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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Karamazov Brothers

The Karamazov Brothers

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë
Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas Carol (Adult Edition)

A Christmas Carol (Adult Edition)

Charles Dickens
Macbeth

Macbeth

William Shakespeare
Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

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Mystery & Supernatural

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Poetry

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World Literature

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A beautiful collection of fifteen titles loved by all ages. These paperbacks have stunningly atmospheric covers, …

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Special Editions

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In this month…

We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary.

James Fenimore Cooper - Author

James Fenimore Cooper

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1789
It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.
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Sigmund Freud - Author

Sigmund Freud

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1939
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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George Macdonald

George MacDonald

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1905
Seeing is not believing – it is only seeing.
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Arthur Rackman - Author

Arthur Rackham

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1867
Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
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Sir Walter Scott - Author

Sir Walter Scott

DIED TODAY IN 1832
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Herbert George Wells - Author

H.G. Wells

BORN TODAY IN 1866
We all have our time machines, don’t we.Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
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