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  • The Blacker the Berry
    A groundbreaking, yet controversial novel of the Harlem Renaissance about a young, dark-skinned Black woman reckoning with colourism as she navigates 1920s Harlem, reissued and repackaged for the Herald Classics line. Emma Lou Morgan's dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation not only to herself but also to her lighter-skinned family members and the white community of her...
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  • The Beautiful and Damned
    Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch appears to have it all: a Harvard education, an apartment in New York City, memberships at all of the best clubs, and a generous trust fund to draw from. His grandfather is not happy with Anthony's feckless lifestyle, but can Anthony be blamed knowing that, as an orphan, he is destined to be the sole heir to...
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  • The Awakening and Other Stories
    To all outside appearances, Edna Pontellier is a respectable married woman living in New Orleans with her fond, indulgent husband and her two young sons. Beneath Edna's smooth, graceful face, however, lurks a woman of passion, a woman who will not, or simply cannot, efface herself in the role that her husband expects of her: an angelic being who reveres...
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  • The Age of Innocence
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about love and the constraints of privilege, and the basis for Martin Scorsese's outstanding, award-winning 1993 adaptation, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics Line. The Age of Innocence begins with Newland Archer, a gentleman-lawyer and scion of one of New York's most privileged families, anticipating his marriage to the gentle, lovely,...
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  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    Fresh off of his escapades with Tom Sawyer and with six thousand dollars in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who wants Huck's fortune and will stop at nothing to get his hands on it. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets Miss Watson's slave, Jim, who has run away after learning that Miss Watson may sell...
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  • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective in fiction, a crime-solver gifted with powers of observation that allow him to see clues that ordinary detectives easily overlook. For more than a century, his adventures have thrilled generations of readers with crimes that are seemingly insoluble until the great detective steps in and applies his skills of deductive reasoning. This volume collects...
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  • Tales of the Samurai
    Thrilling Japanese stories of vampires, ghosts and renegade samurai. Step back through the mists of time to ancient Japan, where wandering samurai seek revenge for the death of their master, the red-eyed spectres of an executed man and his wife haunt a palace, and wild animals have great power over men. This collection of classic folktales, which range from adventures...
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  • Sense and Sensibility
    When the Dashwood family estate passes to the eldest son John and his wife, Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret must find a new home. Moving to a cottage in Devonshire, the Dashwood women begin adjusting to a new life and a new social circle. Soon, Elinor is being courted by the gentlemanly Edward Ferrars, and Marianne...
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  • Selected Works
    Seneca the Younger was a playwright, essayist, and lecturer, as well as a tutor to the emperor Nero. He remains one of the most important Stoic philosophers. Emphasising both theory and practical advice, Seneca’s writing is perfectly suited to contemporary readers. He articulated the difficulties of living ethically and influenced many writers, including Marcus Aurelius, Michel de Montaigne, Dante Alighieri,...
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  • Pride and Prejudice (Deluxe Edition)
    A deluxe collector's edition of one of Jane Austen's most critically acclaimed works, illustrated with the artwork of renowned fashion illustrator Bill Donovan. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is arguably the forerunner of all romantic comedies and certainly one of her most popular and irreverent works. This keepsake edition is beautifully packaged and features original full-colour artwork, as well as...
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  • Persuasion
    Eight years ago, Anne Elliot followed the advice of Lady Russell, her only true friend, and broke off her engagement to the dashing young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. When Anne and the newly wealthy Captain Wentworth cross paths years later, it is clear that he has neither forgotten nor forgiven their past. Can true love survive heartbreak? Who should we...
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  • O Pioneers!
    When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in Nebraska. When their father, John Bergson, grows sick and dies, he leaves the farm in the hands of his eldest daughter Alexandra Bergson. Resourceful...
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  • Northanger Abbey
    It is no tragedy that seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is not cut out to be the heroine of one of the Gothic novels she reads so avidly with her new friend Isabella Thorpe. What may lead to tragedy on her first visit to the glamorous resort town of Bath, however, are Catherine's overactive imagination and her inability to read other people....
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  • Meditations
    Meditations is a compendium of ruminations and reflections by the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to the Stoic philosophy. It is a spiritual journal of the author's philosophical exercises and a chronicle of the paradox of the philosopher-king.
