Selected Stories by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
D.H. Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety of his achievement as the works develop from an early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder, and ghost stories. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the lea ...Show more
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics/Literature
This title is presented with an introduction by Richard Eyre. Paul Morel is the focus of his disappointed and fiercely protective mother's life. Their tender, devoted and intense bond comes under strain when Paul falls in love with Miriam Leivers, a local girl his mother disapproves of. The arrival of t ...Show more
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book comes with an introduction by Howard Jacobson. "Women in Love" begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. Ursula and Gudrun are very different sisters who become entangled with two friends, Rupert and Gerald, who live in their home ...Show more
The Essential Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...' Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, ...Show more
Grey Eminence by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics/Literature
The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care. He was an aspirant to sainthood and a practising mysti ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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Category: Classics/Literature
'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at the sight of me, it stopped short.' "The Turn of the Screw" tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in t ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Includes stories about Dublin life.
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
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Category: Classics/Literature
"Samuel Johnson's Dictionary", published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. J ...Show more
Daisy Miller a Study by David (INT) David (EDT); Lodge Henry; Lodge James
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conv ...Show more
The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics/Literature
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. ...Show more
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Kafka's most famous stories, including Metamorphosis, Investigations of a Dog and In the Penal Settlement.
The Portrait of a Lady (Vintage Classics) by Henry James
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Category: Classics/Literature | Reading Level: very good
Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea o ...Show more