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Diary Of A Mad Old Man by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
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While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady past. Shining with a self-effacing humour, Tanizaki's last novel is ...Show more
Dracula (Vintage Classics) by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house?He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath... Yet even Count Dracula?s unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan H ...Show more
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW MOTIONThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans- Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.' ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
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This Orange Inheritance Edition of "Eugenie Grandet" is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. "Vintage Classics" asked t ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther by Von Arnim Elizabeth
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What on earth could have induced Mr. Anstruther to fall in love with Fraulein Schmidt? He is an eligible English bachelor from a good family with great expectations; she is the plain, poor, "spinster" daughter of a German scholar. But Rose-Marie Schmidt is also funny, intelligent, brave and gifted with ...Show more
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritual values - especially those of the east. Hesse's longing to find a dynamic fusion of mind with nature is set forth more pene ...Show more
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; F. W. Pailthorpe (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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`I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not ...Show more
Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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`Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and ...Show more
Haroun and Luka by Salman Rushdie
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Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can't tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter in the city of Alifbay and now the place stinks of sadness. So it's up to me to put things right. If the water genie Iff ca ...Show more