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 Books in the series:
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Tales of Angria
Charlotte Bronte
Includes five 'novelettes' that depict an aristocratic beau monde in witty, racy and ironic language. This title creates a scandalous atmosphere of intrigue and destructive passions, with a cast ranging from the ageing rake Northangerland to Mary Percy, Zamorna's lovesick...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Bronte
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Jack Sheppard
William Harrison Ainsworth
While Jack Sheppard seems marked from birth for a terrible end, his wit and charm might just be able to cheat fate. Fate, however, seems eager to cheat him out of an honest living, when Jack begins visiting the notorious...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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A Sicilian Romance
Ann Radcliffe
On the rocky northern shores of Sicily stands a lonely castle, the home of the aristocratic Mazzini family. The marquis of Mazzini has remarried and gone away to live with his new wife, abandoning his two daughters - sweet-natured Emilia...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
A haunted castle and a ruined bloodline Manfred, wicked lord of Otranto Castle, is horrified when his son is crushed to death on his wedding day. But rather than witness the end of his line, as foretold in a curse,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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The Monk
Matthew Lewis
Ambrosio, a pious monk, finds himself drawn to his pupil, Matilda, a young woman in disguise. Unable to control himself, he sates his lust, and soon tires of her. But Matilda has more than her body to offer: using black...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
Beautiful young heiress Emily St Aubert is frightened when she finds herself orphaned and in the hands of her cold and distant aunt, Madame Cheron. But her fear turns to terror when Madame Cheron agrees to marry the haughty and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
When Rachel Verinder is given the Moonstone - a large Indian diamond - on her eighteenth birthday, she is delighted to show it off at her celebrations. But that very night, the jewel is stolen from her bedroom. Will the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Gentle art teacher Walter Hartright has fallen in love with his student, Laura. But she is marrying the wicked Sir Percival, who wants to destroy her reputation and steal her fortune. But who is the mysterious woman in white who...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Paul Clifford
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Paul Clifford leads a double life. When Clifford falls in love with the beautiful, auburn-haired Lucy, the daughter of a wealthy squire, he wonders if he should abandon his life of vice. But there are many obstacles in his path:...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
The legendary rumours of an 'opera ghost' take on a terrifying reality when the beautiful young singer Christine Daae suddenly disappears after her triumphant performance. An ever increasing pattern of fear and violence pervades the dim backstage areas of the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2009
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Back in the Jug Agane
Geoffrey Willans
Poor Nigel Molesworth is back at St Custard's, being snarled at by Grimes and forced to endure the good old footer season. But despite the distractions of hideous Molesworth 2 and weedy fotherington-tomas, he will still share all his secrets...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,
Pam Morris
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Cranford
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty live in a village where women rule and men usually tend to get in the way. Their days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness, friendship and an endless appetite for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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The Return of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
After a brief and harrowing period among men, Tarzan turned back to the African jungle where he had grown to manhood. It was there he first heard of Opar, the city of gold, left over from fabled Atlantis. It was...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/01/2009
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Quantum of Solace
Ian Fleming,
Henry Chancellor
Whether he's making an unexpected discovery in the Bahamas, smashing an international drugs ring in Rome, on the trail of a murderous secret in the Caribbean, enjoying New York's special pleasures or foiling a surprisingly alluring assassin in Berlin's sniper's...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2008
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Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The Beetle A Mystery
Richard Marsh,
Ambrose Bierce
It changes its shape at will. It compels others to do its bidding. It inspires terror in all who look on it. Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but when 'The Beetle' arrives from Egypt to hunt...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson,
Ambrose Bierce
A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home - and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by the recluse on an otherworldly plain...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The Spook House Terrifying Tales of the Macabre
Ambrose Bierce
A man stares into the deep river swirling beneath him - hands tied, noose around his neck - and waits for the order to end his life. Another is trapped for eternity in a room full of corpses. A cowering...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Lois the Witch and Other Stories
Elizabeth Gaskell,
Ambrose Bierce
Fear of Satan becomes murder in the name of God. Newly orphaned, the God-fearing and heart-broken Lois is sent across the Atlantic to live with her uncle's family in Salem, but on her arrival she finds herself the object of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Stories
M.R. James,
Ambrose Bierce
A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls' house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from person to person; a grisly crime is avenged from beyond the grave; the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker,
Ambrose Bierce
An ancient evil walks among them. When Adam Salton arrives at his grand-uncle's Derbyshire estate he quickly senses that a macabre and malevolent force is at work. In his attempts to uncover the grisly mystery, he encounters the chilling Lady...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The Haunted Hotel A Mystery of Modern Venice
Wilkie Collins,
Ambrose Bierce
Horror lies waiting. A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave. When Countess Narona marries Agnes Lockwood's fiance and takes him...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories
H. P. Lovecraft,
Ambrose Bierce
In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Conquering the savage laws of the wilderness, Tarzan grows into a mighty warrior and becomes leader of his tribe of apes. When an expedition of white treasure hunters enters his jungle kingdom, accompanied by the beautiful Jane Porter, Tarzan's primitive...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
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Rupert of Hentzau
Anthony Hope
Rudolf Rassendyll, having heroically saved the kingdom of Ruritania and nobly given up the hand of the beautiful Princess Flavia, has returned to his normal life in England. But when, three years later, Flavia, now the unhappily married Queen of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
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Greenmantle
John Buchan
Richard Hannay travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more heroes: Peter Pienaar; John S Blenkiron; and, Sandy Arbuthnot. They move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. He sets off with his valet Passepartout, and passes through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson,
Eoin Colfer
A weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
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The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
There is no braver officer in Napoleon's cavalry than etienne Gerard - especially in his own opinion. Whether kidnapped by gangs of brigands or outnumbered by enemy troops, the plucky little soldier is constantly gallant, chivalrous and ready to face...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Some blame the death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the legend of a fearsome and ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his Devonshire family for generations. So when the services of famed detective Sherlock Holmes are engaged to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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The Valley of Fear
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When Holmes and Watson receive a cipher from one of Moriarty's henchmen warning of dark doings at a manor house, they find themselves on the trail of a murderer. Almost immediately, they are on their way to Sussex where they...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. When Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man, the truth is revealed.
