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Everyman2361 ₽
The Head of Kay's | It is the general view at Eckleton that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay's. The fags run riot, the senior dayroom lacks moral fibre, and no one seems to care much ab...
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Everyman4294 ₽
A Farewell to Arms | One of Hemingway’s finest novels, A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929 when the author was at the height of his powers. It draws on his experiences serving with the Italians i...
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Everyman4843 ₽
The Periodic Table | An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fi...
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Everyman4770 ₽
To The Lighthouse | One of the most popular twentieth-century novels, To the Lighthouse is the story of a woman and her family experiencing the passage of time and seeking to recapture meaning from th...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Mike and Psmith | An early Wodehouse novel, this is both a sporting story and a tale of friendship between two boys at boarding school. Mike (introduced in Mike at Wrykyn) is a seriously good crickete...
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Everyman4935 ₽
Dubliners | The last story in this book, The Dead, is one of the most powerful evocations of human loss and longing that the English language possesses; and the other stories are as beautifully turned...
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Everyman3149 ₽
Complete Short Novels | Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. The Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an acco...
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Everyman4278 ₽
Northanger Abbey | Northanger Abbey is at once a perfectly aimed literary parody, a withering satire on the commercial aspects of marriage at the turn of the nineteenth century, and, most of all, a st...
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Everyman3948 ₽
Books and Libraries. Poems | A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books & Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the ...
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Everyman2374 ₽
Poems | One of the greatest poes of Persia's golden age, Jalal al-Din, commonly known as Rumi (1207–73) is, with the exception of Omar Khayyam, the most celebrated of all Persian writers. A scholar an...
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Everyman2965 ₽
Flashman. Flash for Freedom! Flashman in the Great Game | Three of George MacDonald Fraser’s hilarious novels in which that irrepressible rogue Harry Paget Flashman, self-confessed scoundrel, liar, ch...
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Everyman3899 ₽
Joy in the Morning | Trapped in the rural hell-hole of Steeple Bumpleigh with his bossy ex-fiancee, Florence Craye, her fire-breathing father, Lord Worplesdon, her frightful Boy-Scout brother, Edwin, ...
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Everyman5678 ₽
The Stories of Ray Bradbury | One hundred of Ray Bradbury’s remarkable stories which have earned him a huge international audience and a reputation as the premier science-fiction and fantasy writer of...
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Everyman2570 ₽
Dog Stories | This anthology rounds up a pack of vivid and colourful tales by a wide range of writers from Chekhov, Chesterton and Kafka to Patricia Highsmith and Doris Lessing. The unforgettable cani...
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Everyman9870 ₽
The Essays | Includes 'The Freedom of the Press', intended as the preface to 'Animal Farm' but undiscovered until 1972. Considered by Noam Chomsky to be Orwell's most important essay. These essays dem...
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Everyman2953 ₽
Complete Shorter Fiction | Published to Coincide with the Becentenary of Horace Walpole's Death Horace Walpole was letter writer so energetic and fertile that his collected correspondence occupies for...
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Everyman3948 ₽
Kipling. Poems | As a child of the Raj, Rudyard Kipling became famous for tales of Indian life, such as Kim and The Jungle Book in which the country is described with a detail, love and colour which h...
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Everyman3741 ₽
Parade's End | In his masterly sequence of novels, Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford traces the history of a house and a family at the time of the First World War. This is a picture of Edwardian England a...
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Everyman2570 ₽
Stories from the Kitchen | A tempting anthology of tales about the culinary arts, from across the centuries and around the world. Stories from the Kitchen presents a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stor...
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Everyman2174 ₽
Ring for Jeeves | The only Jeeves story in which Bertie Wooster makes no appearance, involves Jeeves on secondment as butler and general factotum to William Belfry, ninth Earl of Rowcester (pronounced...
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Everyman2769 ₽
The Collected Tales | From the acclaimed translators of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov comes this superb translation of the short fiction of Nikolai Gogol, the nineteenth-century Russ...
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Everyman4875 ₽
The Complete Short Stories | Mark Twain’s famous novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the writer widely considered to be t...
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Everyman5076 ₽
The Collected Stories | This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art. Wi...
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Everyman5397 ₽
Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical...
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Everyman4357 ₽
The Best of Frank O'Connor | For the first time, a career-spanning omnibus edition of the works of Frank O’Connor, the writer Yeats dubbed ‘Ireland’s Chekhov’. Edited and introduced by Julian Barnes, ...
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Everyman5105 ₽
The Diary of Samuel Pepys | When Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) began writing in 1660 he was a young clerk living in London, struggling to pay his rent. Over the next nine years as he kept his journal, he r...
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Everyman3149 ₽
Canterbury Tales | Ranging from comic animal fables and miniature epics of courtly love to savage farces of sexual come-uppance, the Canterbury Tales bring fourteenth-century England vividly to life o...
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Everyman2560 ₽
The Trial | The story of the mysterious indictment, trial and reckoning forced upon Kafka’s Joseph K. is one of the twentieth century’s master parables which has influenced almost every major writer s...
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Everyman3346 ₽
Collected Stories | Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the earliest. Death in V...
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Everyman3149 ₽
The Plague. The Fall. Exile and The Kingdom. And Selected Essays | Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last cent...
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Everyman2557 ₽
Barnaby Rudge | The first of Dickens's historical novels, Barnaby Rudge, written in 1841, is set at the time of the anti-Catholic riots of 1780, with the real Lord George Gordon, leader of the riots, ...
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Everyman2165 ₽
Brighton Rock | Graham Greene's classic study in the banality of evil is set in the unforgettably evoked underworld of pre-war Brighton where Pinkie, a small-time ganster, meets his nemesis at the han...
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Everyman2966 ₽
The Arabian Nights | Ever since their first arrival in the West three hundred years ago, these stories spun by Scheherazade over a thousand and one nights have cast a spell of enchantment which has ne...
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Everyman2570 ₽
Stories of the Sea | An anthology of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, and of voyages testing human enduranc...
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Everyman3741 ₽
Buddenbrooks | First published in 1901, when Thomas Mann was only twenty-five, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to...
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Everyman2570 ₽
Russian Stories | Two centuries of short stories by twenty-five titans of Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Tatyana Tolstaya and Svetlana Alexievich, in the beautifully designed Pocket Cla...
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Everyman2560 ₽
Rob Roy | A Superb historical novel set in the late seventeenth century, Rob Roy is also an adventure story. Using his favourite device of contrasting characters and places, Scott sets romantic rural ...
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Everyman2758 ₽
The Adolescent | This superb new translation-never before published-of one of Dostoevsky's major novels comes from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Adolescent ...
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Everyman6248 ₽
Hopscotch. Blow-Up. We Love Glenda So Much | With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth ce...
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Everyman5006 ₽
The Bookshop. The Gate Of Angels. The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in t...
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Everyman6251 ₽
Samuel Beckett Trilogy. Molloy, Malone Dies. The Unnamable | Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of novels is his masterpiece -which makes it...
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Everyman5260 ₽
Villette | Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independenc...
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Everyman2570 ₽
Garden Stories | Gardens have been fruitful settings for stories ever since Adam and Eve were ejected from Paradise. This delightfully wide-ranging collection brings together all sorts of tales of the...
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Everyman4106 ₽
Foundation. Foundation and Empire. Second Foundation | Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy – a riveting saga of humanity’s struggle against darkness played out on the grandest possible scale – is one of...
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Everyman3149 ₽
The Wealth of Nations | Published in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smith’s cele...
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Everyman2953 ₽
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Published in 1916 when Joyce was already at work on Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is exactly what its title says and much more. In part a v...
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Everyman3346 ₽
Oblomov | Standing on a par with the great tragi-comedies of Dostoevsky and Gogol, Goncharov’s gentle satire on the failings of nineteenth-century Russian gentry and bureaucracy turns into something d...
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Everyman4273 ₽
The Makioka Sisters | Hailed as the greatest Japanese novel of the Twentieth century, The Makioka Sisters is a subtle tale of domestic oppression worthy of Balzac or Chekhov, In this saga of the once ...
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Everyman3212 ₽
The Remains of the Day | In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . ....
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Everyman4106 ₽
Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air | George Orwell was a novelist unlike any other, fiercely devoted to presenting the truth as he saw it. The three novels in this collection ...
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Everyman4935 ₽
Selected Writings | This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir's account...
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Everyman6369 ₽
Collected Stories | Widely known for her extraordinary novels, including The Last September, The Death of the Heart and The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed even herself as a wri...
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Everyman2374 ₽
Barmy in Wonderland | A penniless Englishman falls in love with a lively American girl, loses her, finds her again, is rejected, but finally discovers true love with her after many comic adventures. I...
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Everyman3940 ₽
Collected Stories | Lawrence is known mainly as a novelist and poet but he was also the author of many superb short stories and novellas. By bringing together all his shorter fiction, this volume make...
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Everyman6027 ₽
The Collected Stories | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms. But he was equally prolifi...
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Everyman4357 ₽
The Siege of Krishnapur. Troubles | Two very different Booker-Prizewinning novels about the end of empire by Anglo-Irish writer J. G. Farrell are juxtaposed in this volume. Witty, shocking, exciting a...
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Everyman3335 ₽
Mrs Dalloway | Tracing a day in the life of society hostess Clarissa Dalloway, Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally published in 1925, Mrs Dalloway is ...
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Everyman5007 ₽
A Hero Of Our Time | In its adventurous happenings – its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues – A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russ...
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Everyman5318 ₽
Joseph And His Brothers | Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in...
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Everyman4935 ₽
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Published in 1851, Harriet Beecher-Stowe's novel rapidly became world-famous and remained so. A didactic and sentimental drama set among the slaves of the American South, Uncle Tom...
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Everyman2953 ₽
The Complete Henry Bech | From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries o...
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Everyman3852 ₽
The Sonnets and Narrative Poems | Beyond the few known facts we have about William Shakespeare, our real knowledge of him comes from the substantial body of non-dramatic verse he left behind. The stri...
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Everyman3121 ₽
Possession | When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Michell stumbles upon a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman with whom he seems to be infatuated, he is ...
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Everyman4935 ₽
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie. The Girls of Slender Means. The Driver's Seat. The Only Problem | The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a min...