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A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fab ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant mas ...Show more
A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at h ...Show more
A Perfect Spy
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unrelia ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Watson met Holmes for the first time a short while ago, and already Sherlock Holmes had astonished him with his powers of detection. In this, their first adventure, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson uncover a thrilling story of murder, love and revenge, which began years before in Salt Lake City.
A Study in Scarlet (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Judith John (Contribution by); Arthur Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
A gorgeous edition of Sherlock Holmes first adventure, the perfect gift for readers and collectors. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
Explore Dickens' classic tale of order and disorder, death and resurrection with A Tale of Two Cities. Taking place in London and Paris in the eighteenth century, in the years leading up to and during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is one of injustice, revenge, rebirth, lo ...Show more