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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work ...Show more
Darkness Visible by William Styron
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Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With profound insight and remarkable candor, the author tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery.
David Copperfield (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show... When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and hear ...Show more
Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW MOTIONThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans- Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.' ...Show more
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and t ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritual values - especially those of the east. Hesse's longing to find a dynamic fusion of mind with nature is set forth more pene ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
`I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not ...Show more
Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
`Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and ...Show more
Heart of Darkness: AND Youth by Joseph Conrad; Tim Butcher (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more