Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in a ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition | Reading Level: General Adult
'Vanity, not love, has been my folly'. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his frie ...Show more
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Written with astonishing clarity and an unsentimental intelligence, Out of Africa portrays a way of life that has disappeared for ever. In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed ...Show more
Emma (Penguin Classics Threads Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work. This Penguin Threads edition includes cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckl ...Show more
The Bhagavad Gita by Laurie L. Patton
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Category: Classics/Literature
The eighteen chapters of The Bhagavad Gita (c. 500 b.c.), the glory of Sanskrit literature, encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul. Its three central themes--love, light, and life--arise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in God. For more than seventy ye ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics/Literature
The heartbreaking tale of the doomed lovers Heathcliff and Catherine, Emily Bronte's gothic masterpiece, "Wuthering Heights", has enthralled readers for more than a century and a half-spawning film and televison adaptations, operas, musicals, and a hit single by British pop superstar Kate Bush. It is th ...Show more
Bronte Classics Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics/Literature
Charlotte Bronte's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a posi ...Show more
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'"The Sheltering Sky" is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' - Michael Hoffman. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavoring to escape this predic ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The novel was first published in 1862 in serial form. This production read by Juliet Stevenson marks the first audio release of one of Victorian England's most sensational reads. Dealing with bigamy, murder and madness it begs the question: can women and men ever really depend on one another, even withi ...Show more
Bronte Classics: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics/Literature
Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. "Only Emily Bronte," V. S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, "exposes her imaginatio ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more