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Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde

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Published 01-Apr-2011


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The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited, heralding the end of a repressive era. Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, Wilde's uncensored typescript is published here for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition.


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Metamorphosis

By Franz Kafka

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Published 26-Aug-1996


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Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

By Robert Tressell

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Published 09-Apr-2012


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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities.


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Sense of an Ending

By Julian Barnes

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Published 01-Mar-2012


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Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. May be Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life.


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Great Gatsby

By F Scott Fitzgerald

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Published 24-Feb-2000


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Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires.


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Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy

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Published 30-Jan-2003


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Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and soon brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake.


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Meet Mr Mulliner

By PG Wodehouse

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Published 07-Aug-2008


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In the Angler's Rest, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse's greatest raconteurs. Mr Mulliner, his vivid imagination lubricated by Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid, has fabulous stories to tell of the behaviour of his far-flung family.


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Tales of the Jazz Age

By F Scott Fitzgerald

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Published 03-Nov-2011


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Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this title captures America during the Jazz Age.


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Frankenstein

By Mary Shelley

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Published 30-Jan-2003


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Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its creator and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy Frankenstein and all that he holds dear.


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Burmese Days

By George Orwell

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Published 29-Nov-2001


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Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club.


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