Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman ...Show more
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard; Heloise
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Classics | Reading Level: very good
The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs.
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The story of Peter Abelard and Heloise d'Argenteuil remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. This title follows the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret ...Show more
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Haruki Murakami (Foreword by, Introduction by); Jay Rubin (Translator)
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations--now also in our elegant black spine dress Ry nosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists--a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rash mon"and "In a Bamboo Grove" ins ...Show more
The Arabian Nights by Richard F. Burton (Translator); A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad alway ...Show more
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Henri Alain-Fournier
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, he has been changed forever. In ...Show more
Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
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Category: Classics/Literature
A true classic of Western literature, Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, arguably the most notable children's writer of all, has delighted young and old for generations. This unique collection was first translated for George Routledge over 130 years ago. Completely reset, but preserving the o ...Show more
The Politics by Aristotle
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, "The Politics" still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish ...Show more
Portable Louisa May Alcott: Penguin Portable Library The by Louisa M. Alcott
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The Viking portable library
Although the publication of Little Women in 1868 earned Louisa May Alcott tremendous popularity, for a long time she was thought of as a writer of children's stories and considered -- at best -- a minor figure in the American literary canon. Now, at the end of the twentieth century, Alcott's vast body o ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners that follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates mis ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A meticulously-observed tale of the clash between obligation and desire, Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" is edited with an introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland in "Penguin Classics". Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mans ...Show more
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's "Lady Susan", "The Watsons" and "Sanditon" is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in "Penguin Classics". These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different litera ...Show more