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Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Gol ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: VINTAGE CLASSIC
It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerg ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu; Peter Harris (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. For the l ...Show more
The Beautiful and Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage, anticipated the master stroke--"The Great Gatsby"--that would follow, and marks a key moment in the writer's career. Would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch embody the corrupt high society of ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (#1) by John Boyne
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Category: Older Readers | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernising Russia. This acclaimed new Englis ...Show more
The Collector by John Fowles
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he th ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels; Karl Marx; David Aaronovitch
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY YANIS VAROUFAKISThe Communist Manifestowas first published in London in 1848, by two young men in their late twenties. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised as one of the most important political texts ever w ...Show more
The Death of the Heart by BOWEN ELIZABETH
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evide ...Show more
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Lady Windermere's Fan / An Ideal Husband) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play writing, and his deftness, wit and sharp eye for social satire keep audiences in thrall to this day. Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold ...Show more
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to k ...Show more