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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

    $229.19 USD

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  • The Card

    Series series Timeless Classics
    Step into the whimsical world of Denry Machin in "The Card" by Arnold Bennett. This delightful novel charts the rise of an audacious young man who cleverly maneuvers through the social ranks of the fictional town of Bursley. With charm, wit, and a knack for seizing unexpected opportunities, Denry transforms himself from a lowly clerk into a respected local hero. Bennett's engaging narrative is a ... Read more

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  • Riceyman Steps

    *Riceyman Steps*, first published in 1923, is set in "dingy and sordid" Clerkenwell, in central London, where "existence was a dangerous and difficult adventure in almost frantic quest of food, drink and shelter." It's there that Henry Earlforward runs a gloomy, dusty store full of secondhand books. He eats less and less with every day, keeps his young servant Elsie working long hours for minimal ... Read more

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  • Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life

    Intimate Tales of Midwest Characters in Search of Meaning

    Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life is a seminal work of American literature that captures the complexities of small-town existence in early 20th-century America. Sherwood Anderson employs a modernist style characterized by a fragmented narrative and vivid character sketches that delve into the inner lives of the townsfolk. Through interconnected stories, he explores themes ... Read more

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  • Essays

    The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record for the 'private benefit of friends and kinsmen ... some traits of my character and of my humours.' The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of ... Read more

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  • Kidnapped

    In this classic adventure story, set during the time of the Jacobite rebellion, David Balfour is kidnapped to be carrried away to the Americas after escaping murder by his Uncle Ebenezer. An exciting adventure story with no women. ... 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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  • The Pickwick Papers

    The Pickwick Papers is Charles Dickens's first novel is a sequence of loosely related adventures. The novel's main character, Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, and the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, he suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" (Mr. Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. ... Read more

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