Penguin Black Classics
Little Dorrit
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'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in A... Buy or find out more →
Republic
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Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect comm... Buy or find out more →
The Social Contract
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These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Roussea... Buy or find out more →
Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report On The Banality Of Evil
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Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy tha... Buy or find out more →
The Old Wives' Tale
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First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters – shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia – over the course of nearly half a c... Buy or find out more →
Jane Eyre
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'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself'Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely int... Buy or find out more →
The Garden Party And Other Stories
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Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in Engl... Buy or find out more →
The Collected Stories
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Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from sho... Buy or find out more →
The Discourses
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Night And Day
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Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she struggl... Buy or find out more →
On Writing
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Borges' On Writing is designed to offer a comprehensive and balanced account of the evolution of Borges' thinking on the craft of writing, an intense and perennial concern of his. Borges had a remarkable impact on writer... Buy or find out more →
On Mysticism
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On Mysticism is a collection of Borges' essays, fiction and poetry that explores the role of the mysterious and spiritual in Borges' life and writing. Borges had profound knowledge of eastern religions and was raised by ... Buy or find out more →
The Sonnets
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This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive ... Buy or find out more →
Poems Of The Night
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Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darknes... Buy or find out more →
On Argentina
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Welcome to Buenos Aires, Argentina--Let's Go style. We've sent our tireless student adventurers all over the Paris of South America to bring you pithy coverage of Buenos Aires and beyond. Get ready to hone your porteno a... Buy or find out more →
Scenes Of Clerical Life
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Shielded by her pseudonym George Eliot, the shy and ambitious new author Mary Ann Evans made her fictional debut when Scenes of Clerical Life appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in 1857. These stories contain Eliot's earlie... Buy or find out more →
Romola
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Wrote George Eliot of Romola, the novel which argues her most profound and utopian vi... Buy or find out more →
Felix Holt The Radical
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Two men vying for the hand of Esther, a young woman of charm and virtue, are Felix Holt, an idealistic young artisan, and Harold Transome, the intelligent heir to an estate. She is drawn to Holt yet has dreams of marryin... Buy or find out more →
Middlemarch
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George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual ful... Buy or find out more →
Adam Bede
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The seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by George Eliot.Adam and Seth Bede work as carpenters in Hayslope. Seth proposes to Dinah Morris, a gifted Methodist preach... Buy or find out more →
Mill On The Floss
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Silas Marner
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Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is sto... Buy or find out more →
The Country Of The Blind And Other Selected Stories
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Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on ... Buy or find out more →
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole . . . without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his c... Buy or find out more →
Complete Short Fiction
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Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styl... Buy or find out more →
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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Oscar Wilde's complex identity, as family man and homosexual outsider, socialite, socialist and Irish nationalist, underpins his unique insight into role-playing and the masks we all wear. A Woman of No Importance, for a... Buy or find out more →
Draculas Guest And Other Weird Tales
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Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spi... Buy or find out more →
The Jewel Of Seven Stars
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A mysterious attack on Margaret Trelawney's father brings young lawyer Malcolm Ross into the Egyptologist's bizarre home, and the couple soon find they are battling ancient forces greater than they previously could have ... Buy or find out more →
Treasure Island
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Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Isl... Buy or find out more →
Kidnapped
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This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule. Buy or find out more →
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
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Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' E... Buy or find out more →
Black Arrow
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Caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, young Dick Shelton's loyalties are torn between a guardian who betrays him and the leader of the secret fellowship, "The Black Arrow". the Houses of York and Lancaster a... Buy or find out more →
Three Lives
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Tells the stories of two German immigrants, a servant and a girl who dies in childbirth, and a young black woman, who has a tragic love affair. Buy or find out more →
Electra And Other Plays
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Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of t...
Theban Plays Including Antigone
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The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-46 BC) to create a powerful trilogy about mankind's struggle against fate. King Oedipus tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes ... Buy or find out more →
The Wealth Of Nations Books 4-6
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In the final two books of his great work, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith elaborates his views on some of the key economic issues of his – and our own – times. It is here that Smith (1723-90) offers his considered resp... Buy or find out more →
The Wealth Of Nation: Books 1-3
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'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.'
With this landmark treatise on political economy, Adam Smith paved the way... Buy or find out more →
Sonnets And A Lover's Complaint
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When a volume of poetry entitled 'Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted' appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of... Buy or find out more →
Four Tragedies
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Hamlet/Othello/Lear/Macbe
The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. Whether it is the ruthless ambition of Macbeth or the folly of Lear, the irresol... Buy or find out more →
The Metamorphoses
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This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as 'the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)'.
Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creat... Buy or find out more →
Fasti
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Beneath a 'patriotic' fagade, Ovid's final poem is deliciously subversive of the values and propaganda of the emperor who sent him into exile. One of the fullest and most enjoyable sources of information on Roman myth an... Buy or find out more →
Heroides
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In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at s... Buy or find out more →
Erotic Poems
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This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself ... Buy or find out more →
The Metamorphoses
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This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as 'the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)'.
Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creat... Buy or find out more →
Human All Too Human
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This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitl... Buy or find out more →
Ecce Homo
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In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844 1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written... Buy or find out more →
Twilight Of The Idols & The Antichrist
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In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhauer. Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand ... Buy or find out more →
Beyond Good And Evil
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Nietzsche Reader
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The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in ... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Fables
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In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over ... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Agent
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In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verlac, a Russian ... Buy or find out more →
Lord Jim
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Y lo que tuve ante mí durante todo el tiempo fueron aquellos ojos azules, infantiles, que miraban de frente a los míos, aquel joven rostro, los anchos hombros, la frente abierta y bronceda con una línea blanca las raíces... Buy or find out more →
Nostromo
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Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo – though one hundred years old – says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political l... Buy or find out more →
Pictures From Italy
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This volume contains all of Conan Doyle's now largely neglected poetry, here collected in one volume for the first time, plus a late, allegorical one-act play, The Journey. Buy or find out more →
American Notes For General Circulation
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Old Curiosity Shop
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Far From The Madding Crowd
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Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer B... Buy or find out more →
Daisy Miller
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Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convent... Buy or find out more →
Crime And Punishment
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a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose b... Buy or find out more →
Moby Dick
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Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. More tha... Buy or find out more →
Heart Of Darkness
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Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belg... Buy or find out more →
Persuasion
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At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval ... Buy or find out more →
The Penguin Book Of Victorian Women In Crime
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A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides... Buy or find out more →
Cold Comfort Farm
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When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin... Buy or find out more →
Bleak House
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As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal... Buy or find out more →
Prometheus Bound And Other Plays
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‘Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.
A god who would not bow to the gods’ anger – you
Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal men’
Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic s... Buy or find out more →
The Count Of Monte Cristo
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only ... Buy or find out more →
The Three Theban Plays
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Introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. Fagles Translation.
Antigone defending her integrity and ideals to the death, Oedipus questing for his identity and achieving immortality - these heroic figures have moved playgoer... Buy or find out more →
Northanger Abbey
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During an eventful season at Bath, young, naove Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joy... Buy or find out more →
Thus Spoke Zarasthustra
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Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra... Buy or find out more →
Picture Of Dorian Gray
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'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!'A story of evil, debauchery, and scandal, ... Buy or find out more →
Pickwick Papers
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The Pickwick Papers was the comic masterpiece that carried 24 year-old Dickens to fame as it appeared in monthly instalments in 1836-7. It records the 'perambulations, perils, travels, adventures' of the Pickwick Club's ... Buy or find out more →
Nicholas Nickleby
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Around the central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family, Dickens created some of his most wonderful characters: the muddle-headed Mrs Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protegee M... Buy or find out more →
Our Mutual Friend
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‘Has a dead man any use for money? … What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse’s?’
Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance – Old Harmon’s profitable dust heaps – and its legatees... Buy or find out more →
Great Expectations
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A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a myster... Buy or find out more →
A Tale Of Two Cities
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled ... Buy or find out more →
Hard Times
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Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a con... Buy or find out more →
Oliver Twist
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This darkly satiric indictment of the social ills of Victorian London tells the story of a young orphan who becomes involved with a gang of criminals.
THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
• A concise introduction that... Buy or find out more →
Mystery Of Edwin Drood
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Little Women
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The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of travelling through Europe w... Buy or find out more →
War And Peace
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At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are... Buy or find out more →
Nigger Of The Narcissus And Other Stories
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The volume includes: 'Youth'; 'The Secret Sharer'; 'The Lagoon'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'Il Conde'; 'The Duel'. The intention is a range of settings – we move from the sea to the colonial world, the Far East and Afric... Buy or find out more →
Frankenstein
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Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and deni... Buy or find out more →
The Wayward Bus
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A bus travels through the backroads of the lush Californian countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passenge... Buy or find out more →
The Three Musketeers
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'D'Artagnan lunged at him with such a furious thrust that, if he had not made a quick leap backwards, he would probably have joked for the last time'
Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but... Buy or find out more →
THe Anger Of Achilles: The Iliad
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'You are the one whom I most detest – you, with your endless pursuit of quarrels, wars, bottles!'
War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans, and Achilles, the great champion of the Greek army, is angrily s... Buy or find out more →
The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Briggs
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'Now the heart had been pierced. Our heart. The heart of our family'
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish hi... Buy or find out more →
The Penguin Book Of Gaslight Crime
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An exclusive collection—the first- ever gathering of rogues
from the gaslight era
Collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction
from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present—Arsène
Lupin and ... Buy or find out more →
The Mahabharata
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'The three worlds are set shaking, great one, to see this wonderful, terrible form of yours'
The Mahabharata is the story of two warring factions of cousins – 100 demons in human form against five sons of gods. Woven int... Buy or find out more →
Talmud
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'O my God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from uttering guile'
The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in its importance to Judaism. As the Bibl... Buy or find out more →
Faust Part Two
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'The corpse is prone and when the spirit flies
I show her my entitlement, blood-signed'
After the sorrowful loss of his beloved Gretchen, the soul-sold
Faust is tempted by the demon Mephistopheles with the grandest
dist... Buy or find out more →
Notes From Underground and The Double
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'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!'
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaki... Buy or find out more →
Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories
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One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of our national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how we view our own country. Yet at his best Lawson transce... Buy or find out more →
The Bounty Mutiny
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The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersec... Buy or find out more →
Eugene Onegin
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'Blest who betimes has left life's revel, whose
wine-filled glass he has not
drained'
Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersberg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to the country estate he has rece... Buy or find out more →
A Modest Proposal And Other Writings
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'Pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature?'
To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical 'solution' suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay 'A Modest Proposal' (1729). Here Swift un... Buy or find out more →
The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy
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Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorise it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate ... Buy or find out more →
Arabian Nights Volume Three
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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell th... Buy or find out more →
Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of s... Buy or find out more →
Pride And Prejudice
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When Elizabeth first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lovely mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has i... Buy or find out more →
Wuthering Heights
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Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events th... Buy or find out more →
So Bright And Delicate: Love Letters And Poems Of John Keats To Fanny Brawne
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'Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft swell and fall'
John Keats (1795-1821) died aged just twenty-five, leaving behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and love letters ever... Buy or find out more →
North and South
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When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new... Buy or find out more →
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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'The two beasts pass within a hundred yards of the raft and, with a fury that blinds them to our presence, hurl themselves upon each other'
Jules Verne's pioneering science fiction classic tells the story of the distingu... Buy or find out more →
Art Of War
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For more than two thousand years, Sun-Tzu?s The Art of War
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The Persians And Other Plays
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The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants Bound
'But what mortal man can escape The guileful deception of a god?'
