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'For there she was.'
Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London, in June 1923, as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and actions are interwoven with the trauma and bereavement of Septimus Smith, a poor...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-19
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'The stories are rich in dialogue - indeed on many pages there is only dialogue - while the quick exchange of words beats out the rhythm of history on the move' CLAIRE CONNOLLY from her preface to The Experiences of an Irish R. M.The stories in Experiences of an Irish...
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Riverrun
Parution :
2024-11-21
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riverrun editions
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'Warm, wise, witty, and just plain fun' Maggie Shipstead At a perfectly ordinary cocktail party, Francis is introduced to Billy and - although it slips right by him at the time - he falls in love with her at once.Billy is a serious, often glum person. An economic...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2024-11-14
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W&N Essentials
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Previously unavailable in English, Salim Barakat’s Sages of Darkness depicts Kurdish life in the period of transition from a traditional tribal existence to half-hearted modernization under the Ottomans. A saga of the lives and deaths of two Kurdish chieftains and their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-09-18
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A classic masterpiece of gothic horror fiction Dracula, Bram Stoker's chilling tale of disturbing events, dark desires and the harrowing world of vampires, has gripped audiences since it was first published in 1897. Reflecting the anxieties of late 19th-century...
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Capstone
Parution :
2024-09-17
Collection :
Capstone Classics
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A twisted, upside-down creation myth that gave birth to the modern science fiction novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale, lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. Written after a nightmare Mary Shelley was only eighteen, this...
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Capstone
Parution :
2024-09-17
Collection :
Capstone Classics
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Walter Tevis is widely regarded as a master for both his gritty poolhall novels and his brilliant rendering of the world of competitive chess. This long overdue collection establishes Tevis's rightful place as a maestro of the short form, as well. Including previously...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2024-08-15
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W&N Essentials
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“On the 24th of February, 1815, the watch-tower of Notre-Dame de la Garde signaled the three-master, the Pharaon, from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and, rounding the Château d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and the...
Editeur :
LBE Editions
Parution :
2024-06-20
Collection :
LBE Classics
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'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface.A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the modernist magazine The Egoist in 1914, before it came out as a book in...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2024-03-14
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riverrun editions
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Susy Branch and Nick Lansing are typical Wharton heroes: popular, attractive, and much poorer than their “international set” friends. Like Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, the two depend on the largesse of more privileged acquaintances to get by. Recognizing...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2023-10-03
Collection :
Rediscovered Classics
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“If it had not rained on a certain May morning, Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different. . .” One day, Valancy Stirling, a quiet, shy old maid, decides to stop listening to her nosy, small-minded relatives and start doing...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2023-10-03
Collection :
Rediscovered Classics
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Sappho Clark—beautiful, mysterious, Southern—arrives in Boston to earn her living as a stenographer. She lodges with the Smith family and immediately becomes a source of fascination to the them: Ma Smith is impressed by Sappho’s financial independence;...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2023-10-03
Collection :
Rediscovered Classics
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'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...'
The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-30
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A deep and meaningful masterpiece of science fiction, full of heart and mind-bending ideas.A true classic, Vonnegut will make you laugh and have you contemplating the meaning of lifeWhen Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2023-08-24
Collection :
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...'
The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-15
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'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.'
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-26
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphAbducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to be?Fifteen-year-old Betty Kane can...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-07-13
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`The language is refined, the smile not grave,
My honest tongue recounts how men behave.'
The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-09
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'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.'
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-09
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The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, and family tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm. A...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2023-05-02
Collection :
Signature Editions
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