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Everyman4843 ₽
Utopia | First published in 1516, during a period of astonishing political and technological change, Sir Thomas More’s Utopia depicts an imaginary society free of private property and religious intole...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Plum Pie | This collection of stories features familiar Wodehouse characters includes Jeeves and Wooster, Ukridge and his fearsome Aunt Julia, Bingo Little and his wife, romantic novelist Rosie M. Ban...
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Everyman4774 ₽
Hard Times | By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens's magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as ...
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Everyman4836 ₽
Black Beauty | Described on the title-page of the first edition as 'the autobiography of her horse, translated from the original equine', Black Beauty was Anna Sewell's only book, written when she fat...
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Everyman4862 ₽
Voss | A towering classic of Australian literature - by the only writer from that continent to win the Nobel Prize - Voss recounts an epic physical and spiritual journey across the outback. The charac...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Not George Washington | This early novel, written in collaboration with a friend, is a fascinating curiosity which suggests that Wodehouse might have become a very different, experimental sort of writ...
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Everyman4096 ₽
The Radetzky March | The Radetsky March is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless man...
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Everyman4774 ₽
Prague Stories | The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both...
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Everyman4862 ₽
Selected Stories | During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’, ‘The House of Madame Tellier’, ‘The Hand’, ‘The Horl...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin | Monty Bodkin has returned to London from Hollywood, leaving Sandy Miller, his secretary there, heartbroken, because Monty loves English hockey international Gertrude B...
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Everyman4113 ₽
Ice in the Bedroom | Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stole...
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Everyman4406 ₽
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems | Celebrated in their time and still popular over a century after their deaths, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett had a unique relationship which is ref...
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Everyman4096 ₽
The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis | It is the autobiography of Giorgio Bassani, told in a time span of around 15 years, a time where the ambiguous and mysterious female figure of Micol was a central pa...
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Everyman4113 ₽
The Adventures of Sally | The Adventures of Sally is a transatlantic comedy set in worlds Wodehouse knew well: American theatres, English country houses, and the theatrical boarding-houses where young...
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Everyman4096 ₽
The Way Of All Flesh | Samuel Butler (1835–1902) made one reputation during his lifetime with his Utopian satire Erewhon, and a second reputation after his death with The Way of All Flesh, published p...
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Everyman4590 ₽
The Great Gatsby | Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1926) is a cynical celebration of the post-Great War Long Island/ New York world of get-rich-quick. The n...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Little Lord Fauntleroy | Originally published as a serial in the children's monthly magazine St Nicholas, Little Lord Fauntleroy was Frances Hodgson Burnett's first children's novel and on its publica...
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Everyman10097 ₽
The Complete Works. Essays, Travel Journal, Letters | Describing his collection of Essays as ‘a book consubstantial with its author’, Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which ...
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Everyman4590 ₽
Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later l...
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Everyman5508 ₽
Victory | Set in the Malay Archipelago, where Conrad spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, Victory is a sombre yet brilliant study of good and evil in Conrad's mature man...
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Everyman4113 ₽
Venice Stories | The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers an array of dazzling stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne Du Ma...
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Everyman4113 ₽
Love Stories | Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage...
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Everyman5508 ₽
The Rainbow | This novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several generations. The book was banned when it first appeared in 1915 for ...
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Everyman5582 ₽
Omnibus. Volume 2 | In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), the forefather of modern Indian fiction, we witness the birth of a nation as it awakens to its place in the world. The three novels brou...
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Everyman4039 ₽
Poems About Trees | For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them— and poets have long chronicled the relationship. In this collecti...
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Everyman4039 ₽
Washington Square | When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune hunter after his daughter's inheritance. He forbids the...
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Everyman7484 ₽
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. Volime II. Blood's a Rover | 'America was never innocent.' Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper's v...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Piccadilly Jim | This sparkling story of transatlantic manners follows the fortunes of playboy Jimmy Crocker in England and America. When Jimmy falls for a girl in London and vows to reform himself as...
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Everyman4770 ₽
The Inimitable Jeeves | In a series of brilliantly plotted episodes, Bertie and Jeeves help Bingo Little with his love-life, as Bingo is involved successively with tea-shop waitress, Mabel; Honoria Gl...
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Everyman4096 ₽
The Secret Agent | The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed original of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. ...
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Everyman4406 ₽
Leonard Cohen Poems | This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm ...
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Everyman5141 ₽
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards - and double consc...
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Everyman4960 ₽
A House For Mr Biswas | In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to confo...
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Everyman4406 ₽
Buzz Words. Poems About Insects | Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creep...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Company for Henry | Everyone in Company for Henry wants to escape from something. Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country house on his millionaire American cousin, J. Wendell S...
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Everyman5730 ₽
The Transylvania Trilogy. Volume 1. They Were Counted | Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping,...
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Everyman5508 ₽
The Lover. Wartime Notebooks. Practicalities | Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after he...
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Everyman5795 ₽
The Tin Drum | The Tin Drum presents Hitler's rise and fall through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers become symbolic of the dark forces dominating the German nation in the period. ...
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Everyman4490 ₽
The Clicking of Cuthbert | Who but P.G. Wodehouse could have extraced high comedy from the most noble and ancient game of golf? And who else could have combined this comedy with a real appreciation of...
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Everyman5157 ₽
The Pickwick Papers | When young Charles Dickens was commissioned to write the text for a series of sporting illustrations in 1836, no one could have suspected that this journeyman task was to turn in...
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Everyman4862 ₽
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests | Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened b...
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Everyman4862 ₽
Fishing Stories | Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the comedy of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Summer Moonshine | Sir Buckstone Abbot owns what is possibly the ugliest stately home in England, and he is naturally eager to dispose of it to an American heiress, Princess Dwornitzchek. But the sale...
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Everyman4470 ₽
Adam Bede | The exhilaration that comes from reading Adam Bede owes its existence to the fact that on every page George Eliot seems absorbed in the process of spiritual discovery. The evocations of by...
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Everyman4294 ₽
The Handmaid’s Tale | A gripping vision of American society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has become one of the most powerful novels of our tim...
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Everyman5586 ₽
The Audubon Reader | John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard w...
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Everyman5141 ₽
The Bridge on the Drina | The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed--until 1914 when tensions i...
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Everyman6242 ₽
Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness | Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Wh...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Something Fishy | Set in the Elysian suburb of Valley Fields where the sixth Viscount Uffenham is lodging with his former butler while his ancestral mansion is let to an American millionaire, Somethin...
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Everyman4838 ₽
Fairy Tales | 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Rumpelstiltskin', 'Rapunzel' and 'Snow White' are among the jewels we owe to the brothers Grimm, who began in the first decade of the nineteenth century to seek out...
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Everyman3985 ₽
Olinger Stories | These autobiographical stories about growing up in small-town Pennsylvania are among John Updike’s best, and were the closest to his heart. Selected by the author from his first eigh...
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Everyman5504 ₽
The Portrait Of A Lady | Described by F. R. Leavis as one of the two most brilliant novels in the language, The Portrait of a Lady marks the evolution of Henry James from talented American writer to w...
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Everyman4490 ₽
The Heart of a Goof | In nine of Wodehouse’s ripest stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf. From Rodney Spelvin, the sickeningly good-looking romantic poet who come...
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Everyman4114 ₽
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories | This substantial collection of early stories displays a variety of tone, style and setting which may surprise readers familiar only with the author's later light c...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Scottish Stories | Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from...
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Everyman7251 ₽
The Bascombe Novels | In this remarkable trilogy, Richard Ford creates one of the most enduring and empathetic characters in contemporary American fiction. When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswri...
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Everyman4406 ₽
The Code of the Woosters | Nothing but trouble can ensue when Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia instructs him to steal a silver jug from Totleigh Towers, home of magistrate and hell-hound, Sir Watkyn Basse...
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Everyman4862 ₽
London Fields | Amis’s powers of comic invention are formidable in this dark tale of disaster, sex, love, murder - and darts. Set in a pre-millennial, pre-apocalyptic London, the novel follows femme f...
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Everyman3672 ₽
The Language of Flowers | The language of flowers is as old as language itself. In the earliest poetry familiar plants were used to represent simple emotions, ideas, or states of mind: love, hope, des...
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Everyman4770 ₽
The Railway Children | Although E. Nesbit regarded her poetry as her most important work, it is her children's books (written 'to keep the house going') that ensured her lasting fame and which are sti...
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Everyman5508 ₽
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen | On doctor's orders, Bertie Wooster retires to the village of Maiden Eggesford but his rest-cure is interrupted by Aunt Dahlia who wants him to nobble a racehorse, Vanessa Cook...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Frozen Assets | Will playboy Biffy avoid trouble until his thirtieth birthday in a few days’ time and inherit a vast fortune from his teetotal godfather who has stipulated that he must stay sober and ...
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Everyman5503 ₽
The Castle | Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employ...
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Everyman4486 ₽
Rebellion | At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisf...