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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Staff Pick Heralded upon release for its elegance and restraint, The Remains of the Day has become a classic of British literature — and one of my favorite books! Ishiguro's simple, painstakingly precise language beautifully captures a man and an era that... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers Publisher Comments The Nine Tailors is Dorothy L. Sayers's finest mystery, featuring Lord Peter Whimsey, and a classic of the genre. The nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll out the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Publisher Comments Josephine Tey re-creates one of history's most famous -- and vicious -- crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Howards End (Vintage International) by E. M Forster Publisher Comments "Only Connect," Forster's key aphorism, informs this novel about an English country house, Howards End, and its influence on the lives of the wealthy and materialistic Wilcoxes; the cultured, idealistic Schlegel sisters; and the poor bank clerk... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Laughing Gas by P G Wodehouse Publisher Comments Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession. When a bratty Hollywood child star and an English aristocrat exchange souls at the dentist in Laughing Gas, the result... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Publisher Comments An outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family, written by the celebrated English novelist. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best of Father Brown (Everyman Library) by G K Chesterton Publisher Comments As punctilious as Poirot, as shrewd as Miss Marple and as sharp as Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown ranks higher than all of them in the pantheon of literary sleuths. For in the confessional this unassuming, innocent little priest has gained a deep and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Noel Coward: A Biography by Philip Hoare Publisher Comments To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker, Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. His biographer, Philip Hoare, given unprecedented access to the private papers and... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Publisher Comments Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Room with a View (Penguin Classics) by E M Forster Publisher Comments This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey Publisher Comments Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line ata theater and for the identity of the killer--whom no one saw.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Publisher Comments Introduction by Pamela Knights From the Hardcover edition.... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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