How I Live Now: Popular Penguins by Meg Rosoff
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy. Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own ...Show more
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Charles Dickens' last complete novel, "Our Mutual Friend" is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Adrian Poole in "Penguin Classics". "Our Mutual Friend" centre??i??i??'s on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, youn ...Show more
Hadji Murad and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other StoriesThis, the third volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction concentrates on his later storie ...Show more
The Aeneid by David Ferry (Translator); Virgil; Richard F. Thomas (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry's life: a complete translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry, and his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics have become standards. He bring ...Show more
Fiesta : The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne? 'Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and ...Show more
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov; Brian Karetnyk (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.'A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whos ...Show more
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric; Misha Glenny (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed--until 1914 when tensions in the Balkans triggered the first World War. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, The Bridge on the Drina brilliantly ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson
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Category: Classics
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...Show more
Trainspotting (Vintage Classics) by Irvine Welsh
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks Ser.
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction.Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-num ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Popular Penguins by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author: Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies) ...Show more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: Popular Penguins by Patrick Suskind
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguin | 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, but one scent evades him- that of a virgin, whom he mu ...Show more
The Art of War: Popular Penguins by Sun Tzu
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more