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ISBN: 9780141199115 - Barchester Towers Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope

ISBN10: 0141199113  ISBN13: 9780141199115
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2012
A novel about plotting and backstabbing that opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the... More
ISBN: 9780141199153 - The Way of All Flesh The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler

ISBN10: 0141199156  ISBN13: 9780141199153
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2012
The awkward but likeable son of a tyrannical clergyman and a priggish mother, and destined to follow his father into the church, Ernest gleefully rejects his parents' respectability, and chooses instead to find his own way in the world. More
ISBN: 9780141199344 - The Time Machine The Time Machine
H G Wells

ISBN10: 0141199342  ISBN13: 9780141199344
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2012
Features a Victorian scientist who propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon... More
ISBN: 9780141199306 - The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville

ISBN10: 014119930X  ISBN13: 9780141199306
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2012
An innocent man is pressed into service on a British man-of-war, who is falsely accused of mutiny. 'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool'. In "The Confidence-Man"... More
ISBN: 9781841591827 - Company for Henry Company for Henry
P G Wodehouse

ISBN10: 1841591823  ISBN13: 9781841591827
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 May 2012
Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country house on his millionaire American cousin, J Wendell Stickney. Wendell wishes he could be rid of his embarrassing aunt Kelly, while Kelly wants to escape her financial dependence on... More
ISBN: 9781841593463 - The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
Mark Twain

ISBN10: 184159346X  ISBN13: 9781841593463
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 May 2012
Includes the author's famous novels such as: "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn", "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", and "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg". Mark Twain's famous novels, "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" (available in... More
ISBN: 9781445847467 - The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN10: 1445847469  ISBN13: 9781445847467
Publisher: AudioGO Limited BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Format: Audio CD
Publication date: 24 May 2012
Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's - and his country's - most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed and the promise of new beginnings. Gatsby is the man who has everything - but one thing will always... More
ISBN: 9781907970078 - Illyrian Spring Illyrian Spring
Ann Bridge

ISBN10: 190797007X  ISBN13: 9781907970078
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 May 2012
ISBN: 9780226279206 - Dona Barbara Dona Barbara
Romulo Gallegos

ISBN10: 0226279200  ISBN13: 9780226279206
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 May 2012
Dona Barbara is a beautiful and mysterious woman - rumored to be a witch - with a ferocious power over men. When her cousin Santos Luzardo returns to the plains in order to reclaim his land and cattle, he reluctantly faces off against Dona... More
ISBN: 9780199583027 - The Sorrows of Young Werther The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ISBN10: 0199583021  ISBN13: 9780199583027
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 May 2012
Drawing on his own unhappy experiences, Goethe's account of Werther's passionate love for Lotte, who is promised to another, is one of the first great Romantic tragic novels. David Constantine's new translation captures the novel's lyric... More