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Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier€4.99
George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities of imperialism.
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Animal Farm (Wordsworth Classic)€4.99
Orwell wrote Animal Farm in the middle of the Second World War, but at first no publishers wanted to touch it. It was finally published in August 1945, once the war was over. This little book quickly became a seminal text in the emerging 'cold war' (a phrase that Orwell himself coined).
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Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)€6.99
With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.
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Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics)€8.99
Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her.
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Teethmarks on My Tongue (A Novel)Special Price €9.99 Regular Price €16.99
This most unusual coming-of-age novel with its impressive characterization, humour and vivid sense of place takes its clever, if barely street-wise and increasingly obsessive, teenaged narrator on a physical as well as psychological journey towards an astute, hard fought, and deserved, maturity.
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The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'BrienSpecial Price €7.99 Regular Price €12.99
Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object features stories from many of Edna O'Brien's collections; stories that have bewitched generation after generation.
This book was the winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
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The Testament of Mary€9.99
’Beguiling, deeply intelligent, moving. Akin to a dark and brilliantly half-glimpsed political thriller.’ Sunday Times. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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Myles Away From DublinSpecial Price €9.99 Regular Price €11.99
Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) adopted not only a new name (George Knowall) for these rarely seen pieces published in the Nationalist. He takes on the character of a quizzical, enquiring humorist who might be found in a respectable pub in Carlow seeing through humbug and cant.
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Germinal€9.99
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s.
Designed / suitable for A & AS Level, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) -