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Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories ENLeo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man’s intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice greed and devotion lust and affection vanity and love one by one, in this volume of great stories, Tolstoy dissects the basic drives, emotions, and motives of ordinary people searching for self-knowledge…
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Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other StoriesWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. In the early story Family Happiness, Tolstoy explores…
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James Rickards The Death of Money ENIn this New York Times bestseller and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Rickards explores the future of the international monetary system. A fast-paced and apocalyptic look at the financial future, taking in financiers' greed, central banks' incompetence and impending Armageddon for the dollar ...Rickards may be right that the system is going wobbly. (Financial Times). The international monetary system has collapsed…
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Chris Kuzneski The Death Relic ENThe New World, 1545... Vanquished by the Spanish Empire, little remains of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities, a unified legend emerges: the Christians who conquered them possessed a mysterious object, an artifact so powerful-so deadly-that it was known throughout the Americas as 'the death relic.'Yucatan Peninsula, present day... When Maria Pelati's research team disappears in…
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Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron ENSet against the background of the Black Death of 1348, Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of medieval life and is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature.
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Daniel Silva The Defector ENGabriel Allon took down the world's most dangerous man. He made just one mistake. Leaving him alive. Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Umbria, when shocking news arrives from London. A Russian defector who saved his life has vanished without a trace. British Intelligence suspect he was a double agent, but Allon knows better. Soon he finds himself in a deadly duel of wits with a murderous Russian arms…
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Christopher Andrew The Defence of the RealmTo mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian. The Defence of the Realm, the book which results, is an unprecedented publication, It reveals the precise role of the Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909 to root out 'the spies of the Kaiser' up to its…
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Sally Green The Demon WorldThe second book in The Smoke Thieves series from Sally Green - perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Game of Thrones. After narrowly escaping the fall of Rossarb, Princess Catherine leads a rag-tag group of survivors ...
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Grayson Perry The Descent of Man ENGrayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he turns round to look at men with a clear eye and ask, what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone? What would happen if we rethought the old, macho, outdated version of manhood, and embraced a…
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Raymond Radiguet The Devil in the FleshAs the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on ...
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Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums ENFollowing the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking…
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Federico García Lorca The Dialogues of Two SnailsMy heart brims with billows and minnows of shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations...
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and other stories ENScott Fitzgerald blends wit and cynicism in his satirical portraits of the swinging Jazz Age. The stories capture a glittering whirl of dancing, laughter and champagne, and the gods that are worshipped are glamour, wealth and social status.
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Nikolai Gogol The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories ENSome call him a Russian Mark Twain. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, Nikolai Gogol paved the way for his countrymen Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This sampling of Gogol’s works includes the increasingly fantastic entries of “The Diary of a Madman,” followed by the wonderfully surrealistic “The Nose,” in which the title character embarks on some unlikely activities when separated from…
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Sophie Morgan The Diary of a Submissive ENSophie Morgan is an independent woman in her thirties with a successful journalism career. Intelligent, witty and sarcastic, she could be the girl next door. Except that Sophie is a submissive; in the bedroom she likes to relinquish her power and personal freedom to a dominant man for their mutual pleasure. In the wake of Fifty Shades of Grey, here is a memoir that offers the real story of what it means to be a…
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Anne Frank The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by ...
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Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition ENA timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl continues to bring to life the experiences of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world had seen.
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Joshua Ferris The Dinner Party ENThe Dinner Party immerses us in the comic and strange realities of modern life, as we journey through the lives of the unlovable, the unloved, and those who love too much: Jack, who nervously tries to befriend the surly removal man by buying him a latte and a croissant; Sarah, who endlessly imagines how her evening would have been better had she only chosen a different restaurant; Joe, who spends a night alone at…
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Joshua Ferris The Dinner PartyThe Dinner Party immerses us in the comic and strange realities of modern life, as we journey through the lives of the unlovable, the unloved, and those who love too much: Jack, who nervously tries to befriend the surly removal man by buying him ...
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Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy ENA stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literature An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and furnished with…
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Jo Brielyn The Dog Lovers Quotation Book ENDog lovers are their own kind of breed and who can blame them? Dogs are after all a man's best friend. Dogs are goofy, playful, loving, fun, and loyal. They will jump at you at any point to show affection, wagging their tails and barking with delight. This book is made specifically for these canine fans. Full of great quotes about dogs, owning dogs, loving dogs, and everything in between, The Dog Lovers Quotation…
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M.J. Arlidge The Doll's House ENA young woman wakes in a cold, dark cellar, with no idea how she got there or who kidnapped her. So begins her terrible nightmare. The body of another young woman is discovered buried on a remote beach. But the dead girl was never reported missing - her estranged family having received regular texts from her over the years. For DI Helen Grace it's chilling evidence that she's chasing a twisted monster who is clever…
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Bruce Hood The Domesticated Brain ENA Pelican introduction to the brain and social behaviour. What makes us social animals? Why do we behave the way we do? How does the brain influence our behaviour?
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Anthony Gottlieb The Dream of Enlightenment EN'Never has the story been told so well,' said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb'sThe Dream of Reason, an 'endlessly entertaining and frequently instructive' (Times Literary Supplement) history of philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance. This long-awaited sequel takes the story through the century and a half when a string of extraordinary thinkers including Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke,…