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Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor's New Clothes

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Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly... Jewels in storytelling, these magical fairytales by Hans Chris…

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Maurice Leblanc
The Escape of Arsène Lupin

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'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody's assistance.' In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise - or, as some would have it, a notorious criminal.…

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James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time

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'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate' Told in the form of two int…

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Frank O'Connor
The Genius

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Known as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between our selves and our surroundings. The Genius brings together some of his very…

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Jane Austen
The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian

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During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen's breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, Mary, Queen of Scots is a scandalously wronged victim, Elizab…

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Dambudzo Marechera
The House of Hunger

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'No, I don't hate being black. I'm just tired of saying it's beautiful. No, I don't hate myself. I'm just tired of people bruising their knuckles on my jaw.'A novella with the force of a screaming trumpet…

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Emilia Pardo Bazán
The Lady Bandit

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, inte…

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Wang Xiaobo
The Maverick Pig

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Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers. From the political power of silence to the irrepressible spirit o…

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Virginia Woolf
The New Dress

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'Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart."' In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of bu…

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Saadat Hasan Manto
The Price of Freedom

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Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom bring…

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Snorri Sturluson,
The Prose Edda

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Composed in Iceland in the 13th Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandanavian literature, taking readers on a voyage through an enthralling world of gods, giants, dwarfs and mo…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Rich Boy

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . . In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald's short stories, we meet Anson Hunter, 'The Rich Boy', whose opulent, haunting…

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Søren Kierkegaard
The Seducer's Diary

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'What does love fear? Limitation.'Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not by love o…

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Stanislaw Lem
The Seventh Voyage

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Journey into space with Polish scifi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy's cosmic adventure 'The Seventh Voyage' are reminiscent of Douglas Adams, while the spectral whispers haun…

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H. P. Lovecraft
The Shadow out of Time

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'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before' After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and me…

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M. R. James
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

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There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection gives the reader a flavour of his strange gifts. Often, the …

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Kate Chopin
The Story of an Hour

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There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name Nuns, maidens, adventurers - with electricity, The Story of a…

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H. G. Wells
The Time Machine

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The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely …

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Tove Ditlevsen
The Umbrella

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'Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only came in contact with by chance or infrequently.' Longi…

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Homer
The Wrath of Achilles

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On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate begin…

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