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Great Expectations (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; F. W. Pailthorpe (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
`I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not ...Show more
Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
`Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and ...Show more
Heart of Darkness: AND Youth by Joseph Conrad; Tim Butcher (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Valerie Grove (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Brontë Ser.
2016 CHARLOTTE BRONTE BICENTENARY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Vintage Classic) by Jules Verne
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans desc ...Show more
Kings in Grass Castles by Mary Durack
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When Patrick Durack left Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a dynasty of pioneers, and build an empire of cattle-land across the great stretches of Australia. His grand-daughter, Mary Durack, with a profound sense of family history, has rebuilt the saga of the Duracks, a saga that is the sto ...Show more
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'And so this is little Lord Fauntleroy' Ceddie is a regular little boy living in New York with his mother. That is until the day a tall, old gentleman arrives to inform him of some startling news. Ceddie, it turns out, is the child of a great, old English family. He must go to England to live with the E ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, a ...Show more