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A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light o ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces (PB) by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with disastrous consequences.
A Gift Of Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'[He] inspired a generation ...He changed the course of history' Barack Obama As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land", Evelyn Waugh's "A Handful of Dust" is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray ...Show more
A History Of The Crusades II by Steven Runciman
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...' Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which br ...Show more
A History of My Times by Xenophon
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a fascinating chronicle of the conflicts that ultimately led to the decline of Greec ...Show more
A History of the Crusades: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem: I by Steven Runciman
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Category: HISTORY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel' An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades over ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and ...Show more