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Problems involving a man with a twisted lip, a fabulous blue carbuncle and five orange pips tax Sherlock Holmes' intellect alongside some of his most famous cases, including A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League.
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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His Last Bow AND The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Includes stories of Sherlock Holmes: adventures involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lions Mane; puzzles concerning a creeping man and the three-gabled house; and disappearances of secret plans and a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes' fame has also brought him notoriety and there are those in the criminal underworld who must move against him or find their schemes in ruins ... And it is in The Final Problem that Dr Watson has the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Accompanying Sherlock Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Dr Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror. There is no mark of violence on the body yet a single...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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The Sign of Four
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells,
Marina Warner,
Steve Maclean
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/11/2007
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens,
Richard Maxwell
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/10/2007
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Hard Times
Charles Dickens,
Kate Flint
Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, Mr Thomas Gradgrind bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery....
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/10/2007
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens,
Michael Slater
After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties.
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/10/2007
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens,
Philip Horne
The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/10/2007
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy,
Margaret R. Higonnet
When Tess is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her cousin Alec proves to be her downfall. A different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
In a fit of anger, Michael sells his wife and daughter for 5 guineas. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy,
Rosemarie Morgan
Bathsheba has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer. Her presence draws three different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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The Poems of Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet. This work is a selection of Hardy's love poems.
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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She
H. Rider Haggard
On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2007
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The Lost World
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unlucky in love, but desperate to prove himself in an adventure, journalist Ed Malone is sent to test the hot-tempered Professor Challenger on his bizarre South American expedition findings. But rather than being angry at his questions, Challenger invites him...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2007
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope
Rudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda. He is shortly on the way to Streslau, the capital, where he finds himself engaged in plans...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2007
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The Thirty-nine Steps
John Buchan
Richard Hannay is thoroughly bored with London. Then a murder is commited in his flat. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2007
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The Friend of Madame Maigret
Georges Simenon
Maigret becomes increasingly frustrated as his attempts to prove that a brutal, repulsive murder has been committed at a local bookbinder prove fruitless. The mystery revolves around a series of seemingly unconnected incidents and characters, set amongst the backdrop of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2007
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Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Robert Louis Jackson
How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2006
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face. And...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2006
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A Man's Head
Georges Simenon
Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret's unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/08/2006
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My Friend Maigret
Georges Simenon
Maigret is going about his work in rainy Paris, followed around by Inspector Pyke who has come from Scotland Yard to study the famous French detective's methods. Routine is disturbed when Maigret receives a telephone call saying that a small-time...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2006
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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Georges Simenon,
Anita Brookner
Known as a respectable family man, Kees Popinga is the managing clerk of a reputed shipping firm. But when the company collapses under dubious circumstances, taking all his money with it, something snaps in Popinga's mind. From the shell of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2006
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War and Peace
L.N. Tolstoy
Describing family life set against the backdrop of war, this novel follows the fortunes of the Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon's armies sweep through Europe, invade Russia and end in Napoleon's defeat. It captures national events, private experiences of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/05/2006
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen,
Kathryn Sutherland,
Kathryn Sutherland
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. Featuring a quiet...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen,
Marilyn Butler
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with the sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey....
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte,
Michael Mason
Orphaned Jane Eyre's troubled childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Persuasion
Jane Austen,
Gillian Beer,
Gillian Beer
Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, this novel offers a satire of vanity and pretension. It is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen,
Tony Tanner
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen,
Ros Ballaster,
Ros Ballaster,
Tony Tanner
When Marianne Dashwood falls in love with John Willoughby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip. Meanwhile, Elinor is struggling to conceal her romantic disappointment. Through their experience of love, the sisters...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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North and South
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Margaret's safe existence is turned upside down when she has to move to the grim northern town of Milton. Not only does she have her eyes opened by the poverty and hardship she encounters there, but she is thrown into...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Emma
Jane Austen,
Fiona Stafford
Emma Woodhouse is content with her life and sees no need for marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Mozart's Journey to Prague
Eduard Morike
Making Mozart's way to Prague for the opening of Don Giovanni, the great composer, playfully tries to steal an orange from a Bohemian family's garden. But no sooner has he taken the fruit than he is caught by a furious...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his bulk through the city's fleshpots in a crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Wild Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of London as...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
In the nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and, a chaotic game of chess makes 7-year-old a Queen.
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat, the devil begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach! Everybody who is anybody is seen at his parties. For Gatsby, always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to destroy Frankenstein and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Michael Hulse
When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates his adoration and encourages his friendship but can never return his love. When he receives a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules....
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy,
Rosemary Edmonds
Ivan Ilyich lies alone, dosed up on opium and deceived by doctors, haunted by memories and regrets. His faithful servant tends to his every need. But as he forces down false remedies and listens to empty promises, Ivan grows aware...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere... As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget.
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck,
Susan Shillinglaw
Streetwise George and his childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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Chess A Novel
Stefan Zweig
On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. The chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Pip doesn't expect much from life... His sister makes it clear that her orphaned brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. An anonymous person gives him money to begin a new life in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2006
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The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Some journeys are best left unmade. Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. And as they travel deeper, they might not only lose their...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2005
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