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'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!'
Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable.
In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.
*The No.1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller* Discover the
electric new thriller from the No.1, million-copy bestseller, Lucy
Foley There was a murder here last night. Who holds the key to the
mystery of apartment three? 'Dazzling' The Times 'Up-all-night
reading' Erin Kelly 'Gloriously twisty' Ruth Ware 'Combines
edge-of-your-seat tension with out-and-out Parisian chic' Adele
Parks
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In a beautiful old apartment block, deep in the backstreets of
Paris, secrets are stirring behind every resident's door. The
lonely wife The party animal The curtain-twitcher The secret lover
The watchful caretaker The unwanted guest One resident is missing.
Only the killer holds the key to the mystery...
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What readers are saying about The Paris Apartment: 'One to devour
entirely in one delicious sitting. Stupendous' 'Twisty and
mysterious and surprising' 'Had me gripped right from the
beginning' 'Has "book of the year" written all over it' 'A
page-turner with an amazing setting' 'A fabulously tense and
mysterious read!' The Paris Apartment was a New York Times No.1
bestseller for w/e 06/03/2022 The Guest List was a Sunday Times
No.1 bestseller for w/c 14/09/2022 The Guest List was the Goodreads
Choice Awards winner for Crime & Mystery 2020
This is the classic novel brought to life in full colour! Bram
Stoker's gothic masterpiece was first published in 1897, and has
spawned so many classic films, all based on the character he
invented when Queen Victoria was on the throne. Like
"Frankenstein", the films have pushed the characters into the very
fabric of our society, so it is with great pride that we bring you
a visual treatment that is true to the original - made even more
exciting by the wonderous talent that is Staz Johnson!
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'This was the slaying of the
Minotaur, which put an end forever to the shameful tribute of seven
youths and seven maidens which was exacted from the Athenians every
nine years.' The gods, heroes and legends of Greek mythology and
their Roman interpretations are as fascinating as they are
instructive. They include the almighty Zeus and his many wives;
heroic Perseus, slayer of the snake-headed Medusa; Helen of Troy,
whose beauty caused a great war; Medea, driven mad by jealousy; and
tragic Persephone, doomed to live half of each year in the
Underworld, condemning the world above to winter. First published
in 1880, this comprehensive collection is an early modern retelling
of the characters and tales of ancient Greece and Rome; a popular
account which offers an important insight into the ancient
civilisations that it evokes, and forms a basis for our
understanding of the classical world.
'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the
discovery of a bearded corpse would give a fillip to my jaded
mind.' Vivian Lestrange - celebrated author of the popular mystery
novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse - has apparently
dropped off the face of the Earth. Reported missing by his
secretary Eleanor, whom Inspector Bond suspects to be the author
herself, it appears that crime and murder is afoot when Lestrange's
housekeeper is also found to have disappeared. Bond and Warner of
Scotland Yard set to work to investigate a murder with no body and
a potentially fictional victim, as E C R Lorac spins a twisting
tale full of wry humour and red herrings, poking some fun at her
contemporary reviewers who long suspected the Lorac pseudonym to
belong to a man (since a woman could apparently not have written
mysteries the way that she did). Incredibly rare today, this
mystery returns to print for the first time since 1935.
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