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Pride and Prejudice
(Paperback)
Jane Austen; Introduction by Ian Littlewood; Notes by Ian Littlewood; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband.
With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.
A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and
perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is
highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of
women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays
bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout
history she has been denied the social and economic independence
assumed by men. Woolf's prescription is clear: if a woman is to
find creative expression equal to a man's, she must have an
independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute
analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly
resonant and relevant in the 21st century. The novel explores these
issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a
young woman whose 'voyage out' to South America opens up powerful
encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. As she begins
to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of
love, but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the
comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final
undertow of the novel is tragic as, in some of her finest writing,
she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit.
'"I should imagine this was murder, too, because it would be very
difficult to build yourself into a heap of sandbags and then
die..."' In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night,
amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have
stumbled upon a corpse stowed in the walls of their street's bomb
shelter. As the police begin their investigation, the night is
interrupted once again when Agnes's upstairs neighbour Mrs Sibley
is terrorised by the sight of a grisly pig's head at her
fourth-floor window. With the discovery of more sinister threats
mysteriously signed 'Pig-sticker', Agnes and her husband Andrew -
unable to resist a good mystery - begin their investigation to
deduce the identity of a villain living amongst the tenants of
their block of flats. A witty and lighthearted mystery full of
intriguing period detail, this rare gem of Golden Age crime returns
to print for the first time since its publication in 1943.
Tanjiro sets out on the path of the Demon Slayer to save his sister
and avenge his family! In Taisho-era Japan, kindhearted Tanjiro
Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is
shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little
sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed
into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to
find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who
ruined his life. The fight with Kokushibo, the highest-ranking
demon among Muzan's servants, is over. Although Himejima and Sanemi
defeated Kokushibo and sent him to hell, the price the Demon Slayer
Corps has paid is very high. Kiriya Ubuyashiki, the new leader of
the Demon Slayers, struggles to recover from the losses. With the
battle against Muzan far from over, the remaining fighters will
need his help more than ever. Meanwhile, deep within Infinity
Castle, Tanjiro and his friends come face-to-face with their
nemesis at last...
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Jaws
(Paperback)
Peter Benchley
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Immerse yourself in the terror of Peter Benchley's vintage thriller,
Jaws. Released in 1974 and inspiring Spielberg's cinematic masterpiece,
the book has sold over twenty million copies globally and remains a
landmark in classic literary horror.
It's never safe to go back in the water . . .
A small Atlantic resort. The mutilated body of a young woman, or what
is left of it, washes up on the long, white stretch of beach on the
beach. It is merely a harbinger of the horror that is about to unfold,
as a sun-drenched holiday turns into a nightmare.
You'll never look at the sea the same way again. A summer of terror has
begun.
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Empire
(Hardcover)
Clifford D. Simak
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R749
Discovery Miles 7 490
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Macbeth
(Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Illustrated by Oscar Grillo Von
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R292
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Jinwoo knows it won't be long before his true power fully comes to
light and the guilds and association of Korea descend upon him,
seeking his allegiance. Since his training has thus far been a solo
endeavor, Jinwoo decides he ought to at least see what an A-rank
raid is really like. Joining the Hunters' excavation team is the
perfect opportunity to assess a high-level guild in action, even if
his role is limited to hauling and mining. That is, until a
particularly nasty dungeon boss requires the luggage carrier to
step up to carry the team as well!!
In this exuberantly strange story collection, Flores asks: Whose
reality? What rules? --Jean Chen Ho, author of The New York Times
Book Review These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored
by Fernando A. Flores's deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation
of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where
so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives. --Kelly Link,
author of Get in Trouble Psychedelic, dazzling stories set in the
cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland, from an iconoclastic
storyteller and the author of Tears of the Trufflepig. No one
captures the border--its history and imagination, its danger,
contradiction, and redemption--like Fernando A. Flores, whose
stories reimagine and reinterpret the region's existence with
peerless style. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are
never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and
setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an
entire town and rewrite its history. The stories in Valleyesque
dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous,
often hilarious flair. A dying Frederic Chopin stumbles through
Ciudad Juarez in the aftermath of his mother's death, attempting to
recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border, while a
muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed
Emiliano Zapata T-shirt. A woman is engulfed by a used-clothing
warehouse with a life of its own, and a grieving mother
breathlessly chronicles the demise of a town decimated by violence.
In two separate stories, queso dip and musical rhythms are bottled
up and sold for mass consumption. And in the final tale, Flores
pieces together the adventures of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as he
starts a music career in Texas. Swinging between satire and
surrealism, grief and joy, Valleyesque is a boundary- and
border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice.
With the visceral imagination that made his debut novel, Tears of
the Trufflepig, a cult classic, Flores brings his vision of the
border to life--and beyond.
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Mr Salary
(Paperback)
Sally Rooney
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My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.
Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable.
Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute attention to the power dynamics in everyday speech, she builds up sexual tension and throws a deceptively low-key glance at love and death.
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