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Synopsis One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th Century. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who ha...

Synopsis James Bond #1. Published in 1953. Escape with the nation's favourite spy in the addictive first novel in Ian Fleming's classic series. L...

Synopsis It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And...

Synopsis '. . . I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a...

Synopsis Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn [Number 976 Dent Everyman's Library]. With introduction by Christopher Morley. Tom Sawyer - Take a light...

Synopsis Catriona: A sequel to "Kidnapped" : being memoirs of the further adventures of David Balfour at home and abroad. Written in 1893, 'Catri...

Synopsis Introduced by Hilary Mantel. In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair. Imogen, the beautiful and...

Synopsis Written by one of the all-time greats of Scottish literature, truly revolutionary, 'A Scots Quair' is a trilogy of novels of which this bo...

Synopsis The Secret Agent (Subtitled : A Simple Tale) is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 an...

Synopsis Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The work was first serialized in Scrib...

Synopsis The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. This is the other one . . . his other classic, a much m...

Synopsis Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, d...

Synopsis The Two Towers is the second of the three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings. It all takes place in the fictional universe ...

Synopsis With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Jules Verne had that rare storyteller's gift...

Synopsis "A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead . . ." "This is a record of hate...

Synopsis This, his first novel, Crome Yellow, is quite far from a sci-fi novel, being instead of the species of British manor satires. On vacation ...

Synopsis The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy’s magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of t...

Synopsis Subtitled : An Entertainment. Designed to appeal to the booklover, The Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift...

Synopsis Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, ...