Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "To love makes one solitary, she thought." On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess - sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own ... |
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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time as a riverboat captain in the Belgian Congo. From the mists of London we are whisked to the darkness of Africa's colonial heart - and into the thrall of the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. An unforgettably powerful tragedy, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is one of the great classics of the late nineteenth century. This edition features illustrations by Sir Hubert von Herkomer and Joseph Syddall, and an afterword by Philip Mallett, editor of the Thomas Hardy Journal. Tess Durbeyfield's father ... |
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With an introduction by Jenifer Egan. Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. An eternal masterpiece of candid observation, emotional insight and transcending humour, "Middlemarch" is a truly monumental novel. Endlessly appealing to modern readers, "Middlemarch" has been adapted as BBC Radio 4 drama. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and corrupts, and one day Dorian must stand face to face with the man he has become. A perfect depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence, Oscar Wilde's only novel ... |
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На върха на успеха си известният автор Нейтън Фоулс мистериозно спира да пише и се оттегля да живее в усамотение на живописен средиземноморски остров. Двайсет години по-късно уединението му е нарушено от пристигането на 24-годишния начинаещ писател Рафаел Батай, готов на всичко, само и само неговият идол да прочете ръкописа му, и на младата швейцарска журналистка Матилд Моне, търсеща виновника за гибелта на своето семейство. Тогава на острова е наложена блокада заради открит женски труп, прикован за ствола на огромен евкалипт. Докато властите търсят убиеца, Матилд и Рафаел се опитват да разберат причината за ... |
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Обсебващ трилър, вдъхновен от реални събития. ... Психиатричната болница "Гаустад", Осло. В едно смразяващо утро тялото на пациент е открито мъртво след удушаване в килията му, а устните му са застинали сякаш в последен опит да изкрещят. С разследването се заема опитният инспектор Сара Геринген, но тя разбира незабавно, че този случай е като никой друг... Стотици въпроси се сблъскват в опита ѝ да разгадае мистерията около вероятното самоубийство: Защо жертвата има белег с номер 488 на челото? Какво означават тайнствените рисунки на стената на стаята му? Защо болничният персонал отказва да разкрие ... |
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Където пеят раците на Дилия Оуенс - една от най-четените и най-търсени книга в Амазон, ще ви увлече с красивата поетична история, с лекия си изчистен стил, с шеметната си фабула с неочаквани обрати и с трогателния образ на малката Кая. Романът няма да остави и вас равнодушни, ще ви увлече с красивата поетична история, с лекия си изчистен стил, с шеметната си фабула с неочаквани обрати, с трогателния образ на малката Кая, изоставена съвсем невръстна първо от майка си, която си тръгва, без дори да се обърне, после от братята и сестрите си и накрая от баща си, несретника, който отмъщава на най-близките си за своите ... |
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Зловеща приказка в стила на "Туин Пийкс". ... "Аз съм всичко, което искаш да бъда... Наричай ме твоя... Сигурно вече би трябвало да те наричам с истинското ти име, но нямам сили да го направя. До последно няма да свалям маската, за да успея да ти кажа това, което трябва. Нашето приятелство приключва. Това поначало беше рискована идея, независимо коя си ти. Моля те да ми повярваш, че ти мисля доброто и обвинявам единствено себе си. Никога не бива да говорим за това. Не казвай на никого. Сбогом Тя е перфектната дъщеря, вярната приятелка, талантливата актриса, красавицата, любимата ученичка, но никой не знае ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling When You are Old, The Cloths of Heaven and The Lake Isle of Innisfree but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including Parnell's Funeral, surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems and also contains an illuminating ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is perhaps the greatest collection of detective stories ever written. From his residence at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes solves a series of baffling and bizarre cases, including those of a man terrified by the arrival of an envelope containing orange pips, and a woman whose fiancé disappeared on his way to their wedding. Each story showcases the great detective's inimitable and extraordinary deductive powers, recounted to us by his faithful friend and colleague, Dr Watson. This "Macmillan ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Brilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to society's loftiest heights and couldn't be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate the corrupt circus of upper-class Regency England. Hailed as a literary masterpiece upon first publication, William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" has never waned in popularity and remains a highly entertaining satire of early ... |