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Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
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Mike
(Hardcover)
P.G. Wodehouse
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R808
Discovery Miles 8 080
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We
(Hardcover)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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R760
Discovery Miles 7 600
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For generations, privileged young men have attended St.
Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes
of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a
fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the
wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley is finally,
reluctantly, contemplating retirement. As the new term gets under
way, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike,
beginning as small annoyances but soon escalating in both number
and consequence. St. Oswald's is unraveling, and only Straitley
stands in the way of its ruin. But he faces a formidable opponent
with a bitter grudge and a master strategy that has been
meticulously planned to the final, deadly move.
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Persuasion
(Paperback, New edition)
Jane Austen; Introduction by Elaine Jordan; Notes by Elaine Jordan; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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R101
Discovery Miles 1 010
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Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature,
University of Essex. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or
the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne
Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the
strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the
Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new
fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in
her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain
Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well
past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for
herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.
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We
(Hardcover)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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R742
Discovery Miles 7 420
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