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The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud
₦15,000.00Brill, with an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. He propounded the theory that dreams are the contraband representations of the beast within man, smuggled into awareness during sleep.
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The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
₦13,000.00The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book’s brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world’s most widely translated books, enjoyed by a…
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The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
₦19,000.00Based on Mailer’s own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead’ is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. Focusing on the experiences of a fourteen-man platoon stationed on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific during World War II, and written in a jour…
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The Odyssey – Homer
₦14,000.00Homer’s great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself, and matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own.
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The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
₦15,000.00Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes.
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The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
₦20,000.00Bunyan wrote the first part of The Pilgrim’s Progress when he was in prison for conducting unauthorised Baptist religious services outside of the Church of England. It was published in 1678; the second part was published in 1684.
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The Pilgrim’s Regress – Clive Staples Lewis
₦16,500.00Lewis’ works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirizes different sections of the Church. Written within a year of Lewis’ conversion, it characterises the various theological and temperamental leanings of the time.
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The Plays of Oscar Wilde – Oscar Wilde
₦14,000.00Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere’s Fan. His other plays include: A Woman of No Importance and The Importance of Being Earnest.
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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare – William Shakespeare
₦16,000.00They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious ‘Dark Lady’. In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare’s two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, The Rape of Lucrece which looks forward to the dark…
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The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
₦17,000.00WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE BY THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR
ONE OF THE BBC’S ‘100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD’In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . . A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’…
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The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
₦14,000.00The central figure is Clym Yeobright, the returning ‘native’ and the story tells of his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye. As the narrative unfolds and character after character is driven to self-destruction the presence of the Heath becomes all-embracing, while Clym becomes a travelling preacher in an attempt to assuage his guilt.
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The Sickness Unto Death – Søren Kierkegaard
₦14,000.00Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of ‘despair’ as a symptom of the human condition and describes man’s struggle to fill the spiritual void. Throughout history, some books have changed the world.
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The Stand – Stephen King
₦24,000.00Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. And then came the dreams . . .
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To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
₦7,000.00Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man’s struggle for justice.
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To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
₦14,000.00This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children’s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great …
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Ulysses – James Joyce
₦15,000.00James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom’s voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was haile…