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  • Mansfield Park
    Sent to live with her rich cousins, the Bertrams, at the age of ten, Fanny Price is acutely aware of her humble rank. As she grows up, she falls in love with her cousin, Edmund Bertram, her only ally and friend. But when the Crawfords move into the neighbourhood, bringing the glamour of London and a reckless taste for flirtation,...
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  • Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence's German wife and an Italian peasant, Lady Chatterley's Lover follows the intense passions of Constance Chatterley. Trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralysed and impotent, Constance enters into a liaison with the gamekeeper Mellors. Originally banned in multiple countries, Lady Chatterley's Lover is...
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  • Irish Mythology and Fairy Tales
    Irish Mythology and Fairy Tales collects more than 100 stories from the rich folk legacy of the Emerald Isle, including tales of ghosts, witches and fairy doctors, priests and saints, encounters with the devil, and titans of Ireland's historical past, as well as popular treasure legends. Irish Mythology and Fairy Tales is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics....
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  • Inferno
    This enthralling new translation of Dante's Inferno immediately joins ranks with the very best (Richard Lansing). One of the world's transcendent literary masterpieces, the Inferno tells the timeless story of Dante's journey through the nine circles of hell, guided by the poet Virgil, when in midlife he strays from his path in a dark wood. In this vivid verse translation...
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  • Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
    Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales collects more than 100 tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Among them are some of the best-loved and most famous fairy tales in all literature: Little Red Riding Hood, Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Tom Thumb. Derived from folk tales...
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  • Greek Mythology (Signature Editions)
    Helen Guerber's classic translations of Greek and Roman mythology, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line. H. A. Guerber's lively retellings of Greek mythology have become legends unto themselves, long prized for their simple, graphic, accurate interpretations of the principal myths of Ancient Greece and Rome. From the legendary gods and goddesses residing on Mount...
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  • Frankenstein (Graphic Art Collector's Edition)
    Discover the story of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with this striking collector's edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Editions series! The classic texts that shaped our culture feature exclusive cover art by distinguished artist Malika Favre. Her bold, graphic style gives each classic literature book a small masterpiece for a jacket. Collect the set or prize this Frankenstein special edition...
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  • Emma
    Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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  • Emma
    Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protΓ©gΓ©, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. In Emma, Jane Austen crafts a brilliant comedy...
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  • Edgar Allan Poe: Illustrated Tales
    Sprung from the shadowed recesses of Edgar Allan Poe's imagination, these nineteen tales of mystery and the macabre testify to the brilliance of their author's dark genius. Included are such enduring classics as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Cask of Amontillado." Each story is...
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  • Dubliners
    James Joyce's luminous short story collection of ordinary Dubliners' lives, featuring "one of the greatest short stories ever written" (T. S. Eliot), is now newly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics line. James Joyce's collection of fifteen short stories portrays the lives of Dublin's middle-class during the turn of the twentieth century. Structured from childhood, adolescence, adulthood,...
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  • Dracula
    A collector's edition of the most famous vampire novel of all time, illustrated with the artwork of Edward Gorey. This collector's edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula is illustrated with artwork that Edward Gorey created for his stage designs for the novel's Broadway stage adaptation. The book also features an introduction and appendices by renowned fantasy editor Marvin Kaye.
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  • Classical Mythology
    The myths of Greece and Rome have provided us with timeless tales of the ancient past, when the world was young and the gods and goddesses shared it with men and women. Classical Mythology provides a complete panoply of these colourful myths, including those that have become familiar references in countless works of world literature: Prometheus's theft of fire The...
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  • Bleak House
    The complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London. Here, fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolises the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it. Bleak House intricately weaves these elements together, portraying a vivid depiction of...
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  • A Treasury of Norse Mythology
    Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in A Treasury of Norse Mythology. Ranging from the comic to the tragic, these legends tell of passion, love, friendship, pride, courage, strength, loyalty, and betrayal....
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  • A Treasury of Greek Mythology
    From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy. These stories of heroes and powerful gods and goddesses are set forth simply and movingly, in language that retains the power and drama of...
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  • A Treasury of Classic Ghost Stories
    A Treasury of Classic Ghost Stories celebrates the rich literary legacy of the tale of the supernatural and the macabre with more than 40 stories that span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book's lineup of writers reads like a who's who of classic horror authors from America, Great Britain, and the European continent: Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft,...
