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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. In Emily Bronte's only novel, the passion of Catherine and Heathcliff is as wild as the moors surrounding their childhood home, Wuthering Heights. This dark tale of love and loss, power and possession, action a...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. The arrival of two rich bachelors stirs Mrs Bennet to hope that wedding bells will soon be in the air. Jane, the eldest of Mrs Bennet's daughters, forms an early attachment to Mr Bingley, but her spirited siste...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Orphaned Jane Eyre has endured a life of austerity and hardship until she is appointed governess at Thornfield Hall by its remote and brooding master, Edward Rochester. When the two finally meet, they are drawn...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range The Phantom of the Opera tells the tale of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House. Mesmerized by the talents and beauty of the young soprano Christine, the Phantom lures her as his protege ...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Elinor Dashwood's cool reason and her sister Marianne's more demonstrative nature are revealed when their father Henry dies and they are uprooted from the family home. For Elinor and Marianne, salvation lies in...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. When having his portrait painted, Dorian Gray declares he would give anything to stay youthful - even his soul. Dorian descends into a life of decadent excess, and while he retains his youthful looks, the portr...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. The young and unworldly Tess is thrown into the clutches of predatory Alec D'Urberville and so begins a series of events that will the shape the course of her whole life. Hardy's masterful tale of tragic romanc...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Meditations, by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, is one of the definitive texts on Stoicism. In Meditations Taken from A.S.L Farquharson's Translation. Aurelius shares his thoughts about the importance of logic o...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Shy young Fanny Price is sent to live with wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park, where of her four cousins only Edmund shows her any real kindness. When the wealthy, flirtatious Henry Crawford and his vivacious ...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. George Orwell's Animal Farm is a short novel written during World War II and published in 1945. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who revolt against their keeper. They want to create a place where a...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. In her last completed novel, Jane Austen revisits the theme of mischance and misunderstanding along the road to happiness. Seven years after she was persuaded to break off their engagement, Anne Elliot is unexp...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. When young Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey, a house which seems to come straight from the pages of a Gothic novel, a world of adventure and romance opens up. Over the course of an eventful visi...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. In Bram Stoker's bone-chilling vampire tale, told through the diaries and letters of the chief characters, young lawyer Jonathan Harker and his friends are drawn into a desperate battle to stop the sinister Cou...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess who is sent to Bly, a large country estate, to care for two children. She has strict instructions from their guardian never to write to him, never to as...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range The Scarlet Letter is a classic novel set in Puritanical Boston in the mid-17th century. It tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who is publicly shamed and ostracized for having a child out of wedlock...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. The most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet tells the story of the ghost of the King of Denmark who tells his son Hamlet, to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet pretends ...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. The realities of married life in a provincial town fall a long way short of Emma Bovary's romantic expectations. To fill the void she embarks on reckless affairs and spends impetuously on the luxuries she had d...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse has many advantages - but Emma's supreme confidence in her own abilities is sometimes misplaced. When her scheme to find a suitable husband for young Harriet Smith goe...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. With their father away at the Civil War,times are hard for the March sisters - Meg, Jo,Beth and Amy - and their mother, Marmee. Louisa May Alcott's moving coming-of-age story, whose homespun charm and core fami...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Nick Carraway rents a property on Long Island, where the new moneyed class are given to ostentatious displays of wealth. None more so than the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a man who throws lavish parties for uninvite...

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Part of the Chiltern Clsssics range When a tornado uproots Dorothy's farmhouse home, she and her beloved dog Toto are whisked away to the magical land of Oz. Dorothy follows the yellow brick road to the Emerald City to see the Wizard, hoping he ca...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range Ferocious tiger Shere Khan is enraged when his man-cub prey evades his clutches in a cave where a wolf family lives. The wolves decide to raise the boy themselves, and Mowgli grows up learning the ways of the ju...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Sherlock Holmes made his debut in 1887 but it was this collection of 12 stories, first published in The Strand magazine, that established him as an unrivalled detective, and Arthur Conan Doyle as one of the mos...

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This gift pack contains both the hardcover classic novel and a matching ruled hardcover notebook in a one quarter slipcase. Bringing one of the world's most beautiful editions of the classic novel, Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doy...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Believed to have been first published more than two thousand years ago, The Art of War is the classic Chinese book of military strategy. It has not only influenced many of the world's most powerful military lea...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. When young Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's map, the race is on to be first to reach Treasure Island and discover the buried gold. With a motley crew including one-legged sea cook Long John Silver, Jim sets off abo...

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Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Ambitious student Victor Frankenstein lights upon the secret of creating life. However, having succeeded in his aim, Frankenstein recoils in horror from the 'demoniacal corpse' he has made. Craving acceptance a...

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Part of the Chiltern Clssics range. When Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling ship, he doesn't know that the captain is obsessed with taking revenge on Moby Dick, the great whale that ripped off his leg. Ishmael recounts their adventures aboard shi...

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