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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
A sad, amazing and beautiful book.
The Bell Jar is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath's only novel, which was originally publi...
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Joseph Conrad
I hope everyone enjoys these... Conrad is one of the greats
Joseph Conrad (born Jef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
3 December 1857 Â...
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Book 2 - Claudius the God
Robert Graves
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his su...
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The Insidious Dr Fu-Manchu
Sax Rohmer
Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, ... one giant intell...
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Flush
Virginia Woolf
One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett.
In this charming...
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In this classic tale of pride and guilt, Hester Prynn, a young woman in Puritan Massachusetts, publicly bears the burden of her si...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
Quasimodo was born disfigured, hunchbacked and lame, and years spent ringing the bells of the Cathedral of Notre Dame have left hi...
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The Castle
Franz Kafka
The unfinished manuscript of The Castle was discovered after Franz Kafka's death in 1924, and has been known only in the version t...
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The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde
A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving
portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not bo...
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Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
When the naive David Balfour sets out on his quest for a long-lost relative, a terrifying chain of events is set in motion. He is ...
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rudyard Kipling
Brave little Rikki Tikki Tavi is a mongoose who finds himself the target of the deadly cobra Naga. Can the courageous little critt...
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
The classic book that most of us read when we were 8 or 10 years old. Still as magical and memorable as when I was a child. ...
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Identity
Milan Kundera
There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is eras...
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle ...
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Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm
The story tells of Flora Poste, a smart, sophisticated young woman from London- rather like Stella herself- who goes to live with ...
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's most accomplished novel, and her most autobiographical. It tells of one summer spent by the ...
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris. Its publication in 1961 in the Uni...
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