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The English Patient
In the final days of the Second World War, an Italian villa-turned-hospital houses four unlikely companions, each scarred—physically or emotionally—by the trauma of conflict. At the heart of The English Patient lies a mystery: the identity and past of a man lying in an...- $ 300.00
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his...- $ 400.00
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The Eternal Husband
During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he realizes he is an old friend, Trusotsky, whose...- $ 500.00
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The Etruscan Vase and Other Stories
When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde, he becomes gradually consumed by jealousy at the thought that it could be the gift of another man, and the situation escalates dramatically as he demands...- $ 330.00
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the...- $ 500.00
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The Forsyte Saga
A cornerstone of modern literature from Nobel Prize–winning author John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga stands as a sweeping portrait of an upper-middle-class family struggling beneath the weight of its own wealth, pride, and propriety. At its heart lies the turbulent marriage of Soames Forsyte—unyielding,...- $ 1,000.00
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The Fountainhead
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim. This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful...- $ 600.00
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The Four Loves
C. S. Lewis’s classic work explores the four distinct types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Drawing on the Greek distinctions—storge (basic affection), philia (rare and insightful friendship), eros (passionate love), and agape (selfless love of God)—Lewis examines...- $ 350.00
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The Garden Party and Selected Short Stories
When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one...- $ 250.00
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The Ghost Rider
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider...- $ 350.00
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The Ghost-Seer
The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering an enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an uncanny pronouncement, a bizarre chain of events unfolds, involving a Jesuit secret...- $ 350.00
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The Gift
Considered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished poet seeking fame in the phantasmic world of Berlin...- $ 450.00
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The Giver
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas. Not until...- $ 250.00
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The Glass Menagerie
No play in the modern theater has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere...- $ 300.00
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The Golden Bough
A Study in Comparative Religion. Published in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. Frazer's learning inspired a...- $ 700.00
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The Good Soldier
When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister and their...- $ 250.00
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The Grapes of Wrath: Centennial Edition
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of...- $ 450.00
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The Great Gatsby
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a...- $ 450.00
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The Haunted Hotel
An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, abandons his fiancée for an enigmatic countess with a dark past, before moving with her and her brother, Baron Rivar – who is rumoured to be her lover, and is fond of gambling and alchemy – into a decayed...- $ 250.00
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The Haunted House
Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together and relate the supernatural experiences they have had. The resulting ghost stories thrill,...- $ 400.00
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The Haunting of Hill House
Originally published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has earned its reputation as a masterpiece of psychological terror. The novel follows four seekers drawn to the notoriously unwelcoming Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar determined to gather scientific proof of...- $ 350.00
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The House of Mirth
A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century—now with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jennifer Egan.Wharton’s first literary success—a devastatingly accurate portrait...- $ 470.00
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The House of Mirth
An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she...- $ 280.00
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The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife. Largely ignored at first by his fellow inmates due to his noble blood, he gradually settles in and...- $ 500.00
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin—the titular 'idiot'—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and...- $ 350.00
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The Idiot
Prince Myshkin, just twenty-six, returns to Russia after several years in a Swiss sanatorium, hoping to claim an inheritance and simply “live among people.” Before he even arrives, he encounters the brooding Rogozhin, the wealthy merchant’s son whose fixation on the captivating Nastasya Filippovna...- $ 400.00
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The Iliad
Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned...- $ 400.00
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The Iliad
The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded...- $ 700.00
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The Iliad
The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded...- $ 400.00
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The Illustrated Walden
A timeless reflection on nature, solitude, and self-reliance—now beautifully restored in its original illustrated form. First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden remains a profound meditation on simple living, spiritual discovery, and the rhythms of the natural world. In this special edition—originally released...- $ 500.00
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The Intelligent Woman's Guide
As a lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of human life, perverting family affections and the relations between the sexes. According to him, all British institutions were “corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest” – and idealism,...- $ 250.00
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The Invisible Man
"It's very simple," said the voice. "I'm an invisible man."With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at the Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be...- $ 350.00
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The Invisible Man (Alma)
The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be the victim of...- $ 350.00
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The Joy Luck Club
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful,...- $ 300.00
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The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vital work of social commentary. A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day...- $ 500.00
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The Last of the Mohicans
After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro's Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable sisters turn to the scout Hawk-eye and the Mohicans Chingachgook and Uncas to lead them to Fort William...- $ 500.00
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Ghostly Tales
Ichabod Crane is a young schoolmaster from Connecticut now living in Sleepy Hollow, a settlement in New York State notorious for rumours of ghostly visitations, especially from the infamous Headless Horseman. Considered an outsider by the local inhabitants, he falls in love with the...- $ 400.00
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The Lost World
When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher, notorious for man handling nosy enquirers. But...- $ 350.00
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The Lover
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days...- $ 350.00
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The Makioka Sisters
Junichirō Tanizaki’s magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and a classic of international literature.Tsuruko, the eldest sister of the once-wealthy Makioka family, clings...- $ 550.00
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The Makioka Sisters
Tsuruko, the eldest sister of the once-wealthy Makioka family, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name even as her husband prepares to move their household to Tokyo, where that name means nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantly to secure the future of her younger...- $ 450.00
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The Metamorphosis
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed...- $ 300.00
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The Odyssey
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life. The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about...- $ 400.00
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A haunting tale of beauty, corruption, and the cost of eternal youth. When Dorian Gray sees his portrait—capturing his youthful perfection—he makes a reckless wish: that he might remain forever young, while the painting alone ages in his place. As he falls under the...- $ 250.00
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A haunting tale of beauty, corruption, and the cost of eternal youth. When Dorian Gray sees his portrait—capturing his youthful perfection—he makes a reckless wish: that he might remain forever young, while the painting alone ages in his place. As he falls under the...- $ 400.00
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The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe gathers the most powerful and enduring works of Edgar Allan Poe, spanning tales of fantasy, terror, revenge, and mystery. This comprehensive volume includes classics such as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The...- $ 350.00
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The Portrait of a Lady
One of the most enduring heroines in American fiction, Isabel Archer travels to Europe determined to shape her own destiny. As Henry James later reflected in his 1908 preface, he began The Portrait of a Lady with little more than the compelling image of...- $ 450.00
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The Portrait of Mr W.H.
During a conversation about literary forgeries, Erskine tells his young guest that he has received – as a legacy from a friend, the Cambridge scholar Cyril Graham – what is purported to be an Elizabethan portrait. The painting depicts a beautiful young man in...- $ 300.00
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself Gil-Martin. Under his influence Robert commits a series of murders which he regards...- $ 300.00
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The Rainbow
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the...- $ 450.00
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