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| The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy |
Who was the real 'English patient'? The desert explorer Laszlo Almasy, on whom the character was loosely based, was very different from the romantic hero of the prize-winning novel anmd multiple Oscar-winning movie of that name. But a similar aura of
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| The Turn of the Screw: AND The Aspern Papers |
In the "The Turn of the Screw" a governess is sent to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of evil, she thinks that something malevolent is stalking the children. "The Aspern Papers" tells the tale of a literary historian determined to ge
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| Hunt for the Skinwalker |
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| Love's Labour's Lost |
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| The Storm |
On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. For Defoe, bankrupt and just released from prison for seditious writings, t
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| Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There |
When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters who behave very strangely. Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the dotty White Knight and the sharp-tempered Red Queen - none of them ar
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream |
A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing ma
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| Frankenstein |
Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition: to create intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, he realizes he has made a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone who sees it, follows Dr F
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| Princess and the Pea |
Presents the tale of a prince, a princess, perfect politeness, pages of love and a peculiarly hard pea. This audiobook explores the tale of the down-to-earth princess through a mix of spoken word, music, and sound effects to create a fairy tale.
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| Little Dorrit |
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalse
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| Bringing Down the House |
Cheating in casinos is illegal: card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. This book tells the true story a successful scam, in which te
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| The Time Machine |
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace.
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| Tales of Ancient Egypt |
Features stories that include the great myths - of Amen-Ra, who created all the creatures in the world; of Isis, searching the waters for her dead husband Osiris; of the Bennu Bird and the Book of Thoth. But there are also tales told for pleasure abo
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| Don't Tell the Teacher |
Presents an audio poetry collection. New kids, disobedient deputy heads, school reports and fireworks, daydreamers and embarrassing mums all make an appearance. And if you listen on you might just discover the whereabouts of Colin's confiscated conke
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| Prague Counterpoint |
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| The Penguin Atlas of World History: From Prehistory to the Eve of the French Revolution v.1 |
Covers events from the beginning of world history to the eve of the French Revolution. This book offers a wide-ranging, chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious and political events of the period. It is accompanied by detaile
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| The Invisible Man |
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin the new guest at The Coach and Horses is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim.
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| Dracula |
Jonathan Hasker's nightmarish experience at Castle Dracula is only the beginning of a chain of macabre events, of blood-curdling horrors unleashed from the depths of a dark and evil world which thrives on innocent victims. The vile Count is at large,
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| The Voice of War |
The end of the Second World War retains its unique place in the public consciousness. Drawn from the diaries and memoirs of soldiers and observers from every theatre of war and from every nation who was involved this great book gives an enthralling p
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| The New Machiavelli |
A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party.
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