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Dickens
Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This is a specially edited shorter version of the title that ties-in with the 3-part series on BBC 2 shown in March 2002. It takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers and is a study of both a culture and period, a...
Jezebel
In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, h...
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions. Th...
Melmoth the Wanderer
The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin'My hour is come . . . the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!'This violent, profound, baroque and blackly humorous novel is the story of Melmoth, who has sold his soul in exchan...
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