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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Fyodor Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world’s greatest novelists.Raskolnikov, an ...
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Moby Dick
Herman Melvılle
Moby-Dick by Herman MelvilleJourney to the heart of the sea with this larger-than-life classic.Regarded as the Great American Novel, Moby Dick is the ultimate tale of seeking vengeance.Narrated by the crew member Ishmael, this epic whaling adventure ...
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The Sound And The Fury
William Faulkner
The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - ’the tale told by an idiot’. In very different ways they prove inadequate to their own family histor...
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The Karamazov Brothers
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor DostoevskyDostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdere...
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Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CelineCéline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic―boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and hypocrisy: Journey to the End of the Night is a literary s...
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownWORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered...
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe alchemist is the philosophical story of the fabled life of Andalusian shepherd Santiago, who left Spain to seek his treasure at the foot of the Egyptian Pyramids. It’s like a "advice": a life and moral guide that seek...
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermi...
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relatio...
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Happening
Annie Ernaux
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written f...
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor HugoIt has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables ...
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
The Trial by Franz KafkaOne of the great works of the 20th century, Kafka’s The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. In it, a man wakes up o...
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Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBased on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life’s work of Germany’s greatest poet, Goethe. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it chart...
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The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos KazantzakisThe internationally renowned novel about the life and death of Jesus Christ.Hailed as a masterpiece by critics worldwide, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental reinterpretation of the Gospels ...
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Pere Goriot
Honore de Balzac
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac“Père Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac’s novels,” writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father who sacrifices everything for his daughters. This novel marked the true beginning of...
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Don Quixote (Enriched Classics)
Miguel Cervantes
The Enriched Classics series offers readers such features as:• A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information• A chronology of the author’s life and work• A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s histor...
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Ulysses (Oxford World`s Classics)
James Joyce
Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedal...
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . ....
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In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
The Narrator begins by noting, "For a long time, I went to bed early." He comments on the way sleep seems to alter one’s surroundings, and the way Habit makes one indifferent to them. He remembers being in his room in the family’s country home in Com...
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is not only Fitzgerald’s greatest work—to many, it is the Great American Novel. Now, distinctively packaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre.When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he ha...
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Now Ellis's translation of the entire poem is published here for the first time, and Dante's epic can be experienced afresh and in new glorious life and colour, the physicality and immediacy of Dante's verse rendered in English as never before.
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Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
"The Buddenbrook clan is everything you d expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which ...
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A Room Of One’s Own: Popular Penguins
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce,Joyce James
This portrayal of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a uni...
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The Grapes Of Wrath
John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
"An epic story of the nineteen-thirties' Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, THE GRAPES OF WRATH awakened the conscience of a nation. Awarded the Pulitzer ...
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King Lear
William Shakespeare,William Shakespeare
An ageing king makes a capricious decision to divide his realm among his three daughters according to the love they express for him. When the youngest daughter refuses to take part in this charade, she is banished, leaving the king dependent on her m...
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Martin Eden
Jack London
Martin Eden (1909) by Jack London is a semi-autobiographical novel, the quintessential and shocking story of a struggling writer. And as such, it is a story of a remarkable human being driven to succeed against all tragic odds.Martin Eden is a young ...
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The Greek Passion
Nikos Kazantzakis
Allegorical novel in which the cast of a Passion Play in a Greek-inhabited Turkish town find themselves paralleling the ancient Christian story. The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn expl...
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I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin. Mortmain is crippled by writer’s block, while his beautiful second wife Topaz struggles to be a dutiful stepmother t...
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now . . . Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?' If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible futur...
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit em, but remember it s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel a black man charged with attacking a white gi...
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
By turns hilarious and heartwarming, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered Mark Twain's masterpiece. Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of civilisation, young Huck Finn fakes his death and, with his slave friend Jim...
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
’Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.’ Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the new...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, in a stunning new cover look for his great works ’Who controls the past controls the future- who controls the present controls the past’ Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winsto...
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Germinal (Penguin Classics)
Émile Zola
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a...
