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  • LITTLE WOMEN
    ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
    The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. The girls embark on a series of adventures and endure a number of unexpected misfortunes - experiences that allow their personalities to emerge: Meg sensible and outgoing, Jo literary and boyish, Beth musica...
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  • GOOD WIVES
    ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
    Three years have passed since the events narrated in Little Women, and the four March sisters are approaching adulthood, with all its accompanying challenges and expectations. Meg is preparing for her wedding, Beth continues to struggle with her health, Jo is more than ever devoting herself to literature and Amy is about to go on a tour of Europe with her aunt. Their experience...
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  • THE BEARS FAMOUS INVASION OF SICILY
    BUZZATI, DINO
    Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they face fierce opposition from the army of the Grand Duke of Sicily. After many battles, scrapes and dangers, the bears' reign is established over the land, but their victory comes at a price. ...
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  • THE LITTLE PRINCE
    SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE
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  • TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with t...
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  • STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE AND OTHER STORIES
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split personality and obscure science, with its chilling final revelation, became an instant horror class...
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  • DRACULA
    STOKER, BRAM
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  • THE HAUNTED HOUSE
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together, and relate the supernatural experiences they have had. The resulting ghost stories thrill, shock and amuse by turns.For this work, commissioned for his periodical All the Year Round, Dickens enl...
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  • TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES
    HARDY, THOMAS
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  • THE WHISPERER IN THE DARKNESS
    LOVECRAFT, H.P.
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  • THE GOOD SOLDIER
    MADOX, FORD MADOX
    The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships are strained and gradually disintegrate, with tragic consequences. Drawing inspiration from his personal life, Ford Madox Ford innovatively used non-chronological flashbacks as well ...
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  • ORLANDO
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    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 an ambassadorial post in Constantinople, Orlando falls into a long sleep and wakes up suddenly transformed into a woman. Also blessed with the gi...
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  • THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
    ELIOT, GEORGE
    Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting f...
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  • THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
    CONNAN DOYLE, ARTHUR
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  • SONNETS
    SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
    Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time. First published in 1609, after Shakespeare had written many of his most famous works, the Sonnets have been the subject of liter...
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  • THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
    STERNE, LAURENCE
    Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out t...
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  • CRIMEN Y CASTIGO
    FIODOR DOSTOYEVSKI
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  • FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS
    FITZGERALD, SCOTT
    Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowd...
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  • PETER PAN
    BARRIE, J.M.
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  • THE SIDE OF PARADISE
    SCOTT FITZGERALD, F
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  • GABRIEL-ERNEST AND OTHER TALES
    SAKI
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  • ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN
    FITZGERALD, SCOTT
    Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac `The Rich Boy' and `Winter Dreams', deal with wealthy protagonists - the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green - as they come to terms with lost love, ...
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  • THE GREAT GATSBY
    FITZGERALD, SCOTT
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  • TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
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  • ARSENE LUPIN VS SHERLOCK HOLMES
    LEBLANC, MAURICE
    A battle of wits between the nimblest French thief and the shrewdest British detectiveThis volume contains two adventures which pit the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin against Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective. In `The Blonde Lady', Holmes must discover the identity of a mysterious female thief who is linked to Lupin, while in `The Jewish Lamp' he finds out that t...
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  • TREASURE ISLAND
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treas ure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derring-do has appealed to generations of readers ever since Robert Louis Stevenson penned it in 1881 with the claim: If this don't fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.But more than just a children's classic, the novel is consider...
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  • THE WOMAN IN WHITE
    COLLINS, WILKIE
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  • THE JUNGLE BOOKS
    KIPLING, RUYARD
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  • A LITERARY TOUR OF ITALY
    PARKS, TIM
    An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English" - has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his best essays on the literature of his adopted country. From Boccaccio and M...
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  • THE CANTERVILLE GHOST AND OTHER STORIES
    WILDE, OSCAR
    When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound of rattling chains in the hallways and the appearance of mysterious bloodstains in the living room. However, the ghost struggles to ...
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