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The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories

A chilling collection of Henry James's finest ghost stories, now in a wonderful Clothbound Classics edition In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governe..

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The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories

No one has captured the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange joys, its neuroses and boredom, better than Franz Kafka. His vision, with its absurdity and twisted humour, has lost none of its for..

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The Waiting Years

In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up ..

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The Wanting Seed

An inventive, thought-provoking and absurd dystopian novel set in a world rampant with overpopulation by the author of A Clockwork Orange - now a Penguin Essential Tristram Foxe and his wife, Bea..

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The War of the Worlds

A stunning clothbound edition of Wells' science-fiction classic Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delect..

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The Waves

The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief a..

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The Waves (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me' Six friends traverse the u..

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The Well of Loneliness

New to Penguin Modern Classics, the seminal work of gay literature that sparked a notorious legal trial The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and ..

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The Whale Rider

A classic novel that became a classic film. This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, wh..

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The Widow Couderc

A stunning existential novel from Georges Simenon, the master of slow-burn mystery A bus stops on the road to Montlu on, and there two strangers meet- Tati, a steely widow, who runs the farm her ..

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The Wizard of Oz

Designed to appeal to book lovers everywhere, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and..

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The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories: Special edition

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS Beautiful editions of great books to last a lifetime A beautiful hardback edition of one of the scariest and most ingenious novels ever written. Arthur Kipps,..

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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

A beautiful new jacket treatment, part of Penguin's reissue programme of Dahl's adult titles Enter a brilliant, sinister and wholly unpredictable world. Here you will find the suggestion of other..

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Pretty Books - Painted Editions)

This beloved classic tale is now available in an exclusive collector's edition, featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and decorative interior pages, making it ideal for fiction lovers ..

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The Year of the Hare

Kaarlo Vatanen is fed up with his life. He's sick of his job, his wife, his urban lifestyle in Helsinki. But all this changes one warm summer's evening, when he encounters an injured hare on a deserte..

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Third Man and Other Stories

Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying A..

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Thirty-Nine Steps, The

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to t..

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This Side of Paradise

Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, is convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future. The reader follows Amory as he falls in love with Isabelle Borge, a wealthy young debutante; a cruel and..

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Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classi..

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Three Musketeers

It is 1625 and France is under threat. D'Artagnan, a young nobleman, sets off to Paris to seek his fortune as a member of the King's Guard and befriends three musketeers - the mysterious Athos, ambiti..

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Tin Drum

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary lif..

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

George Smiley faces his greatest challenge yet, unmasking a Soviet double agent at the heart of the British establishment George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a si..

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Tipping The Velvet: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

'Intelligent, witty and stylish' INDEPEDENT 'Everyone's appetites will be satisfied' ELLE MAGAZINE 'Waters is an author to cherish' GUARDIAN Celebrating five decades o..

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To Kill A Mockingbird

One of the world's best-loved books 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his childre..

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To Kill A Mockingbird

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel..

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To Kill a Mockingbird

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harpe..

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To the Lighthouse

A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood ..

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To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia Woolf's finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate o..

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To the Lighthouse

The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse bec..

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Tokyo Express

A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standin..

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Trainspotting: special edition

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the hilarious, dark, ingenious novel that changed the face of British fiction. Choose us. Choose life. Ch..

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Travels

This is a sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the ..

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Treasure Island

Young Jim Hawkins has no reason to suspect that Billy Bones, the pensioner who has taken up residence in his father's inn, is anything other than an aging former mariner. But when violent altercations..

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Treasure Island

First time in Penguin Classics for this quintessential adventure story The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination When a mysterious sailor d..

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Treasure Island

Perhaps the most iconic pirate story of all time, "Treasure Island" was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1881. The book follows young Jim Hawkins who finds himself in possession of a treasure map ..

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Twelfth Night

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola dis..

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

In this thrilling adventure tale by the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the Nautilus. Over the cour..

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Two Towers ( Lord of the Rings, Book 2)

Begin your journey into Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The second part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adven..

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Ulysses

'It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not 'what is a novel?', but what can a novel be? Ulysses is the ans..

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Ulysses

The greatest novel of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful Clothbound Classics centenary edition Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens t..

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Uncle Dynamite

A beautiful hardback edition of a Wodehouse fan favourite, with brand new introduction from Radio 1 DJ Greg James 'One of the greatest and silliest stories ever told' Greg James 'A brilliant..

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Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

Lyrical, funny and moving, this is Dylan Thomas's masterwork and a beloved Welsh classic. 'It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...' Under Milk Wood tells ..

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University Book Shop Fiction Subscription

A year of eleven books delivered to you from book lovers! Let our fabulous booksellers choose a treasure trove of books to be delivered to your letterbox (or that of a book-loving friend). A mixt..

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Veronika Decides To Die: A Novel Of Redemption

Twenty-four year-old Veronika seems to have everything-youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. Yet something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning Veronika ..

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Vertigo

He isn't a cop anymore, but when an old friend asks Flavieres to keep an eye on his dazzlingly beautiful wife, how can he refuse? And so he begins to scour the streets of wartime Paris in search of a ..

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Walden

The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edg..

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War and Peace

A NEW TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates so..

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War and Peace

This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering soci..

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Warrior Of The Light: A Manual

Rise to Your Destiny Warrior of the Light is a timeless and inspirational companion to The Alchemist-an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every shor..

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Watership Down

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Watership Down Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world ..

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Ways of Sunlight

From the author of The Lonely Londoners, a short story collection of life in mid-century Trinidad and London, told with Selvon's unique wit and poetic sensibility With equal humour, sorrow and j..

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