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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland: Popular Penguins
Lewis Carroll
On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket-watch, joins a mad tea-party and plays croquet w...
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
This timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
"Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vi...
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone ...
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude. With an Introduction by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury. 'War and Peace' is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexor...
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenOne of the BBC’s ’100 Novels That Shaped Our World’’The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist’ IndependentWith its ’light and bright and sparkling’ dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride...
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
With its emotionally tortured characters and richly Gothic atmosphere, Wuthering Heights has endured as one of the world’s most popular novels. Now, distinctively packaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre.When Mr. ...
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Candide
Voltaire
Candide is a young man living a paradisaical life, mentored by a tutor, Professor Pangloss. When Candide falls for Cunegonde, the daughter of the Baron Thunder-ten-Tronkh, he is thrown out of the castle, which has been his home, and embarks upon a se...
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A Game of Thrones
George R R Martin
HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series.‘So vivid that you’ll be ho...
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The Lord of the Rings
J R R Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings Deluxe Edition by J R R TolkienSauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules ...
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull cou...
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Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Orlando has always been an outsider . . . His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England amd imperial Turkey to the modern world.Will he find ...
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
Herman melville
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" originally appeared as a two-part serial in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Monthly Magazine. It was later included in a collection of short stories by Melville entitled The Piazza Tales in 1856. This editi...
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
A pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentie...
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Brontë
The orphaned Jane Eyre is no beauty but her plain appearance belies an indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage. As a child she suffers under cruel guardians, harsh schooling and a rigid social order but when she goes to Thornfield Hall to wo...
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Hunchback of Notre Dame
HUGO VICTOR
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of "imagination, caprice and fantasy" is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreat...
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule'Pip is an orphan without any expectations – he has no name, no fortune and no prospects...
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Siddharta
Herman Hesse
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Winner 1989 Booker Prize: A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England.From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go.In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butl...
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: Popular Penguins
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest captured the radical anti-establishment mood of 1960s America. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her psychiatric ward with an iron fist and a penchant for electric shock therapy, so when the boisterous McMurph...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson
Since his first literary appearance in 1886, the murderous Mr Hyde has embodied the evil that even good men — including his alter ego, Henry Jekyll — are capable of when the constraints of civilised life are loosed. This chilling anthology also colle...
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian novel set in a futuristic world where technology, genetic engineering, and psychological conditioning have created a society devoid of individuality and free will. In this World State, citizens are ge...
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Beautifully presented with striking covers, easy-to-read type and, where relevant, the original illustrations, these books will look good on any bookshelf.In this classic Victorian Bildungsroman, David Copperfield makes his way through life, from his...
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60.
Collins Classics: Hamlet
William Shakespeare
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.’Considered one of Shakespeare’s most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as he vows to avenge ...
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady is Henry James’s classic novel featuring the strong and spirited Isabel Archer, the embodiment of women’s independence and strength.The heroine of this powerful novel, often considered James’s greatest work, is the vivacious yo...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
One of Alexandre Dumas’ most beloved novels and one of the best-selling works of its day, “The Count of Monte Cristo” is an expansive adventure novel with a huge cast of characters, all revolving around the young sailor Edmond Dantès. Wrongfully accu...
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series of popular classics, Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age. This edition is thoroughly edited and extensively annotated and includes pictur...
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Blindness
Jose Saramago
"A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidem...
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Devastating' Daily Telegraph'Heartbreaking' The Times'Unforgettable' Isabel Allende'Haunting' IndependentAfghanistan, 1975- Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Has...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
From the Publisher Oscar Wilde's only published full length novel, is the story of a man who sells his soul for eternal youth. In exchange, what does he give up and what does he gain? This novel, by Wilde is a wonderful soul-searching example of...
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Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Austen has great fun with this novel, teasing at the social mores of her time, where the hunting of a suitable partner is an all-consuming game. Emma Woodhouse is a confident, elitist young woman, whose self-belief leads to a series of romantic ...
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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
Milan Kundera
In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ’Being’ In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which every...
