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The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
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Childers' lone masterpiece, "The Riddle of the Sands", considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization, richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivi ...Show more
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
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Some journeys are best left unmade... Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates his adoration and encourages his friendship but can never return his love. When he receives a letter telling him that she is married, his passion turns to destruct ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It ...Show more
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
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A corpse. A missing Man. Can't an ex-detective retire in peace? Nick Charles sips a stiff drink. With his sassy wife Nora, his dog and a case of scotch the ex-sleuth prepares to enjoy Christmas in New York. But a few bullets, a murder, a missing man and a junked-up hoodlum in his bedroom soon send hi ...Show more
The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
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Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international conseq ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
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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. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more
The Virgin of the Seven Daggers : Excursions into Fantasy by Ambrose Vernon; Bierce Lee
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The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
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The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag ? only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop'. Gentle art teacher Walter Hartright has fallen in love with his student, Laura. But she is marrying the wicked Sir Percival, who wants to destroy her reputation and steal her fortune. In the face of his powerful friends, only Laura's ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest - where 'X' marks the spot of a s ...Show more