Collected Shorter Fiction by Leo Tolstoy; Aylmer Maude (Translator); Nigel J. Cooper (Translator); John Bayley (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Ranging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoy's short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia's great novelist. Volume 2 of the Collected Shorter Fiction reveals how Tolstoy's growing spiritual preoccupations ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 - and True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey; Paul Giles (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Peter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume. Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged ...Show more
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
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
The Mask of Dimitrios (Crime & Espionage Clasics) by Eric Ambler
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Category: Classics
An English novelist uncovers a trail of crime in Istanbul - and all roads lead to the mysterious master criminal DimitriosEnglish crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the my ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
Thomas Hardy brings us an England that once existed but no more. It is rural, traditional, pastoral - a society of mannered conduct that flows like a deep river where powerful currents eddy and swirl. In this powerful novel of love and disillusion, Hardy's heroine is torn between the three men in her li ...Show more
Les Misérables (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of the Century. Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and l ...Show more
Seven Little Australians: Popular Penguins by Ethel Turner
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Judy's father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible - but seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule. Step inside and meet them all - dreamy Meg, and Pip, daring Judy, naughty Bunty, Nell, Baby and ...Show more