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1984: 75th Anniversary
In a bleak future where totalitarian rule is absolute, Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history to fit the Party’s ever-changing narrative. Outwardly obedient, Winston secretly despises the regime that punishes independent thought and demands unwavering loyalty to Big Brother. As...- $ 400.00
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A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter, cold-hearted old miser who scoffs at joy and dismisses Christmas as nothing more than “humbug.” But everything changes one fateful Christmas Eve when he’s visited by the ghost of his late business partner—and three spirits who take him on...- $ 350.00
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A Confederacy of Dunces
Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the story follows the unforgettable misfit Ignatius J. Reilly as his chaotic escapades carry him from hot dog carts to Bourbon Street, crashing headlong into the city’s politics, corruption, and eccentricities. Darkly hilarious and outrageously biting,...- $ 350.00
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A Fantasy of Dr Ox
In the sleepy Flemish town of Quiquendone, life moves at a glacial pace—arguments are rare, romances stretch on for decades, and excitement is virtually unknown. That is, until the enigmatic Dr. Ox arrives with a bold plan to modernize the town’s lighting system. But...- $ 250.00
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A Hero of Our Time
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Caucasus, A hero of out rime follows the enigmatic Pechorin —a soldier, seducer, and wanderer—whose charm and cruelty leave lasting scars on everyone he meets. Told through shifting perspectives, including that of a fellow officer and Pechorin’s...- $ 300.00
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A Journey Around My Room
What happens when you're confined to a single room for six weeks? For Xavier de Maistre, a young French officer arrested after a duel in 1790, the answer was simple: he became a traveler in his own home. Dressed in his pink and blue...- $ 300.00
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A Long Day in a Short Life
A Long Day in a Short Life unfolds within the indifferent passage of time behind the walls of Washington District Jail, where a group of inmates endures the monotony and isolation of prison life. Once innocent children, they are now marginalized figures, stripped of...- $ 270.00
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce’s landmark debut novel traces the awakening of an artist—and the forging of an identity. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and intelligent boy growing up in late 19th-century Ireland, as he navigates childhood, faith,...- $ 300.00
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking essay remains a cornerstone of feminist thought nearly a century after its publication. In A Room of One’s Own, Woolf explores what it takes for women to write—and to thrive creatively—in a world shaped by male privilege. Through vivid storytelling, incisive...- $ 400.00
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A Room with a View
Lucy Honeychurch’s well-structured, proper life begins to unravel during a trip to Florence with her prim cousin Charlotte. Amid the vibrant streets of Italy and the eccentric guests at the Pension Bertolini— including the spirited novelist Eleanor Lavish and the enigmatic Mr. Emerson and...- $ 400.00
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A Serendipitous Error and An Evil Malady
On a chilly winter night, Yegor Aduyev, the privileged son of a wealthy landowning family, quietly enters the home of Baron Neyleyn with a heart full of hope. He plans to propose to Yelena, the baron’s captivating eighteen-year-old daughter. But Yelena is elusive—a flirt...- $ 350.00
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A Spy in the House of Love
Anaïs Nin transforms the raw material of her personal diaries into a haunting and lyrical work of fiction. At the heart of the novel is Sabina, a woman torn between the desire for passionate, sensual, uninhibited experience, and the constraints of societal norms and...- $ 450.00
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A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the turmoil of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities follows the lives of Doctor Manette, recently freed after eighteen years in the Bastille, and his daughter Lucie, as they begin anew in London. Their quiet life soon entangles with two...- $ 250.00
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A Voyage to the Moon
A bold and eccentric attempt to reach the moon—via vials of dewdrops—sends the narrator on a strange and dreamlike journey. What begins as a fantastical expedition soon lands him in a landscape resembling the Garden of Eden, inhabited by Biblical patriarchs and overseen by...- $ 250.00
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Young Huck Finn escapes his abusive father and sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway enslaved man. What begins as a bid for freedom becomes a deeper journey of moral awakening as Huck grapples with the values he’s been taught and...- $ 300.00
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Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey follows the story of a well-educated young woman from a poor clergyman’s family who, seeking independence and respect, becomes a governess. Idealistic about her role, Agnes quickly finds herself confronted with the harsh realities of her new life. Her first position with...- $ 350.00
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An Uncommon Story
Ivan Goncharov was once hailed as the true literary heir to Gogol, a towering figure of Russian letters in the 1850s. His early success with The Same Old Story positioned him at the center of Russia’s evolving literary scene. But the tide shifted in...- $ 350.00
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Animal Farm
When the neglected animals of Manor Farm rise up against their human oppressor, they believe they are creating a society of equality, freedom, and fairness. Inspired by the ideals of rebellion, the pigs Snowball and Napoleon lead the charge, driving out Mr. Jones and...- $ 350.00
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Anna Karenina
Trapped in a loveless marriage and suffocated by the expectations of Russian high society, Anna Karenina risks everything for a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. But what begins as a pursuit of love soon unravels into scandal, jealousy, and isolation. As Anna...- $ 350.00
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Anna Karenina
At its heart, Anna Karenina is a story of love—ardent, transgressive, and transformative. Anna, a brilliant and captivating woman, risks everything when her passion for the dashing officer Count Vronsky shatters the bonds of marriage and the rigid moral codes of Russian society. Their...- $ 350.00
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Anna Karenina: New Translation
Trapped in a loveless marriage and suffocated by the expectations of Russian high society, Anna Karenina risks everything for a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. But what begins as a pursuit of love soon unravels into scandal, jealousy, and isolation. As Anna...- $ 350.00
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Apology for a Murder
Assassin, poet, and self-styled hero—Lorenzino de’ Medici stunned Italy when he murdered his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537. But his real legacy may lie in the bold, fascinating confession he left behind. In Apology for a Murder, Lorenzino defends his crime...- $ 500.00
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Around the World in Eighty Days
A clockwork English gentleman. A reckless wager. A race against time. October 1872. When the unflappable Phileas Fogg bets his fortune that he can circle the globe in just eighty days, he sets off with his loyal valet, Passepartout, on an unforgettable adventure. From...- $ 250.00
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Arrowsmith
Science, ambition, and a crisis of conscience. Martin Arrowsmith is a brilliant medical student with dreams of transforming the world through science. But as he rises through the ranks of public health and research, personal loss, ambition, and society’s expectations threaten to derail his...- $ 300.00
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Babbitt
In the bustling Midwestern city of Zenith, George F. Babbitt seems to have it all—the successful career, the comfortable home, a loving family, and the social standing that comes with membership in the right clubs. On paper, his life is the very picture of...- $ 450.00
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Beowulf
Beowulf is one of the earliest surviving poems in a modern European language, composed in England before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, it offers a vivid portrait of a feudal world of heroes and monsters, blood and triumph, life and death. As...- $ 120.00
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full...- $ 450.00
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Burmese Days
In the Burmese provincial town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat community, and deriving some comfort only from his conversations with an Indian...- $ 300.00
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Cannery Row
Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the...- $ 350.00
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Cannery Row: Centennial Edition
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from...- $ 400.00
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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the...- $ 450.00
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Ceremony
Decades after its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature—a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is...- $ 350.00
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Tolstoy's first published work, completed in 1856, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth recounts his early life up to his university days. These are not memoirs in the strict sense of the word, as the author's Stendhalian take on the autobiographical genre confronts and blurs the notions...- $ 350.00
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Colonel Chabert
An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years...- $ 260.00
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Cousin Bette
The novel focuses on the life and exploits of Bette Fischer, a 42-year-old woman whose bitterness at remaining unmarried―despite several proposals by men she deemed unworthy―drives her to ruin the reputations and lives of her extended family. After rescuing the young sculptor Wenceslas Steinbock...- $ 450.00
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Crime and Punishment
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. In Crime and Punishment, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St....- $ 350.00
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Daisy Miller
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of...- $ 250.00
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Daisy Miller (Alma)
When the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland, he is struck by her beauty, but slightly unsettled by her open ways and her flirtatiousness. Undeterred by this and by his aunt's disapproval,...- $ 250.00
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David Copperfield
One of the most famous and celebrated Victorian coming-of-age novels, David Copperfield charts the adventures and vicissitudes of its eponymous hero's life, from the misery of his childhood after his mother's marriage to the tyrannical Mr Murdstone, through to his first steps as a...- $ 500.00
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Dead Souls
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and...- $ 350.00
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In a widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were censored from the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about...- $ 400.00
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Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh's "irresistible" first novel (New York Times) is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s.Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at...- $ 350.00
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Delta of Venus
From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review). In this story collection, Anais Nin pens a...- $ 450.00
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Devils
As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder...- $ 500.00
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Doctor Zhivago
First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural...- $ 450.00
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Dracula
The gothic classic that gave the vampire its teeth. When young solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to assist the mysterious Count Dracula in purchasing a London estate, he finds himself trapped in a nightmare of superstition, bloodlust, and ancient evil. As Dracula makes...- $ 300.00
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Dubliners
Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth-century. From the unsettling adventure of two truant schoolboys to the crafty schemes...- $ 500.00
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Embers
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs. In a secluded woodland castle an...- $ 300.00
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Emma
Now a major motion picture starring Anya Taylor-JoyPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Beautiful, clever, rich - and...- $ 500.00
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Emma: 200th Anniversary
200th Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self-confidence and self-knowledge,...- $ 450.00
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