Classics and Modern Classics

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Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, acclaimed author of the Cazalet Chronicles, once said that she would certainly...
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The Captain’s Daughter: Essential Stories

Alexander Pushkin (Author)

As complex as they are gripping, Pushkin’s stories are some of the greatest and most...
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Notes from a Dead House

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years’ hard labour in a...
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In the Castle of My Skin

George Lamming

‘They won’t know you, the you that’s hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin’

Nine-year-old...
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Unlikely Stories, Mostly

Alasdair Gray

A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously...
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McGrotty and Ludmilla

Alasdair Gray

Mungo McGrotty’s career in Whitehall is going nowhere. But when he finds the mysterious (and...
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Lanark: A Life in Four Books

Alasdair Gray

40th anniversary edition
‘Probably the greatest novel of the century’ Observer

Lanark, a modern vision of hell...
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The Fall of Kelvin Walker

Alasdair Gray

It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to...
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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Set during the Roaring Twenties against a backdrop of jazz music, bootlegging, and lavish parties,...
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Don Quixote

Miguel De Cervantes

The Vintage Classics Europeans series – with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell,...
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Monkey King: Journey to the West

Wu Ch'eng-en

One of the world’s greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in...
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Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Vita Sackville-West

‘I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to...
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