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  • A Tale of Two Cities
    When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance, does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. The result is a powerful...
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  • A Tale of Two Cities
    When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance, does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. The result is a powerful...
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  • A Room with a View
    Miss Lucy Honeychurch is on a tour of Italy with her cousin and chaperone, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, when she encounters the young George Emerson, who is on a similar tour with his father. George finds himself drawn to the pretty, spirited Lucy, while Lucy is intrigued by George's rejection of "proper" behaviour. Despite her attraction to George, Lucy later becomes...
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  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    James Joyce's deeply personal and most memorable novel (H. G. Wells) detailing the spiritual and artistic awakening of Stephen Dedalus, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics line. James Joyce's semi-autobiographical first novel explores the author's own love-hate relationship with Ireland through Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's literary alter ego. Dedalus yearns to be an artist but must...
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  • Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina is the wife of a well-respected government official. When she travels to St. Petersburg to reconcile her brother and his wife, she meets Count Vronsky, and the course of her life is transformed. Widely adapted into theatre, ballet, radio, television, and movie adaptations.
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll, first published in 1865 and 1871 respectively, have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and playfully logical illogic epitomise the wit and whimsy of Carroll's writing. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland transports you down the rabbit-hole into a wondrous...
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  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    Edinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the glamorous, free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, schoolteacher at the Marcia Blaine Academy, whose guiding principle is 'Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she'll be mine for life. I am dedicated to you in my prime.' While Miss Brodie manipulates and charms 'her...
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  • The Call of the Wild and White Fang
    In Call of the Wild, Buck lives as a pampered house dog in California. He eats well, sleeps when he wants, and is treated with affection by his owners that is, until he is abducted by thieves and pressed into service as a sled dog for the Klondike Gold Rush. Mistreated by a succession of abusive owners, Buck comes to...
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  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    Fresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six thousand dollars in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who wants Huck's fortune and will stop at nothing to get his hands on it. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets Miss Watson s slave, Jim, who has run away after learning that Miss Watson may sell him....
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  • Towards Zero
    An explosive love triangle, a formidable matriarch, and a house party of enemies. All drawn inexorably … Towards Zero. Now Anjelica Huston and a star-studded cast feature in a brand new BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's tense, ingenious novel. Read it before you see it! After a scandalous celebrity divorce, British tennis star Nevile Strange and his ex-wife Audrey make...
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  • The Open Door
    There was not a soul to be seen, up or down; and the trees stood like ghosts, and the silence was terrible, and everything clear as day. You don't know what silence is until you find it in the light like that... Margaret Oliphant's superbly strange tales have been long overdue their rediscovery as classics of the Victorian ghost story...
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  • The House on the Borderland
    I had been staying just within the shadow of the exit of the great rift. Now, without volition on my part, I drifted out of the semi-darkness and began to move slowly toward the House. Amidst the din of roaring water, in a chasm where a house once stood in an isolated corner of Ireland, a manuscript is discovered entitled...
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  • The Country of Pointed Firs
    A nameless writer has come to Dunnet Landing, a small town on the coast of Maine, for the summer in order to finish her manuscript. Compared to the hectic pace of the city she's left behind, she finds herself absorbed in the slow rhythms of her new daily life. Her observations of the residents of Dunnet Landingβ€” their loves, their...
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  • Suddenly at His Residence
    Christianna Brand is not merely a purveyor of thrills or a maker of puzzles. She is a novelist. - The Daily Telegraph While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard March have descended upon Swanswater Manor in Kent for a family gathering and the finalising of the patriarch's will. Disgruntled by the behaviour and life choices of...
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  • Heidi
    Heidi is the timeless tale of the orphan girl Heidi, who lives with her grandfather in the mountains of Switzerland and who brings cheer and comfort into the lives of all who know her. This edition of Johanna Spyri's classic novel features illustrations in full colour by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Heidi is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics....
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  • Haunted Houses
    From the once-popular yet unfairly neglected Victorian writer Charlotte Riddell comes a pair of novels which cleverly upholster the familiar furniture of the haunted house story. In An Uninhabited House, the hauntings are seen through the perspective of the solicitors who hold the deed of the property. Here we find a shrewd comedic skewering of this host of scriveners and...
