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A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...

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This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

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This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked...

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic...

A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith.

Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated...

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First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

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Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island.

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'One of the greatest allegories in all literature' D.H. Lawrence

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'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want' Independent

Eight years ago Anne Elliot...

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Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

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As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful...

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

With an introduction by Richard...

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she...

A witty, elegant novel about looking, seeing, thinking, knowing and understanding

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose...

'A delight to read' Evening Standard

In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall...

An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition

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Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
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The original translation by Robert Chandler, updated and revised
The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an...

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Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris...