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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when "The New York ...
The Famous Five - Collection 3
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The Famous Five celebrated 70 years in print in 2012 - but the celebrations are still continuing! Everyone loves reading the adventures of Dick, Anne, Julian, George and, of course, Timmy! Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series. Five Go Off To Camp ...
The Famous Five - Collection 2
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The Famous Five celebrated 70 years in print in 2012 - but the celebrations are still continuing! Everyone loves reading the adventures of Dick, Anne, Julian, George and, of course, Timmy! Included in this value-for-money collection are: Book 4: Five Go to Smuggler's Top The Five go to stay at the large, old house and have g...
The Enormous Book Of Hot Jokes For Kool Kids
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This is the ultimate joke book for Kool Kids. Andy Jones has collected hundreds of the hottest jokes, rhymes and riddles as he travelled around the country with his children′s Show ANDY JONES & THE FUNKY MONKEY. Now all five of the best-selling HOT JOKES books are available in one side-splitting edition!
The Awesome Book Of Rap Rhyme & Putrid Poetry
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An awesome new collection from the bestselling author of The Enormous Book Of Hot Jokes For Kool Kids And The Fartionary.
The Art Of War
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Written around the 6th century BC The Art of War is one of the oldest books about war and military strategy and probably the best. This book first found a European audience when it was translated into French in 1782 and since then its readers have included Napoleon General Macarthur and Mao Zedong. The lessons in the volume still apply and its a...
Tender Is The Night
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Written by the greatest chronicler of the Jazz Age, Tender Is the Night examines the lives of a circle of American expatriates on the Cote d'Azur. Fitzgerald's fourth novel, it is a cool dissection of glamour, wealth, addiction, mental instability and marital breakdown. The book examines elegance, class and taste, and the competitive destructive...
Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe was first published in 1719 and credited Crusoe as the author, so readers believed that he was a real person. Shipwrecked, Crusoe spends 30 years on a remote tropical island before being rescued. It is thought to be one of the first novels in the realistic style and was well received from its first publication.
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
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Who cut off Medusa’s head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy, and enhanced with vibrant artw...
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Center 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 cen...
Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Full of magic and trickery, Grimm's Fairy Tales have delighted generations with such timeless classics as Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, and Rapunzel. The Complete Fairy Tales Every fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm are included—that's over 200 tales. Popular favorites include: • Cinderella • Beaut...
First Term At Malory Towers - By Enid Blyton
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Darrell Rivers is off to boarding school for the first time. She quickly settles down and makes new friends, but it's not all fun and Darrell has some tricky problems to cope with: her dreadful temper, the mystery of Sally Hope's odd behaviour and the spiteful tricks played on Mary Lou.
Fireman Sam Bumper Book
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Join Fireman Sam in this fantastic bumper book! This book includes stories, mazes, colouring pages and more! Fans of Fireman Sam will be kept busy for hours!
Don't Let The B*****Ds Get You Down - By Janet Street-Porter
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Every day we are issued with new directives from those who are trying to run our lives and grim news about the recession is beamed at us constantly. On top of that, we work longer hours, so we increasingly enlist helpers to manage the home we hardly spend any time in. We're also snowed under by conflicting advice for the myriad of decisions to b...
Billie B Brown Super-Dooper Collection 15 Book Boxset
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Billie B Brown is bright, funny and loveable - and stars in this superb series from Sally Rippin for early readers. Billie is always on the go and has so much fun. She's a brave girl who enjoys playing soccer and is learning ballet, but she's also getting used to having a new baby brother. She's strong and feisty and always looking for a creativ...
A Series Of Unfortunate Events Books 1-4 Netflix Tie-In Boxset
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Don’t be fooled by the new, Netflix-inspired book covers of the first four books in this New York Times bestselling series. The events recounted in this four-book box set (which includes The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, and The Miserable Mill) are sure to depress you. If you cannot stomach stories that find misfortune contin...
Billie B Brown The Complete Collection 20 Book Boxset
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Meet Billie B Brown, a superstar on the early-reader scene! Written by award-winning and beloved author Sally Rippin, Billie B Brown stands up for what she believes in, protects her friends and does it all in her own way. With exuberance, humour and a very cheeky smile, she's brave, bubbly and BIG with young kids! Billie B Brown prepares youn...
David Walliams Spectacular Stories For The Very Young CD
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Four of David Walliams’ amazing picture books on one spectacular CD for the first time! Read by the author himself. 33 minutes of side-splitting stories for the very young, hilariously read by David Walliams. This unabridged CD compilation includes: THE SLIGHTLY ANNOYING ELEPHANT What’s big, blue, bossy, and turns up uninvited? A slightly...
The World Of David Walliams Mega-Tastic Box Set - 9 Amazing Books Included!
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The World Of David Walliams Mega-Tastic Box Set - 9 Amazing Books Included!
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NINE hilarious and moving novels from bestselling, critically acclaimed author, David Walliams, in one box-set! THE MIDNIGHT GANG: When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. Things go from bad to worse when he meets the wicked matron in charge of the chi...
Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent wea...
War And Peace
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At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristo...
Vilette
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Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Villette was Charlotte Brontë's fourth novel; it was...
