Works of genius from around the globe.
When a 'piercing, heartrending' scream rings out across the grounds of a Russian country estate, it brings to a shuddering halt not just a convivial shooting party but an entire summer of debauchery.
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The 13 stories collected here are as varied as the characters that inhabit them, but all share a liveliness and strangeness that is unmistakably Gogolian. Illustrator Peter Suart brilliantly captures their characteristic blend of pathos and dark humour.
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Anton Chekhov’s contribution to world literature is without parallel. He created a body of short fiction that is widely acknowledged as the greatest ever written. The 60 stories in this collection span the length of his career, from his early stories to his final works.
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Counts as 4 volumes
In the mining town of Sulaco, no-one is safe from the corrupting effect of silver – certainly not Senor Gould who hopes to bring stability by meddling in politics, and not even the 'incorruptible' patriot Nostromo in search of heroism.
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Bleak and darkly comic, the spies, terrorists, anarchists and agents provocateurs who inhabit the seedy underworld of the early 20th-century London makes a disturbing milieu in which Verloc's ultimate undoing becomes inevitable.
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Isolated on his island and wrecked in business, Axel Heyst hardly seems to care that he has inspired the enmity of the hotel-owner on the neighbouring island, until he meets Lena and is inspired to attempt her rescue.
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A towering achievement within Zola's exceptional oeuvre, Germinal reverberates with outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, yet it also reveals humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
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One of France's top 10 books of the century. When 17-year old schoolboy Augustin Meaulnes becomes separated from his fellow classmates in the forest, he stumbles upon a mysterious house in the country where he encounters the beautiful Yvonne de Galais.
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Lost Illusions is the story of a handsome and somewhat vain would-be poet, Lucien Chardon, whose ambition takes him from his insular provincial home into the patronage of the captivating Madame de Bargeton.
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In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desires and her public life.
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| 1 x Music for King Henry | |
| 1 x The Apocrypha | |
| 1 x The Book of Exploration | |
| 1 x The Blind Watchmaker | |
| 1 x Frenchman's Creek | |
| 1 x Great Short Stories | |
| 1 x Nicholas Nickleby | |
| 1 x On the Origin of Species | |
| 1 x The Natural History of Se... | |
| 1 x Saints & Sinners: A H... | |
| » plus 5 more books | |
| Total | US$2,521.90 |
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