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A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Pocket Classics
'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...' Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly h ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a ric ...Show more
Chess by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But th ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introducti ...Show more
Tarzan Of The Apes: Pocket Penguin Classics by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the African jungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape foster mother. Conquering the savage laws of the wilderness, Tarzan grows into a mighty warrior and becomes leader of his tribe of apes until he encounters, for the first time, his ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of inequity...The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at the ...Show more
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) by Ann Radcliffe
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
'Emily's face was stained with blood'. Beautiful young heiress Emily St. Aubert is frightened when she finds herself orphaned and in the hands of her cold and distant aunt, Madame Cheron. But her fear turns to terror when Madame Cheron agrees to marry the haughty and brooding Signor Montoni, and she fin ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more
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