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Chronicles of Narnia volume 7
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When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his followers to a glorious new paradise.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
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"Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism." (publisher).
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Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life- until a murder is committed in his flat, just days after the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring Britain to the brink of war. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland, where he must use all his wits to stay one step ahead of the game- and warn...
7) The crucible
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The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft - and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
About this author: Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright...
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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and...
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4.50 from Paddington. As Elspeth McGillicuddy travels by train to visit Miss Marple, she witnesses a man strangling a woman on another train. Only Miss Marple believes her and sets about uncovering what happened. At Bertram's Hotel. Something sinister lurks beneath the Bertram Hotel's polished veneer. Nemesis. Mr. Rafiel, the financier who had been Miss Marple's ally in solving a murder on the Caribbean island of St. Honoré, has died. Miss Marple...
10) Complete Miss Marple collection: Volume 4,The moving finger.Sleeping murder.They do it with mirrors
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2006.
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The moving finger. In the quiet town of Lymstock, a brother and sister receive a harassing letter. They soon discover other town residents have received similar letters and when one recipient commits suicide, Miss Marple helps cast light on the matter. Sleeping murder. When Gwenda Reed finds a house for her and her husband in the town of Dillmouth, she experiences a strange sense of déjà vu. MIss Marple realizes that an unsolved murder is behind...
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The body in the library. Who is the strange young blonde lying strangled on the library floor at Gossington Hall? Miss Marple must piece the clues together. A murder is announced. A murder is announced to take place at Little Paddocks. Is it a game? Miss Marple finds out. The mirror crack'd from side to side. When former film star Marina Gregg and her husband throw a benefit party for a local hospital, the day ends in tragedy when a guest has a...
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A pocket full of rye. Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. Miss Marple soon discovers a murderer is dispatching his victims on the basis of the children's nursery rhyme. Murder at the vicarage. The most detested man in a small English village is shot in the head at the vicarage. Only Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues. A Caribbean mystery. On the island of St. Honoré, old Major Palgrave tells...
13) Moby Dick
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American writer Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851 but it took decades before finally it was regarded as a great American novel, and worthy of its place amongst the greatest texts of humankind. It recounts the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of a whaling ship seeking vengeance on Moby Dick, the white whale that had bitten off Ahab's leg on a previous voyage.
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Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty...
15) Arcadia
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Presents the script of the 1993 play which moves back and forth between 1809 and 1989, exploring the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex.
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This play is set in the quiet town of Messina in Sicily, where two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero, meet at the house of Leonato, Hero's father and Beatrice's uncle. Benedick and Beatrice engage in a war of witty exchanges, while Claudio and Hero pledge their love for each other and decide to get married. However, in an unexpected turn of events, Hero and Claudio are estranged and Benedick and Beatrice confess their love....
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A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous...
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Great Expectations, Charles Dickens' most acclaimed and popular novel, tells the story of Pip, a young orphan, who narrates the tale. Pip grows up in the marshlands of Kent, where he lives with his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery.While visiting his family members' graves in the churchyard, the young Pip encounters Abel Magwitch, an escaped convict. Pip brings him food and a file, but the fugitive and Compeyson-his...
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Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the Worlds finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books feel extra special and look striking on any shelf. This hardcover book has a matching blank lined journal (sold separately). They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their...
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