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Republic
Original price was: $11.70.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.“The Republic” deals with almost the whole range of Plato’s thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument with myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by leisu
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The Voyage of the Beagle
Original price was: $13.00.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.This journal takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to the South Sea Islands. It displays Darwin’s speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relations between the Earth’s structure, animal forms, anthr
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The Pilgrim’s Progress
Original price was: $13.00.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.This allegory of Christian life describes the pilgrimage of the hero, Christian, from the Shadow of Destruction via the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty, the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Vanity Fair, over the River of the Water of Life and i
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author’s later works
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Dombey and Son
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned.
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Rob Roy
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.From its first publication in 1816, “Rob Roy” has been recognised as containing some of Scott’s finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters.
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The Trumpet-Major
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The novel is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. It interweaves a romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland. It also contains elements of sadness and even tragedy.
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The Lost World and Other Stories
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The protagonist, the ‘cave-man in a lounge suit’, is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. This volume includes adventures he faced such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in “The Lost World” and the challenge
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Presents a combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, this novel tells the story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous.
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Heart of Darkness
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.A tale of horror, set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century. The story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic b
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The Return of the Native
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The central figure of this novel is the returning “native”, Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.
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Middlemarch
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate. This title includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminat
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.A portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and irony, it is Hardy’s most bright, confident and optimistic novel.
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Silas Marner
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Tells the story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner – a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England – and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie.
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Includes stories such as: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited.
