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David Copperfield (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show... When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and hear ...Show more
Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW MOTIONThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans- Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.' ...Show more
Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A Vintage Classics reissue of the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--not otherwise in print as a stand-alone edition. Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age's most beloved p ...Show more
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and t ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Ghost Stories by Ruth Rendell (Introduction by); M. R. James
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt this selection of superbly spooky tales. M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one ...Show more
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritual values - especially those of the east. Hesse's longing to find a dynamic fusion of mind with nature is set forth more pene ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; F. W. Pailthorpe (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
`I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not ...Show more
Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
`Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and ...Show more
Heart of Darkness: AND Youth by Joseph Conrad; Tim Butcher (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more