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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 official edition of the beloved classic voted by the British Crime
Writers’ Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time," now
featuring a new introduction by Louise Penny, a foreword from Agatha
Christie's great grandson, and exclusive content from the Queen of
Mystery.
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had
poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had
been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had
taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose.
However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of
information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was
stabbed to death. Luckily one of Roger’s friends and the newest
resident to retire to this normally quiet village takes over—none other
than Monsieur Hercule Poirot . . .
Not only beloved by generations of readers, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
was one of Agatha Christie’s own favorite works—a brilliant whodunit
that firmly established the author’s reputation as the Queen of Mystery.
Broke young man + chainsaw demon = Chainsaw Man! Denji was a
small-time devil hunter just trying to survive in a harsh
world. After being killed on a job, he is revived by his pet devil
Pochita and becomes something new and dangerous—Chainsaw Man!
Denji’s gotten too famous! After a news program broadcasts
Chainsaw Man’s heroics, the whole world now wants in on the
action! Can Denji’s new protection detail keep him safe from all
the talented assassins that have assembled in Japan to take him
down?!
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Moby Dick
(Hardcover)
Herman Melville
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R290
R266
Discovery Miles 2 660
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Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale
that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a
diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a
hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade,
it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all
hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the
security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator,
ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive,
vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an
education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing.
Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' - not only the whale but all
things sublime - Melville breathes in the world's great literature.
Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.
A nerd must fight powerful spirits and aliens all vying for the
secret power of his "family jewel," so who better to fight
alongside him than his high school crush and a spirit granny?! Momo
Ayase and Okarun are on opposite sides of the paranormal spectrum
regarding what they'll believe in and what they won't. Their quest
to prove each other wrong leads them down a path of secret crushes
and paranormal battles they'll have to participate in to believe!
Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school's UFO
fanatic, whom she nicknames "Okarun" because he has a name that is
not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks
aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks
the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove
each other wrong-Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted
tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love...and
oddly horny aliens and spirits?
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1984
(Hardcover)
George Orwell
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R629
Discovery Miles 6 290
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