Fitzgerald Francis Scott Tender is the Night
The French Riviera of the mid-1920s is the new playground for rich Americans, among them elegant heiress Nicole Warren and her husband, ambitious psychiatrist Dick Diver. The Divers' renowned hospitality ...
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Dickens Charles Hard Times
The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, purple-dyed river and hordes of downtrodden mill hands. Here headmaster Thomas Gradgrind sternly ...
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Durbridge Francis Bat Out of Hell
Arcturus Crime Classics bring back into print great stories by great writers. Alongside names that will be familiar to crime buffs, the series showcases once famous but now neglected talents. All types ...
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Cleland John Fanny Hill
Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown's bawdy-house the naive young woman begins her sexual initiation ...
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Allingham Margery My Friend Mr Campion & Other Mysteries
Arcturus Crime Classics showcase unjustly neglected works by great writers from the 1930s - the so-called golden age of crime writing - through to the 1970s. From conventional whodunnits to slick thrillers, ...
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Eliot George Silas Marner
Silas Marner (1861) is Eliot's classic tale of an outsider. A weaver who comes to live and work alone in the Midlands village of Raveloe, Silas Marner's sole pleasure is to count his growing hoard of ...
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Wharton Edith Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton's novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. Mattie Silver, a young and guileless girl, is hired to keep house on the bleak New England farm belonging to Ethan Frome ...
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Doyle Arthur Conan The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson appear in a second series of twelve intriguing cases. They include The Adventure of Silver Blaze, with the famous 'curious incident of the dog in the nighttime'; The Adventure ...
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Conrad Joseph The Heart of Darkness
The horror! The horror!'Seaman Charlie Marlowe takes a decaying steamboat on a perilous voyage to the heart of Africa. His mission is to relieve an ivory agent named Kurtz, taken sick at his remote trading ...
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Verne Jules The Journey to the Centre of Earth
Professor Otto Lidenbrock's great adventure begins by chance when a scrap of paper drops out of an ancient book he has just bought. The coded inscription reveals the existence of a passageway leading ...
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Bronte Anne Agnes Gray
Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons.'Agnes Grey (1847) was Anne Bronte's first novel and a poignant account of her own experience as a struggling governess, obliged to earn her living ...
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Ibsen Henrik A Dolls House'
First published in 1879, A Doll's House rewrote the rules of drama. Henrik Ibsen's biographer, Halvdan Koht, wrote that the play "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life... [pronouncing] a death sentence ...
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Wilde Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
At eighteen, the handsome Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, which prompts an admirer, Lord Henry Wotton, to declare that life is nothing without beauty and sensuous gratification.Suddenly scared of ...
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Stevenson Robert Louis Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
".. losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse."Victorian London is the setting for The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Stevenson's ...
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Shelley Mary Frankenstein
In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and activates it with an electrical charge. The result is horrifying - even to ...
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Hawthorne Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
The elderly husband of Hester Prynne returns unexpectedly to their New England village to find his wife nursing an illegitimate baby and wearing a scarlet letter 'A' - for Adulteress - embroidered on ...
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Hardy Thomas Tess of the DUrbervilles'
Thomas Hardy's beautiful and spirited heroine is driven to her tragic end by three men who betray her trust: John Durbeyfield, her drunken, feckless father; the seducer Alec d'Urberville, who leaves Tess ...
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Bronte Emily Wuthering Heights
Like the house itself, Wuthering Heights is set on the bleak Pennine moors, a fitting backdrop to this story of love, torment and revenge, and a landscape familiar to Emily Bronte.Heathcliff is a foundling, ...
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Defoe Daniel Robinson Crusoe
It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore…'Thus Defoe describes the heart-stopping moment when - after years ...
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Cooper James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Published in 1826, The Last of the Mohicans is an adventure story centred on the kinship between white frontiersman, Natty Bumppo or 'Hawkeye' and two Mohican Indians, Chingachgook and his son Uncas.The ...
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Austen Jane Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'The famous opening words of Pride and Prejudice carry the reader straight to the heart ...
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Austen Jane Persuasion
"I am half agony, half hope."Anne Elliot lost the love of her life eight years earlier and the sorrow lingers on. Yet the dashing Captain Wentworth did not desert her; it was Anne who rejected him because ...
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Austen Jane Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is taken to Bath where, among a crowd of new acquaintances, she meets Henry ...
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Wells Herbert George Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Stories
Science fiction and fantasy have gone hand-in-hand since their emergence at the end of the 19th century. Containing the best short stories of the masters of the two genres, this collection brings together ...
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Stoker Bram Supernatural Short Stories
Unexplained terrors, magical anomalies, and a growing sense of dread fill these pages. Only the brave should risk the stories that lie within.In this collection, werewolves, vampires, and ghosts stalk ...
