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Published in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening is nowadays considered to be one of the very first feminist titles of literature. Ironic, considering that in it's day it was rejected, the author failing at first to find a publisher willing to take a risky chance. Edna Pontellier is one of the most interesting female characters in the literature of her time, a wife and mothers who is powerful, dares to question and think about the values of family, marriage and motherhood. She is having an awakening, as the title said, an awakening amidst a society which is hostile by conventions and conventional by nature.

In one of the best known and loved works by Jules Verne, certainly a science-fiction classics, Professor Lidenbrock is the one who comes by pure chance of accident upon an ancient and forgotten manuscript. Writter in code, it becomes a quest for the Profesor to crack the code and solve the mistery. No small is the surprise as the text was written by an Icelandic explorer who managed to travel to the very centre of the Earth.

The Collins Classics Collection brings together some of the best names and titles in the history of literature

A superb selection of stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, including the famous Curious Case of Benjamin Button

It was with outrage and disgust that this novel was received upon it's original publication, as the love affairs of the two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, were more than the public could easily accept.

'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are'

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal.

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Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him immeasurable success, as well as intense controversy.

Though his father had been reluctant to become a heroic field operative, Jack Ryan, Jr. wants nothing more…

‘Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready’ (The Times)

Sometimes you can grow up in just one night. It is August 16th 1977 – a steaming summer night, the night that Elvis Presley will die, while in London three young men will discover the true meaning of friendship.

Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal's red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter.

The author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works and novels, including the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) is regarded by many as America's finest humorist and a major writer of short stories.

Tick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them up, nothing will stop them ...

A disturbing masterpiece of narrative invention and moving storytelling from one of Japan's most highly respected and bestselling writers.

Poems selected by Ted Hughes

Stock market multimillionaire at 26, federal convict at 36, he partied like a rock star, lived like a king, and barely survived his rise and fall as an American entrepreneurial icon.

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll

"Gripping and moving. . . . A marvelous return to the John le Carre of old, with all the captivating characters, finely rendered landscapes, and messy complexities that have always powered his best work." -San Francisco Chronicle

What does it mean to be a good mother?
How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice?

High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.

A novel of memory and loss, set between London of the 1930s and Shanghai between the wars.

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The painted panels made for use in Byzantine and Orthodox churches and for prayers at home are perhaps the most effective and enduring form of religious art ever developed, and also perhaps one of the most mysterious.

Maramures,  tara bisericilor din lemn cu turle zvelte si ascutite care tintesc cerul, a portilor monumentale migalos sculptate, a mocanitei si a horincii.

Since 1989 Romania has gone from communist isolation under the megalomaniac Nicolae Ceauescu to being a key player in America’s war against terrorism. This book analyses how the country is seeking to recover from a disastrous period in its history while many of the key legacies of dictatorship remain.

Architecturally, Romania was long regarded as one of the most interesting and beautiful countries In Europe. This book documents the systematic destruction of that heritage by the Ceausescu regime, a process of "systematization" intended to destroy the cultural indentity of a nation on a huge scale.

From the imposition of communist rule in 1945, Ceausescu’s secret police, the Securitate, remained shrouded in secrecy. This work benefits from access to the archives of the Securitate.

This book tells the remarkable story of the Kodak Girl, one of the most durable and successful marketing campaigns in advertising history. Created by George Eastman, inventor of the inexpensive hand-held camera, the Kodak Girl traces the intersection of American culture with photography as it evolved from a studio-bound practice to a snapshot obsession for the masses.