Portrait of a Lady (Penguin English Library) by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Tou ...Show more
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
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Category: Classics
As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river banks. When she receives letters from her husband, t ...Show more
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
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Category: Classics
Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous wealth imposes no limits upon his prolific ingenuity, is taking a group of visitors on a tour of "Locus Solus", his secluded estate near Paris. One by one he introduces, demonstrates and expounds the discoveries and inventions of his fertile, encyclopaedic ...Show more
Three Drops of Blood by Sadegh Hedayat
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Category: Classics
The title story, Three Drops of Blood, follows the protagonist's increasingly unstable mental state through the repeated occurrence of three drops of blood, while 'Hadji Murat' depicts an almost Joycean epiphany in classically understated terms, as a man mistakes another woman for his wife. These are st ...Show more
Ruslan and Lyudmila by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classics
In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying characters along the way. The basis for Glinka's famous opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila - Push ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man's footprint ...Show more
The Three Musketeers (Vintage Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
"Pure swashbuckling pleasure". ("Daily Telegraph"). The young D'Artagnan travels to Paris determined to join King Louis XIII's elite guards. Hot-headed and raring to prove himself, D'Artagnan challenges three strangers to a duel. These strangers are none other than the daring band of Musketeers - Portho ...Show more
Treasure Island (Vintage Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This book contains an Introduction by Jake Arnott. When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure. He joins the crew setting sail to the Caribbean to seek out the booty and over the course of the voyage confront ...Show more
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Niall Ferguson's Empire is one of the most successful and controversial history books of recent years. Brilliantly re-telling the story of Britain's imperial past, it shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all h ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: Popular Penguins by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems tiny compared to the giant inhabitants; and in the country of the Houyhnhnms horse ...Show more
On Natural Selection: Popular Penguins by Charles Darwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you th ...Show more
Out of Africa: Popular Penguins by Karen Blixen
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more