Aeschylus, often known as the father of tragedy, was the first to raise the ... Buy or find out more →
Arabian Nights Volume One
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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tel... Buy or find out more →
Arabian Nights Volume Two
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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell th... Buy or find out more →
The Qu'ran
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'Had We sent down this Qur'an upon a mountain, You would have seen it humbled, Shattered from the fear of God'
Considered in Islam to be the infallible word of God, the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the ... Buy or find out more →
Sentimental Journey
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When Yorick, the roving narrator of Sterne's innovative final novel, sets off for France on a whim, he produces no ordinary travelogue. Jolting along in his coach from Calais, through Paris, and on towards the Italian bo... Buy or find out more →
Dracula
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One of the most popular stories ever told,Dracula(1897) has been re-created for the stage and screen hundreds of times in the last century. Yet it is essentially a Victorian saga, an awesome tale of thrillingly bloodthir... Buy or find out more →
The Penguin Book Of Japanese Verse
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'The sea dark, The call of the teal Dimly white'
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse contains over 700 poems from the third century to the twentieth, including both tanka ('short poem') and haiku, and covering such classi... Buy or find out more →
The Agricola And Germania
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'You were fortunate indeed , Agricola, not only in your glorious life, but in your timely death'
Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola – the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and resp... Buy or find out more →
On Architecture
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'Architecture consists of planning, projection, harmony, modularity, appropriateness and distribution'
The writings of the architect and engineer Vitruvius (c. 90–c. 20 BC) provide a fascinating picture of how the ... Buy or find out more →
Scottish Folk And Fairy Tales From Burns To Buchan
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A nation rich with superstitions and storytellers, Scotland has a grand tradition of folk and fairy tales, and this collection provides an insight into the curses, blessings and creatures - both widely recognisable and p... Buy or find out more →
Humphry Clinker
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' My confinement is the more intolerable, as I am surrounded with domestic vexations'
Squire Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels around Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and manservant, the ... Buy or find out more →
Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert And Sullivan
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Gilbert and Sullivan's operas are some of the world's best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated e... Buy or find out more →
Revelations Of Divine Love
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Just because I am a woman, must I therefore believe that I must not tell you about the goodness of God, when I saw at the same time both his goodness, and his wish that it should be known?' Coming from a society where wo... Buy or find out more →
Tain
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The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious Queen of Connacht, is on a mission to steal the fabled Brown Bull of Cooley from the men of Ulster. The Ulstermen,... Buy or find out more →
Penguin Book Of Ghost Stories
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'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, ... Buy or find out more →
Plain Tales From The Hills
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'You are all liars, you English'
Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination. Including the stories 'Lispeth', ... Buy or find out more →
Just So Stories
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'The rhinoceros took off his skin and carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe'
The Camel gets his Hump, the Whale his Throat and the Leopard his Spots in these bewitching stories which conjure ... Buy or find out more →
Letters To A Young Poet
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'Make use of whatever you find about you to express yourself, the images from your dreams and the things in your memory. If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that y... Buy or find out more →
The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories Of Rudyard Kipling
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'They tell me that one never sees a dead person's face in a dream. Is that true?'
Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short ... Buy or find out more →
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by A Square
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FLATLAND has fascinated generations of readers. It is a deft mixture of social satire and science fiction that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and reality. FLATLAND is a brilliant parody of Victo... Buy or find out more →
The Alexiad
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'The shining light of the world, the great Alexios'
Anna Komnene (1083–1153) wrote The Alexiad as an account of the reign of her father, the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I. It is also an important source of information on t... Buy or find out more →
The Playboy Of The Western World And Two Other Irish Plays
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'He was a dirty man, God forgive him, and he getting old and crusty'
Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907 for its perceived attack on the Ir... Buy or find out more →
The Condition Of The Working Class In England
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'The social war, the war of all against all, is here openly declared'
Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores... Buy or find out more →
The State And Revolution
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'The replacement of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution'
In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later... Buy or find out more →
A Hero Of Our Time
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A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a dangerous man, Byronic in his... Buy or find out more →
Saint Joan
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With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist, and it was this play that led to his Nobel Prize for Literature for 1925. This powerful historical drama distils many of the ideas he had been explorin... Buy or find out more →