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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
"I am large, I contain multitudes" When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his...
The Fountainhead
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe...
Regeneration
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'I just don't think our war aims -whatever they may be- and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.'The poets and soldiers Siegfri...
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
This book comes with a an introduction by David Peace. This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes' most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick...
Essays and Aphorisms: Pocket Hardbacks
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many...
The Ribbon at Olympia`s Throat
Michel Leiris; Christine Pichini; Chris Kraus
Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane. That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that ri...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Easter Sticker and Colouring Book
Follow The Very Hungry Caterpillar on an Easter journey through springtime in this book packed with sticker scenes, puzzles, colouring-in and games.Discover bouncing bunnies, hidden Easter eggs, leaping lambs and lots more - all without leaving the pages of this book!Big stickers for little hands make t...
The Colour Out of Space
In the deep glens of Massachusetts, in the wild hills of Vermont, and in Australia's sandy wastes, unfathomable things lurk. Things that shine with an unnatural light, that speak and buzz strangely in the night, that prowl in the mind. Things not of our Earth. Widely considered to be the most significan...
Riddley Walker
'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.'Funny, te...
Either/Or
SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer. Why did Selin's elusiv...
Bluey: I Love My Family: A heart-warming family story by Bluey and Bingo
Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show!Bluey and Bingo tell us why they love their family in this sweet and cheeky book.A gorgeous hardback book for kids of all ages.Bluey is an award-winning preschool show about Bluey, a blue heeler pup, and her family. Airing on ABC KIDS, the show has amassed legions of de...
The Eagle in the Mirror
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving...
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