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From bestselling gothic horror author Darcy Coates comes a chilling
story of a quiet house on a forgotten suburban lane that hides a
deadly secret... Leigh Harker's quiet suburban home was her
sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed.
Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark
figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching
her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall
asleep. Pushed to her limits but unwilling to abandon her home,
Leigh struggles to find answers. But each step forces her towards
something more terrifying than she ever imagined. A poisonous
shadow seeps from the locked door beneath the stairs. The handle
rattles through the night and fingernails scratch at the wood. Her
home harbours dangerous secrets, and now that Leigh is trapped
within its walls, she fears she may never escape. Do you think
you're safe? You're wrong. Also By Darcy Coates: The Haunting of
Ashburn House The Haunting of Blackwood House Craven Manor The
House Next Door Voices in the Snow The Whispering Dead
On holiday in Keldstone visiting his nephew, Jim, blanket
manufacturer Athelstan Digby agrees to look after the old bookshop
on the ground floor of his lodgings while his hosts are away. On
the first day of his tenure, a vicar, a chauffeur and an
out-of-town stranger enquire after The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
by John Bunyan. When a copy mysteriously arrives at the shop in a
bundle of books brought in by a young scamp, and is subsequently
stolen, Digby moves to investigate the significance of the book
along with his nephew, and the two are soon embroiled in a case in
which the stakes have risen from antiquarian book-pinching to
ruthless murder. First published in a limited run in 1934, this
exceedingly rare and fast-paced bibliomystery set against the
landscapes of Yorkshire is long overdue its return to print.
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Metamorphosis
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Franz Kafka, Michael Hoffman
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor
Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach.
Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is
one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction,
and is accompanied here by two more classic stories. 'He is the
greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such
novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison
to him' - Vladimir Nabokov
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was a remarkable figures in English
literature. A master stylist, both lush and precise, his outsider's
eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great
age of European empires.
Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French novelist, the most
important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major
figure in the political liberalization of France.
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Nana
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Emile Zola
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R441
Discovery Miles 4 410
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Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French novelist, the most
important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major
figure in the political liberalization of France.
A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, who was taken by the
Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and
has continued to reside amonst them to the present time.
The essential one-volume edition of Kipling's best verse from all
of his other collections.
The volume collects 128 of Guy de Maupassant's finest short
stories, from "Ball-of-Fat" to "The Last Step."
Classics with legible texts you can actually read at a fantastic
price.
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father.
After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.
The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
The headline from The Maningpool Telegraph read: TRAGIC DEATH OF SIR
NOEL GRAMPIAN – shot during performance – Symphony Concert Calamity.
As a rousing Strauss piece is reaching its crescendo in Maningpool
Civic Hall, the talented yet obnoxious conductor Sir Noel Grampian is
shot dead in full view of the Municipal Orchestra and the audience. It
was no secret that he had many enemies – musicians and music critics
among them – but to be killed in mid flow suggests an act of the
coldest calculation.
Told through the letters and documents sent by D.I. Alan Hope to his
wife as he puzzles through the dauntingly vast pool of suspects and
scant physical evidence in the case, this is an innovative and playful
mystery underscored by the author’s extensive experience of the
highly-strung world of music professionals. First published in 1941,
this new edition returns Farr’s only crime novel to print to receive
its long-deserved encore.
From the author of "The Homesman," Glendon Swarthout's "Bless the
Beasts & Children" is the classic coming-of-age novel that
explores the fabric of the American ideal--as seen through the eyes
of rebellious youth.
"Send us a boy--we'll send you a cowboy" It doesn't matter if the
kid hates the sight of horses. Or if he still sucks his thumb and
wets the bed. He's got to be taught to toe the line. To measure up.
To dig in his spurs--because that's the way things are at the Box
Canyon Boys Camp in Arizona.
Based on the adventures of the author's own son, "Bless the Beasts
& Children" tells a tragicomic tale of a group of disturbed
teenaged boys from over-privileged families who are sent by their
inattentive parents to camp in hopes that their lazy, urban kids
will be toughened up in the cowboy program. Complications arise,
but these problem boys band together to take up an important cause.
In this remarkable novel, Glendon Swarthout presents an
electrifying portrait of six adolescent "misfits" on a desperate
mission to save themselves. And, in a society dedicated to one
narrow view of success, they learn something important about what
it means to be a man. This is "an exciting mission-pursuit story
with an engrossing cast of characters" ("Publishers Weekly").
Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister
secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection
reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts: a world of
backstage dealings, where unscrupulous actors risk everything to
land a starring role, costumed figures lead to mistaken identities,
and on-stage deaths begin to look a little too convincing. . . This
expertly curated thespian anthology features fourteen stories from
giants of the classic crime genre such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Julian
Symons and Ngaio Marsh, as well as firm favourites from the British
Library Crime Classics series: Anthony Wynne, Christianna Brand,
Bernard J. Farmer and many more. Mysteries abound when a player's
fate hangs on a single performance, and opening night may very well
be their last.
Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and the best-selling murder mystery
book of all time, celebrates its 80th birthday with this gorgeous
hardback Special Edition. 'We're not going to leave the island.
None of us will ever leave. It's the end, you see - the end of
everything...' 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten
strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the
Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts
Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of
a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise
they may be harbouring a murderer among their number. The 10
strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street
doctor, a formidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous
mercenary, a God-fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly
decorated general and an anxious secretary. One by one they are
picked off. Who will survive? And who is the killer? Copies of an
ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murders mimicking the
awful fates of its 'Ten Little Soldier Boys'.
When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that
the lavishly outfitted mansion next to his modest house is home to Jay
Gatsby. Eventually, Nick becomes aware of Gatsby’s intense interest in
his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and when Daisy’s brutish husband, Tom,
probes into Gatsby’s background, he uncovers unsavory revelations about
his rival’s wealth. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
third novel offers a definitive portrait of the opulence and
recklessness of the Jazz Age.
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.
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