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The Devil’s Dictionary
1,150 LA celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce’s began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers.
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Mythologies
1,650 LIn this magnificent collection of essays, Barthes explores the myths of mass culture taking subjects as diverse as wrestling.
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The murders in the rue morgue
1,150 LIn the three stories collected here, Edgar Allan Poe laid down the ground rules of detective fiction. This is a compendium of Poe’s tales of mystery and intrigue featuring his ground-breaking detective Auguste Dupin.
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To the Lighthouse
650 LTo the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf’s novels.
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Frankenstein
650 LFrankenstein by Mary Shelley. Conceived from a nightmare, Frankenstein, is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818.
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The picture of Dorian Gray
650 LThe handsome appearance of dissolute young Dorian Gray remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses
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The Little Prince
650 LThe Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults.
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Ulysses
650 LWith a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904.
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Oliver Twist
650 LOliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.
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A Tale of Two Cities
650 LA Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens’ greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror.
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Anna Karenina
650 LPresents the nineteenth-century Russian novelist’s classic in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society
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Crime and Punishment
650 LIntroduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written.
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Devils
650 LIn 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime?
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The Karamazov Brothers
650 LAs Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death.
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The Idiot
650 LReturning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin – known as ‘the idiot’ – pays a visit to his distant relative General.
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