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  • A Winter in the Hills

    by John Wain ...
    '[A] triumph of mature observation and art.' - Daily Telegraph'A winter's tale of light and laughter.' - Sunday Times'What is especially enjoyable is the rough-edged tenderness and kindness of Mr Wain's concern ... probably his most substantial achievement to date.' - Robert Nye, Saturday Times Review'[S]ubstantial and serious ... sustains a vigorous narrative line - he has always been an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hurry on Down

    "A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement"Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener"[A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of darkness." - Sunday TimesCharles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his ... Read more

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  • Three Scientists of the Ancient World

    Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia

    These plays cover one thousand years of the ancient world from the golden age of Athens to 5th century Alexandria. The protagonists are Anaxagoras, Archimedes and Hypatia, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers. All three of them came into conflict with the prevalent views of the time. Anaxagoras maintained that the sun was a big burning rock of the size of the Peleponnesus. He was condemned to ... Read more

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  • The Old Wives' Tale

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    First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to ... Read more

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  • Salmonella in Domestic Animals

    Salmonella remains a major cause of economic loss in domestic livestock and human food poisoning worldwide. In the last 10 years there have been major advances in understanding the salmonella organism, meaning a compiled source of the new research is urgently needed. With fully updated chapters and new coverage of genome structure, virulence, vaccine development, molecular methods for epidemiology ... Read more

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  • Denry the Audacious

    A Charming Underdog's Journey through Edwardian Society

    In "Denry the Audacious," Arnold Bennett weaves a captivating tale that follows the exuberant life of Denry Machin, a character whose ambition and audacity encapsulate the transformative spirit of the early 20th century. Set against the backdrop of the industrial town of Bursley, the novel employs a blend of realism and keen social observation, utilizing Bennett's signature style marked by rich ... Read more

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  • Riceyman Steps: A Novel

    "Riceyman Steps" is a novel written by the British author Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923. The novel is set in London and follows the lives of the residents of the fictional Riceyman Square, focusing particularly on Henry Earlforward, a miserly and obsessive bookseller, and his relationship with his wife, Violet Arb.The story explores themes of obsession, control, and the effects of ... Read more

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  • Winesburg, Ohio

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time"Here [is] a new order of short story," said H.L. Mencken when Winesburg, Ohio was published in 1919. "It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own." Indeed, Sherwood Anderson's timeless cycle of loosely connected tales--in which a young reporter ... Read more

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  • Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

    The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which ... Read more

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  • Kidnapped

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    Illustrated by Louis Rhead ...
    One day, while my husband was busily at work, I sat beside him reading an old cookery book called The Compleat House-wife: or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion. In the midst of receipts for "Rabbits, and Chickens mumbled, Pickled Samphire, Skirret Pye, Baked Tansy," and other forgotten deli-cacies, there were directions for the preparation of several lo-tions for the preservation of beauty.One ... Read more

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  • La Peste (The Plague)

    by Albert Camus ...
    The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. ... Read more

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  • Slaughterhouse-Five

    A Novel; 50th anniversary edition

    by Kurt Vonnegut ...
    A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow BirdsSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeSlaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD