Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence, "Paradise Lost" has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in "Penguin Classics". In "Paradise Lost" Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosm ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most mem ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
Les Miserables (#2) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Merables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, a ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of iniquity . . . The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the pr ...Show more
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
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Category: Classics
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID PEACE This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes s most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from t ...Show more
Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her ...Show more
Coriolanus (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed Jonathan Crewe)
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Category: Classics | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the d ...Show more
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky; A. D. P. Briggs (Introduction by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Constance Garnett (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosh ...Show more