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A Certain Music by Celeste Walters
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Category: Childrens | Series: Vintage Classics
A fairytale in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen u heart-warming and enchanting. It is 1823 and the child is a loner who spends her time hiding in the Vienna Woods until she spies an old man - a music maker. And so begins an odd friendship which develops through their mutual love of music. The ma ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Ser.
'Bah ' said Scrooge, 'Humbug ' Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths abo ...Show more
A Fairly Honourable Defeat: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL 'I ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose âe" sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising effects of England. When their ship is captured by pirates, the thrilling cruise continues as the children transfer their affections from one batch ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch; Miranda Seymour (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional reeducation. He attempts to ...Show more
A Sort of Life by Graham Greene
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good
This is the first volume of Graham Greene's notoriously misleading, mischevious, but nonetheless fascinating autobiography Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (PB Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic aristocra ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more