A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land", Evelyn Waugh's "A Handful of Dust" is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray ...Show more
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, determined and fearless. She's not even derailed when her parents drop a massive bombshell on her twenty-first birthday. But then she meets the charming but aimless Martin, and for the first time, Gilgi finds herself blown bewilderingly and dangero ...Show more
Wings Of The Dove by Henry James
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Category: Classics
Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically involved with promising journalist Merton Densher when they become acquainted with Milly Theale, a New York socialite of imm ...Show more
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics
The formidable fox-hunting obsessed Lady Bobbin has put together a Christmas house party at Compton Bobbin, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose deadly (in more ways than one) s ...Show more
A Shropshire Lad And Other Poems by A.E. Housman
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Category: Classics
A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and "A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems" is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This "Penguin Classics" edition is introduced by Nick Laird with revisions by Archie Burnett and an afterword by Joh ...Show more
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police ...Show more
On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Sabato's dark, philosophical novel is woven around a violent crime committed by Alejandra, the daughter of a prominent Argentinian family. Alejandra's act entwines the lives of three men: her father, Fernanda Vidal, a man who believes himself hunted by a secret organization of the blind, her troubled lo ...Show more
The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories by O. Henry
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, O. Henry's comic eye and unique, playful approach to the rough material of life's realities are unmatched. These stories, which range from the cattle-lands of Texas to the bars of New York, highlight the joys of avoiding habit and conven ...Show more
Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerardfocuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood - -the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock -- as they were revealed in the short tragic-happy life of his saintly brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's home ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Chartwell Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers-featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische.A is for AustenFrom A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers-featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica HischeIt all begins with a letter. Fall in lov ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
A new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece -- the classic classic story of wealth, class, love, loss, and the American Dream set in Roaring Twenties America.The Great Gatsby is a Great American Novel of the 20th century. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, The Great Gatsby de ...Show more