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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island,…

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Published in 1926, this book allows us to glimpse what it was really like being a woman in Britain in the years after the Great War.

Lolly, a meek spinster, is a subordinate member of a stiflingly conventional, well-bred family. But deep inside, she is wild and rebellious. She finally escapes to the country and becomes a witch, a follower of Satan, and this, paradoxically, is her salvation.

The earlier pages, depicting her daily life, are especially riveting – every detail has a precious period feel. The outstanding quality of this book is the limpid, seemingly simple accuracy of every…

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