Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read 2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For th ...Show more
Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
Revel in the magic of a Christmas tradition. The Nutcracker features the full text of Alexandre Dumas's "The History of a Nutcracker", the story that inspired the classic ballet. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 vintage drawings from the nineteenth century, this beautifully designed book kindle ...Show more
The Garden Square by Marguerite Duras; Sonia Pitt-Rivers (Translator); Anne Borchardt (Translator); Irina Morduch (Translator)
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Category: Classics
A young woman, working as a childminder for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench, she starts talking to a stranger, a travelling salesman, and their conversation gradually turns into an exchange of confidences, as she speaks of her desire for a more stab ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics
Celebrating International Women's Day with the original sisterhood Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March sisters. Eve ...Show more
Jabberwocky And Other Nonsense: Collected Poems by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics
The collected poems of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland One of the best-known lines in literature--"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe"--comes from Lewis Carroll's poetry, which he wrote throughout his life to amuse himself and to give pleasure to his ...Show more
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Brontë's own experiences in the field. It was Brontë's first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precari ...Show more
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar ...Show more
The Go-Between: Popular Penguins by L. P. Hartley
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in he ...Show more
Ragtime by E L Doctorow
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtimeseamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introducti ...Show more
Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses . . .'I ...Show more
Hidden Faces by Salvador Dali
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The only novel of the twentieth century's most acclaimed surrealist painter, a richly visual depiction of a group of eccentric aristocrats in the years preceding the Second World War.
Dracula (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalize a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula, he stumbles upon an ancient evil he is unprepared to face. When that evil escapes to England, the entire nation is suddenly under threat and only an aged vampire hunter, Professor Abraham Van H ...Show more