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 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was originally serialized in 1869 and 1870 in the French magazine called Magasin d'education et de recreation. The deluxe illustrated edition, published in November 1871, included 111 illustrations. It was received with high acclaim when it was released and still is; it is regarded as one of the greatest adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. The description of Nemo's ship, the Nautilus, was considered ahead of its time, as it accurately describes features on submarines which at the time were very primitive vessels. The distance of 20,000 leagues mentioned in the title is not a measurement of depth but of distance travelled. At the time of writing a league was approximately four kilometers.
Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Author: VERNE JULES Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 26/02/2019 Price: $25.00 RRP: $25.00 Imprint: Worth Press Publisher: Worth Press Ltd ISBN: 9781849311656 Temporarily out of stock Price: $25.00
|  The greatest collection of fables ever written, updated for our turbulent times.
A witty, scatological illustrated version of the world's greatest collection of fables, allegedly written by a slave in the 5th century BC. A book for our times: as Gebler notes, Aesop has two subjects - the exercise of power and the experience of the powerless who endure life and all that it inflicts on them. This retelling of the Fables makes them relevant and richly enjoyable. Large and fierce animals kill and butcher weaker creatures; gods play games with the hopes and fears of lesser species, including men and women; and occasionally the weak turn the tables on the strong, exposing their pretensions. This is a stunning new version of a book that was often bowdlerised and used to teach moral lessons to children. Gebler's Aesop is darker and more realistic, and compulsively readable. Title: Aesops Fables The Cruelty of the Gods Author: GEBLER CARLO Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 04/04/2019 Price: $45.00 RRP: $45.00 Imprint: Head of Zeus Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 9781789542608 Temporarily out of stock Price: $45.00
|  In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one child, Alvin - only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar - finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city walls. Even though he knows the Invaders, who devastated the world, may still be out there...
Later rewritten, expanded and republished as THE CITY AND THE STARS, this early novella by one of the greats of science fiction remains a powerful and evocative depiction of the future of humanity... Title: Against the Fall of Night Author: CLARKE ARTHUR C Series: Golden Age Masterworks Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 02/05/2019 Price: $28.00 RRP: $28.00 Imprint: Gollancz/Witherby Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781473222342 Available stock: 1 Price: $28.00
|  Initially serialized in the Pictorial Review in 1920, The Age of Innocence is a stylistic and intimate portrayal of upper class life in New York City during the Gilded Age.Lawyer and socialite Newland Archer is about to enter a loveless marriage with a well-to-do bride, when her cousin, the exotic Ellen Olenska, enters the picture. Olenska is stuck in a bad marriage with a Polish count, and Archer finds himself in the awkward position of persuading her to save her familys reputation by staying with her husband, even though Archer himself has fallen in love with her.Combining a romantic tragedy with artful descriptions of aristocratic life in New York City, Edith Whartons twelfth novel is now available as an elegantly designed clothbound edition with an elastic closure and a new introduction.
Title: Age of Innocence Author: WHARTON EDITH Series: Knickerbocker Classics Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 21/02/2018 Price: $23.00 RRP: $23.00 Imprint: Race Point Publisher: Race Point Publishing ISBN: 9781631065040 Temporarily out of stock Price: $23.00
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 Designed to appeal to the book lover, 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.
Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world. This edition features an introduction by award-winning novelist, Rachel Cusk. As the scion of one of New York's leading families, Newland Archer has been born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. A sensitive, intelligent young man, he still respects the rigid social code by which his class lives. As he contemplates his forthcoming marriage to the striking and equally well-born May Welland, he gives thanks that she is 'one of his own kind'. But the arrival of the Countess Olenska, a free spirit who breathes clouds of European sophistication, makes him question the path on which his upbringing has set him. As his fascination with her grows, he discovers just how hard it is to escape the bonds of the society that has shaped him. Title: Age of Innocence Author: WHARTON EDITH Series: Macmillan Collector's Library Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 23/04/2019 Price: $15.00 RRP: $15.00 Imprint: Collectors Library Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509890033 Available stock: 1 Price: $15.00
|  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.
