The Turn of the Screw & Other Stories by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eer ...Show more
The Pit and the Pendulum: Popular Penguins by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. Here, Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind's own sickening madness. The Pit and the Pendulum is a collection of works from ...Show more
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece. With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, Francoise Sagan
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Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithPublished when she was only eighteen, Fran oise Sagan's astonishing novella, Bonjour Tristesse, became an insta ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice [Macmillan Collectors Library PB] by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Ros Ballaster, University of OxfordMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the ...Show more
The Little Prince (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a p ...Show more
The Master and Margarita (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita is considered a masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful bo ...Show more
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
The High Window: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The High Window by Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe's client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. Easy. Probably too easy. Unfortunately, each time the Doubloon pops up, so does a murder. That's unlucky f ...Show more
Novels, Tales, Journeys by Alexander Pushkin; John Bayley (Introduction by); Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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Category: Classics
The archetypal Romantic, killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37, Alexander Pushkin was effectively the founder of modern Russian literature. Though famous as a poet, he was equally at home in prose, and this volume includes all his short fiction, as well as unfinished sketches and fragments. Here of ...Show more