The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars, N. K. Sandars
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells ...Show more
A Book Lover's Guide to the Zodiac by Charlie Castelletti
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Book Lover's Guide to the Zodiac marries astrology and literature by connecting both writers and fictional characters to the twelve different star signs and their particular traits. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics. These beautiful ...Show more
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
THE ORIGINAL AND BEST TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL GLENNY 50th Anniversary Edition Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, descriptions were issued of the man: expensive grey suit, grey beret, one green eye and the other black. He arrives in Moscow one hot summer afternoon with various alarming accomplices, ...Show more
My Gothic Heart by Charlie Castelletti
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The word gothic conjures up crumbling castles, passion and unnerving supernatural events. It's a powerful genre and a mood that has influenced writers, artists and designers ever since. This is a gorgeous anthology of extracts from extravagant and dark gothic stories and verse.Part of the Macmillan Coll ...Show more
The Book of Paradise by Itzik Manger; Robert Adler Peckerar (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translation
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in "Penguin Classics". Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Category: Classics
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slaver ...Show more
A Room With A View: Penguin English Library by E. M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..." Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ord ...Show more
Maurice by E.M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Cli ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories by Philip Matyszak
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This handy guide to the Greek and Roman Myths brings classical mythology to life. Written by a bestselling author on Ancient Greece and Rome, the book features an engaging blend of stories, facts and quotations from ancient authors, and places ancient myths in a modern context, discussing the afterlives ...Show more