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Author:  Charles Dickens 
Condition:  9/10
This books Published Date:  1984 
Pages:  138
A well-loved holiday story, Dickens's slim tale has been opened up on the oversize pages of this new version, similar in format to Zwerger's treatment of The Gift of the Magi. Expanses of white space around and between lines of text give the volume a clean-looking design, which sets off the artist's charm-filled, airy watercolors.

Author: William Trevor 
Condition: 8/10
This books Published Date: 1995
Pages: 212

Young and pregnant, Felicia leaves her Irish hometown to search for her boyfriend in the English Midlands, only to fall in with the obese fiftyish Mr. Hilditch.

Author: Brian MacArthur 
Condition: 8/10
This books Published Date: 1995
Pages: 503

Brian MacArthur's Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches was described as 'a compelling read' (Observer) and 'a means of re-creating a turbulent century' (Sunday Times). In this superb companion volume, he brings together the words of over a hundred men and women - from Moses to Mandela - who changed the world through the sheer power of their oratory.

Author: Penelope Lively 
Condition: 4/10
This books Published Date: 1987
Pages: 207

Claudia Hampton, writer of best-selling popular history books, lies in a London hospital bed and looks back on her own life, including an unforgettable love affair.

Author: Virginia Woolf 
Condition: 4/10
This books Published Date: 1987
Pages: 215

Past, present and future are brought together one day in June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway prepares for her party, remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is on the brink of madness. His day interweaves with Clarissa's.

Author: Mark Bowden
Condition: 7/10
This books Published Date: 2004
Pages: 467
'Black Hawk Down,'' the harrowing, minute-by-minute reconstruction of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, in which 18 American soldiers died, established Mark Bowden's reputation as a master of action-packed narrative nonfiction. With ''Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts,'' a selection of Bowden's journalism from the last 25 years, it becomes clear that the above characterization is incomplete, if not entirely wrong. Bowden is not simply a journalist of action; he has spent most of his career writing about the pedestrian, the everyday.

Author: Simon Schama
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2005
Pages: 55
Simon Schama is famous both as a great scholar and as one of the UK's greatest popularizers of history, whose books and TV series have enthralled huge audiences through their gripping storytelling. Citizens, his award-winning account of the French Revolution, has continued to be one of Penguin's most popular history titles since it was first published in 1989. This extract takes us into the heart of the revolution's ferment as the angry crowd storms the Bastille prison.

Author: Laurence Sterne 
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 1967
Pages: 657
The comic masterpiece TRISTRAM SHANDY by Sterne is generally regarded as the progenitor of the 20th century novel. Set in the Shandy's small parlour and garden, the book, narrated by Tristram, consists of a plot frequently and flagrantly interrupted by digressions. tristram insists on beginning the book at the moment of his own conception, but provides no consistent thread or conclusion to his tale.