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  • Green Smoke

    Illustrated by Constance Marshall ...
    Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every childA magical, charming, classic story of a little girl, a secret dragon, and the myths and legends of Cornwall, reissued in A Puffin Book for a new generation of readers to discover.‘She heard a noise very like a loud sneeze, and a little puff of green smoke came out of the cave and floated away into the air.’On holiday in ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Chinese Garden

    A Novel

    A "very intelligent, sensitive, and compelling" novel of adolescent rebellion and sexual awakening at a girls' boarding school (Anthony Burgess).Set in a repressive British girls' boarding school in the late 1920s—where not only sexuality but femininity is squashed—Rosemary Manning's "wonderful" 1962 novel is the coming-of-age story of sixteen-year-old Rachel, a sensitive, bright, and innocent ... Read more

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    by C. S. Lewis ...
    The second novel in Lewis’s science fiction trilogy tells of Dr Ransom’s voyage to the planet of Perelandra (Venus).In the second novel in C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus, which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world. He is horrified to find that his old enemy, Dr Weston, has also arrived and is putting him in ... Read more

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  • The Rachel Papers

    by Martin Amis ...
    Series Book 11 - Vintage Blue
    Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects... ... Read more

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  • The Space Trilogy

    The Complete Cosmic Trilogy Volumes 1-3

    by C.S. Lewis ...
    Series series The Space Trilogy
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. The Cosmic Trilogy is a science fiction masterpiece! Although best known for his Narnia books, C.S. Lewis is also considered one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, solely based on the three novels contained in The Cosmic Trilogy ... Read more

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  • Heart of Darkness

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness explores the limits of human experience and the nightmarish realities of imperialism.Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz: dying, insane, and guilty of ... Read more

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  • Philip Larkin Poems

    Selected by Martin Amis

    by Philip Larkin ...
    For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of ... Read more

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  • Experience

    A Memoir

    by Martin Amis ...
    Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses aprivate life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. He explores his relationship with his beloved father, novelist Kingsley Amis, and examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain's most notorious serial ... Read more

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  • To the Lighthouse

    When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with the shifts of time ... Read more

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  • The C.S. Lewis Science Fiction MEGAPACK®

    by C.S. Lewis ...
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The ... Read more

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  • Heart of Darkness

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to ... Read more

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  • The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

    The first-ever collection of 50+ writings from the 20th-century critic who “redefined the possibilities of the literary essay”—including works not seen in print for decades (The New Yorker)Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question.In the essays ... Read more

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