The Spy by Paulo Coelho
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Category: Classics
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless.Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city.A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences, as a confidante and courtesan she bewitched the era?s richest and most powerful men.But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari?s lifestyle br ...Show more
The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow
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Category: Classics
Music and war, war and music--these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has composed his magnum opus, The Prague Sonata, a novel more than a dozen years in the making. In the early days of the new mil ...Show more
Tender is the Night (Macmillan Collector's Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, Tender is the Night explores the new world of moneyed leisure found by the first generation of idle-rich Americans to take refuge in the French Riviera, bracketed between the horrors of the Great War and the Great Depression to come. It ...Show more
Best Fairy Tales (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Hans Christian Andersen
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men- Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is senten ...Show more
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
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Category: Classics | Series: The Canons
Frankie Machine, a veteran of the Second World War, returns to Chicago's Northwest side with a morphine habit. Nicknamed the 'kid with the golden arm', Frankie is an aspiring drummer by day and an illicit card-dealer by night. In Molly, an old flame, he sees the chance for redemption, for hard work and ...Show more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde an by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, 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 sci ...Show more
Dubliners (Alma Classics) by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
James Joyce's first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his later work, but is essential for understanding the author's development as a writer, and endures as a masterly example of the short-story form.Although rang ...Show more
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each s ...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 Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
A historical novel set in Lombardy during the wars, famine and plague of the period 1628-30. Two star-crossed lovers are tested by the political injustices of their situation, the virulence of the plague, and a life in exile, away from their homeland. First published in 1827, and now accompanied by an e ...Show more
The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
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Category: Classics
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD''A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life' JAPAN TIMESWhat he experienced that day wasn't life-changing . . . It was life-making.Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transpor ...Show more