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| "The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception subterfuge double-crossing and secret identities and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew BeaumontThe Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world The council is governed by seven men who hide their identities behind the names of the days of the week Yet one of their number - Thursday - is not the revolutionary he claims to be but a Scotland Yard detective named Gabriel Syme sworn to infiltrate the organisation and bring the architects of chaos to justice But when he discovers another undercover policeman on the Council Syme begins to question his role in their operations And as a desperate chase across Europe begins his confusion grows as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies unravelling the mysteries of human behaviour and belief in a thrilling contest of wits But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has a man named Sunday whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined In his introduction Matthew Beaumont examines the book's themes of identity and confrontation and explores its intriguing title This edition also contains a chronology notes and suggested further readingGK Chesterton (1874-1938) attended the Slade School of Art where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown before turning his hand to journalism A prolific writer throughout his life his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) and the Father Brown stories Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938 If you enjoyed The Man Who Was Thursday you might enjoy Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent also available in Penguin Classics'The most thrilling book I have ever read'Kingsley Amis author of Lucky Jim"
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| "No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl - to the disapproval of his parents - he sinks further into emotional and financial turmoil The lure of easy money becomes harder to refuse and Obi becomes caught in a trap he cannot escape Showing a man lost in cultural limbo and a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe's remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism the first two volumes of which are Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God"
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| "The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better I reply that it has gone Then why he asks do I look like that? Feel that life is wholly unendurable and decide madly to get a new hat'It's not easy being a Provincial Lady in Devonshire in the 1920s juggling a grumpy husband mischievous children and a host of domestic dilemmas - from rice mould to a petulant cook But this Provincial Lady will not be defeated; not by wayward flower bulbs not by unexpected houseguests not even by the Blitz She will continue to preside over the WI endure rain-drenched family picnics and succeed as a published author all the while tending to her strawberries The Diary of a Provincial Lady is a brilliantly observed comic novel as funny and fresh today as when it was first writtenWidely regarded as one of the funniest English authors and an heir to Jane Austen EM Delafield was born in Sussex in 1890 She took the name Delafield to distinguish herself from her mother (De la Pasture) also a novelist and wrote over 30 books which could be 'as laugh-out-loud funny as PG Wodehouse' before her death in 1943"
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| "Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf is revised by Walter Sorell from the original translation by Basil CreightonAt first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable educated man In reality he is the Steppenwolf wild strange alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by among others Mozart Goethe and the bewitching Hermione - the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth and the possibility of happiness This blistering portrayal of a man who feels himself to be half-human and half-wolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture capturing the mood of a disaffected generation and remains a haunting story of estrangement and redemptionHerman Hesse (1877 - 1962) suffered from depression and weathered series of personal crises which led him to undergo psychoanalysis with J B Lang; a process which resulted in Demian (1919) a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience This dichotomy is prominent in Hesse's subsequent novels including Siddhartha (1922) Steppenwolf (1927) Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) and his magnum opus The Glass Bead Game (1943) Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946If you enjoyed Steppenwolf you might like Hesse's Siddhartha also available in Penguin Classics'A savage indictment of bourgeois society the gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man's soul'The New York Times"
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| "Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Kamo no Chomei, Yoshida Kenko (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan but each shows a different world-view In the short memoir Hojoki Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains contemplating the impermanence of human existence Kenko however displays a fascination with more earthy matters in his collection of anecdotes advice and observations From ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience Meredith McKinney's excellent new translation also includes notes and an introduction exploring the spiritual and historical background of the worksChomei was born into a family of Shinto priests in around 1155 at at time when the stable world of the court was rapidly breaking up He became an important though minor poet of his day and at the age of fifty withdrew from the world to become a tonsured monk He died in around 1216Kenko was born around 1283 in Kyoto He probably became a monk in his late twenties and was also noted as a calligrapher Today he is remembered for his wise and witty aphorisms 'Essays in Idleness'Meredith McKinney who has also translated Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book for Penguin Classics is a translator of both contemporary and classical Japanese literature She lived in Japan for twenty years and is currently a visitng fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra'Essays in Idleness is a most delightful book and one that has served as a model of Japanese style and taste since the 17th century These cameo-like vignettes reflect the importance of the little fleeting futile things and each essay is Kenko himself' Asian Student"
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| "Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure devised during a holiday in Scotland by Stevenson and his nephew The tale is told by an adventurous boy Jim Hawkins who gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure Among the crew however is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself Stevenson's first full-length work of fiction brought him immediate fame and continues to captivate readers of all ages"
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| "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "Part of Penguin&39;s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design &39;I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards&39; wrote Dodgson describing how Alice was conjured up one &39;golden afternoon&39; in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom order is turned upside-down a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen"
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| "Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Shimamura is tired of the bustling city He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan to meet with a geisha he believes he loves Beautiful and innocent Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura and their love offers no freedom to either of them Snow Country is both delicate and subtle reflecting in Kawabata's exact lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple"
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| "Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before and discovers that she is now a painter living with a younger woman as her lover Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover This is a work of strange beauty with a tender touch of nostalgia and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever"
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| "The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Ogata Shingo is growing old and his memory is failing him At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son his wife and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving and Shingo is caught between love and destruction Lyrical and precise The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing"
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| "Nothing . . . Except My Genius: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "'I have nothing to declare' Wilde once told an American customs official 'except my genius' A socialite a wit a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock Oscar Wilde was a great writer and a great man This new collection of wit and wisdom demonstrates the brilliance of his vision the audacity of his style Such is the scope of the material it brings to life the Wilde of great feeling as well as the Wilde of great art"
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| "Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "&39;A truly great translation This English version really is better&39; - A N Wilson The SpectatorTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky&39;s &39;psychological record of a crime&39; gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality expressing its jagged staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before Raskolnikov a destitute and desperate former student wanders alone through the slums of St Petersburg deliriously imagining himself above society&39;s laws But when he commits a random murder only suffering ensues Embarking on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator Raskolnikov finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck Only Sonya a downtrodden prostitute can offer the chance of redemption Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow and made his name in 1846 with the novella Poor Folk He spent several years in prison in Siberia as a result of his political activities an experience which formed the basis of The House of the Dead In later life he fell in love with a much younger woman and developed a ruinous passion for roulette His subsequent great novels include Notes from Underground Crime and Punishment The Idiot Demons and The Brothers Karamazov Oliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian Society and Culture at St Antony&39;s College Oxford He is general editor of the anthology The Ties of Blood Russian Literature from the 21st Century (2008) and Consultant Editor for Russia Central and Eastern Europe at the Times Literary Supplement"
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| "The Great Gatsby (Hardback, 2010)" |
| "These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald&39;s deathJay Gatsby is the man who has everything Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking dancing and debating his mysterious character For Gatsby - young handsome fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd watching and waiting though no one knows what for Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret a silent longing for the one thing that will always be out of his reach And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel"
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| "The Beautiful and Damned" |
| "These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's deathAnthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour A brilliant and magnetic couple they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young rich alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earthBut as money becomes tight their marriage becomes impossible And with their inheritance still distant Anthony and Gloria must grow up and face reality; they may be beautiful but they are also damned"
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| "The King's English" |
| "An indispensable companion for readers writers and even casual users of the language the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Kingsley Amis's The King's English features a new introduction by Martin AmisThe King's English is Kingsley Amis's authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders that lie in wait for us from danglers and four-letter words to jargon and even Welsh rarebit If you have ever wondered whether it's acceptable to start a sentence with 'and' to boldly split an infinitive or to cross your sevens in the French style Amis has the answer - or a trenchant opinion By turns reflective acerbic and provocative The King's English is for anyone who cares about how the English language is usedKingsley Amis (1922-1995) born in London wrote poetry criticism and short stories but is best remembered as the novelist whose works offered a comic deconstruction of post-war Britain Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as Lucky Jim (1954) and That Uncertain Feeling (1955); his other works include The Green Man (1970) Stanley and the Women (1984) and The Old Devils (1986) which won the Booker PrizeIf you enjoyed The King's English you might like Amis's Lucky Jim also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A terrific book learned robust aggressive extremely funny'Sebastian Faulks"
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| "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "From the master of spy thrillers John le Carre&39;s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by the author and an introduction by William Boyd author of Any Human HeartAlex Leamas is tired It&39;s the 1960s he&39;s been out in the cold for years spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters He has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended Leamas&39;s mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done In le Carre&39;s breakthrough work of 1963 the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining &39;A portrait of a man who has lived by lies and subterfuge for so long he&39;s forgotten how to tell the truth&39; Time&39;He can communicate emotion from sweating fear to despairing love with terse and compassionate conviction Above all he can tell a tale&39; Sunday Times"
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| "The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs" |
| "The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art formsOne of the great English popular art forms the folk song can be painful satirical erotic dramatic rueful or funny This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A L Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs"
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| "The Will to Power" |
| "New to Penguin Classics The Will to Power contains some of Nietzsche's most fascinating and combative writings on nihilism metaphysics and the future of EuropeAssembled by Nietzsche's sister after his death The Will to Power is a collection of the philosopher's reflections and theories taken from his unpublished notebooks Covering topics such as nihilism Christianity morality and the famous 'will to power' the book was controversially presented as Nietzsche's all-but-completed magnum opus containing his philosophical system Including some of his most interesting metaphysical and epistemological thoughts as well as some of his most disturbing ethical and political comments the book would prove to have a significant influence on Nietzsche's contentious reception in the twentieth century"
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| "On the Genealogy of Morals" |
| "The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychologyNietzsche claimed that the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings But in fact the book does much more than that elucidating and expanding on the cryptic aphorisms of Beyond Good and Evil and signalling a return to the essay form In these three essays Nietzsche considers the development of ideas of 'good' and 'evil'; explores notions of guilt and bad consience; and discusses ascetic ideals and the purpose of the philosopher Together they form a coherent and complex discussion of morality in a work that is more accessible than some of Nietzsche's previous writingsFriedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844 When he was only twenty-four he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel University From 1880 however he divorced himself from everyday life and lived mainly abroad Works published in the 1880s include The Gay Science Thus Spoke Zarathustra Beyond Good and Evil On the Genealogy of Morals Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist In January 1889 Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin and was subsequently institutionalized spending the rest of his life in a condition of mental and physical paralysis Works published after his death in 1900 include Will to Power based on his notebooks and Ecce Homo his autobiographyMichael A Scarpitti is an independent scholar of philosophy whose principal interests include English and German thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as exegesis and translation theoryRobert C Holub is currently Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of German at the Ohio State University Among his published works are monographs on Heinrich Heine German realism Friedrich Nietzsche literary and aesthetic theory and Jurgen Habermas"