When Agnes Grey's family falls on hard times she insists on being allowed to find work as a governess, but her idealistic spirit is challenged in her first position with the unruly Bloomfield children and their callous parents. She then moves on to work for the even wealthier Murray family, whose scheming daughters jeopardize the only bright spot in Agnes's life, Edward Weston. Title: Agnes Grey Author: BRONTE ANNE Series: Macmillan Collector's Library Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 23/04/2019 Price: $15.00 RRP: $15.00 Imprint: Collectors Library Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509890002 Temporarily out of stock Price: $15.00
|  Title: Alice in Wonderland
Author: CARROLL LEWIS Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Price: $15.00 RRP: $15.00 Imprint: Collectors Library ISBN: 9781904633327 Temporarily out of stock Price: $15.00
|  Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole without giving a thought about how she might get out. And so she tumbles into Wonderland: where animals answer back, a baby turns into a pig, time stands still at a disorderly tea party, croquet is played with hedgehogs and flamingos, and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. In a land in which nothing is as it seems and cakes, potions and mushrooms can make her shrink to ten inches or grow to the size of a house, will Alice be able to find her way home again?
Title: Alices Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass Author: CARROLL LEWIS Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 27/03/2003 Price: $17.00 RRP: $17.00 Imprint: Penguin Books Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141439761 Temporarily out of stock Price: $17.00
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 In 1914 Paul B umer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed. In All Quiet on the Western Front he tells their story. A few years after it was published in 1929 the Nazis would denounce and publicly burn Remarque's novel for insulting the heroic German army - in other words, for 'telling it like it was' for the common soldier on the front line where any notions of glory and national destiny were soon blasted away by the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare. Remarque has an extraordinary power of describing fear- the appalling tension of being holed up in a dugout under heavy bombardment; the animal instinct to kill or be killed which takes over during hand-to-hand combat. He also has an eye for the grimly comic- the consignment of coffins Paul and his friends pass as they make their way up the line for a new offensive; the young soldiers joyfully tucking into double rations when half their company are unexpectedly wiped out. Remarque's elegy for a sacrificed generation is all the more devastating for the laconic prose in which his teenaged veteran narrates shocking experiences which for him have become the stuff of daily life. Paul cannot imagine a life after the war and can no longer relate to his family when he returns home on leave. Only the camaraderie of his diminishing circle of friends has any meaning for him. He comes especially to depend on an older comrade, Stanislaus Katczinsky, and one of the most poignant moments in the book is when he carries the wounded Kat on his back under fire to the field dressing station, with starkly tragic outcome. The saddest and most compelling war story ever written.
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front Author: REMARQUE ERICH MARIA Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 03/09/2018 Price: $38.00 RRP: $38.00 Imprint: Everyman Publisher: Everyman ISBN: 9781841593869 Temporarily out of stock Price: $38.00
| 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour they rise up and he is deposed, with the pigs taking charge of the newly named Animal Farm. Everything runs smoothly, productivity soars, and all animals are well-fed and happy. But the further away the memory of the revolution, the more distant seem its ideals-and when Boxer the workhorse is betrayed, the horrifying extent of the pigs' corruption is revealed. Orwell's 'fairy story', a scathing satire of Soviet communism, is as potent now as it was in 1945. Animal Farm is one of literature's most electrifying examinations of power and corruption.
Title: Animal Farm Author: ORWELL GEORGE Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 02/01/2014 Price: $16.00 RRP: $16.00 Imprint: Penguin Books Publisher: Text Publishing Co ISBN: 9781922147738 Available stock: 1 Price: $16.00
|  'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. Title: Animal Farm Author: ORWELL GEORGE Series: The Penguin English Library Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 07/06/2018 Price: $18.00 RRP: $18.00 Imprint: Penguin Books Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780241341667 Available stock: 1 Price: $18.00
| Title: Anna Karenina
Author: TOLSTOY LEO Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Price: $18.00 RRP: $18.00 Imprint: Penguin Books ISBN: 9780140449174 Available stock: 1 Price: $18.00
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