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Animal Farm
George Orwell, Timothy West
Audio Cassette (Penguin Audio UK, July 4, 2000)A stunning hardback edition of the classic novel.Animal Farm is one of the most famous warnings ever written. Orwell's immortal satire — 'against Stalin' as he wrote to his French translator — can be read on many levels. With its piercing clarity and deceptively simple style it is no surprise that this novel is required reading for schoolchildren and politicians alike. This fable of the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep remains an unparalleled masterpiece.One reviewer wrote "In a hundred years' time perhaps Animal Farm... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point." Over sixty years on in the age of spin, it is more relevant than ever.Rejected by such eminent publishing figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot, Animal Farm was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on August 17, 1945 in an edition of 4500 copies. In the centenary year of Martin Secker, Ltd., Harvill Secker is proud to publish this special edition with a new introduction.
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Hope
Audio Cassette (Naxos Audio Books, July 1, 1995)Fitzgerald's tale of American values in the jazz age of the 1920s is one of the great classics of 20th-century literature.
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Modern Classics After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
Jean Rhys
Paperback (Penguin Classic, Nov. 4, 1986)After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is a brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love. For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr. Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. The tale of her ten day visit contains some of Jean Rhys's most sensitive, poignant writing. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants - love.
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Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton, William Hope
Audio Cassette (Naxos Audio Books, April 1, 1995)An entrancing but sad story of a poverty-stricken Massachusetts farmer caught in a loveless marriage. An emerging love for his young cousin leads to one day of explosive emotions with tragic consequences. 2 cassettes.
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Our Town / Skin of Our Teeth / Matchmaker
Thornton Wilder
Paperback (Penguin Books Ltd, Sept. 24, 1987)None
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Episodes from the Adventures of Tom
Mark Twain, Ed Begley
Audio Cassette (HarperAudio, Jan. 4, 1994)A young boy's hijinks and adventures along the Mississippi River come to life in an audio rendition narrated by Ed Begley.
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
James Joyce, Jim Norton
Abridged Edition (Naxos Audio Books, Oct. 1, 1995)None
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The Story of Peter Pan
J. M Barrie, Glynis Johns
Audio Cassette (HarperAudio, May 24, 1994)None
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Elidor
Alan Garner
Paperback (Harpercollinschildrenasbooks, July 2, 2001)On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into the twilight world of Elidor. It is a place almost destroyed by fear and darkness, and the children are charged with guarding its Treasures while a way is sought to save the dying land. Then the evil forces find a path through to this world
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mary Green
Spiral-bound (Folens Publishers, May 11, 1999)None
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"Of Mice and Men"
Mike Gould
Spiral-bound (Folens Publishers UK, )None
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"Lord of the Flies"
Roger Machin, Louise Machin
Spiral-bound (Folens Publishers UK, )None