Author: | P. D. JAMES |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Faber Stories Ser. |
'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the lo... read more
Author: | Alexandre Dumas; Lawrence Ellsworth (Translator) |
Category: |
Classics |
The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d'Artagnan and his three loyal friends.
The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth's acclaimed new series... read more
Author: | Samuel Beckett |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Faber Stories Ser. |
Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks . Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that of h... read more
Author: | Emily Bronte |
Category: |
Classics |
Reading Level: | very good |
Awards: | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 and The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. |
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange... read more
Author: | D. H. Lawrence |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
Reading Level: | very good |
Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires and an introduction by Doris Lessing.Lady Con... read more
Author: | Martin Luther King |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Penguin Modern Ser. |
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Author: | Philip Pullman |
Category: |
Classics |
In this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice. T... read more
Author: | Patrick Suskind |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
Reading Level: | very good |
Patrick Süskind's Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste to master the art of perfume making,... read more
Author: | Mary Shelley |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
Reading Level: | very good |
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. 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 brin... read more
Author: | Homer; Emily Wilson (Translator) |
Category: |
Classics |
The Odyssey is a poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed Odysseus has died, and his wife Pene... read more
A new, feminist translation of Beowulfby the author of The Mere Wife Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf -- and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world -- there is a radical new verse translation of the... read more
Author: | Vladímir Nabokov |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
Reading Level: | very good |
Cuando afable profesor Humbert llega a la pequeña ciudad de Ramsdale, New Hampshire, Se permite tener un desliz en una relación con Charlotte Haze, con quien se casa para poder flirtear con la hija de catorce años de la mujer, Lolita, de quien ha quedado rendidamente enamorado,