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The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
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Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'.In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes ...Show more
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
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Kees Popinga is a clerk in a respectable shipping company. But just before Christmas, the firm goes bust, taking his life savings with it. Suddenly the mild-mannered family man snaps. He disappears to Amsterdam and Paris on a debauched spree. But when a prostitute is found murdered, Kees is the prime su ...Show more
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
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However you try to escape it, horror is always there Outside the abbey's armoured walls, the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence known as the 'Red Death', while within, safe and untroubled, the happy Prince Prospero hosts lavish entertainments. But, in their immodest comfort, the Prince and h ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat he immediately begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the cha ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success, there always lurks the s ...Show more
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
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Lust, sorcery and torture - the secrets of a Spanish monastery. Ambrosio, a pious monk, finds himself drawn to his pupil, Matilda, a young woman in disguise. Unable to control himself, he sates his lust, and soon tires of her. But Matilda has more than her body to offer: using black magic, she will help ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion, as the idiosyncratic Sergeant ...Show more
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) by Ann Radcliffe
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'Emily's face was stained with blood'. Beautiful young heiress Emily St. Aubert is frightened when she finds herself orphaned and in the hands of her cold and distant aunt, Madame Cheron. But her fear turns to terror when Madame Cheron agrees to marry the haughty and brooding Signor Montoni, and she fin ...Show more
The Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Claire Tomalin (Editor)
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A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
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Rudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda. He is shortly on the way to Streslau, the capital, where he finds himself engaged in plans to rescue the imprisoned king.
The Return Of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. When Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man, the truth is revealed.
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The second novel in the "Tarzan" series opens with the aristocratic ape man aboard an ocean liner en route from New York to Europe, on which he has encounters with Russian spies, French counts, and beautiful women. Tarzan had renounced his right to the woman he loved, and civilization held no pleasure f ...Show more