Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics/Literature
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles, in hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal. When she falls i ...Show more
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy (Editor); Pamela Dalziel (Notes by, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Although distressed to find that the mystery consists only in the humbleness of his origins, she remains true to their youthful vows. But societal pressures, and ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: Classics/Literature
A powerful study of bigotry, persecution, obsession and hypocrisy in early American society, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's. "The Scarlet Letter" contains an introduction by Nina Baym and notes by Thomas E. Connolly. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Bost ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Bold ...Show more
Siddhartha: A New Translation by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics/Literature
Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy for ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin English Library
'He was constantly harassed with the idea, that the next time he lifted his eyes, he would to a certainty see that face, the most repulsive to all his feelings of aught the earth contained'. A nightmarish tale of religious fanaticism and darkness, this chilling classic of the macabre tells the tale of R ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and ...Show more
Great Gatsby, the; (Us Import Ed.) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics/Literature | Reading Level: very good
"The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Lon ...Show more
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories by Barbara Korte and Ann-Marie Einhaus (Eds.)
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Category: Classics/Literature
An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics/Literature
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Betty Radice
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Classics S.
A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the wager and decapitates the knight ...Show more