Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Includes pictures and section on Dostoevsky's life and works The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical, and witty monologue ranges from general observations and phi ...Show more
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
'An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell 'A near-perfect novel' Hanya Yanagihara In the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and eac ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A meticulously-observed tale of the clash between obligation and desire, Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" is edited with an introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland in "Penguin Classics". Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mans ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
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Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic
'A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion.' - Anthony Burgess A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a ba ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. Montgomery
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$14.99 (33% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They are waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts' affection with her vivid imagination and constant ...Show more
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics
In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare weaves together two ancient folk tales, one involving a vengeful, greedy creditor trying to exact a pound of flesh, the other involving a marriage suitor's choice among three chests and thereby winning his (or her) mate. Shakespeare's treatment of the first standar ...Show more
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics
The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - 'the tale told by an idiot'. In very different ways they prove inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of th ...Show more
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
Tao Te Ching: The Book of the Way by Lao-Tzu
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Category: Classics
This is the most widely translated work in world literature after the Bible, "Tao Te Ching" or "The Book of the Way" is the classic text of Taoism, the ancient Chinese school of thought. Believed to be written by Lao-Tzu, the father of Taoism, "Tao Te Ching" applies timeless wisdoms on themes as diverse ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3 by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott M ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. Consumed by the idea of his own special destiny, immured in poverty and deprivation, Rashkolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime. In the aftermath, Rashkolnikov is dogged by madness, guilt and a calculating detective, and a feverish cat-and-mous ...Show more
Mythologies by Roland Barthes; Annette Lavers (Translator)
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Category: Classics
'Mythologies' is a series of essays on the codings that command our daily life, from hairstyles in the film Julius Caesar to glossy photographs of gourmet cooking, to the cult of foam in detergents.