Villette by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with ...Show more
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International
Translation of: El general en su laberinto.
Mahabharata: A Shortened Prose Version by R K Narayan
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Category: Classics
"The Mahabharata" tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to destruction, this ancient poem remains an indelible part ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Supernatural hounds, a family curse, a mysterious cipher and the return of a deadly enemy ...Sherlock Holmes will have to utilize every skill he has to solve the two classic mysteries collected here. The Hound of the Baskervilles sees Holmes and Dr Watson travel to the misty wilds of Dartmoor to confron ...Show more
Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories by David Stuart Davies
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural
Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori's 'The Vamp ...Show more
Lurking Fear: Volume 4 by H. P. LOVECRAFT
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
'The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastat ...Show more
Not Exactly Ghosts & Fires Burn Blue by Sir Andrew Caldecott
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Here together for the first time in one volume are the twenty five spooky stories created by Sir Andrew Caldecott in two collections the 1940s: "Not Exactly Ghosts" and "Fires Burn Blue". Caldecott, who only turned to fiction after retiring from the civil service, allowed his lifelong fascination with t ...Show more
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. WILDE, GLAMOROUS AND NOTORIUS, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the ha ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the ...Show more
Great Stories by Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics
Thomas Mann held Chekhov in highest esteem, declaring, "His short stories rank with all that is greatest and best of European literature." This compilation of seven early and late tales attests to the Russian author's timeless appeal. Selections include "Misery," "A Father," "A Problem," "Ward No. 6," " ...Show more
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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Category: Classics | Series: Pan 70th Anniversary Ser.
Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time--has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Widely co ...Show more
The Works of Alexandre Dumas: Marguerite de Valois (Classic Reprint) by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
Excerpt from The Works of Alexandre Dumas: Marguerite De Valois In the war many diverging interests were about to engage. The Dutch desired liberty, England her independence, the cities of France their ancient communal rights, and provincial feudalism its former privileges. But the religious form, which ...Show more