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Collected Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Special Editions
Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, 'the Jazz Age', but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrot ...Show more
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by WILDE OSCAR
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Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The T ...Show more
Hans Christian Andersen (The Complete Fairy Tales) (PB) by Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For ...Show more
Klimt, The Kiss (Special Editions) 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle by Paperblanks
Category: Jigsaw Puzzles | Series: Special Editions Ser.
Gustav Klimt (1862 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter fascinated by Japanese art and the female form. The Kiss (1907 1908) represents the pinnacle of Klimt s golden phase. Oil and gold leaf combine to create sinuous shapes, and the lustrous palette and intricate patterns make the painting one of th ...Show more
Rudyard Kipling Complete Children's Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear.How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and ...Show more
Selected Works of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
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The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. In Mrs Dalloway, Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a part ...Show more
The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University o ...Show more
The Collector's Book of Westerns by Rosemary Gray
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Once they had settled the eastern seaboard, the founding fathers of the great North American continent encouraged others to follow them to the land of opportunity. So the refugees, the poor and the oppressed, the adventurous and the foolhardy packed their all, they left the old-world shadows and set out ...Show more
The Complete Illustrated Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm by The Brothers Grimm
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Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
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Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published.Whether it ...Show more
The Selected Works of D.H. Lawrence by D H LAWRENCE
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This selection of Lawrence's work underlines the intensity and innovation that made him one of the most distinctive and important of twentieth-century writers. Sons and Lovers - semi-autobiographical, is a powerful exploration of family, class, sexuality and the suffocating relationships of a man with a ...Show more