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  • BLEAK HOUSE
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, a destitute crossing-s...
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    11,90 €

  • LITTLE PRINCE: COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
    SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE
    'The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.'Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features a specially commissioned translation by Ros and...
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    15,60 €

  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    BRONTE, EMILY
    Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his lan...
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    14,30 €

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Dos germanes completament diferent viuen una situació molt difícil quan moren els seus pares. Marianne, salvatge i impulsiva, s’enamora bojament, mentre Elinor pateix la seva tristesa sola però es concentra en trobar els seus sentiments més profunds. Un novel·la que explora sentiments de secret i repressió, mentida i seducció. Un retrato brillant de la rígida societat de la sev...
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    13,95 €

  • ROMEO AND JULIET
    SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
    Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to y...
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    15,60 €

  • JANE EYRE
    BRONTE, CHARLOTTE
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Orphaned ...
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    22,95 €

  • DRACULA
    STOKLER, BRAM
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designWhen Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific disco...
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    23,45 €

  • ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
    CARROLL, LEWIS
    \'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards\', wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one \'golden afternoon\' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is ...
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    23,30 €

  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    BRONTE, EMILY
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.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 s...
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    22,95 €

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. ...
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    22,95 €

  • THE ODYSSEY
    HOMER
    NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' GuardianThe epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural a...
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    14,90 €

  • ORLANDO
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider... His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time.Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happines...
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    23,30 €

  • FRANKENSTEIN
    SHELLEY, MARY
    A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designObsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new...
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    23,30 €

  • MOBY DICK
    MELVILLE, HERMAN
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that o...
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    24,75 €

  • COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD
    MANSFIELD, KATHERINE
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHKatherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension,...
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    20,25 €

  • OLIVER TWIST
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens\'s tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitu...
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    27,25 €

  • THE GREAT GATSBY
    FITZGERALD, F SCOTT
    In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This beautiful Macmillan C...
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    15,60 €

  • MOBY DICK
    MELVILLE, HERMAN
    Complete and unabridged. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon m...
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    17,95 €

  • LITTLE WOMEN
    ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
    Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition includes the sequel, Good Wives, which picks up the girls' stories three years on, and features an afterword by publisher Anna South.Louisa May Alcott te...
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    16,20 €

  • TREASURE ISLAND
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    One of the best-loved children's stories of all time, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is a thrilling tale of swashbuckling heroes and dastardly villains that continues to enchant readers young and old. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make ...
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    15,60 €

  • PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    JAMES, HENRY
    Widely accepted as Henry James' great masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady is a poignant and intense exploration of freedom and identity. This edition is introduced by Costa Award-winning author Colm Tóibín. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers.These beautiful books make perfe...
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    17,95 €

  • EMMA
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson and includes an afterwo...
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    15,60 €

  • FAREWELL TO ARMS: THE SPECIAL EDITION
    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
    In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's unforgettable book recreates the fear, the courage and the comradeship of warfare with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war, it is also a love story of immense drama and un...
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    14,30 €

  • POEMS FOR CHRISTMAS
    Poems for Christmas is an exquisitely produced gift anthology which is guaranteed to get anyone in the festive spirit.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by Judith ...
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    14,95 €

  • DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    This dramatisation for schools of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel is presented in the form of a tv documentary involving expert witnesses trying to get to the bottom of the strange case. The story is reconstructed and the audience is taken back to Victorian London...What happened to Dr Jekyll? 'Strange Cases', the investigative television documentary programme, tries to solve th...
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    12,60 €

  • PETER PAN
    BARRIE, J M
    J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan is a thrilling adventure for all ages - the story of the boy who refuses to grow up is a tale that never gets old.It follows the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael, who befriend the magical Peter and are whisked away to Neverland, where the villainous Captain Hook and the brave Lost Boys await. With illustrations by F. D.Bedford, gorgeously colou...
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    15,60 €

  • THE PICKWICK PAPERS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of fiction's most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the 'illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded' Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and ...
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    19,30 €

  • MILL ON THE FLOSS
    ELIOT, GEORGE
    With precise plotting underpinned by a wise understanding of human nature, George Eliot's most autobiographical novel gives a wonderful evocation of rural life and the complicated relationship between siblings.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make p...
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    17,95 €

  • LEAVES OF GRASS
    WHITMAN, WALT
    A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift for poetry lovers.In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetr...
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    17,95 €

  • ORLANDO
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Virginia Woolf's wildly imaginative, comic novel was inspired by the life of her lover, Vita Sackville West.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition...
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    15,60 €