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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a myste ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Penguin Modern Classic) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Gi ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Penguin Bedtime Classics) by Lewis Carroll; Carly Gledhill (Illustrator); Tony Ross (Illustrator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is fill ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy dr ...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
Another Country by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse; subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft)) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Za ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Fa ...Show more
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more