The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, cri ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility [Macmillan Collectors Library PB] by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Continuing the wildly successful Puffin in Bloom line of classics--illustrated by Anna Bond, the artist behind the renowned lifestyle brand Rifle Paper Co. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby, she ignores her sis ...Show more
War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line ...Show more
Jules et Jim by Henri-Pierre Roche
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Category: Classics
In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence. They write in cafes, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. Women like Lucie, flawless, an abbess, and Odile, impulsive, mischievous, almost feral.
Trainspotting (Vintage Classics) by Irvine Welsh
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks Ser.
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction.Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-num ...Show more
The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. In her second volume of essays, ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a li ...Show more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: Popular Penguins by Patrick Suskind
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguin | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Süskind's Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste to master the art of perfume making, but one scent evades him- that of a virgin, whom he mu ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels.Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics
Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. In short, she's an icon. Truman Capote's most famous work, Breakf ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century Ser. | Reading Level: good
Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City. In this aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, seeks a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and wealth. But her quest comes to an end when she is accused of being the mistress of a wealthy man. Exiled from her world of artif ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay "On Liberty" is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who or ...Show more