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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Valerie Grove (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You ...Show more
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics
IN PATAGONIA is a Quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose stories delay him on the road.
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of plea ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Vintage Classic) by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans desc ...Show more
Little Women & Good Wives (Vintage Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Life in the March" household is full of adventures and accidents as the four very different March sisters follow their varying paths to adulthood, always maintaining the special bond between them. Sensible Meg, impetuous Jo, shy Beth and artistic Amy each have to confront different challenges as they g ...Show more
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
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Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...Show more
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Kafka's most famous stories, including Metamorphosis, Investigations of a Dog and In the Penal Settlement.
Middlemarch (Vintage Classics) by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...?Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabitant ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cu ...Show more
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, "Monsignor Quixote" offers enduring insights into our life and times.