Journey into Fear (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Eric Ambler
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Category: Classics
One of the great chase stories- Nazi agents will stop at nothing to kill a British weapons expert on his long, fraught journey home from IstanbulIt is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
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Category: Classics
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
Tender Is The Night (Collins Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.’ American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of 1920s elegance and sophistication, entertaining friends and pursuing a glamorous lif ...Show more
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Category: Classics
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by p ...Show more
Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson
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Category: Classics
Three sisters reunited after ten years in different worlds, again feel the constraints of family life. "Hotel Sorrento" looks at conflicting concepts of national identity and family loyalty. (2 acts, 4 male, 4 female).
Women in Love by D H Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a wh ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of pro ...Show more
Selected Letters by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
One of England's most popular novelists, Jane Austen wrote about life amid the gentry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In her fiction, Austen analysed and satirized her world, particularly the expectations and duties of women in an unequal society. She was also a prolific correspondent, and he ...Show more
In a Lonely Place (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Dorothy B. Hughes
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Category: Classics
A chilling, stylish piece of LA noirAfter the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women. Bumping into an old friend, now a detective working on the case, Dix is thrilled by closely following the progress of the police. And meeting his new n ...Show more
Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert
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Category: Classics
Two secret agents living in the English countryside try - and fail - to live a quiet life, in these hugely enjoyable crime storiesBehrens and Calder are two secret agents living in the English countryside, desperately seeking a quiet life. But despite their best efforts, they find themselves repeatedly ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more