{"id":11233,"date":"2020-05-27T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=11233"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T07:21:19","slug":"special-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/special-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Editions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A stunningly beautiful hardback edition of one of the most famous stories in the world. After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle\u2019s gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A stunningly beautiful hardback edition of the most famous animal stories in the world. Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess, and their kind master. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day\u2019 On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Island. But a host of villains, wild beasts and deadly savages stand between him and the stash of gold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Follow the yellow brick road! Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and find the wonderfully mysterious Wizard of Oz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A stunningly beautiful clothbound hardback edition of one of the most famous Gothic horror stories in the world. Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St George\u2019s Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will come full sway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.\u2019 Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others\u2019 When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners by James Joyce \u2018Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears … But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening\u2019 To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,\u2019 wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one \u2018golden afternoon\u2019 in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll \u2018\u201dCuriouser and curiouser!\u201d cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The story of Mowgli, the mancub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as the bear Baloo, the graceful black panther Bagheera and Shere Khan, the tiger with the blazing eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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