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Tumbling headlong down a rabbit-hole, Alice enters the magical underground kingdom of Wonderland. These classic stories remain a childhood favourite. Counts as one volume.
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In this edition, illustrated with beautiful Sung Dynasty paintings that reflect Confucian subjects and ideas, every reader can profit from the timeless philosophy that remains at the heart of Chinese civilisation and tradition.
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The Apocrypha contains some of the best-known stories in the Bible – stories which have captured the popular imagination and sunk deep into our cultural consciousness, permeating music, literature and art.
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Counts as 2 volumes
Justine, the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's great literary epic The Alexandria Quartet, is an intoxicating story of passion and loss, vast in scope and peopled by memorable personalities.
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The narrative takes an unexpected turn in Balthazar as Darley’s eponymous friend pays him a visit and forces Darley to re-evaluate everything he knows about Justine, her true feelings and her loyalties in Alexandria.
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In Mountolive, the political and social tensions in Egypt come to the foreground when the young English diplomat David Mountolive befriends the Hosnani family, and embarks on an affair with the beautiful matriarch Leila.
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Clea brings the Quartet to a haunting close, as Darley returns to Alexandria to make amends and attempts to find happiness with the lovely and gifted painter Clea Montis.
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Between 1945 and 1950, Thesiger succeeded in making two expeditions across the 'Empty Quarter'. No Westerner has written so movingly of the beauty of the Arabian sands, and of the noble companionship of the Bedu.
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Ovid's witty celebration of the battle of the sexes, here illustrated with a magnificent series of erotic paintings, has been triumphantly translated to reveal the poet's exuberant and seductive style.
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The most famous military treatise of all time, Sun-tzu’s collection of precepts on strategic warfare has yet to be surpassed.
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Introduction by Poet Laureate - Carol Ann Duffy.
A touching and powerful fable of Diamond the coachman's son and his many adventures with the powerful North Wind.
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Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge.
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No one was quicker off the mark with a wisecrack than Dorothy Parker, who kept the tables of New York and Hollywood in a roar in the 1920s and 30s.
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Cats who learn to talk (to the discomfiture of their owners), bad-tempered aunts who get stuck in water tanks and the world’s most disgusting breakfast cereal, ‘Filboid Studge’, are just some of the fantastical inventions that populate the stories of Saki.
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From vaudeville tours across America to A Night at the Opera, the Marx Brothers wise-cracked their way into entertainment legend. To paraphrase Groucho, from the moment you pick up this book until the moment you lay it down, you will be convulsed with laughter.
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