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'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'
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Solzhenitsyn's polemical speeches - a primer for understanding the moral, political vision of the Nobel prize winner
'Can one...

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Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich "relatives", the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her...

The most famous and thrilling of Sherlock Holmes's cases.
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This title is translated, annotated and introduced by Gillon Aitken. Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin's...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his...