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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | When James Boswell persuaded Samuel Johnson to embark on a tour of Boswell’s native Scotland in 1773, the adventur...
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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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Everyman4039 ₽
Hip Hops. Poems about Beer | From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double...
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Everyman4114 ₽
The Pothunters | When someone breaks into the cricket pavilion and steals two silver cups, the whole school is agog. Could it possibly be an inside job? Nothing less than the honour of St Austin’s is ...
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Everyman4294 ₽
Oliver Twist | The most swiftly-moving and unified of Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is famous for its re-creation of the London underworld of pimps, thieves and prostitutes – and especially for...
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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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Everyman4770 ₽
Carry On, Jeeves | The titles of the first story in this collection - 'Jeeves Takes Charge' - and the last - 'Bertie Changes His Mind' - sum up the relationship of twentieth-century fiction's most fam...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Love Among the Chickens | This is the tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse’s favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coas...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets | Bingo Little, husband of romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks, escapes from the watchful eye of his wife with hazardous results. Two men and a policeman vie for paternity of the...
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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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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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Everyman4770 ₽
Very Good, Jeeves! | Very Good, Jeeves! is a collection of short stories starring Bertie Wooster in eleven alarming predicaments from which he has to be rescued by his peerless gentleman’s gentleman. ...
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The Art of Angling. Poems About Fishing | The Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the popular sport. Fishing has inspired a w...
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Louder and Funnier | In these articles first produced for magazines and substantially rewritten for book publication, Wodehouse reveals his enduring brilliance as a comic writer of topical essays. But...
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Young Men in Spats | Wodehouse is at his most sparkling in this collection of stories concering members of the Drones Club. Pongo Twistleton and Freddie Widgeon may be small of brain and short of cash...
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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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Everyman5959 ₽
Jane Eyre | Now a classic feminist text, Jane Eyre was the first of Charlotte Bronte’s novels to be published, in 1847. Like her sister Emily’s Wuthering Heights, which it matches in power, Charlotte’...
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Everyman4769 ₽
Lord Emsworth and Others | A collection of stories in which familiar characters and places are reintroduced in unfamiliar circumstances, reminding us - if we need reminding - of their author's limitle...
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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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Everyman6973 ₽
Annals and Histories | Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. Born in about AD 55, he served as administrator and leading senator. This career gave him an intimate view of the empire ...
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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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Everyman4490 ₽
Blandings Castle | Take a pig, a fat-headed earl, a country house, several pairs of frustrated lovers, some scheming outsiders, and all sorts of people who aren’t who they say they are. Mix thoroughly...
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Everyman6237 ₽
Poems & Prophecies | A comprehensive selection of the poet’s work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the distinguished poet and critic Kathleen...
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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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Everyman4843 ₽
Doctor Thorne | In the third novel of the Barsetshire series, Trollope continues his study of a small cathedral city and the surrounding rural community which he presents as a microcosm of nineteenth-...
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Everyman4774 ₽
The General in His Labyrinth | Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most political novel tells the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolivar, who drove the Spanish fro...
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Everyman6606 ₽
Middlemarch | Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871–2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill. With its complex plot, b...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Psmith in the City | When Psmith finds himself working in the City for the pompous Mr Bickersdyke, he makes it his mission to bring a little sweetness and light into the bank manager's life. The monoc...
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Everyman6723 ₽
Anna Karenina | A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent hero...
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Everyman4490 ₽
A Prefect's Uncle | The uncle of the title is a mysterious stranger who arrives at Beckford College and turns out to be younger than his nephew, already a prefect at the school. Thus the scene is set ...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Ukridge | If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he has ever floated, he would be a rich man indeed. In these ten stories he tries every way of making money, from writ...
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Everyman2995 ₽
A Sportsman's Notebook | Turgenev's first literary masterpiece was an eloquent evocation of rural Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. A hunter wanders through steppe and forest in search of game, ob...
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Everyman7344 ₽
Selected Works | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the towering figures of world culture, a universal man whose extraordinary talents found expression in literature, drama, autobiograph...
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Everyman4039 ₽
Stories of Fatherhood | This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror...
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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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Everyman3741 ₽
Fatherhood. Poems About Fathers | A celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this anthology features the richly varied voices of sons and daughters, and of fathers and grandfathers themselves. From elev...
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Everyman3722 ₽
Jill the Reckless | When Jill Mariner is arrested for fighting over a parrot and then loses all her money on the same day, she is abandoned by her pompous fiance and goes to stay with her rich relatio...
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Everyman5436 ₽
The Golden Bowl | When the shy Maggie Verver marries an Italian Prince and her widowed father becomes the husband of the Prince's former mistress, the stage is set for a complex and bizarre battle bet...
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Everyman4774 ₽
Notes from a Dead House | In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years' hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated...
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Everyman4770 ₽
A Passage To India | A Passage to India, published in 1924 and set in British India in the years immediately preceding, is a powerful critique of both colonizers and colonized. A story of racial and p...
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Everyman4862 ₽
Florence Stories | Florence’s world-famous Renaissance is brought to life in this anthology through the eyes of its most illustrious chroniclers. Beginning with Dante’s vision of Inferno, teeming with...
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Everyman4710 ₽
Silas Marner | When the weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he becomes a miser and vows to turn his back upon the world. But an extraordinary sequence of e...
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Everyman4114 ₽
A Damsel in Distress | The Earl of Marshmoreton's lively daughter – the damsel of the title – thinks she is in love with one Geoffrey Raymond, but a cheerful American song-writer called George Bevan k...
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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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Everyman4710 ₽
The Art of War | Written over two thousand years ago, The Art of War contains penetrating insights into the nature of power, inter-state rivalry, realpolitik and military success, relevant to any age....
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Everyman5664 ₽
Love in a Cold Climate. The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced...
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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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Everyman5875 ₽
The Travels of Marco Polo | Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17 of them in China. He isone of the few early...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Money in the Bank | When George, Viscount Uffenham turns the entire family fortune into diamonds and squirrels them away, naturally he forgets where he has hidden the loot and finds himself compelled ...
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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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Everyman4251 ₽
Cocktail Time | Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other people's romantic problems, not even when faced with the tangled relationships of his godson, Johnny, Johnny's girlfr...
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Everyman3160 ₽
Emma | Emma Woodhouse ‘had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’, but during the course of this, the wisest and most disturbing of Jane Austen’s novels, s...
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Everyman4113 ₽
The Girl in Blue | This charming novel is one of Wodehouse’s best late works. The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering country house, an overweight solicitor, a fortune-hunter,...
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Everyman4843 ₽
Notes From Underground | Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each c...
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Everyman4091 ₽
Pinocchio | Everyone knows Pinocchio, the walking, talking wooden puppet carved from a table leg. Pinocchio, an endearing scamp, is always getting himself into trouble. But it isn't the sort of troubl...
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Everyman6609 ₽
Bleak House | Considered by many readers, including Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad and Trilling, as one of Dickens’s finest achievements, Bleak House tells the complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which ...
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Everyman4842 ₽
Germinal | Despite the grimness of his subject and the accuracy of his description, Zola tells an irresistible tale of life above and below ground among the mining families of Montsou. By turns heroic...
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Everyman4836 ₽
Peter Pan | Barrie's classic tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up. It started life as a series of stories made up for the five Llewelyn Davies boys, who were virtually adopted by Barrie after being or...
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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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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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Everyman5871 ₽
Decameron | The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical ...
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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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Everyman5586 ₽
Daniel Deronda | George Eliot's last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious he...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Animal Farm | A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, Animal Farm is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writ...