Fiction
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Classic Fiction, Fiction
1984 by George Orwell (Hardback)
- Page : 282
- ISBN : 978-8182479357
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
In England that has been shred to pieces by wars, civil conflict and revolutions, Winston Smith survives in a one-room apartment in the small province of Airstrip One. In a dictatorial society where freedom of individuality is suppressed and thoughts are monitored by the Thought Police, the Party makes all the rules, guided by its leader Big Brother. Tele screens, cameras and secret microphones in every home enable the Thought Police in identifying citizens that might compromise the Party’s command. Winston works under the Ministry of Truth as an editor and his job is to revolutionise history by rewriting records, altering photographs, managing the ‘unpersons’ and discarding original documents in a ‘memory hole’. Winston soon develops a keen interest in the real history of the world and starts writing a secret journal criticising the Party and Big Brother. He crosses paths with Julia, who shares his contempt towards the Party, and they begin their apparently secret love affair by meeting in blue-collar neighbourhoods that do not have tele screens. Believing that they are escaping the Thought Police’s radar, both join the Brotherhood, an underground society that intends to rage war against the Party but they are unaware that Big Brother is always watching. With plot twists that are breath-taking this book does not shy away from questioning the modern world which explains why throughout its publication history, the book has either been banned or challenged as subversive and claimed to be ideologically corrupting.
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A Christmas Carol( An Original Classic ) by Charles Dickens (H.B)
- Page : 90
- ISBN : 9789394885271
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice.“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”In the city of London, on the night of Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge—a bitter, cold-hearted old miser—refuses his nephew’s invitation for Christmas dinner and rudely turns away the gentlemen seeking donation for the poor. And as he comes to sit down alone in his cold, dark apartment, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, his dead partner. Haggard and double-ironed, Marley is cursed to wander the earth. as Marley relates his unfortunate story, Scrooge is warned. and before Marley leaves, Scrooge is told that he would be haunted by Three Spirits.As the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come take Scrooge on respective journeys, will he learn the true meaning of the season? Will Ebenezer Scrooge be redeemed?One of the best-loved Yuletide tales by Dickens, a Christmas Carol is filled with compassion and humor. with larger than life characters, who continue to live outside the pages, this Ghost story of Christmas will make you laugh and cry in the same breath. Published more than two centuries ago, it continues to be adapted into films, stage operas and other media.
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (Hardback)
- Page : 279
- ISBN : 9789394885004
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm
Professor Liedenbrock, a man of incredible impatience and Axel, his unadventurous nephew, come across a coded note in an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga. as they try to decipher the code and reveal the message, the results are not quite meaningful.“I will get at the secret of this document andI will neither sleep nor eat until I have found it out.”My comment on this was a half-suppressed “Oh!”“Nor you either, Axel,” he added.As Axel discovers the secret, he decides to keep it to himself. But defeated by his hunger after two days, he reveals it to Liedenbrock. and what follows is a journey to the center of the Earth through Iceland, down a volcanic crater.Encountering grave dangers and bizarre phenomena, as they descend down the underground world, will they reach the center of the Earth?Adapted into numerous movies and television series, Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a brilliant science fiction adventure. Demonstrating Verne’s power of imagination, this masterpiece is one of his most successful works.
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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Hardback)
- Page : 199
- ISBN : 9789394885035
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.3 cm
I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. ?When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchin?s Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesn?t quite like it. ?I don?t like it, papa,? she said. ?But then I dare say soldiers?even brave ones?don?t really like going into battle. ?The apple of her father?s eye, Sara has all the privileges at the seminary and is treated with special care. Soon enough, she befriends her classmates and is nicknamed a ?princess?, which she often pretends to be. But just after her eleventh birthday, when the news of her father?s death arrives, everything changes. Will Sara Crewe’s imagination help her cope up with the loss and hardships?One of the all-time children?s novels, Frances Hodgson Burnett?s A Little Princess is a remarkable story. It has been adapted for films, theatre, musicals, and television, and continues to remain popular more than a century after its publication.
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A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (H.B)
Forster’s most memorably romantic exploration of the liberating effects of Italy on the English, A Room with a View follows the carefully chaperoned Lucy Honeychurch to Florence. There she meets the unconventional George Emerson and finds herself inspired by his refreshingly free spirit- which puts her in mind of “a room with a view”-to escape the claustrophobic snobbery of her guardians back in England. The wicked tragicomedy Where Angels Fear to Tread chronicles a young English widow’s trip to Italy and its messy aftermath.
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Adam Bede by George Eliot (H.B)
Adam Bede was the first novel by Mary Ann Evans, and was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since and is regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature.
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Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Hardback)
- Page : 188
- ISBN : 9789394885417
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm
The grey family is not well off to begin with. And now, Richard grey, the head of the household has lost all his savings in a dodgy investment. He now lies in his home, depressed. The family is on the brink of abject poverty. It is time for the women to take over. Richard‘s wife Alice tries to reduce the expenses, daughter Mary sells her water colours, but it is the youngest child of the family that really helps in its financial rebuilding. Agnes grey has decided to work as a governess. She arrives at bloomfield mansion for her first job, mildly excited from the sense of freedom and independence she feels. But she has no clue just how uppity the English gentry can be and how difficult it will be to manage the unruly, bordering on cruel, children of this house. Will Agnes remain determined to pull through, despite the ill treatment she receives? Or will she cave and fall in despair, just like her penniless father?.
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All Around The Moon by Jules Verne (Hardback)
- Page : 315
- ISBN : 978-9394885097
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm
Picking up where From the Earth to the Moon left off this sequel follows the first lunar explorers in a dangerous journey around the moon. The sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. The world’s first 3 space travellers, Impey Barbicane, Michael Ardan and Captain Nicholl attempt to become the first men on the moon, but their journey is fraught with mishap.
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Anna Karenina (An Original Classic) by Leo Tolstoy (Hardback)
- Page : 1024
- ISBN : 978-8182478657
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 6.7 cm
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina was first published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A canvas exploring a diverse array of themes matrimony, politics, philosophy, altruism, adultery, religion and death, it is a masterpiece in realist fiction. Anna Karenina, a married aristocrat and socialite from St. Petersburg, falls in love with Count Vronsky, a suave military officer. Hemmed in by the laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, Anna is indecisive and anxious about leaving her husband and starting a new life with Vronsky. A social outcast, Anna is a voracious reader and detests fakery that she feels her husband epitomizes. Unfortunately, with her growing suspicion of Vronsky’ s fidelity, her affair brings her more misery than joy. Eventually, her paranoia leads her to taking her own life. ‘Flawless as a work of art’ is how Fyodor Dostoyevsky described Anna Karenina.
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Apology: Crito and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato (Hardback)
The Apology and Crito Greek sculpture. Prof Rufus B. Richardson, late Director of the Merican School of Classical Studies, Athens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Armadale (Un-Abridged Classic Collector’s Edition) by Wilkie Collins (HB)
- Page : 791
- ISBN : 9789394885073
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 5 cm
Allan Armadale makes a startling deathbed confession to be shared with his young son once he reaches adulthood-he murdered another man named Allan Armadale. It’s a dark secret that inevitably looms over the child of the perpetrator and his victim. Before dying, Allan Armadale reveals that he previously killed a man also named Allan Armadale. It’s a revelation meant for his young son who discovers the information as an adult. At this point, he’s run away from his mother’s home and is living under the assumed name–Ozias Midwinter. While traveling, Midwinter encounters another Allan Armadale, who is the son of the man his father killed. The two become close friends and eventually meet one woman who will bring their checkered pasts two ahead. Wilkie presents a compelling portrait of Victorian society that’s riddled by greed and narcissism. Armadale is a multilayered story of resilience in the face of generational trauma. The story follows two men navigating the sins of their fathers to find true love and friendship. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Armadale is both modern and readable.
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Ben Hur : A Tale of the Christ ( An Original Classic ) (Hardback)
- Page : 550
- ISBN : 978-9394885196
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.7 cm
N first-century Judea, Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur is falsely accused of assassinating a Roman governor and sentenced to life as a galley slave. His fortunes are reversed when he saves the captain’s life and he returns, determined to seek his revenge against those who have brought misfortune to both himself and his family. His life becomes intertwined with that of Christ’s and after witnessing His teachings and eventual crucifixion Ben-Hur discovers the redemptive power of forgiveness. The bestselling American novel of the nineteenth century, ‘Ben Hur had never been out of print on the hundredth anniversary of its publication in 1980. After numerous stage and film adaptations, it remains hugely influential today and is soon to be a new major adaptation.
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Fiction
Best Russian Short Stories (Classic Edition) by Anton Chekhov (Hardcover)
- ISBN : 978-8182479807
- Page : 276
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
Life is a vexatious trap, when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape. One of the greatest Russian short story writers and an exemplary playwright, Anton Chekhov penned down some of the finest short stories and plays in literature. His works continue to be translated into various languages across the world. This edition brings together his early short stories along with the outstanding short fiction written in his later years. It includes the district doctor. The queen of spades, the cloak, the shades, the singal, the darling, the servant, hide and seek, her lover, and several other beautiful stories.
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