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The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels; Karl Marx; David Aaronovitch
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY YANIS VAROUFAKISThe Communist Manifestowas first published in London in 1848, by two young men in their late twenties. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised as one of the most important political texts ever w ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
The Death of the Heart by BOWEN ELIZABETH
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics
It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evide ...Show more
The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan
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Krishna, an English teacher in the town of Malgudi, nagged by the feeling he's doing the wrong work, is nonetheless delighted by his domestic life, where his wife and young daughter wait for him outside the house every afternoon. Devastated by the death of his wife, Krishna comes to realise what he real ...Show more
The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In the topsy-turvy years between the dawn of the twentieth century and the dark days of 1939, the Moskat family have battled on. But like many Jewish families in Poland they can no longer turn a blind eye to the dwindling of their fortunes. In Warsaw, where saints mingle with swindlers, tough Zionists a ...Show more
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: Vintage Movie Classics by R A Dick
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Movie Classics
The basis for Joseph L. Mankiewicz s cinematic romance starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon d ...Show more
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Graham Greene's gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of his finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of revolutionaries. As Eduardo Plarr, a local doctor, negotiates ...Show more
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
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Two children, strangers, wait in a house in Paris: Leopold for his mother, whom he has never seen, and Henrietta for a train. Upstairs an old woman lies dying and her daughter flutters round her. The author exposes the apprehensions of the children and the reasons for their presence in the house.
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set among the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton's most popular novel is a moving indictment of a society whose soul-crushing limitations destroy a woman too spirited to be contained by them. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the ...Show more
The Key by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics
This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realise ...Show more
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to k ...Show more
The Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens Van der Post
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In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. "Pass world!: I am the dreamer that remains; The man clear cut against the last horizon." Roy Campbell Laurens van der Pos ...Show more