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  • Fearsome Fairies
    Fearsome Fairies taps into the enormous fascination with fairies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and includes cornerstone authors of the Weird genre such as Arthur Machen, M. R. James, and Charlotte Riddell. You seeβ€”no, you do not, but I seeβ€”such curious faces: and the people to whom they belong flit about so oddly, often at your elbow when...
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  • Dead Drunk
    Suddenly, he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard... With a stiff measure of the supernatural, a dram of melodrama, and a chaser of the cautionary kind, tales of drink and drunkenness can be found in a well-stocked cabinet of Victorian...
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  • Dangerous Dimensions
    I have stood on the dim shore beyond time and matter and seen it. It moves through strange curves and outrageous angles. Some day I shall travel in time and meet it face to face. Unlike nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, which tends to fixate on the past, the haunted and the ghostly, early weird fiction probes the very boundaries of realityβ€”the...
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  • Alice in Wonderland Journal - 'Too Late,' said the Rabbit
    Invented to entertain Alice Liddell on boat trips down the River Thames in Oxford, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has become one of the most famous and influential works of children's literature of all time. It is hard to imagine Alice's Adventures in Wonderland without picturing the illustrations made by Sir John Tenniel for the first edition of the story. Sir...
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  • White Nights & Other Stories
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I look upon such moments as this now, as so rare, that I cannot help going over such moments again in my dreams.β€˜White Nights’ is the bittersweet story of a lonely young man’s love found and lost...
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  • The Praise Singer
    AN ODYSSEY OF ART AND POWER, BY THE CLASSIC QUEEN OF ANCIENT GREEK RETELLINGS'Mary Renault is an exceptional storyteller' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON'A song of praise, a work of love, a serene, deliberate book, full of wisdom, rich in character, incident and description' WALL STREET JOURNALEach generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change.At...
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  • The Mask of Apollo
    THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION'Mary Renault has made the classical era alive' GORE VIDAL'Her books have stood the test of time' INDEPENDENTThe artist flows into the mask the poet offers him; only so will the god possess him. Greece, fourth century BC. The golden age of theatre may be over, but...
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  • Suspicion
    A biting psychological thriller from the best-selling author of Tokyo Express, now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman- tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime, using her connections to the local yakuza to get by. When she meets Shirakawa Fukutaro, a...
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  • Stories for Lovers
    An older couple remove all the mirrors from their lake house to lose sense of time; two girls are cast as Romeo and Juliet in their college play; a woman bargains with God to let the man she loves telephone her.Women writers of the twentieth century had a complex relationship with romantic fiction, at once a denigrated genre yet also...
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  • Speedboat
    Jen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s New York. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as she finds it. Simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession and critique - Speedboat is funny, disturbing, cutting, brilliant unlike anything that had come before. Since it burst onto the...
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  • Joseph and His Brothers
    The definitive translation of Mann's magnum opus Thomas Mann described Joseph and His Brothers as his 'pyramid'β€”his greatest literary achievement, although the Nazi regime in his homeland did their best to tear it down on its first publication. A vivid and dazzlingly ambitious epic, it retells the biblical story of Joseph, whose dreams and visions set him apart from his...
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  • Doctor Faustus
    'Arguably the great German novel' β€” New York Times 'This man is mad. Of that there can no longer be any doubt, and it is pitiable that no one representing psychiatric science is part of our circle.' In Germany, May 1943, a middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a...
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  • Buddenbrooks
    The definitive English translation of Mann's first masterpieceβ€”a grand epic of family life. 'I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavours. Where might I be, if I were not here?' Buddenbrooks is one of the original, and greatest, of family chroniclesβ€”the story of four generations of a wealthy and bourgeois German family as...
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  • Guilt
    A tour de force crime novel from one of the international masters of the form, where a simple murder case questions the simple notions of good and evil, guilt and redemption. A body has been found on a Central Tokyo riverbank, and Homicide Detective Godai of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is assigned to investigate. The victim is identified as...
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  • My Death
    What just happened? The classic book you will need to dissect - the story of a writer whose research into a forgotten female author breaks down into a deeply creepy and weird tale of female erasure and resurrection. Deeply unnerving and utterly original - the book you will need to talk about. A writer decides to write her next book...
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  • Tolkien Raft-elves Journal
    Bilbo comes to the Huts of the Raft-elves is an illustration made for The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1937. In it, you can see Bilbo sitting on top of a barrel as it floats down the forest river. He and the Dwarves (who are hidden inside the barrels) have just escaped from the Elvenking. This was Tolkien's favourite watercolour...
