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Selected Short Stories This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Old Curiosity Shop New edition This novel comes with an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham and illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank. 'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
''The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories This title includes an introduction and notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. ''The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'' is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of su See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
The Lost World and Other Stories The science fiction stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stand alongside those of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. The protagonist, the 'cave-man in a lounge suit', is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. In these coll See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Life's Little Ironies Short stories See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Villette This novel is based on the author's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. It is also the story of a woman's right to lov See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Mrs. Dalloway This title includes an introduction and notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in ''Mrs Dalloway'' heralds a break with the traditional nove See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Rob Roy Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
A Tale of Two Cities This book includes an introduction and notes by Peter Merchant, Senior Lecturer in English, Canterbury Christ Church University College and illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz). This novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Agnes Grey This novel is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experie See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Emma This title contains introduction and notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is al See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Three Hostages Following the end of the First World War Richard Hannay, the hero of John Buchan's ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'', ''Greenmantle'' and ''Mr Standfast'', has retired to the Cotswolds with his wife and young son. There, news comes to him of three kidnappings and See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
A Day to Remember ''A Day To Remember'' is a successful business but, when her husband runs away with their receptionist, Jo is left to pick up the pieces. Bookings are a mess and who'll drive the limo now Steve has scarpered? It not just her marriage breakdown that Jo See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Oliver Twist Includes introduction and notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter and Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with ''The Pickwick Papers''. With ''Oliver Twist'' his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. This See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
PICADOR SHOTS - 'The Voice' ''The Voice'': A daughter's vigil for her mother, and her lost childhood. ''F Sharp'': Masako is married to Freya's former boyfriend. The only other thing the two women have in common is the piano - though their experiences are worlds apart. See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Alice in Wonderland The highest standards in editing and production have been applied to the Wordsworth Children's Classics, while the low price makes them affordable for everyone. Wordsworth's list covers a range of the best-loved stories for children, from nursery tal See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Doctor Jekyll and Mr.Hyde This book comes with an introduction and notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886 See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
The Dare At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs Delaney has accidentally hit See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
The Promise of Happiness Charles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, contemplating the turns his life has taken. At home, his wife Daphne struggles hopelessly with the latest fish recipe. Two of their children are keeping it all together - just. The third, the prodi See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
PICADOR SHOTS - 'Chemistry' ''Chemistry'' - A boy and his grandfather try to cope with the arrival of a new man in the household and his effect on the woman who is their mother and daughter. The boy dreams of violence and the grandfather retreats to the only sanctuary he knows. L See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
The English Patient The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is her English patient, anonymous, damaged beyond rec See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
The Scarlet Letter This book includes an introduction and notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-cen See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
David Copperfield This book includes an introduction and notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College and Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz). Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: ''Of all my books I like this the best''. Millions of reader See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Snow Falling on Cedars In 1954, a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memory grows See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99
Lord Jim First published in 1900, ''Lord Jim'' established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale See store web site for availability	Write a review	£ 1,99 P & P: n.a. Total: 1,99

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