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Wuthering Heights
A passionate story of the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. The story’s action is chaotic and violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the descriptions of the moorland setting
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The Great Gatsby
Read F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion in one of the 20th century’s true contenders for the title of ‘Gre
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Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon
Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. Even in its incomplete state The Last Tycoon remains the greatest American novel about Hollywood and contains some of Fitzgerald’s most brilliant wr
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The Great Gatsby
A summary of the “roaring twenties”, and a expose of the “Jazz Age”, this book, through the narration of Nick Carraway, takes the reader into the world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick’s cousin Daisy, her b
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This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned
This Side of Paradise was Fitzgerald’s first novel, and its instant success made him famous. The Beautiful and Damned was Fitzgerald’s second novel, and describes the beginning of what became known as ‘The Jazz Age’.
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Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil
Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out h
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Twilight of the Idols with The Antichrist and Ecce Homo
Includes three works, all dating from Nietzsche’s last lucid months, that aim show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Ubermensch) are forsaken, as wit, exube
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Crime and Punishment: With selected excerpts from the Notebooks for Crime and Punishment
A novel built out of a series of dramatic scenes that illuminate eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws.
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Devils
In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated.
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The House of the Dead / The Gambler
Alexey Ivanovitch is a young tutor in the household of a general. He is both observer and actor in the tempest which surrounds his impoverished employer. Everyone is waiting for the death of Granny, the general’s rich aunt, but so far from dying, she turn