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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a...

But, my dear friend, what lie are you living?' 'Why, of course, the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead...

Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly...

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Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an...

George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's...

'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.'
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London, 1960. The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change forever the night their sick mother is taken to an asylum. Sent...

I am English. Tweedy. Pukka. Confident. Establishment. Self-assured. In charge. That is how people like to see me, be the truth...

'To that flash of semi-vision can be traced a full half of the horror which has ever since haunted us'
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Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders remain unsolved.
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And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too...

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A collection of the finest and funniest words from the finest funniest writer the past century ever knew. Published for the...

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