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Poe Edgar Allan Horror Short Stories (HB)
This collection of bone-chilling tales is sure to keep readers awake for many nights. It includes stories from classic writers such as Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M. R. Shiel, William ...
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Lovecraft Howard Phillips H.P.Lovecraft Short Stories (HB)
Lovecraft's otherworldly visions of cosmic horrors, alien beings and a world not quite our own remain immensely powerful and able to terrify even the most resolute readers. The stories here span the breadth ...
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Kafka Franz Metamorphosis
"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul."Franz KafkaMetamorphosis tells the tale of Gregor Samsa, a young salesman, who wakes up one day to find he has turned into "a kind ...
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Dickens Charles A Christmas Carol
Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'No Christmas is complete without Charles Dickens' ...
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Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide
Private misfortunes make up the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are, the greater is the general good.'(Pangloss)After being caught kissing the Baron's daughter Cunegonde, gullible ...
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Leroux Gaston The Phantom of the Opera
In Paris, terror stalks the Opera Garnier. Stories of a terrifying ghost haunting the theatre create panic amongst the musicians and audience. But the ghost is no supernatural phenomenon, but a living, ...
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James Henry Portrait of a Lady
In The Portrait of a Lady. (1881), spirited young Isabel Archer travels from her home in Albany, New York, eager to discover what life has to offer in Europe. Determined to shape her own destiny, she ...
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Dickens Charles A Tale of Two Cities
"It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that i go to than I have ever known."A Tate of Two Cities 11859) moves between two great European capitals, ...
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Collins Wilkie The Moonstone
The Legendary Moonstone diamond is given to spirited Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday, the gift of an uncle who came by it dishonestly. Originally plundered from a sacred statue in an Indian ...
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Lawrence David Herbert Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers (1913) is the semi-autobiographical story of a young man's struggle for emotional independence.Trapped in a violent, loveless marriage to a man she considers socially inferior, Gertrude ...
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Hardy Thomas Far from the Madding Crowd
Into the sleepy village of Weatherbury arrives one day Bathsheba Everdene, come to take charge of her late uncle's thriving farm. Strong willed and beautiful, her presence ensures that life in the area ...
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Hawthorne Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
The elderly husband of Hester Prynne returns unexpectedly to their New England village to find his wife nursing an illegitimate baby and wearing a scarlet letter 'A' - for Adulteress - embroidered on ...
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Swift Jonathan Gullivers Travels'
A shipwreck brings Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput, where he finds himself in a kingdom of tiny people. This experience is later reversed when he lands among the giants of Brobdingnag. And yet more contrasts ...
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Dickens Charles Hard Times
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Grimm Jacob & Wilhelm Grimms Fairy Tales'
Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's FairyTales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early nineteenth century.This selection contains forty-five stories ...
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Doyle Arthur Conan The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr Watson are featured here in a series of twelve of their earliest cases. They include A Scandal in Bohemia where, uniquely, Holmes is outwitted - by a beautiful woman; ...
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Doyle Arthur Conan The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes was the most popular character in Victorian fiction, but when arch-enemy Moriarty bumped him off at the Reichenbach Falls in 'The Final Problem' (1893), many readers were angry and dismayed. ...
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Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft Compendium, the
Regarded by many as a masterpiece, The Call of Cthulhu is among И. P. Lovecraft's most famous works.Recounting the mystery of the cult of Cthulhu, it conjures up a dark and fascinating world.The Cthulhu ...
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Austen Jane Emma
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic ...
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Austen Jane Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is taken to Bath where, among a crowd of new acquaintances, she meets Henry ...
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Austen Jane Persuasion
l am half agony, half hope.'Anne Elliot lost the love of her life eight years earlier and the sorrow lingers on. Yet the dashing Captain Wentworth did not desert her; it was Anne who rejected him because ...
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Austen Jane Sense and Sensibility
The Dashwood sisters - 19-year-old Elinor and Marianne, aged 17 - are left poor and homeless by their father's death. Although kind relatives provide a roof over their heads, one way out of this misfortune ...
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Melville Herman Moby Dick
Inspired by real-life events, this epic tale features a young sailor, Ishmael, who yearns for adventure aboard a whaling ship. In Nantucket, he signs up for a voyage aboard the Pequod, bound for the tropics.But ...
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Bronte Charlotte Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre rightly remains high on the list of the most popular English novels, and brought fame to its author, Charlotte Brontd, on its publication in 1847.The story's heroine, Jane, is a plain and plain-speaking ...
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Shelley Mary Frankenstein
In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and activates it with an electrical charge. The result is horrifying - even to ...
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Fitzgerald Francis Scott Tender is the Night
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