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  • OF MICE AND MEN
    OF MICE AND MEN
    JOHN STEINBECK
    A compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world, John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" includes an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in "Penguin Classics". Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of thei...
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  • THE MOONSTONE
    THE MOONSTONE
    WILKIE COLLINS
    The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Bla...
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  • LORD JIM
    LORD JIM
    CONRAD, JOSEPH
    First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad’s place in literat...
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  • THE PICKWICK PAPERS
    THE PICKWICK PAPERS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reachin...
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  • THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
    THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
    GRAHAME, KENNETH
    Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame’s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his ‘Poop-poop-poop’ road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.Grahame’s book was...
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  • FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
    FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
    THOMAS HARDY
    Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy’s Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was ‘…the past was yesterday; never, the day after’....
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  • THE TURN OF THE SCREW & THE ASPERN PAPERS
    THE TURN OF THE SCREW & THE ASPERN PAPERS
    JAMES, HENRY
    The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre.The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured and accomplished. The author cleverly evokes the drama of comédie humaine against the settings ...
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  • THREE MEN IN A BOAT
    THREE MEN IN A BOAT
    JEROME, JEROME K.
    Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised and imitated. The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog, Montmorency, provide r...
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  • DUBLINERS
    DUBLINERS
    JAMES JOYCE
    Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, ...
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  • THE COMPLETE STORIES OF SAKI
    THE COMPLETE STORIES OF SAKI
    SAKI
    ‘All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren’t respectable live beyond other peoples’.Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried.Th...
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  • THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
    THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
    JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
    It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughte...
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  • DAVID COPPERFIELD
    DAVID COPPERFIELD
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its au...
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  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    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 memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mys...
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  • THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES
    THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES
    HENRY FIELDING
    Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women.Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to Lo...
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  • A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
    A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
    JAMES JOYCE
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce’s Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work.This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, ...
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  • THE CALL OF THE WILD AND WHITE FANG
    THE CALL OF THE WILD AND WHITE FANG
    JACK LONDON
    The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs ove...
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  • GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
    GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
    JONATHAN SWIFT
    Jonathan Swift’s classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal).As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in...
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  • VANITY FAIR
    VANITY FAIR
    WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
    Thackeray’s upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retir...
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  • OLIVER TWIST
    OLIVER TWIST
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). Contains many Dickensian themes - poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of adversity. This book features some of the characters, such as Oliver himself (Who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'. Includes introduction ...
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  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
    LEE, HARPER
    The main story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama. It focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terri...
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  • THE DIVINE COMEDY
    THE DIVINE COMEDY
    ALIGHIERI, DANTE
    The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine ComedyIn his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translation that enabled his versions of Inferno and Purgatory to capture the vibrant power and full dramatic force of Dante’s poetry. Dante relates his my...
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  • THE DIVINE COMEDY
    THE DIVINE COMEDY
    ALIGHIERI, DANTE
    The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven levels, Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their releas...
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  • 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
    20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
    VERNE, JULES (JULIO)
    An American frigate, tracking down a ship-sinking monster, faces not a living creature but an incredible invention -- a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.  Suddenly a devastating explosion leaves just three survivors, who find themselves prisoners inside Nemo's death ship on an underwater odyssey around the world from the pearl-laden waters of Ceylon ...
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  • LORD OF THE FLIES
    LORD OF THE FLIES
    WILLIAM GOLDING
    Before The Hunger Games there was Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who ...
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  • TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
    TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia Woolf's finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate occasions, ten years apart. The setting is Mr and Mrs Ramsay's house on a Scottish island, where they traditionally take their summer holidays, overlooking a bay with a lighthouse. ...
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  • THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
    THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
    The heir to his grandfather’s considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery.Containing obvious...
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  • THE SELECTED STORIES OF O. HENRY
    THE SELECTED STORIES OF O. HENRY
    O. HENRY / WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER
    Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is known for his short stories with surprise endings. In this collection you will find the following beloved O. Henry stories: "The Plutonian Fire", "The Princess and the Puma", "By Courier", "The Gift of the Magi", "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein", "Mammon and the Archer", "The Memento", "Springtime À La Carte", "The Last Lea...
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  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Pip is a poor orphan, a boy with “no expectations” being raised by his unkind sister and her husband in a small home on the marshes of Kent. But when Pip meets the bizarre Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward, Estella, he starts to yearn for a life as a gentleman. However, Pip will discover that wealth and honesty do not go hand in hand, and that kindness can be found in the mo...
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  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Marianne Dashwood can’t understand her sister. How could the attractive, witty, and charming Elinor fall for the quiet, self-effacing, and rather dull Edward Ferrars? Meanwhile, Elinor worries that Marianne’s heart-first approach to life will hurt her, especially when it comes to the dashing John Willoughby. Meanwhile, both Edward and Willoughby harbor secrets that will force t...
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  • TALES FROM RUSSIAN FOLKLORE
    TALES FROM RUSSIAN FOLKLORE
    ALEXANDER AFANASYEV
    Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the ambitious task of sifting through the huge repository of tales from Russian folklore and selecting the very best from written and oral sources. The result, an eight-volume collection comprising around 600 stories, is one of the most influenti...
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