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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerl ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, "Oliver Twist" features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous g ...Show more
Persuasion (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'. "Persuasion", Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes...' ...Show more
Sanditon by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Jane Austen's Last, Unfinished Novel "I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt." ? Jane Austen, Sanditon Set in 19th century England, Jane Austen's last novel was completed by another author after her death. While it is still de ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine...I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save m ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?' The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarc ...Show more
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'. A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, "The House of Mirth" sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of ...Show more
The Machine Stops and Other Stories by E. M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series 'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relatio ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. '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, Os ...Show more
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
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Category: Classics | Series: PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY
Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by ...Show more