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A journey to the western islands of Scotland
£10.99A journey to the western islands of Scotland
This text contains Johnson’s descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade and agriculture of a society that was new to him. Boswell offers an intimate personal record of Johnson’s behavior and conversation during the trip.
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The Iliad
£9.99The Iliad
One of the great epics of western literature, ‘The Iliad’ recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem vivdly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction.
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Fanny Hill, Or, Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure
£2.00Fanny Hill, Or, Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure
Published in 1748-9, this novel is a mocking parody of the warning moralism as seen in Defoe’s novels. Rather than ending in misery, Fanny Hill rises from poverty to a middle-class existence as wife and mother via several stages of prostitution.
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The Magic Mountain
£12.99The Magic Mountain
In this allegorical work, Thomas Mann uses a sanitorium in the Swiss mountains to symbolise the diseased capitalistic society of pre-war Europe.
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The Moonstone
£7.99The Moonstone
A diamond of yellow hue is stolen from a shrine in India. Years later, unknowingly, the diamond is given to Rachel Verrinder as a birthday gift. The diamond carries a terrible curse and is stolen on the eve of Rachel’s birthday.
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Nicholas Nickleby
£9.99Nicholas Nickleby
Mixing comedy and horror, melodrama and acid satire, Dickens depicts a world in which the exploitation and abuse of youth and innocence cannot ever fully vanquish kindness, affection and the joyful energies of life.
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The Crucible
£8.99The Crucible
Arthur Miller’s classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parable between the Salem witch hunt of 1692 and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s.
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Brideshead Revisited
£9.99Brideshead Revisited
Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war.
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
£9.99The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Wilde’s drama combines epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This collection of his plays includes An Ideal Husband, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, A Florentine Tragedy and Lady Windermere’s Fan.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
£9.99One Hundred Years of Solitude
In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community in which the political, the personal and the spiritual worlds intertwine.
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The Grapes of Wrath
£8.99The Grapes of Wrath
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in search of the promised land, and find only broken dreams.
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East of Eden
£8.99East of Eden
Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this powerful, often shocking, story follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons.
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