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The Sorrows of Young Werther (ILLUSTRATED)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther is a epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. First published in 1774, it reappeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the most important novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and inf...
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.' Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and r...
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Dead Souls (Dodo Press)
Gogol Nikolai Gogol
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality...
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Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Boris Pasternak
FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with cruel experi...
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The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
A bestseller in Italy, France, and Germany, the winner of Italy's two most prestigious literary prizes and the French award for best foreign work - a masterful tale set against the turbulence of medieval Italy. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a weal...
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev’s timeless tale of generational collision, in a sparkling new translationWhen Arkady Petrovich returns home from college, his father finds his eager, naïve son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under...
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
Collected inside this book are diary entries, letters and newspaper clippings that piece together the depraved story of the ultimate predator. A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian castle by his mysterious host. ...
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the c...
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Hunger
Knut Hamsun
Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes him, he slides inexorably into paranoia and despair. The descent into madness is recounted by the unnamed narrator in increas...
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The novel that inspired a generation, now in A-formatOn the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome ...
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
"It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn f...
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Heart of Darkness: Popular Penguins
Joseph Conrad
Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared for what he will find. On his journey he encounters the darkness of the wilderness; the darkness of colonization, and ultimat...
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales include...
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82.
Oblomov: A Novel
Ivan Goncharov
Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, before the ideal of industrious modern man, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, there was Oblomov. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, ...
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Lord Of The Flies
William Golding
This dystopian classic is ’exciting, relevant and thought-provoking’ (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong? ONE OF THE BBC’S ’100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD’ ’The first book with hands - ...
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the s...
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85.
Dune
Frank Herbert
Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender’s Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Melange, or ’spice’, is the mos...
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishigur
From the Booker Prize - winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students from Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English co...
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A Sentimental Education The Story of a Young Man
Gustave Flaubert
Frederic Moreau, a moderately gifted young provincial, is ambitious in many ways: he dreams of fame, of vast wealth, of literary and artistic achievement, of a grand passion. On the Paris paddle-steamer which transports him to his home town of Nogent...
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Slaughterhouse 5: 50th Anniversary Edition
Kurt Vonnegut
50th anniversary hardback edition of the bestselling cult US classic - with extra material50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the ...
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Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation.Editor Michael Scam...
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySun Also Rises is a literary masterwork of classic literature.Widely considered by audiences and literary critics to be The Great American Novel.As relevant today as it was almost 100 years ago!What literary move...
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91.
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk,Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey's premier novelists and My Name Is Red, when published in the original Turkish in 1998, became the fastest-selling book in Turkish history. It is high time then that a translation to English was made, and this publication...
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92.
The Odyssey
Homer, Homer
One of the greatest adventure tales in history, The Odyssey - Odysseus' journey home after The Trojan War - is still a must-read for young and old alike.A stunning gift edition of the age-old tale of Odysseus and his journey. This epic poem by Homer,...
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93.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigeria during the 1960s; a time of vicious civil war in which a million people die and thousands are massacred in cold blood. Three people get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is emplo...
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94.
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.'This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterise the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in t...
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95.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Betty Smith's debut novel is universally regarded as a modern classic. The sprawling tale of an immigrant family in early 20th-century Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one of the great distinctively American novels.The Nolan family are first-gen...
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Gone With The Wind Takes Place During The American Civil War And Reconstruction Era. It Depicts The Struggles Of Young Scarlett O'hara, The Spoiled Daughter Of A Well-to-do Plantation Owner, Who Must Use Every Means At Her Disposal To Claw Her Way Ou...
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Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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,...
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The BOOK THIEF
Markus Zusak
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak was the best-selling debut literary novel of the year 2007, selling over 400,000 copies. The author is a prize-winning writer of children's books, and this, his first novel for adults, proved to be a triumphant success....
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
A new edition of a Gothic novella which has inspired many horror and psychological thrillers since its publication. This new edition of The Turn of the Screw offers students the definitive text and extensive appendices.An unnamed young governess is s...
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Product DescriptionWinner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”Am...
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