Fiction : Classic
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Naked Lunch
by William Burroughs
| Condition: | Almost New |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Interest |
| Desc: | Cheapo edition, 'Ted Smart'? I've read this a few time, lost my innocence and now I want it back. Perhaps I should swap this for some Austen or something, or maybe not. |
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The Outsider
by Albert Camus
| Condition: | Little Worn |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition.I was told this was a classic, I'm still not convinced. It certainly offers an interesting approach to the Existentialist philosophy. Sort of one you 'have' to read. |
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Troilus and Criseyde
by Geoffrey Chaucer
| Condition: | Little Worn |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | A must for any scholar of English Literature. The father of modern English poetry's retelling of this tale, follows the rise and fall of the tragic couple in his distinctly sympathetic, humanist style. |
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Lady With Lapdog and other stories
by Anton Chekhov
| Condition: | Little Worn |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | Penguin Classics edition featuring the master of the short story form's most famous works including 'The Grasshopper' - 'inspiration' for Truman Capote's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. |
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Herzog
by Saul Bellow
| Condition: | Little Worn |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Interest |
| Desc: | Penguin Modern Classics edition. For those who haven't read Bellow before, start with The Adventures of Augie March or this one. Bellow paints the lives of the down and out protagonist in mid-20th century. For fans of Kerouac and Orwell. A key writer in the great American Novel tradition. |
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
| Condition: | Almost New |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | Daniel Defoe's other classic novel. Set in London in the 18th century, Defoe unveils a world of vice and corruption, and the tale of a womans fall. Moll is one of the most controversial heroines in the history of the form. |
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
| Condition: | Little Worn |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Interest |
| Desc: | 1960 Penguin Books edition of Golding's harrowing masterpiece of power politics and its discontents. |
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Three Jacobean Tragedies
by Various
| Condition: | Little Worn |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | Penguin English Library edition including 'The Revenger's Tragedy' - Cyril Tourneur, 'The White Devil' - John Webster, 'The Changeling' - Thomas Middleton.
Three classic pieces of theatre, contemporaneous with Shakespeare et al. |
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
| Condition: | Almost New |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | The cover of my book doesn't exactly match this one but it is still the same classic novel. |
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
| Condition: | Almost New |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | Probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on leave, and in hospitals and dressing stations. Pic is of a different cover to mine. |
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
| Condition: | Little Worn |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Interest |
| Desc: | Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again ...Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to |
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Waverley
by Walter Scot
| Condition: | Brand New |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story of Edward Waverley, an idealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands. |
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
| Condition: | Brand New |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble or |
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Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
| Condition: | Brand New |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Status: | Available |
| Desc: | At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. |
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