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Utopia (Penguin Classics) - Thomas More, translated by Dominic Baker-Smith (ex-libris)

Thomas More, translated by Dominic Baker-Smith
Ex-library stamp inside Thomas More's Utopia is a masterpiece of Renaissance political philosophy, responsible for introducing the term 'utopia' and spawning an entire genre of 'utopian' and 'dystopian' literature. This...
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Classics and World LiteratureEnglish Studies

Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt (Paperback, 1991)

A. S. Byatt
"Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating...
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Classics and World LiteratureEnglish Studies

The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Penguin)

Chaim Potok
Out of a Baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish Boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of...
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Classics and World LiteratureEnglish Studies

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage)

Kurt Vonnegut
"In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum...
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Classics and World LiteratureEnglish Studies

The Waves by Viginina Woolf (Wordsworth Classics)

Viginina Woolf
Introduction and Notes by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham. 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely...
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Caesar: The Conquest of Gaul Translated by S. A. Handford, Revised by Jane P. Gardner (Penguin Classics) Caesar: The Conquest of Gaul Translated by S. A. Handford, Revised by Jane P. Gardner (Penguin Classics)
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Caesar: The Conquest of Gaul Translated by S. A. Handford, Revised by Jane P. Gardner (Penguin Classics)

Caesar, Translated by S. A. Handford, Revised by Jane P. Gardner
Between 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar’s...
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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Penguin Classics)

Thomas Hardy
ndependent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her confident presence draws three very...
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Cicero: Murder Trials Translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics) Cicero: Murder Trials Translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics)
Classics and World LiteratureEnglish Studies

Cicero: Murder Trials Translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics)

Cicero (translated by Michael Grant)
“Whereas the place for prejudice is a public meeting, a court of law is the adobe of truth.” Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Roscius off...
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Biography & True StoriesCambridge

Tacitus: Agricola by Tacitus (Cambridge Greek & Latin Classics) by Edited by A.J. Woodman et al

Edited by A.J. Woodman with C.S. Kraus
The first work of any great historian has always commanded attention, and Tacitus was ancient Rome's very greatest historian. His biography of his father-in-law, governor of Britain in the years...
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (Anchor Books)

Dai Sijie
  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the...
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Homer The Iliad (translated by Martin Hammond) (Penguin Classics) Homer The Iliad (translated by Martin Hammond) (Penguin Classics)
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Homer The Iliad (translated by Martin Hammond) (Penguin Classics)

Homer (translated by Martin Hammond)
One of the first and greatest literary achievements of Greek civilisation, The Iliad focuses on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war between the Greeks and...
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Classics and World LiteratureLanguages

Virgil: Aeneid I-VI (Bristol Classical Press) Edited by R. Deryck Williams

Virgil, edited by R. Deryck Williams
This is the first volume of R. Deryck Williams' classic edition of the Aeneid, covering books I-VI. It includes the Latin text, with English introduction, an extensive commentary and notes...
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Plutarch: Greek Lives (Oxford World's Classics)
Biography & True StoriesClassics and World Literature

Plutarch: Greek Lives (Oxford World's Classics)

Plutarch (translated by Robin Waterfield)
Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time...
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Plutarch: The Age of Alexander Translated by Ian Scott~Kilvert (Penguin Classics)

Plutarch (translated by Ian Scott~Kilvert)
Textual and historical notes supplement a segment of Plutarch's Lives which covers the rise of Macedonia. Publisher: Penguin Books Year: 1973  
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Le Morte D'Arthur Volume I by Sir Thomas Malory (Penguin Classics)

Sir Thomas Malory
Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arhurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming the sword Excalibur, his...
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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Penguin Modern Classics)

Virginia Woolf
A pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of...
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The Outsiders + Bonus Material Inside by S.E. HInton The Outsiders + Bonus Material Inside by S.E. HInton
Classics and World LiteratureModern Fiction

The Outsiders + Bonus Material Inside by S.E. HInton

S.E. Hinton
Ponyboy can count on his brothers, and on his friends. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a...
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The Shepheardes Calender (1579) by Edmund Spenser (Facsimile, HC) Ex-libris The Shepheardes Calender (1579) by Edmund Spenser (Facsimile, HC) Ex-libris
Classics and World LiteratureHistory

The Shepheardes Calender (1579) by Edmund Spenser (Facsimile, HC) Ex-libris

Edmund Spenser, Edited by S.K. Heninger Jr.
Spenser's extraordinary Shepheardes Calender as first printed in 1579 is arguably the seminal book of the Elizabethan literary renaissance. This volume reassesses it as a material text in relation to...
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Classics and World LiteratureEnglish Studies

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Penguin Classics)

Jonathan Swift
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadGulliver's Travels...
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William Wordsworth: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) William Wordsworth: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
Classics and World LiteratureEnglish Studies

William Wordsworth: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

William Wordsworth
One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains...
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The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield (Penguin Classics) The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield (Penguin Classics)
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The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield (Penguin Classics)

Katherine Mansfield
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand,...
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Kidnapped, The Adventures of David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson HC Reader's Digest Kidnapped, The Adventures of David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson HC Reader's Digest
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Kidnapped, The Adventures of David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson HC Reader's Digest

Robert Louis Stevenson
Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into...
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Mystified Magistrate: Four Stories by the Marquis De Sade, Translated by Margaret Crosland Mystified Magistrate: Four Stories by the Marquis De Sade, Translated by Margaret Crosland
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Mystified Magistrate: Four Stories by the Marquis De Sade, Translated by Margaret Crosland

Marquis De Sade, Translated by Margaret Crosland
A lively collection demonstrating de Sade's versatility as a short-story writer. His hatred of repressive institutions such as the Church and the legal system, his preoccupation with 'Sapphic' love, and...
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Diaboliad, and Other Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, Indiana University Press, 1972 'SCARCE' Diaboliad, and Other Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, Indiana University Press, 1972 'SCARCE'
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Diaboliad, and Other Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, Indiana University Press, 1972 'SCARCE'

Mikhail Bulgakov, Translated by Carl R. Proffer
'Having found his niche at MatchMat, the quiet, gentle, fair-haired Korotkov had completely expunged from his soul the idea of the existence in the world of the so-called vicissitudes of...
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