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Freedom: Vintage Minis by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms t ...Show more
Friendship: Vintage Minis by Rose Tremain
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Selected from the novels of Rose Tremain. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Ghosts: M.R. James by M. R. James
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A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. ...Show more
Home: Vintage Minis by Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of m ...Show more
Independence: Vintage Minis by Charlotte Bronte
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'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.'We collect some of the most heartening statements of independence from Bronte's heroines Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe as in the face of temptation, hardship and heartache they cling determi ...Show more
Injustice Vintage Minis by Richard Wright
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VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. How to go on in a world where everything is set against you? With hope? In fear? Or, in violent struggle? In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger Thomas - a young black man trap ...Show more
Language: Vintage Minis by Xiaolu Guo
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Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turn ...Show more
Liberty: Vintage Minis by Virginia Woolf
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Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing and under what condi ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
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From disguises and impostors to locked doors and deadly secrets, Wilde was obsessed with lying as an art form rich with delights- and dangers.Selected from Wilde's essays, plays and prose including The Picture of Dorian Gray.VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by ...Show more
London (Vintage Minis) by Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens spent much of his working life walking the streets of London and drawing inspiration from them. The distinct London weather, the neighbourhoods, the poverty, the high society, the restlessness of the great city - Dickens describes all in his inimitable style.Selected from across Dickens' ...Show more
Love: Vintage Minis by Jeanette Winterson
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How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for t ...Show more
Marriage: Vintage Minis by Jane Austen
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Why do we set so much store by marriage? These excerpts from her novels show that Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again.