Classics from the finest writers of North America.
Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story which uncovers the painful conflict between personal desire and tribal rule in 1870s New York.
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Lambert Strether is the unlikely ambassador sent to Europe by wealthy American widow Mrs Newsome to rescue her long-delayed son Chad from an unsuitable love affair.
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When the oil millionaire General Sternwood finds out his daughter is being blackmailed, he hires P.I. Philip Marlowe. But finding the blackmailer turns out to be just the start of this ultimate noir mystery.
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These 13 short stories span the full range of Chandler’s career, from ‘Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’ first published in 1933 to ‘English Summer’, a black and yet oddly tender story of adultery, cruelty and murder published posthumously in 1976.
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The mood is dark, the atmosphere electric, the voice unmistakable - in his stiletto-sharp thrillers, Raymond Chandler changed the face of crime fiction forever.
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One of the most beloved children's classics of all time tells the story of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a kind spider, saved one special pig.
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Willa Cather’s celebrated novel about missionaries attempting to win converts in 19th-century New Mexico is a beautiful evocation of frontier landscape and a profound meditation on spirituality and the clash of cultures.
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Of all his novels, Tender is the Night, which Fitzgerald called ‘a confession of faith’, is perhaps the closest to his heart, reflecting the turmoil of his own life.
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Twenty-six tales taken from every stage of Hemingway's career make up this short stories collection - an ideal companion to the Great Novels Set.
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Terry Gilliam’s Desert Island Companion
Captain Yossarian is a rebel with a cause: to avoid flying the bombing missions over Italy and France that sooner or later will almost certainly result in his own death.
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Set in a distinctly noir New York, in these three hugely influential and ground-breaking stories fiction and reality meet and identities meld unnervingly. This is the very first illustrated edition.
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The author of the mordantly comic Devil's Dictionary is also revealed as a superb short story writer in this new collection of 90 gripping gothic tales, introduced by Will Self.
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Kurt Vonnegut's black satiric voice exposes the cruelties and aberrations of the human condition in a book that takes its place alongside All Quiet on the Western Front and Catch-22 as one of the greatest anti-war novels ever written.
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Tomboy Scout and her older brother Jem tell thrilling stories about local bogeyman, Boo Radley, but when their father defends a black man accused of raping a white girl, they discover that 1930s Alabama contains things far more terrifying than Boo.
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| 1 x Music for King Henry | |
| 1 x Empires of the Word | |
| 1 x Impossible Journeys | |
| 1 x Napoleon | |
| 1 x The Apocrypha | |
| 1 x The Book of Exploration | |
| 1 x The Blind Watchmaker | |
| 1 x The Celts | |
| 1 x Robinson Crusoe | |
| 1 x Down the Garden Path | |
| » plus 16 more books | |
| Total | US$3,423.85 |
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