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Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, Tender is the Night explores ...

Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthol...

'Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.'Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a s...

Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure ...