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Smiley's People by John le Carré
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The concluding part of John le Carré's celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster George Smiley and his great enemy, as their rivalry comes to a shattering end.A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil, and George Smiley is cal ...Show more
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
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Category: Historical | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the hea ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
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Category: No Category | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. Th ...Show more
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
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Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (also simply known as Tom Sawyer) is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Tom Sawyer has several a ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Category: War | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully about strategy before resorting to phy ...Show more
The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Lifestyle | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: Read John Boyne's powerful classic ahead of the sequel ALL THE BROKEN PLACES by John Boyne
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle.
The Collector by John Fowles
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he th ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
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Category: Economics/Politics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in "Penguin Classics". Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes, "The Communist Manifesto" is one of the most ...Show more