Dubliners (Riverrun Editions) by James Joyce; Patrick McGuinness (Contribution by)
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Category: classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface to Dubliners.Set in the late 19th and early 20th-century, Dubliners is made up of fifteen storie ...Show more
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: Retold by Naomi Lewis by Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis (retold)
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Category: classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of the world's most celebrated fairy tales. A delightful selection of stories from Hans Christian Andersen, translated by the eminent writer and critic, Naomi ...Show more
Ulysses by JAMES JOYCE
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LAWRENCE
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an ...Show more
Hamlet (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dreamone of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd a ...Show more
Macbeth (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Shakespeare's Macbethis one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the a ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Collectors Edition) by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart..."Crime and Punishmentis one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn ...Show more
Summer by Edith Wharton
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Category: classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithA novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion ...Show more
Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima
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Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithFilled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan's greatest writers ...Show more
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, ...Show more
Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy ...Show more