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Language: Vintage Minis by Xiaolu Guo
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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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Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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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Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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.
Money: Vintage Minis by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader o ...Show more
Motherhood: Vintage Minis by Helen Simpson
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree and engrossed in work and sex, now try to solve age-old argume ...Show more
Murder (Vintage Minis) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Sherlock Holmes solved cases of forgery, theft and all manner of mysterious events but worst of all were the cases involving murder. Collected here are the short stories involving the darkest and most sinister of all his cases.Selected from the short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MI ...Show more
Power (Vintage Minis) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
A selection of Shakespeare's greatest speeches and scenes on the subject that fired many of his plays - power.Selected from across Shakespeare's playsVINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in t ...Show more
Race: Vintage Minis by Toni Morrison
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Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over ...Show more
Sisters: Vintage Minis by Louisa May Alcott
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Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she'll always share with you a totally unique bond. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four of the most fa ...Show more