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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: FICTION | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. "Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding". Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Chri ...Show more
At the Mountains of Madness by H P Lovecraft
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Category: FICTION | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. LovecraftOn an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in thes ...Show more
Emma (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: FICTION | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen 'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall' Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, ...Show more
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: No Category | Series: The Penguin English Library
An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" is edited with an introduction by Harish Trivedi, and includes a general preface by Jan Montefiore. Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Category: No Category | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerl ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: The\Penguin English Library
She always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.'On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and thei ...Show more
Sanditon by Jane Austen
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Category: FICTION | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Jane Austen's Last, Unfinished Novel "I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt." ? Jane Austen, Sanditon Set in 19th century England, Jane Austen's last novel was completed by another author after her death. While it is still de ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
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Category: FICTION | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in this collection from the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series--Sense and ...Show more
The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories by O. Henry
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Category: No Category | Series: The\Penguin English Library
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, O. Henry's comic eye and unique, playful approach to the rough material of life's realities are unmatched. These stories, which range from the cattle-lands of Texas to the bars of New York, highlight the joys of avoiding habit and conven ...Show more
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: FICTION | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionA dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling ...Show more