Ultimate Romance Collection 4-Book Set
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There's nothing like a romance novel for some saucy escapism. This sizzling selection includes four sensational modern romance novels, featuring magnetic business magnates, secret pregnancies, hidden twins and a whole lot of steamy passion! Features: Title: Ultimate Romance Collection 4-Book Set Author: Assorted Publisher: Mills & Boon Set i...
Treasure Island
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The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature's most beloved "bad guys," Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boys-and girls-and grownups. Its unforgettable characters include: young Jim Hawkins, who finds himself owner of a map to Treasure Island, where the fabled pirate booty ...
Thomas And The Sticky Toffee
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Enter the Island of Sodor and experience another enchanting tale, all about the Really Useful Engines! This time, Thomas wants to go to a fancy dress party - and he finds an usual costume!
The Woman In White
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A mystery classic and renowned example of sensation fiction, The Woman in White is the fifth published novel by Wilkie Collins. Published in 1859, we are immediately intrigued by the narrative - a young and genial tutor of arts, Walter Hartright, encounters a woman dressed head to toe in white who is lost in the streets of London. After reportin...
The Wind In The Willows
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This is the much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as adventures on the river and in the Wild Wood, there are high jinks on the open road with that reckless ruffian, Mr Toad of Toad Hall. Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad...
The Twins At St Clare's - By Enid Blyton
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Twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan are dreading going to St Clare's, boarding school for girls. Life isn't nearly as easy as at their old school and the stuck up twins have several unpleasant shocks and arguments before they settle down and make friends.
The Social Contract
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The Social Contract, originally published as ‘On the Social Contract’; or, ‘Principles of Political Rights’ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequalit...
The Secret Garden
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The orphaned Mary Lennox is sullen, ill tempered, and unloved when she’s sent to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven. A man consumed by grief over the death of his wife, Archibald has allowed his sprawling estate on the moors to fall into grim disrepair. It’s when Mary begins tending to her late aunt’s mysterious garden—locked up and negle...
The Scarlet Letter
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After a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge.
The Rights Of Man
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The Rights of Man is a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France.
The Republic
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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, "there would be jarring anachronisms if any of...
The Prince
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Because the average prince is likely to be focused upon his own interests, a prince's private interests are generally in opposition to those of his subjects. Fortunate is the kingdom ruled by a virtuous prince (virtue here defined as being able to pursue his own interests without conflict). In Machiavelli's view, virtue is that which increases p...
The Portrait Of A Lady
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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Arc...
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic and controversial novel, described by Osborne as a "Moral Entertainment". The story of a man who preserves his youth and is feted by society, while his portrait deteriorates with age and corruption. About The Author Born in Ireland, Wilde (1854-1900) was educ...
The Phantom Of The Opera
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In 1890s Paris, the Palais Garnier is believed to be haunted by an entity known as the Phantom or the Opera Ghost. One day, the stage hand, Joseph Bouquet, is found hanged, presumably by the Phantom, after boasting about him to the corps de ballet. At the same time, Christine Daaé, a young Swedish soprano, has been tutored by what she believes ...
The Odyssey in Slipcase
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The timeless themes of the Odyssey survival, courage, loyalty, and hospitality have resonated with readers through the ages, making it the most enduring classic in Western civilization. This beautiful slipcased edition of Homer's Greek epic sets Alexander Pope's classic 1726 translation alongside images derived from John Flaxman's famous neoclas...
The Moonstone
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When Rachel Verinder is given the Moonstone - a large Indian diamond - on her 18th birthday, she is delighted to show it off at her celebrations. But that very night, the jewel is stolen from her bedroom. As suspicion falls on each member of the party, the curse of the diamond strikes and ill-luck threatens to destroy them all.
The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
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Originally published in 1894, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories featuring the adventures of the consulting detective. They include Silver Blaze, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk, The Adventure of the Gloria Scott, The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, The Adventure of t...
The Lovecraft Compendium
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This collection contains the five stories that reference one of H. P. Lovecraft's greatest creations - Cthulhu. They include; 'Dragon', 'The Call of Cthulhu', 'The Dunwich Horror', 'The Whisperer in Darkness' and 'The Haunter of the Dark'. Each one is testament to the power of Lovecraft's imagination in his creation of the monster known as Cthulhu.
The Little Prince
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The narrator, an airplane pilot, crashes in the Sahara desert. The crash badly damages his airplane and leaves the narrator with very little food or water. As he is worrying over his predicament, he is approached by the little prince, a very serious little blond boy who asks the narrator to draw him a sheep. The narrator obliges, and the two bec...
The Last Of The Mohicans
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The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns--in part--a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British...
The Jungle Book
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The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. A principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Other characters include Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear.
The Iliad
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This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language...
The Hound Of The Baskervilles
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This is a beautifully-designed new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel-length Sherlock Holmes mystery, "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
The H. P. Lovecraft Collection - Classic Tales Of Cosmic Horror
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This collection of H. P. Lovecraft's work contains 71 stories by the master of weird fantasy and strange horror fiction. The stories include well-known gems such as 'The Call of Cthulhu', 'The Dunwich Horror' and 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' as well as lesser known works. The stories are in chronological order, thus allowing the reader to e...
The Gambler
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In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapab...