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Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...Show more
Markings by Dag Hammarskjold
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Category: Business | Series: Vintage Spiritual Classics
Universally known and admired as a peacemaker, Dag Hammarskjold concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, "Markings" has inspired hun ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" a ...Show more
New Grub Street by George Gissing
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This title comes with an introduction by Anthony Quinn. Grub Street - where would-be writers aim high, publishers plumb the depths and literature is a trade, never a calling. In a literary world disfigured by greed and exploitation, two very different writers rise and fall: Edward Reardon, a novelist wh ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly r ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry - Pride and Prejudice When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financia ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Winner of the 1996 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of Australia at th ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden b ...Show more
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
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Category: Accessories | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the hea ...Show more
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front ...Show more
The Art of War (Vintage Classics Ed.) by Sun Tzu; Peter Harris (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. For the l ...Show more
The Ascent of Rum Doodle (Vintage Classics) by W. E. Bowman
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been a cult favourite since its publication in 1956. Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constant ...Show more