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The Great Gatsby
'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life'Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one …
The Penguin Book of Hell
Journey into the underworld through three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern AmericaFrom the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to …
Tender is the Night
'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.'Between the First World War and the Wall …
The Rise of the Roman Empire
The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to …
The Age of Alexander
The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably …
Kenilworth
In the court of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is favoured above all the noblemen of England. It is rumoured that the Queen may chose him for her husband, but …
Ivanhoe
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!'Banished from …
Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his …
Tales of the Jazz Age
'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called …
This Side of Paradise
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his …
The Beautiful and Damned
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they …
The Roman History
Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman …