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Yellow Wallpaper
£6.99Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, this book tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child.
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The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
£20.00Basilus, a foolish old Duke, consults an oracle, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle’s horrific prophecies, he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of princes fall in love with the princesses and adopt disguises to gain access to them, all manner of complications ensue.
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La promesse de l’aube
£10.70Autobiographical novel by Romain Gary. He and his mother leave Russia for France, where they settle in Paris. As twenty years pass, they encounter social change, age, different convictions, poverty and the slow approach of World War II.