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    The prince

    1,150 L

    The Prince, political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1513. A short treatise on how to acquire power, create a state, and keep it, The Prince represents Machiavelli’s effort to provide a guide for political action based on the lessons of history and his own experience as a foreign secretary in Florence.

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    The Prophet

    500 L

    ‘Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.’ Described by many as the first self-help book, The Prophet was an instant bestseller when it was published in 1923, and is one of the most translated works in history.

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    The prophet

    1,000 L

    Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Before he departs, a group of people gather round and ask him to share his wisdom.

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    The Raven and Other Selected Poems

    500 L

    “The Raven” is by far Poe’s best-known poem and it is one of more than forty to be found in The Raven and Other Poems, a volume that collects the best of Poe’s exercises in verse. Here, readers are treated to such masterpieces as “Annabel Lee,” “The Haunted Palace,” “The Conqueror Worm,” “The City in the Sea,” “Lenore,” and many more. These poems are imbued with the somber seriousness that we associate with Poe’s macabre fiction, but also with his marvelous appraisals of the mysteries of our and other worlds, and his fervent belief in undying love.

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    The return of sherlock holmes

    1,150 L

    This edition contains notes and extra material for young readers including a section on ‘Great Fictional Detectives’ and a test yourself quiz

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    The Secret Garden

    500 L

    Do you like secrets? You might say that The Secret Garden is organized around secrets. The main character, Mary, is a secret from her parents’ associates. Colin, the young boy she meets at her new home, is also kept secret from his family and himself. The new home itself has many locked rooms and its servants are forbidden to speak of its history. Then the secret garden is brought into view. The garden that Mary uncovers has been kept secret for years, and the effect it has on her and others who find it changes their lives forever…

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    The Secret Garden

    3,250 L

    The Secret Garden opens by introducing us to Mary Lennox, a sickly, foul-tempered, unsightly little girl who loves no one and whom no one loves. At the outset of the story, she is living in India with her parents

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    The selfish giant and other stories

    1,150 L

    I will put that poor little boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be the children’s playground for ever and ever.

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    The Setting Sun

    1,800 L

    This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.

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    The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    1,650 L

    In these Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. 

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    The Sonnets

    3,250 L

    The Sonnets are William Shakespeare’s most popular works, and a few of them, such as Sonnet 18, Sonnet 116, and Sonnet 73, have become the most widely-read poems in all of English literature.

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    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 

    3,250 L

    Anne Bronte’s second but last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym of Acton Bell, and was an immediate success. It is now considered to be the one of the first feminist novels.

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    The three Musketeers

    1,750 L

    All for one, one for all!”–Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers.The Three Musketeers, by French writer Alexandre Dumas, was first released in serial form in 1844, a year before Dumas’ publication of The Count of Monte Cristo

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    The Wizard of Oz

    1,650 L

    A stunningly beautiful clothbound hardback edition of one of the most famous magical journeys in the world. Follow the yellow brick road!

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    Three men in a boat

    500 L

    Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself, as well as their fox terrier Montmorency, take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey through the English waterways full of anecdotes, and farcical incidents with Montmorency wreaking havoc along the way.

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    Three Musketeers

    500 L

    The Three Musketeers  is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice.