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Candide and Zadig
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Voltaire's razor-sharp satire on philosophical optimism, Candide, is coupled here with another of the author's most celebrated works, Zadig.
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The Captive, Part 1
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Marcel's suspicions regarding Albertine's lesbian desires lead to his keeping her a virtual prisoner in his Paris apartment. The Captive is a masterly portrayal of obessional jealousy...
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The Captive, Part 2
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In the second part of The Captive...
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The Castle of Otranto
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The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The son of Manfred, Prince of Otranto, is mysteriously killed on his wedding day by a huge helmet...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 1
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Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the greatest texts in the English language. In magisterial prose, Gibbon charts...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2
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Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces...
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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In a remote corner of early Victorian England, where traditional practices remain untouched by time, Bathsheba Everdene stands out as a beacon of feminine independence...
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Freud
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Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....
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The Fugitive (The Sweet Cheat Gone)
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In The Fugitive the sixth volume of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past, Albertine has finally made her escape...
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The Guermantes Way, Part 1
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In The Geurmantes Way, Volume 1 Marcel penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes...
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The Guermantes Way, Part 2
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The Guermantes Way, Part 2, the third volume of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past, continues the story of Marcel's entry into the highest circles of French aristocracy. Having renewed his acquaintance with t
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Gulliver's Travels
Abridged Edition
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Gulliver's Travels is renowned as a playful and comic children's classic. The book itself, rather than the bowdlerized versions that have been derived from it, is a savage...
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The Life and Work of Marcel Proust
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This, the first audio-biography of Marcel Proust, tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses....
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The Lives of the Great Artists
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Five hundred years after they were written, Vasari’s Lives of the Artists remains the principal source book on the remarkable flowering of Italian painting in the fifteenth century.
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Remembrance of Things Past
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Proust's great work, the major French literary statement of the 20th Century, looks back at the old social order while noting the rise of a different way of life.
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Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plain), Part 1
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Accidentally witnessing an encounter between the Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien opens Marcel's eyes to a world hidden from him until now...
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Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plain), Part 2
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In Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plain), Part 2, Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where the affairs...
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Swann in Love
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Swann in Love is the continuation of Swann's Way, the first part of Marcel Proust's monumental seven volume Remembrance of Things Past. It tells the story of man-about-town...
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Swann's Way
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Swann's Way is the first part of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past...
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The Sword in the Stone
Unabridged Edition
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This is one of the most popular re-tellings of the story of King Arthur. Like The Lord of the Rings, this fantasy novel has been equally popular among younger readers and adults. White takes an inventive approach that involves animals who speak and Robin Hood! A true Arthurian classic.
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The Sword in the Stone
Abridged Edition
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The Sword in the Stone is the first novel in The Once and Future King, T. H. White's epic fantasy re-telling of the Arthurian legend. A cartoon adaptation by Walt Disney made it into an enduring favourite for the young...
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Tevye the Milkman
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Tevye the Milkman, a uniquely charming Jewish novel from Tsarist rural Russia, provided the principal character for Fiddler on the Roof. Here we have the full story, with all its Jewish humour, wisdom and despair.
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Time Regained
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Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron de Charlus...
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War and Peace
Abridged Edition
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War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars...
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War and Peace, Volume 1
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War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history.
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