The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Popular Penguins by Muriel Spark
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
The Bad Seed by William March
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Movie Classics
The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything even murder. There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned in ...Show more
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Baker Street Classics Ser.
The immortal Sherlock Holmes solves eleven unforgettable mysteriesThese stories, originally published in the Strand Magazine, follow Holmes from the astonishing heights of his deductive powers to the bottom of a treacherous gorge in Switzerland. "Silver Blaze," a case that famously hinges on the "curiou ...Show more
Dickens at Christmas by Dickens, Charles
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Category: Classics
A selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings, in one beautiful hardback editionDiscover this selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful gift edition. The ultimate Christmas present.It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within ...Show more
Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Sanditon, Lady Susan, The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen is a rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites, representing what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket. It contains not only her hilarious History of England, illustrated by her favour ...Show more
The Magic Mountain: As Seen on BBC Between the Covers by Thomas Mann
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Category: Classics
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. "The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional ...Show more
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
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Category: Classics
The Scarlet PimpernelBaroness Emmuska OrczyIn 1792, when the hated aristocrats were being mowed down in France by Madame Guillotine, an intrepid Englishman hid his identity under the nom-de-guerre of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," and headed a band of twenty noblemen whose object was to save as many of the Fr ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
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Category: Classics | Series: Jeeves and Wooster Ser.
A classic Jeeves and Wooster novel from P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century Bertie assumes his alter-ego of Cupid and arranges the engagement of Gussie Fink-Nottle to Tuppy Glossop. Thankfully, Jeeves is ever present to correct the blundering plans hatched by his master. 'A cava ...Show more
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics | Series: VMC
How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . 'A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a ...Show more