Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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1984
£8.991984
The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police are employed to ensure that no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. It is here that he meets and falls in love with Julia. They start a secret, forbidden affair – but nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined.
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A Christmas Carol
£7.99A Christmas Carol
Dickens’ classic story of the Christmas transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, now available in an accessible, super-readable format with dyslexia-friendly features, for all readers.
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A Room With A View
£6.99A Room With A View
Forster’s social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.
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A Tale of Two Cities
£6.99A Tale of Two Cities
Rich in drama and romance, this deftly plotted 1859 historical novel bristles with suspense and culminates in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine.
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Adrift in the Middle Kingdom
£12.99Adrift in the Middle Kingdom
This 1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Het leven op aarde), is an epic sweep of narrative that takes the reader from 1920s Shanghai to a forgotten city beyond the Great Wall of China.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
£5.99Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Celebrating 150 years of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Animal Farm
£7.99Animal Farm
Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. Orwell’s allegoric story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption is as fresh today as when it was first published in 1945.
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Anna Karenina
£8.99Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as a wife and turns to her lover Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature.
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Anna of the Five Towns
£8.99Anna of the Five Towns
Set in the Potteries, the region in which Bennett spent much of his youth, this is the story of a miser’s daughter who inherits a fortune. She stands out as a spirited, complex modern woman in a stifling and repressive society.
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Arcadian Days
£10.99Arcadian Days
Taking inspiration from the incomparably beautiful and intense poetry of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Spurling – a lifelong classicist and historical novelist – spins five more myths for contemporary readers.
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Best Fairy Tales
£9.99Best Fairy Tales
A beautiful illustrated edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s unique and inventive stories.
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Bleak House
£7.99Bleak House
‘Bleak House’ challenges the reader to make connections between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly and the powerful and the victims. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth.
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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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Burmese Days
£7.99Burmese Days
‘Burmese Days’, originally published in 1934, was George Orwell’s first novel. In order to write it, he drew on his experiences serving in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He resigned from this job in 1927.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
£9.99Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The enduring story of a magical car, with stunning illustrations by Joe Berger.
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City of Wonders
£9.99City of Wonders
Stung by the realisation that his father is a fraud and a failure, Onofre Bouvila leaves a life of rural poverty to seek his fortune in Barcelona. The year is 1888, and the Catalan capital is about to emerge from provincial obscurity to take its place amongst the great cities of the world, thanks to the upcoming Universal Exhibition. Thanks to a tip-off from his landlord’s daughter, Onofre gets his big break distributing anarchist leaflets to workers preparing for the World Fair. From these humble beginnings, he branches out as a hair-tonic salesman, a burglar, a filmmaker, an arms smuggler and a political dealmaker, in a mulifaceted career that brings him wealth and influence beyond his wildest dreams. But, just as Barcelona’s rise makes it a haven for gangsters, crooks and spivs, vice begins to fester in Onofre’s heart.
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