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The Red and the Black
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. His triumphant career...- $ 300.00
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world - to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru's widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, Noboru is thrilled....- $ 450.00
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The Scarlet Letter
Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter "A" as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the...- $ 230.00
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The Scarlet Letter
At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester...- $ 250.00
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The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Deluxe Edition
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on...- $ 650.00
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The Sons
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Trial: Three stories he published in his lifetime, including his best-known tale, “The Metamorphosis.”I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The...- $ 350.00
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion for her, and his infatuation torments him to...- $ 330.00
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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed...- $ 450.00
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The Sound of the Mountain
By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations...- $ 450.00
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The Story of a Nobody
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task – an ailing, world-weary “nobody” – seized with the purposelessness of life...- $ 300.00
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The Summer Book
New York Review Books Classics In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of...- $ 350.00
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The Sun Also Rises
With a new introduction by Maria Hinojosa, Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor of Latino USA. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises displays the full flower of Hemingway's unique style, at once spare and gut-wrenching. Following a group of expatriates in Europe after...- $ 350.00
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The Sun Also Rises
The debut novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author that is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their dreams in postwar Europe. Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954,...- $ 350.00
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The Sun Also Rises
One of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett...- $ 350.00
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The Tale of Genji
Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs,...- $ 450.00
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The Temple of Dawn
The Sea of Fertility #3. Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early...- $ 450.00
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone and develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto’s famous Golden Temple....- $ 350.00
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Evergreens)
Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the beautiful and enigmatic woman who has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. He is swift to befriend her and steadfastly refutes the local gossip calling her character and behaviour into question, yet he soon has cause to...- $ 330.00
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The Time Machine
A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads the scientist...- $ 400.00
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The Trial
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must...- $ 350.00
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which...- $ 400.00
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The Voyage Out
Helen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne, a ship belonging to Helen's brother-in-law Willoughby Vinrace. Travelling with them is his daughter Rachel – a quiet, unremarkable girl raised in...- $ 400.00
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The Voyage Out
A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, books, sex, love and marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught, momentarily...- $ 400.00
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The War of the Worlds
Without warning, strange cylinders fall from the sky, and from them emerge the Martians—towering, tentacled beings armed with heat-rays and unstoppable machines of war. As panic spreads and the British countryside burns, one man embarks on a harrowing journey through a crumbling world to...- $ 300.00
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The War of the Worlds
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth...- $ 300.00
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The Willow and Other Stories
Old Arkhip sits every day by the roots of a wizened, hunchbacked willow, fishing and exchanging whispered stories with the ancient tree. One of these takes Arkhip three decades back in time, to a quiet day in early spring when a strange encounter shook...- $ 350.00
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The Woman Destroyed
These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the heroine's serenity is shattered when she learns that her husband is having an affair. In "The Age of...- $ 350.00
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This Side of Paradise
Fitzgerald's debut novel, first published in 1920, describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned, and was an overnight success "Discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained...- $ 500.00
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Thoughts
Thoughts – a collection of philosophical and critical observations put together for publication by Leopardi himself shortly before his death in 1837 – shows a more light-hearted side to Leopardi's personality, and offers both those who are familiar with and those who are new...- $ 400.00
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Three Years
A powerful novella about redemption and the nuances of human relationships that helped cement Chekhov's reputation as a major figure in Russian literature. On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works...- $ 250.00
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred. One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty...- $ 300.00
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To the Lighthouse
The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose. Though the novel turns on the death of its central figure, Mrs. Ramsay, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation...- $ 350.00
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Trainspotting
Trainspotting is the novel that launched Irvine Welsh’s explosive career — a raw, relentless, and darkly exhilarating portrait of lives lived on the edge. Told in sharp, episodic bursts, it captures a world of addiction, rage, and survival with unflinching authenticity. For its time...- $ 350.00
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Transformation
Having frittered away his family's fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of his native Genoa and harbours plans for revenge. After a mighty storm, he sees a mysterious, misshapen creature approaching from the sea, with whom...- $ 250.00
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Tropic of Cancer
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new...- $ 450.00
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Tropic of Capricorn
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual...- $ 450.00
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Ulysses
This revised edition of Ulysses presents the complete, unabridged text as corrected in 1961, offering readers the most authoritative version of a modernist masterpiece. Set over the course of a single day—June 16, 1904—the novel follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus as they move...- $ 400.00
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Utopia
In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast...- $ 550.00
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Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Written in 1935 during the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until a decade later, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a strange and erotic fable tracing a young girl’s unsettling passage into womanhood, set in motion by her first menstruation. Drawing...- $ 400.00
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War and Peace
Set during one of the most turbulent periods in European history—the Napoleonic Wars—War and Peace offers a sweeping portrait of Russian society in the early 19th century. Against the backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, Tolstoy captures the impact of war on...- $ 550.00
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Waverley
A classic historical novel that transports readers to 18th-century Scotland during the Jacobite uprising of 1745. The story follows Edward Waverley, an English gentleman and soldier who becomes caught between his loyalty to the British crown and his growing fascination with the Highland way...- $ 350.00
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White Nights
In White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of a lonely young dreamer wandering the streets of Saint Petersburg, burdened by isolation and longing. His solitary existence changes when he meets a young woman and forms a tender, intimate bond with her over the...- $ 350.00
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White Nights and Other Stories
Lonely and adrift, a young man—an inveterate dreamer—wanders the streets of St Petersburg during one of its endless summer nights. As he meanders through the hushed city, he encounters a young woman in distress, fending off the advances of an unwelcome stranger. He intervenes,...- $ 350.00
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White Noise
A darkly comic, razor-sharp exploration of modern life, media saturation and the fear of death in a world overwhelmed by information. At the heart of the novel is Jack Gladney, a professor of "Hitler Studies" at a small liberal arts college, who lives with...- $ 450.00
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White Noise
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Wise Blood
Flannery O’Connor’s remarkable debut novel, is a darkly comic and unsettling exploration of faith, doubt, and human desperation. The story follows Hazel Motes, a young man in his early twenties consumed by an internal struggle against belief itself. Determined to reject religion entirely, he...- $ 400.00
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Women in Love
A bold and emotionally intense exploration of love, identity, and the human condition in the aftermath of World War I. This modernist classic follows the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, as they navigate complex romantic relationships and search for meaning in...- $ 450.00
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Wuthering Heights
When Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before- of the...- $ 250.00
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Wuthering Heights
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter...- $ 450.00
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Wuthering Heights: Deluxe Edition
When Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before- of the...- $ 350.00
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