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A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
₦14,000.00‘But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one’s own?’
A Room of One’s Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work of feminist thought. Covering everything from why a woman must have money and a…
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Adam Bede – George Eliot
₦16,000.00With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury.
‘Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings…’
Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot’s first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an ar…
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All Quiet on the Western Front: Against War – Erich Maria Remarque
₦16,500.00The most famous anti-war novel ever written. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
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An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
₦17,000.00Jones writes with intelligence and a lively wit, but there’s more – a warmth that forces you to care about these people as if you had met them.’ Times
‘Jones sheds a haunting light on the all-encompassing nature of racial injustice.’ Daily Mail, Best Summer Reads
‘Loyalty, duty, family, secrets and anger are gently, yet powerfully woven through …
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Animal Farm – George Orwell
₦14,000.00In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. A political essay would never reach a wide enough audience; a traditional novel would take too long to write.
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Anthills of the Savannah – Chinua Achebe
Original price was: ₦14,000.00.₦10,000.00Current price is: ₦10,000.00.Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are simply trying to live and love – and remain friends.
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Beloved – Toni Morrison
Original price was: ₦16,500.00.₦10,000.00Current price is: ₦10,000.00.Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’.
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Crime and Punishment (Collector’s Editions) – Fyodor Dostoevsky
₦25,000.00From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The res…
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Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
₦16,500.00In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. The key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics.
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Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
₦16,000.00Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the day, the ‘books of chivalry’, this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. Cervantes’ greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to e…
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Down and Out in London and Paris and the Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell
₦13,000.00George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities of imperialism.
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Dracula – Bram Stoker
₦14,000.00Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.’
Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative, describes the demonic …
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East of Eden – John Steinbeck
₦22,000.00Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and …
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Exile and the Kingdom – Albert Camus
₦15,500.00The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider – even in one’s own country – and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil.
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Freedom and Death – Nikos Kazantzakis
₦16,500.00Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis’s modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam.
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Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
₦7,000.00Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and t…
