Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War.
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For Poe fans worldwide, this stunning gift edition features a gorgeous deckled edge, ribbon marker, and foil and deboss details on a vibrantly colored case. This elegant collector's edition includes over 70 of Poe's short stories, more than 40 melodious poems, and his only full-length novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.
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![The Island of Doctor Moreau](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141389394-island-doctor-moreau.jpg)
'The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals, humanised animals...' A shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a notorious scientist, Doctor Moreau.
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![Alices's adventures in wonderland](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/L/9780141199689-alices-adventures-wonderland.jpg)
Their dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at an unruly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But, amongst the eccentric humour and witty conundrums, are poignant moments of nostalgia for a lost childhood.
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![Robinson Crusoe](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureR/O/9780141199061-robinson-crusoe.jpg)
The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ...
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![Middlemarch](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/I/9781435169579-middlemarch.jpg)
Eliot surrounds her main figures with a gallery of characters drawn from every social class, from laborers and shopkeepers to the rising middle class to members of the wealthy, landed gentry. Together they form an extraordinarily rich and precisely detailed portrait of English provincial life in the 1830s.
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![Sanditon](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/A/9780241433713-sanditon.jpg)
Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and amusement.
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![Sanditon](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/A/9780241436585-sanditon.jpg)
Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and amusement.
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![Jude the Obscure](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureJ/U/9780241382691-jude-obscure.jpg)
Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking "New Woman.
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![Mrs Dalloway](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/R/9780241371947-dalloway.jpg)
Past, present and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923.
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood.
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![The Great Gatsby](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341469-great-gatsby.jpg)
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character.
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![Pas de visuel pour The Call of the Wild](https://www.unitheque.com/Medias/Images/Unitheque-LibrairieH250.png)
The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest.
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![The Sign of Four](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141395487-sign-four.jpg)
For Mary Morstan has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor, bringing with her two companions.
But unbeknownst to them all, others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind - and his [...]
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![The War of the Worlds](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241382707-worlds.jpg)
From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth ...
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common. Fascinated and exhilarated, the local people approach the mysterious object armed with nothing more than a white flag.
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![The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories: from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141194424-penguin-book-american-short-stories-from-washington-irving-lydia-davis.jpg)
Kasia Boddy's introduction traces the history of the American short story and explores the changes and continuities in its forms and preoccupations. This edition also contains a chronology, explanatory and biographical notes and suggestions for further reading.
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![The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241347782-adventures-sherlock-holmes.jpg)
This collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's most popular creations.
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![Melmoth the Wanderer](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/E/9780241366547-melmoth-wanderer.jpg)
The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin'My hour is come ...
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![Agnes Grey](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/G/9781847497147-agnes-grey.jpg)
Drawing on Anne Brontë's own experiences, and dealing with themes such as the nature of childhood, the rise of the middle classes and the loneliness, cruelty and even ill treatment that life as a governess could entail, Agnes Grey is full of quiet passion and remains a beloved classic to this day.
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![Lady Susan](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/A/9781847497154-lady-susan.jpg)
The epistolary novel Lady Susan is the darkly humorous tale of the amatory schemes and machinations of an ambitious and unprincipled coquette.
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![The Garden Party](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341643-garden-party.jpg)
A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration.
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the [...]
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![A Handful of Dust](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/9780241341100-handful-dust.jpg)
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set.
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![The Day of the Locust](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341674-locust.jpg)
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules.
But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare.
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![The Scarlet Pimpernel](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341339-scarlet-pimpernel.jpg)
The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by a band of brave comrades, he disguises himself as the formidable Scarlet Pimpernel.
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![The Beetle](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341353-beetle.jpg)
Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but when 'the Beetle' arrives from Egypt to hunt him down, the dark and gruesome secret that haunts him is dragged into the light. Bent on revenge for a crime committed against the disciples of an Egyptian goddess, the Beetle terrorizes its victims and will stop at nothing until it has satisfaction.
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![The Awakening](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341421-awakening.jpg)
When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement.
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![Peter Pan](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureP/E/9780241341391-peter.jpg)
It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger.
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![Mrs Dalloway](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/R/9780241341117-dalloway.jpg)
Created from two short stories, Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street and the unfinished The Prime Minister, the novel addresses Clarissa's preparations for a party she will host that evening. With an interior perspective, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters' minds to construct an image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure.
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![To the Lighthouse](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/O/9780241341681-lighthouse.jpg)
'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness.
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![At the Mountains of Madness](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/T/9780241341315-mountains-madness.jpg)
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness.
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![Tender is the Night](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/E/9780241341483-tender-night.jpg)
'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 Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa.
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![Animal Farm](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/N/9780241341667-animal-farm.jpg)
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control.
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![Nineteen Eighty Four](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureN/I/9780241341650-nineteen-eighty-four.jpg)
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party.
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![Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Other Stories](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/L/9781435166240-alice-adventures-wonderland-other-stories.jpg)
Through the Looking Glass begins the adventure anew when Alice steps through a mirror into another magical world where she can instantly be made queen if she can only get to the other side of the colossal chessboard.
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![Heart of Darkness](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/E/9780141199788-heart-darkness.jpg)
he Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time.
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