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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser.
Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibili ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden b ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (#1) by John Boyne
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Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
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Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella hers ...Show more
The Human Factor by Graham Greene
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics
A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his African wife, ...Show more
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to k ...Show more
The Locket of Dreams (Vintage Classics) by Belinda Murrell
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Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'She didn?t know why she felt the urge to wear the old necklace. It just seemed to have a magnetic pull on her.? When Sophie wears the heart-shaped locket, she magically travels back to 1858 to learn the truth about her ancestor. Charlotte Mackenzie and her sister, Nell, live a wonderful life on a misty ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss (Vintage Classics) by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
"Eliot dealt in human relationships and she was a mistress of the art." --Times Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both willful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss, Tom's self-righteous stubbornness and Maggie's e ...Show more