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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No. 32 in Mavenhill Classics, this annotated edition presents F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece of the Jazz Age, with a foreword by Maven Hill and clear, spoiler-free chapter summaries. In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway rents a small house on Long Island beside a mansion

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Nile Noir

More death on the Nile.

Crime, mystery and thrillers from Egypt. The stories English-language readers have never been told. It begins with Rabbia Letale.

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