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Widely regarded as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes's literary masterwork chronicles the exploits of noble knight-errant Don Quixote of la Mancha and his squire, Sancho Panza, as they trav
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Each edition includes:? Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play? Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play? Scene-by-scene plot su
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student da
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We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated?The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppres
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'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in thi
WITH AN INTRODUC TION BY RUTH RENDELLThe Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams themoors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for
The midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling ofthe wind outside, the creak of a floorboard, the scream of a cat, the ticking clock...Your heart beats, your s
Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languishedin Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes becomeinextricably intertwi
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After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed. Th
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising and subversive f
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Zuleika Dobson, great beauty and second-rate conjurer, leaves a trail of broken hearts behind her wherever she goes. When she arrives at Oxford to stay with her grandfather, the Warden of Judas Colleg
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'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive....' In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four year
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