Classics
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Alfred the Great
£12.99Alfred the Great
Asser’s ‘Life of King Alfred’, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest medieval kings. Chronicling his battles against Viking invaders, and his struggles to increase the strength and knowledge of his people, it is among the earliest surviving royal biographies.
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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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Slaughterhouse-Five, Or, The Children’s Crusade
£9.99Slaughterhouse-Five, Or, The Children’s Crusade
The destruction of Dresden by bombs and a fire storm was a catastrophe that Vonnegut himself witnessed as a prisoner of war and forms the basis of this modern classic.
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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 Sound and the Fury
£9.99The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. It is about intense passionate family relationships wherin there is no love, only self-centredness.
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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 Handmaid’s Tale
£9.99The Handmaid’s Tale
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function – to breed. If she deviates, she will be killed. But even an oppressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred’s nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
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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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The Old Man and the Sea
£8.99The Old Man and the Sea
The old man has gone 84 days without catching a fish, everything about him is old except his eyes, they are the colour of the sea. He finally catches a fish, but this is no ordinary fish, nor is his fierce and determined response.
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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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A Month in the Country
£9.99A Month in the Country
In the summer of 1920, a young man escapes London to embark on the unveiling of a medieval church wall painting in a small north country village. As he becomes absorbed by his work so too does he get drawn into the lives of those around him.
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