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Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A classic coming-of-age tale of a spirited heroine named Anne Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who is mistakenly sent to a pair of siblings who had wanted to adopt a boy to help with the work on their farm in Prince Edward Island. Anne's quirky personality and good-natured spirit cause the sib ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by ...Show more
Aphorisms on Love and Hate: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 05 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Category: CLA | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth...Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater.' This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity o ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary £20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepart ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot ag ...Show more
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the twentieth Anniversary Edition - with a new introduction by the author. "About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for". ("The New York Times Book Review"). Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playin ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse; subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft)) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Za ...Show more
Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection of essays including "On The Introduction of Narcissism", "Remembering, Repeating and Working Through", "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", "The Ego and the ID" and "Inhibition, Symptom and Fear".
COMPLETE VERSE AND OTHER by LEAR E
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Category: Reference | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear. Through his exuberant and timeless verse he created an extraordinary world in which the strangest creatures are at home, where people misbehave with joyful abandon and the rules of everyday life never apply. His most famous poems, such as 'The ...Show more
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr 's latest novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on you ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.