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Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
₦14,000.00The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly ‘recorded’ by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory.
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Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
₦16,500.00Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth and the thrill of forbidden love, charged with sexual passion and violence, but also a warning of death: a dazzling combination of bawdy comedy and high tragedy. Used and Recommended by the National Theatre
General Editor Stanley Wells
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Sense and sensibility – Jane Austen
₦14,000.00Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. Elinor’s character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.
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Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
₦14,000.00The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchisement, the drama of Luddite machine-breaking, and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars. Personal and public agitation are brought together against the dramatic backdrop of her native Yorkshire.
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The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth – William Wordsworth
₦16,000.00With an Introduction by Antonia Till. His remarkable autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’ was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth’s poetry.
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The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics – Clive Staples Lewis
₦85,000.00A beautiful compilation of inspirational writings, featuring seven classic works in one box set. The box set includes:
‘Mere Christianity’
‘The Screwtape Letters’
‘Surprised by Joy’
‘The Four Loves’
‘The Problem of Pain’
‘The Great Divorce’
‘Miracles’C.
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The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
₦14,000.00With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece.
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The Drug and Other Stories: Second Edition – Aleister Crowley
₦16,000.00This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). They are set in places in which he had lived, and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the First World War.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh – Translated by Andrew George
₦17,500.00The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, The Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.
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The Essential Kafka – Franz Kafka
₦15,000.00Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintain…
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money – John Maynard Keynes
₦16,000.00John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched.
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The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
₦20,000.00‘I’ve done my damndest to rip a reader’s nerves to rags, I don’t want him satisfied.’
Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck’s Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false…
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The House of the Dead and the Gambler – Fyodor Dostoevsky
₦15,000.00Dostoevsky’s fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison.
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The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
₦15,000.00Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel.
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The Iliad – Homer
₦14,000.00With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.
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The Inferno – Dante Alighieri
₦15,000.00Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.
