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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms


Victoria Finlay , Luo Guanzhong , Jay Ramsay , He Yun


A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's Han dynastyPart historical and part legend, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatizes the lives of feudal lords and their...

Parution : 2018-07-26
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The New York Stories


John O'hara


‘Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society’ Wall...

Parution : 2018-07-05
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Fiasco
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Fiasco


Stanislaw Lem


'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a...

Parution : 2018-07-05
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Télécharger le livre :  At the Mountains of Madness
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At the Mountains of Madness


H. P. Lovecraft


'To that flash of semi-vision can be traced a full half of the horror which has ever since haunted us'An expedition to Antarctica goes horribly wrong as a group of explorers stumbles upon some mysterious ancient ruins, with devastating consequences. At the Mountains of...

Parution : 2018-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth and her German Garden
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Elizabeth and her German Garden


Elizabeth Von Arnim


' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" 'Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling...

Parution : 2018-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Call of the Wild
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The Call of the Wild


Jack London


'The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.'The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing,...

Parution : 2018-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Injustice
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Injustice


Richard Wright


VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How to go on in a world where everything is set against you? With hope? In fear? Or, in violent struggle? In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger...

Parution : 2018-04-05
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Frankenstein


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws...

Parution : 2018-03-22
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Frankenstein


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws...

Parution : 2018-03-22
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Childhood and the Classics
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Childhood and the Classics


Sheila Murnaghan , Deborah H. Roberts


The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the...

Parution : 2018-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Childhood and the Classics
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Childhood and the Classics


Sheila Murnaghan , Deborah H. Roberts


The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the...

Parution : 2018-03-09
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Seducers in Ecuador & The Heir
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Seducers in Ecuador & The Heir


Vita Sackville-West


Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax, every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee, enjoying the pleasures of an Egyptian cruise. But with the addition of a pair of blue spectacles to the outfit, Lomax's entire world changes - to...

Parution : 2018-03-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Grand Canyon
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Grand Canyon


Vita Sackville-West


The Second World War has been won - by the Germans. Only America still stands protected by a precarious promise of peace from the Reich. Lester and Helen, strangers staying at the Grand Canyon Hotel in Arizona are united by their memories of a lost England. When the...

Parution : 2018-03-08
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  His Excellency Eugène Rougon
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His Excellency Eugène Rougon


Émile Zola


'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.' His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper...

Parution : 2018-03-08
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His Excellency Eugène Rougon


Émile Zola


'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.' His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper...

Parution : 2018-03-07
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
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The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus


Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen , J. A. Underwood


'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust' Thomas MannA story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this...

Parution : 2018-03-01
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  I Have More Souls Than One
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I Have More Souls Than One


Fernando Pessoa


'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by...

Parution : 2018-02-22
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Family History
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Family History


Vita Sackville-West


Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls passionately in love. But both lovers have strong personalities and passion does not equal happiness.Evelyn, deeply jealous and...

Parution : 2018-02-01
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Heritage
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Heritage


Vita Sackville-West


Ruth Pennistan is a farmer’s daughter, born and brought up in Kent. But her dark hair and eyes belie a forgotten ancestry – a Spanish gypsy grandmother and a passionate inheritance. Malory, the rather strait-laced guest of the family, falls head over heels in love, even...

Parution : 2018-02-01
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Berlin Alexanderplatz


Alfred Döblin , Michael Hofmann


The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a new translation by Michael Hofmann, translator of Alone in Berlin Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external...

Parution : 2018-02-01
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Éditeur : Penguin
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