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'In the centre of the pine wood called Coilla Doraca there lived not long ago two Philosophers. They were wiser than anything else in the world except the Salmon who lies in the pool of Glyn Cagny into which the nuts of knowledge fall from the hazel bush on its bank....
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John Murray
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2012-08-16
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With his inimitable wit and sparkle, George Bernard Shaw brings us the character of Owen Jack, a salty non-conformist composer said to have been suggested by Beethoven. The relations between Jack and the other wayward bohemians of the story with the more conventional...
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John Murray
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2012-08-16
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'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.'
Set in the fictitious Provençal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvère and...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-08-09
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'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.'
Set in the fictitious Provençal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvère and...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-08-09
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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. Víctor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with...
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Penguin
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2012-08-02
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In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A...
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Penguin
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2012-08-02
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Burroughs’ first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City,...
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Penguin
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2012-08-02
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A funny look at the social and political dynamic of French village life. Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel Clochemerle satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais. The eruption begins when the...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-07-31
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With a selection of letters by Charlotte Brontë.'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?'No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky...
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Penguin
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2012-07-26
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The Penguin English Library
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With an essay by F. R. Leavis.'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model...
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Penguin
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2012-07-26
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The Penguin English Library
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With an essay by Helene Moglen.'Alas, Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours: none wears a robe so black, none bears a rod so heavy ...'Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill,...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2012-07-26
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The Penguin English Library
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With an essay by Robert Langbaum.'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the...
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Penguin
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2012-07-26
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With an essay by Lyn Pykett.'But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connexion with any mirthful or complacent feeling, constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs...
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Penguin
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2012-07-26
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With an essay by R. F. Brissenden.'O the deceitfulness of the heart of man! This John, whom I took to be the honestest of men ... this very fellow was all the while a vile hypocrite, and a perfidious wretch, and helping to carry on my ruin'Fifteen-year-old Pamela...
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Penguin
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2012-07-26
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With an essay by David Skilton and Peter Miles.'He was sickened also with all these lies. His very soul was dismayed by the dirt through which he was forced to wade. He had become unconsciously connected with the lowest dregs of mankind, and would have to see his name...
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Penguin
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2012-07-26
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Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century. It inspired authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. The Purple Cloud tells the grandly bleak...
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Penguin
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2012-07-26
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With an essay by J. I. M. Stewart.'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2012-07-26
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The Penguin English Library
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'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.'
Introspective and dreamy, Arthur Clennam returns to England from many years abroad to find a people gripped in their...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-12
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'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.'
Introspective and dreamy, Arthur Clennam returns to England from many years abroad to find a people gripped in their...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-07-12
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In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2012-07-05
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