traitor's Niche

The Traitor's Niche

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Author: Ismail Kadare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in the Ottoman Empire, by the winner of the Man Booker...
Life: A User's Manual

Life: A User's Manual

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Author: Georges Perec Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 One of the most dazzling and ingeniously contrived works of twentieth-century fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in...
The Sea, The Sea

The Sea, The Sea

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Author: Iris Murdoch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The sea- turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

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Author: Raymond Carver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In...
Cry, The Beloved Country

Cry, The Beloved Country

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Author: Alan Paton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 First published in 1948, Cry The Beloved Country stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African...
The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song

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Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN...
Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

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Author: Anne Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Bronte Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the...
The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman

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Author: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 'A remarkable performance... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most...
For Whom The Bell Tolls

For Whom The Bell Tolls

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'The best book Hemingway has written' New York Times High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a...
Our Ancestors

Our Ancestors

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of...
Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

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Author: Louis de Bernieres Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new classics edition of this enduringly popular novel. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young...