Classic fiction

Lolita

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, ‘to fix once for all the perilous mag...

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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The story of respectable Dr Jekyll’s strange association with ‘damnable young man’ Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the final revelation of Hyde...

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The fall of the house of Usher and other selected stories

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This complete collection of all of Poe’s short stories and novellas contains well-known tales ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ alongside hidden gem...

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The scarlet letter

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Hester Prynne’s daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair, but no one knows Pearl’s father’s identity. Hester’s refusal to name him brings condemnation upon her, ...

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Joe Christmas, a man doomed, deracinated and alone, wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his god-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pu...

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Call for the dead

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After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man’s death, he begi...

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The daughter of time

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A gripping mix of historical and contemporary crime, voted the number one crime novel of all time.

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Coming Up for Air

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By turns comic and melancholy, Orwell’s fourth novel – published in 1939 to critical and commercial acclaim by Victor Gollancz – is Wellsian in its exploration of the frustrations...

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Babylon revisited

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In ‘Babylon Revisited’ a man goes to Paris to gain custody of his daughter, but his plans go disasterously awry. In ‘The Cut-Glass Bowl’ a wedding present becomes a curse fo...

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Treasures of Cornwall

£9.99

A beguiling anthology of poetry and prose for everyone who loves Cornwall.

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Little women

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Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences.

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The Nutcracker

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Hoffmann’s classic Christmas fairy tale, immortalised by Tchaikovsky’s ballet, is brought to life. On Christmas Eve, Fritz and Marie excitedly await the arrival of Godfather Drosselmeie...

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The Cossacks

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Olenin, a wealthy, orphaned, ‘superfluous man’ from Moscow joins the Russian army and travels to the Causasus – Russia’s equivalent of America’s Wild West. There, he d...

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Reginald’s Christmas Revel

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With his signature flair and razor-sharp wit, Saki is an undisputed master of the short story. His tales are by turns hilarious, festive, supernatural and macabre, but all offer fabulous, bite-size...

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Snow Country

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Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan’s mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules ...

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Breakfast At Tiffany’s

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Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She’s up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She...

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Ice

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The last of Kavan’s books to be published in her lifetime, ‘Ice’ is a dreamy novel set in an imaginary world padded by ice and snow, run by a secret government, invaded by aggress...

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Player Piano

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Vonnegut’s novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wild...

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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

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A special limited Christmas edition of Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There.

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Persuasion

£30.00

Captain Wentworth’s letter to Anne Elliot remains one of the literature’s most unforgettable confessions. It is the jewel at the heart of ‘Persuasion’, Jane Austen’s c...

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People from Bloomington

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In these seven stories of the people from Bloomington, our peculiar narrators find themselves in the most peculiar of circumstances and encounter the most peculiar of people. Set in Bloomington, In...

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The Blind Owl

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Sadegh Hedayat’s most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale in which the reader is drawn into his hallucinatory and pained world, with recurr...

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Mrs Dalloway

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‘The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames’In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman’s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute deta...

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The Enchanted April

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‘Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy’Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands...

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The Painted Veil

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‘She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference’Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsati...

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Lolita

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The fall of the house of Usher and other selected stories

The scarlet letter

Light in August

Call for the dead

The daughter of time

Coming Up for Air

Babylon revisited

Treasures of Cornwall

Little women

The Nutcracker

The Cossacks

Reginald’s Christmas Revel

Snow Country

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Ice

Player Piano

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Persuasion

People from Bloomington

The Blind Owl

Mrs Dalloway

The Enchanted April

The Painted Veil

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