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A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants t ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Oxford World Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conven ...Show more
Late Fame by Arthur Schnitzler
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Category: Fiction | Series: Collection Hardback
The ageing civil servant Eduard Saxberger has banished all hope of literary renown. His one collection of youthful verse never led to the glittering career he hoped for, and he has resigned himself to the fact that he'll live out his life as, after all, just an ordinary man. Until, that is, a young admi ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection | Reading Level: very good
'You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style'. Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle-aged college professor. Haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and illegally) in lust with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Dolores ...Show more
Our Game by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Le Carré's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry - dreamer, diss ...Show more
Snow White & Other Tales OWC by Wilhelm Grimm; Joyce Crick (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...'The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fai ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin F. Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash, the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Penguin F. Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection | Reading Level: very good
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious ...Show more
The Night Manager by le Carre, John
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he comm ...Show more
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRÉ'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carré has lived a unique life.In this, his first memoir, le ...Show more
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