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Between the Acts & The Years by Virginia Woolf
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This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years(1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts(1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweave ...Show more
Bhagavad-gita by Vrindar Nabar (Formerly, Professor of English, Bombay University, India)
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Consists of the dialogue between Prince Arjuna and his mentor and friend, Lord Krishna, on the eve of the battle of Kuruksetra. This discourse contains an exposition of the Hindu philosophy of Karma Yoga as Prince Arjuna struggles with his understandable 'existential' anguish at having to join battle ag ...Show more
Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mys ...Show more
Call of the Wild & White Fang by Jack London
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The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian ...Show more
Captain Scott : The Voyage Of The Discovery by R.F.Scott
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When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind ...Scott's mind was like wax to receive an impression and like marble to retain it'. So wrote Leonard Huxley, and he was not alone in his opinion. ...Show more
Chapman's Homer :The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
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Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Chekhov: Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov (intro & notes Joe Andrews)
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Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comi ...Show more
Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
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With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens c ...Show more
Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. CHESTERTON
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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens
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Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens’ lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabr ...Show more
Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later lif ...Show more