Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
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Category: Classics
Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination, published in Vintage Classics for the first time. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, follows Lotte Kestner, Goethe's real-life heroine, as she make ...Show more
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John William ...Show more
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (007 James Bond #11) by Ian Fleming
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Category: Classics | Series: James Bond 007
'He was a man with years of dirty, dangerous memories - a spy.' James Bond has had enough. Enough of Service life, of fruitless manhunts, of taking orders. But Blofeld is back - older, leaner and more dangerous than ever, with a deadly secret at the heart of his luxury ski resort. Bond must rediscover h ...Show more
O Pioneers! (Penguin pocket classics) by Willa Cather
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun...' A rapturous work of savage beauty, Willa Cather's 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie i ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
Othello: The Moor of Venice (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Othello William Shakespeare Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and ...Show more
Out of Africa (Penguin pocket classics) by Isak Dinesen; Karen Blixen
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 6
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
O Cruel Alexis: Little Black Classics by Virgil
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Category: Classics
'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.' Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems.
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
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Category: Classics
In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must select a respectable young girl to become her husband's new lover. E ...Show more
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
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Category: Classics
Well-being for all is not a dream.'In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed relevance and poignancy today. Humane, th ...Show more
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
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Category: Classics
A new translation of the Nobel laureate's famous classic follows the story of successful aging writer Gustave von Aschenbach, whose search for spiritual fulfillment in Venice leads to erotic ruin when he becomes obsessed with an alluring Polish youth, Tadzio. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 fi ...Show more