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Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these ... More

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A warm-hearted story with a theatrical background set in 1946 with many feeling the aftershock of war. Rationing is still in place and prisoners of ... More

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From the first time she saw him, limping up the driveway to answer her grandma's help wanted ad, Todd Earnword had a special place in Clementine ... More

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Emotionally paralysed by grief at her husband's death, Lady Franklin, an eligible young widow, unburdens herself to Leadbitter - a gallant, hard ... More

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This selection of work includes: "Inside Mr Enderby", "Enderby Outside", "The Clockwork Testament" and "Enderby's Dark Lady". Enderby, poet and ... More

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Comprises three novels and, although each is self-contained, the same characters recur in all three books, which tell from different view points the ... More

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James Thorne Smith Jr. (1892-1934), was an American writer of humorous supernaturnal fantasy fiction. Best known today for his creation of Topper, ... More

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"St Mawr", a satirical attack on artistic poseurs, on England and the English, is the story of a woman who gives up her husband for a wild golden ... More

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Drawing on the intense emotional experiences of his youth, Proust tells the story of boyhood summers of strawberries and cream cheese, of garlands of ... More

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An ageing man who does not want to die is offered by the gods, the chance of living his life again, but backwards. If he accept he will, from that ... More

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The four novels gathered here constitute the complete longer works of one the most brilliant and original American writers. West's vision of American ... More

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This text is part of the "Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics" series which also includes "St Peter Relates an Incident" by James Johnson. Winning a ... More

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Contains the complete novels of George Orwell - "Animal Farm", "Burmese Days", "A Clergyman's Daughter", "Coming up for Air", "Keep the Aspidistra ... More

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This is a study of a woman's effect upon a boy of 17. His father too is effected although his infidelity is imaginary but as destructive. Years later ... More

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The story of Guy Crouchback, whose career as an officer in the royal corps of Halberdiers is chequered and strewn with blunders and botched ... More

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