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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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East of Eden: Centennial Edition
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined...- $ 400.00
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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: 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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Ethan Frome
Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband's feelings for Mattie go...- $ 350.00
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Eugene Onegin
When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting...- $ 350.00
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Family Lexicon
Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist obsessed with his work and long hikes, quick to anger at missteps or misbehavior. Jewish and married to the Catholic Lidia, the family is secular yet bound by love and lively debate, raising children who carve their...- $ 350.00
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Its heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, takes up her position as a farmer on a large estate, where her confident presence draws...- $ 300.00
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Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Its heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, takes up her position as a farmer on a large estate, where her confident presence draws...- $ 300.00
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Fathers and Children
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov’s outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect...- $ 500.00
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Faust
A lesser-known novella by one of the great masters of Russian literature, now available to English readers in a lucid translation, is presented with "Yakov Pasynkov," another story exploring the nature of love and human relations. In a series of nine letters, the narrator...- $ 400.00
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Finnegans Wake
Wordsworth Classics Finnegans Wake is the final major work of James Joyce, centered loosely on figures like Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family, but in a way that suggests it is also, in some sense, about everyone and everything. Unlike...- $ 300.00
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls.The story of Robert Jordan, a young...- $ 400.00
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Frankenstein
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that...- $ 200.00
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Gone with the Wind
Sweeping tale of love, loss, and survival set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Margaret Mitchell's epic novel follows the indomitable Scarlett O'Hara as she navigates the tumultuous world of the Old South, fighting to preserve her way of life.- $ 550.00
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Good Wives
Three years have passed since the events narrated in Little Women, and the four March sisters are approaching adulthood, with all its accompanying challenges and expectations. Meg is preparing for her wedding, Beth continues to struggle with her health, Jo is more than ever...- $ 230.00
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Goodbye to Berlin
First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and...- $ 350.00
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Great Expectations
One of Dickens’s finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the life of a gentleman, enabling him to escape to London from the prospect of a humble blacksmith’s career...- $ 450.00
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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
This compact volume brings together a powerful selection of stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, curated by the National Endowment for the Arts for its Big Read program. The collection features eleven stories and seven poems, including some of Poe’s most chilling and...- $ 400.00
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Step into the haunting imagination of Edgar Allan Poe, the defining figure of Gothic fiction and early psychological horror. This essential collection brings together some of his most enduring works, each offering a descent into the darker corners of the mind and human experience....- $ 250.00
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Step into the eerie and captivating imagination of Edgar Allan Poe, where suspense, dread, and psychological depth intertwine. This collection brings together some of his most iconic works, including The Raven, in which a grieving narrator is visited by a mysterious raven, unraveling a...- $ 400.00
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Greyfriars Bobby
Inspired by true events, Greyfriars Bobby is the deeply moving story of an inseparable bond and a wonderful evocation of Edinburgh in the late nineteenth century.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon...- $ 400.00
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Hadji Murat
Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never...- $ 400.00
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Hamlet
This edition of Hamlet is edited with an introduction by series editor A. R. Braunmuller and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare...- $ 200.00
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Hangsaman
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite can’t wait to escape to college. At home, she lives under the suffocating control of her domineering, self-absorbed father, a writer who keeps both Natalie and her weary mother firmly under his thumb. Yet once she finally leaves, the freedom she...- $ 400.00
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Helena
Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius. Leaving home for lands unknown, she spends her adulthood seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies...- $ 450.00
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Herzog
Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him—he has...- $ 450.00
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Herzog: Deluxe Edition
This is the story of Moses Herzog—a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, the...- $ 450.00
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour received international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film festival as well as the New York Film Critics'...- $ 350.00
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Housekeeping: 40th Anniversary
A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping follows Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, as they grow up in the small lakeside town of Fingerbone. After their mother’s death, they pass from the care of their practical grandmother to two well-meaning but hapless great-aunts, and...- $ 400.00
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Howards End
First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz. At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful...- $ 400.00
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Humiliated and Insulted
First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only...- $ 500.00
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Hunger
Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach...- $ 500.00
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Sent...- $ 450.00
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I, Robot
The legendary collection that redefined artificial intelligence in science fiction. In I, Robot, Isaac Asimov presents a visionary sequence of nine interconnected stories that chart the evolution of robotics—and the complex, often unsettling relationship between humans and their creations. From robots who develop a...- $ 300.00
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Ideal Husband
"An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in the present, and takes place over the course of...- $ 320.00
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If Beale Street Could Talk
From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl,...- $ 350.00
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If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is less a novel and more a literary spell—a dazzling exploration of what it means to read, to write, and to lose yourself between the lines. First published in 1979, this postmodern masterpiece doesn’t offer...- $ 400.00
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Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of...- $ 200.00
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In Cold Blood
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost...- $ 450.00
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In the Mountains
“In the Mountains” is a novel written by Elizabeth von Arnim that is narrated in the form of a diary. The narrator is an English woman who seeks refuge in the Swiss Alps after experiencing personal problems shortly after World War I.In July 1919...- $ 300.00
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Incest
When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that involves the two becoming secret lovers. But Franval's virtuous, God-fearing wife becomes suspicious and confronts him, setting...- $ 250.00
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Indiana
Oxford World's Classics The first novel George Sand wrote independently, this work blends vivid romance with a passionate critique of the unequal French marriage laws of her time and a call for a new understanding of women’s roles. It follows a young, innocent woman...- $ 350.00
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Inferno
Dante’s dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth – is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit...- $ 245.00
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Invisible Cities
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor...- $ 450.00
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Ivanhoe
Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon...- $ 300.00
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Jacob's Room
From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanders's story is told by the women in his life, whether through...- $ 400.00
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Jacob's Room
Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student at Cambridge, his elusive, chameleon-like character is gradually revealed in a stream...- $ 400.00
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