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'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.'
In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-13
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'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.'
In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-13
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The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself...
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Penguin
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2012-09-06
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'A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book ReviewAda or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America,...
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Penguin
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2012-09-06
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'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.'
Wealthy American John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly intimate manner how he and his wife Florence meet an English couple in a German spa resort. They become friends over the years and gradually...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-06
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'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.'
Wealthy American John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly intimate manner how he and his wife Florence meet an English couple in a German spa resort. They become friends over the years and gradually...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-06
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Discover the classic story behind the major new film'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-08-31
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"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?"This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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The Penguin English Library
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The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title ofThe Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature.Divided into five volumes, of whichThe Warning Voice is the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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The Story of the Stone
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'I plainly see to what foul uses all this money will be put ... sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love'Old Martin Chuzzlewit, in despair at a family more interested in his wealth than his wellbeing, drives out his...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature.The first part of the story,The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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The Story of the Stone
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"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as"The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga,"The Dreamer Awakes", was carefully edited and completed by Gao E some decades later. It...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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The Story of the Stone
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The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title ofThe Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature.Divided into five volumes, of whichThe Debt of Tears is the fourth, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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The Story of the Stone
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"The rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds"Mary Barton,...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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My First Wife is Jakob Wassermann's intense, powerful account of a marriage - and its ruinous collapse - translated by the award-winning translator of Alone in Berlin, Michael Hofmann. It is the story of Alexander Herzog, a young writer, who goes to Vienna to escape his...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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"I dreamed ... I dreamed just now that something - it was in the shape of a man - followed me - came softly to me - wouldn't let me be - but was always hiding and crouching, like a cat in dark corners, waiting till I should pass; when it crept out and came softly after...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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"What a villain you are ... a villain and a poor weak silly fool. She was too good for you."Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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The Penguin English Library
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'"Sir, I am concerned at the Trouble I give you; nay indeed my Nakedness may well make me ashamed to look you in the Face ..." Jones offered her his Coat; but, I know not for what Reason, she absolutely refused the most earnest Solicitations to accept it'A foundling of...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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The Penguin English Library
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The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known asThe Dream of the Red Chamber, is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature.The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga,The Dreamer Awakes, was carefully edited and completed by Gao E some decades later. It...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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Adam Swann is hungry for success. He is one of the new breed of entrepreneurs thrown up by the Industrial Revolution, determined to take advantage of current economic conditions to build an unrivalled business empire. And he is determined to win the beautiful,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-08-16
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