The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: With an Introduction by Giles Foden
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc. He is the secret a ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
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Category: Vintage Classics
'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch.Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their fut ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more
Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times"There's no such thing as a perfect murder... That's just a parlor game, trying to dream one up."Tom Ripley is enjoying his wealthy lifestyle in France, until an associate asks him to kill someone again. But Ripley detests murder, ...Show more
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: RC
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, p ...Show more
Moonraker (007 James Bond #3) by Ian Fleming
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: James Bond 007
This title comes with a new introduction by Susan Hill. 'For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest weapon on earth.' He's a self-made millionaire, head of the Moonraker rocket programme and loved by the press. So why is Sir Hugo Drax cheating at car ...Show more
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Vintage Classics
An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays from novelist Kurt VonnegutIn Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more
The Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andric
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Category: Vintage Classics
'By the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever' Elif Shafak, New Statesman There is no hero or heroine in this book. Instead, there is a bridge, and there are the characters that have loved it, hated it, built it or tried to destroy it. Ivo Andric, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ...Show more
Love and Friendship: And Other Youthful Writings (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen Love and Freindship sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. They contain, amon ...Show more
Darkness Visible by William Styron
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With profound insight and remarkable candor, the author tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery.
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Vintage Classics
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Ki ...Show more