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| "Last Exit to Brooklyn" |
| "Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr's notorious masterpiece Last Exit to Brooklyn and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh author of TrainspottingDescribed by various reviewers as hellish and obscene Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives Georgette the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity are unforgettable creations Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967 a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode Hubert Selby Jr (1928-2004) was born in Brooklyn New York At the age of 15 he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease With no other way to make a living he decided to try writing 'I knew the alphabet Maybe I could be a writer' In 1964 he completed his first book Last Exit to Brooklyn which has since become a cult classic In 1966 it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK His other books include The Room The Demon Requiem for a Dream The Willow Tree and Waiting Period In 2000 Requiem for a Dream was adapted into a film starring Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn and directed by Darren AronofskyIf you enjoyed Last Exit to Brooklyn you might like Larry McMurty's The Last Picture Show also available in Penguin Modern Classics'Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in 100 years'Allen Ginsberg'An urgent tickertape from hell'Spectator"
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| "The Room" |
| "'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr's second novel What follows is a startling series of recollections and fantasies that illuminate the workings of a prisoner's unhinged mind He yearns for his violent childhood rages against obscure authorities and imagines enacting horrible revenge on those who imprisoned him The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental tortureDisorienting nightmarish and structurally inventive The Room is a shocking examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other"
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| "A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardcover" |
| "Part of Penguin&39;s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design After reading Christmas Carol the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but along with Dickens other Christmas writings it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit and about the season as a time for celebration charity and memory"
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| "Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense : Collected Poems" |
| "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe' wrote Lewis Carroll author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse 'Jabberwocky' This beautiful clothbound new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry including nonsense verse parodies burlesques and more Alongside the title piece are such enduringly wonderful pieces as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' 'The Mock Turtle's Song' 'Father William' and many more"
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| "The Machine Stops" |
| "'You talk as if a god had made the Machine cried the other I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy Men made it do not forget that'EM Forster is best known for his exquisite novels but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical In 'The Machine Stops' humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground enmeshed in automated comforts and in 'The Celestial Omnibus' a young boy takes a trip his parents believe impossibleThis book contains The Machine Stops and A Celestial Omnibus"
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| "The Russia House" |
| "Barley Blair is not a Service man he is a small-time publisher a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz But it was Barley who one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began and made a promise Nearly a year later his drunken promise returns to haunt him A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between the beautiful Katya Both are lonely and disillusioned Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future all must betray their countries In his first post-glasnost spy novel le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them"
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| "A Murder of Quality" |
| "A murder mystery in the finest tradition of English detective novels John le Carre's A Murder of Quality is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley published in Penguin Modern ClassicsStella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School firstly by being the wrong sort with her doilies and china ducks and secondly by being murdered George Smiley who has his own connection with the school is asked by an old Service friend to investigate Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her but as he probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion In his second George Smiley novel le Carre moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery with Smiley as master detectiveIf you enjoyed A Murder of Quality you might like le Carre's Call for the Dead also available in Penguin Modern Classics'Beautifully intelligent satiric and witty'Daily Telegraph"
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| "A Small Town in Germany" |
| "West Germany a simmering cauldron of radical protests has produced a new danger to Britain Karfeld menacing leader of the opposition At the same time Leo Harting a Second Secretary in the British Embassy has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them facing riots Nazi secrets and the delicate machinations of an unstable Europe in the throes of the Cold WarAs Turner gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance he will discover that the face of International relations - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - is uglier that he could possibly have imagined"
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| "The Looking Glass War" |
| "A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction John le Carre's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses audacious bluffs and the ever-present threat of nuclear war published in Penguin Modern ClassicsWhen the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place The Cold War is at its height and the Department is dying for a piece of the actionSwiftly becoming carried away by fear and pride the Department and her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany Leiser's fate becomes inseparable from the Department'sIf you enjoyed The Looking Glass War you might like le Carre's The Secret Pilgrim also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A devastating and tragic record of human not glamour spies' New York Herald Tribune'A book of rare and great power' Financial Times"
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| "The Illustrated Dracula" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designWhen Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client Soon afterwards various bizarre incidents unfold in England an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival In Dracula Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire"
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| "Middlemarch by George Eliot (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "Part of Penguin&39;s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design George Eliot&39;s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past As their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama hailed by Virginia Woolf as &39;one of the few English novels written for adult people&39;"
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