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Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Our life is what our thoughts make itThe extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher, have for centuries been praised for their wisdom, insigh ...Show more
The Roads to Sata - A 2000 Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth
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Category: Classics & Poetry
One sunny spring morning in the seventies, an unlikely Englishman set out on a pilgrimage that would take him across Japan's entire length. Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth travelled on foot from Soya, the country's northernmost tip, to Sata in the extreme south, traversing three island ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary £20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepart ...Show more
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe; Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's wife, though she is perfectly healthy. He sets out on an epic journey to find her, around the labyrinthine corners of a strange and enormous hospital. Days into his search, having encountered countless strange ...Show more
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe; E. Dale Saunders (Translator)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye. The nameless detective has but two clues: a photo and a matchbook. With these, he embarks upon an ever-more-puzzling pursuit that leads him into the depths of Tokyo's ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe; E. Dale Saunders (Translator)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole witho ...Show more
How to Be More Paddington: A Book of Kindness by Michael Bond
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Learn valuable life lessons from Paddington Bear himself in this inspirational book of kindness. The perfect gift for fans of the bear from Darkest Peru, who is now a major movie star. “Aunt Lucy taught me to say ‘please' and ‘thank you' when I'm out shopping, and to raise my hat whenever I meet someone ...Show more
Men Like Gods (Collins Classics) by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Welcome to Utopia. When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure that will change how he views the world forever. Utopia has no government. ...Show more
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Collins Classics) by Frederick Douglass
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom before he was twenty-one years old. F ...Show more
Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works by Ann Thompson (Editor); David Scott Kastan (Editor); H. R. Woudhuysen (Editor); Richard Proudfoot (Editor)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare- Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell; Dorian Lynskey (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Winston Smith lives in a nightmare world where the Thought Police spy on everyone and children are taught to betray their parents. Even the smallest sign of disagreement with the Party results in torture, imprisonment, or death. Big Brother oversees everything - but who is he? Winston tries hard to keep ...Show more
