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The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919 and ...Show more
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Like all good medieval coaching inns, the Green Man in Fareham, Hertfordshire, boasts a resident, if retired, ghost- Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. The landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness ...Show more
The Green Road by Anne Enright
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Category: New Fiction | Series: Irish Classics Ser. (Vintage Enright)
Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her own children - forces them to confro ...Show more
The Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Rich in fictional delights, this complete collection of Woolf's shorter fiction ranges from 1906 until the month before she committed suicide in 1941. It offers a valuable insight into the writer's development, demonstrating her evolving characterizations, narrative methods and themes.
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella hers ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Lady Windermere's Fan / An Ideal Husband) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Plays | 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 Malayan Trilogy "Time for a Tiger", "Enemy in the Blanket", "Beds in the East" by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class' - "Observer". Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In "The Malayan Trilogy - Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East" - he satirises the dog days of colonialism. ...Show more
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William t ...Show more
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption. Graham Greene explores corruption an ...Show more
The Sea, The Sea: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; John Burnside (Introduction by)
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAISY JOHNSON 'I s ...Show more