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Four beautiful children's classics could be yours when you join The Folio Society. Plus, receive the Oxford Leatherbound Reference Set - yours to keep forever.
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The Apocrypha contains some of the best-known stories in the Bible – stories which have captured the popular imagination and sunk deep into our cultural consciousness, permeating music, literature and art.
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A stunning edition, in two lavishly illustrated volumes, from Abbeville Press exploring the entire cultural history of Paris, from painting and sculpture, to architecture, decorative arts, film, theatre, fashion and photography.
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This touching and powerful fable, with its spiritual learning lightly worn, continues to work its magic on readers young and old.
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Cats who learn to talk (to the discomfiture of their owners), bad-tempered aunts who get stuck in water tanks and the world’s most disgusting breakfast cereal, ‘Filboid Studge’, are just some of the fantastical inventions that populate the stories of Saki.
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From vaudeville tours across America to A Night at the Opera, the Marx Brothers wise-cracked their way into entertainment legend. To paraphrase Groucho, from the moment you pick up this book until the moment you lay it down, you will be convulsed with laughter.
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Set before and during the great war, "Birdsong" captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. Powerful, evocative and utterly compelling, this is literature at its finest.
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In this award-winning, lucid and entertainingly written book, Dawkins uses the great scientific discoveries of modern times - from DNA to the power of computing and the electron microscope - to lead the reader step by logical step towards a heightened understanding of evolution.
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Richard Dawkins goes where Darwin feared to tread. Often quirky, sometimes confounding but always compelling, Climbing Mount Improbable is a tour de force.
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This collection of lavishly illustrated volumes explores the remarkable and fascinating legends and histories of four of the ancient world's most intriguing civilisations.
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It was in writing for magazines such as The New Yorker that Woody Allen found his comic voice. This first ever illustrated edition of his essays, short stories and playlets will find you revelling in some of the sharpest comic writing of the last 40 years.
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A true classic, The Country Child is filled with a child’s sense of wonder at the world around her and is one of the most enchanting stories of childhood ever told.
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Writers and critics, from Evelyn Waugh to A. N. Wilson, have lined up to declare Anthony Powell’s twelve-book masterpiece, one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.
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Deptford is a fictional, small town in rural Canada, and at the centre of its tight-knit community are three boys whose lives are entwined from the moment one throws a stone hidden in a snowball.
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Chosen by Keith Waterhouse
The Diary of a Nobody is one of the comic masterpieces of all time.
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