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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?' The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarc ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rati ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin English Library
'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'. A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, "The House of Mirth" sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of ...Show more
The Machine Stops and Other Stories by E. M. Forster
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The\Penguin English Library
A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series 'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relatio ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, George Eliot
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin English Library
If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Tragic and moving, "The Mill on the Floss" is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'. When Rachel Verinder's birthday present ...Show more
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The Penguin English Library
'In the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions...I loved you madly'. Dickens' last novel is a mystery built around a presumed crime - the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery u ...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
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionA dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling ...Show more
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library EditionThe deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher . . . When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house the ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin English Library
'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threaten ...Show more