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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Puffin Plated: A Book-to-Table Reading ExperienceA deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Jane Austen classic featuring a selection of recipes for tea-time treats by the one and only Martha Stewart!Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever edition of a classic novel,...- $ 500.00
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Jane Eyre
The novel follows the life of Jane Eyre, an orphan raised in the cold and unkind household of her aunt, where she endures isolation and cruelty. These early hardships forge Jane’s resilience, independence, and moral strength—qualities she relies on when she becomes governess to...- $ 300.00
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Jane Eyre
Penguin Clothbound Classics Bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Charlotte Brontë's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. The novel follows the life of Jane Eyre, an...- $ 500.00
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Jettatura
This 1856 novella from the master of fantasy and the supernatural is a brilliant and witty examination of man's innermost fantasies and fears.When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancé, he is surprised to see her grow pale under...- $ 250.00
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
As one of the many installments in Jules Verne’s Voyage Extraordinaire series, Journey to the Center of the Earth promises high stakes and thrilling adventure. When Professor Otto Lidenbrock bought an ancient runic manuscript, which chronicles the lives of Norwegian Kings, he did not...- $ 500.00
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne's pioneering classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher, written in runes, tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own. So...- $ 350.00
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King Lear
This edition of King Lear presents a conflated text, combining the 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts, edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and...- $ 250.00
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King Solomon's Mines
When the adventurer Allan Quatermain is asked by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help them find Sir Henry's missing brother, who was last seen trekking into the remote African interior in search of the fabled King Solomon's Mines, he reluctantly agrees, yet...- $ 500.00
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La Traviata
In this guide, Julian Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the leading lady. Denis Arnold contributes a musical commentary. April FitzLyon discusses the social...- $ 400.00
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Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
Comprising one finished novel, Lady Susan, which was published posthumously, and two unfinished fragments, Sanditon and The Watsons, this collection – full of melodrama and burlesque, and exploring a range of literary styles and social classes – spans the entirety of Jane Austen's writing...- $ 250.00
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Lanark
Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal...- $ 550.00
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Leaves of Grass
First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating...- $ 280.00
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Les Misérables
In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo’s tour de force, Les Misérables , is revealed in its full unabridged glory. A favorite of readers for nearly 150 years, and the basis for one of the most beloved stage...- $ 600.00
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Letters to a Young Poet
A timeless guide to the creative life from one of literature’s most profound voices. At the dawn of the twentieth century, poet Rainer Maria Rilke exchanged a series of heartfelt letters with a young aspiring writer—a correspondence that would become a lasting source of...- $ 250.00
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Little Birds
These thirteen erotic short stories by the acclaimed author of Henry and June explore the nature of desire, taboo, and female sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter,...- $ 450.00
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Little House in the Big Woods
Set in 1871 on the edge of Wisconsin’s Big Woods, this beloved story follows Laura Ingalls and her family as they live in a small log cabin. With Pa, Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog Jack, Laura experiences the joys and...- $ 300.00
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Little Women
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy,...- $ 250.00
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Little Women
A beloved classic of sisterhood, resilience, and coming of age. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, Little Women follows the lives of the four March sisters—practical Meg, spirited Jo, gentle Beth, and headstrong Amy—as they navigate the trials of adolescence, family...- $ 200.00
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Lolita
Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of...- $ 400.00
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult...- $ 450.00
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Love
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost...- $ 500.00
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Love Poems
One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin’s immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This...- $ 450.00
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Loveless Love
In 'The Wave', a young man falls dangerously in love with the tenant downstairs, who is engaged to be married; in 'The Signorina', a flirtatious young woman is caught between her feelings and her parents' desire for a good match; in 'A Friend to...- $ 500.00
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Lucky Jim
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history...- $ 300.00
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Madame Bovary
Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her...- $ 250.00
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Mademoiselle de Scudéri
One of the earliest examples of the classic murder mystery, Hoffman’s remarkable book has been the inspiration for a host of thriller and crime writers. Parisian goldsmith Monsieur Cardillac is a genius at his craft. Greatly admired throughout Paris, he is renowned for his...- $ 500.00
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Madonna in a Fur Coat
A reserved young man leaves his quiet village in rural Turkey to learn a trade and experience life in 1920s Berlin. Amid the city’s vibrant streets, grand museums, fervent politics, and notorious cabarets, a chance encounter with a captivating half-Jewish artist changes him forever....- $ 400.00
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Main Street
Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of redesigning her adopted village, but her efforts are thwarted by the narrow-mindedness,...- $ 450.00
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Mansfield Park
Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person...- $ 350.00
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Mansfield Park
Part 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. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price...- $ 500.00
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Melmoth the Wanderer
A Penguin Classic Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of literature’s most fiendish figures. In a dark bargain, he trades his soul for immortality, condemning himself to centuries of tortured wanderings. His story unfolds through the accounts of those whom Melmoth has...- $ 300.00
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Middlemarch
The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich...- $ 350.00
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Middlesex
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name...- $ 370.00
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Moby Dick
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already...- $ 400.00
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Moby Dick
So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself....- $ 300.00
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Moise and the World of Reason
An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation ahead of its time, Moise and the World of Reason has at its center the need of three people for each other: Lance, the beautiful black figure skater full of love and lust for...- $ 500.00
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Monday or Tuesday
Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development of themes that would blossom in her later masterpieces.From...- $ 450.00
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Mrs Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and is on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her...- $ 300.00
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Mrs. Dalloway
This new edition of one of Virginia Woolf’s most celebrated novels features an introduction by Michael Cunningham, acclaimed bestselling author of The Hours. Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands...- $ 300.00
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My Ántonia
In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa...- $ 400.00
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Nadja
A new translation of one of the defining works of French Surrealism, Nadja is an autobiographical novel that is at once a tumultuous love story and an exploration of the surreal in everyday life. In Paris, fall 1926, André Breton met a young provincial...- $ 400.00
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Near to the Wild Heart
Near to the Wild Heart announced Brazil to the force of “Hurricane Clarice”—a twenty-three-year-old prodigy who wrote her debut in a tiny rented room. She christened it with a title borrowed from Joyce: “He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.” The...- $ 400.00
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Night and Day
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women—women's...- $ 400.00
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Northanger Abbey
While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become...- $ 350.00
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Northanger Abbey
The earliest of her six major novels, Northanger Abbey remained unpublished until after Jane Austen’s death. A deliciously witty satire of popular Gothic romances, it is perhaps Austen’s lightest, most delightful excursion into a young woman’s world. Catherine Morland, an unlikely heroine—unlikely because she...- $ 150.00
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Notes from Underground
Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth.One of the...- $ 300.00
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Obasan
A powerful novel that explores the internment and persecution of Japanese Canadians during and after World War II. Told through the eyes of Naomi Nakane, a quiet and introspective schoolteacher, the story weaves together memory, history and personal trauma. After the death of her beloved...- $ 400.00
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Oblomov
First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the...- $ 270.00
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Oedipus Trilogy
Here are Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone in fresh new versions for contemporary readers and audiences. Each has been the basis for groundbreaking theatrical performances by Theater of War Productions, in which actors present dramatic readings, followed by town hall-style discussions. These forums are designed to...- $ 400.00
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Of Mice and Men
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression. They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging...- $ 300.00
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