Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola\'s dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere \'human beasts\' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character-drawing which seemed

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Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are

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One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don\'t need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab\'s bedroom which is next to mine. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning

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A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It’s her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things – the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the children?

Walden is Thoreau\'s classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition traces the sources of Thoreau\'s reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and sense of

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of 56 short stories and four novels, he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help, and when it was thought that he had died in his clash with the evil Professor Moriarty (\'The Napoleon of Crime\') young men in London wore black armbands. This handsome edition, quarter bound in real cloth,

Depuis qu\'Annabelle, son ancienne amie, s\'est mariée, David Kelsey passe tous ses week-ends dans une maison qu\'il a louée sous un nom d\'emprunt et ou il s\'imagine, dans une sorte de reve, qu\'il la retrouve...Cela, jusqu\'au jour ou le mari d\'Annabelle...

It\'s hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in 15 hours!. As he makes an 11th hour plea for mercy, lawyer Alex Sedaka is resigned to the fact that Clayton Burrows will be executed. Charged with the rape and murder of 18-year-old classmate

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