Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
This title includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. His hosts, Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Priscilla, are joined by a party of colourful guests whose intrigues a ...Show more
Collins Classics - Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.' Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, hear ...Show more
Cranford (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Gaskell; Josie Billington (Introduction by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of l ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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 Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Classics
An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime an ...Show more
Terra Australis: Text Classics by Matthew Flinders
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and com ...Show more
Northanger Abbey (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'. During an eventful season at Bath, yo ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Lily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble and socializes with the wealthy upper-class families of New York. But her meagre finances are dwindling and her place in society is slipping away from her. Her only hope of security is to find a suitable husband. ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
First published in 1609, "The Sonnets" of William Shakespeare are a collection of 154 loosely connected 14 line poems. Considered by many to be among some of the greatest love poetry ever written much debate surrounds the context of the poetry. It has been suggested that the work may be semi-autobiograp ...Show more
Out of Africa: Popular Penguins by Karen Blixen
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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