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  • The Whisperers and Other Stories
    Back from the shouting floor and ceiling came the chorus of images that stormed and clamoured for expression. Jones lay still and listened; he let them come. There was nothing else to do. Algernon Blackwood was one of the most influential writers of twentieth-century weird and supernatural fiction. He once told a correspondent that every story he wrote was based...
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  • The Uncanny Gastronomic
    "All I can tell you is that I think it was pig's meat." "You mean you're not sure?" "One can never be sure." A brush with the mushroom devil whets the appetite. The meat at the werewolf's table is a dish to relish. Dessert with London's cannibal club may be the cherry on top. From fairy tales and folklore focused...
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  • The Ghost Slayers
    Occult or psychic detective tales have been chilling readers for almost as long as there have been ghost stories. This beguiling subgenre follows specialists in occult loreβ€”often with years of arcane trainingβ€”investigating strange supernatural occurrences and pitting their wits against the bizarre and inexplicable. With tales featuring the most prominent psychic detectives, such as William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki, the Ghost...
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  • The Eerie Book
    This chilling anthology, first published in 1898, features classic gothic authors Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Thomas de Quincey, and Hans Christian Andersen alongside well-known and influential fairy tales and folklore. All of the macabre stories and extracts from longer works have hints of the supernatural, and many include malevolent spirits and grotesque murders. This varied selection also features melancholy...
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  • Kafka Journal
    Kafka Journal by Bodleian Library pays homage to Franz Kafka, best known as the author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Castle. Although Kafka passed away before reaching the age of forty, his groundbreaking work has left a profound cultural legacy, continuing to influence writers and artists today. Kafka was a highly visual writer, often drawing sketches and doodles...
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  • Fear in the Blood
    Timothy followed, in his dream, and saw the ungainly, yet agile creature clamber in through the cat-flap... He could hear the flip-flop as it went up the stairs, and he woke himself, screaming, in a tangle of sheet and blanket. On Sunday night the dream was even worse. Through eighteen dark tales bubbling with the ghostly and the occult, Mike...
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  • Watch the Girls
    I've been watched all my life. I'm used to being stared at. Observed. Followed. Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel from an incredible new voice in suspense. SOMEONE IS WATCHING Washed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting after her beloved younger sister inexplicably disappeared following a Hollywood party gone wrong. Liv barely escaped with her life,...
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  • The White Guard: New Translation
    Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918–19, The White Guard, Bulgakov’s first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast between the cosy domesticity of family life on the one hand, and...
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  • The Valley of Fear
    When Sherlock Holmes receives a bungled tip-off from one of the agents of his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the great detective hopes to avoid a murderous crime and bring the would-be assassin to justice. However, upon being informed soon afterwards that one John Douglas of Birlstone Manor has been found with his head blown apart by a shotgun, he realises that...
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  • The Three Hostages
    After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no more than a few tantalisingly cryptic lines of verse as clues, he is soon on the trail of Dominick Medinaβ€”a charismatic polymath but a man 'utterly and consumedly...
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  • The Sense of an Ending
    A new, Vintage Classics red spine edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sense of an Ending, published to celebrate the enduring impact of a writing career that spans almost half a century. We live in timeβ€”it holds us and molds usβ€”but I never felt I understood it very well. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at...
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  • The Secret Agent
    The shop owner Adolf Verloc, a member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country’s ambassador. He is told of a plot that involves him planting a bomb at a famous London landmark. Verloc has misgivings, but Mr Vladimir knows how to make people do what he wants. When...
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  • The Island of Sheep
    The Island of Sheep is the fifth, last, and most unusual of the Hannay books. Having returned once again to a quiet life at Fosse Manor, Hannay's life is shaken a final time when the son of an old acquaintance from Africa asks for his help in finishing a feud that goes back thirty years to a hilltop in Rhodesia....
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  • The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Devil and the Four
    An all-new case for the World's Greatest Detective The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Devil and the Four takes Sherlock Holmes to the heart of Paris. He is in pursuit of Marguerite Hardy, a mysterious Frenchwoman who fled her comfortable English home after receiving a strange letter. Desperate for her safe return, her husband implores Holmes for help....
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  • The Eternal Husband: New Translation
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