Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it...
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of t
A definitive annotated edition of one of the greatest of Terry Pratchett’s multi-million-bestselling Discworld novels
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In Poetics of Relation, his most celebr
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'A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust' The Guardian
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Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, with an introduction by Barbara Cooke
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Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you.'
One of the greatest activists in history, Ma
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