The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, ...Show more
Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his acc ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners that follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates mis ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Depicting one man's transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of science's power to corrupt With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horse ...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
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love fo ...Show more
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Penguin English Library) by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë "May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then" Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of h ...Show more
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary "My Brilliant Career" when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to "Jane Eyre." But the ...Show more
Twelve Angry Men: Methuen Student Editions by Reginald Rose
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Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions
The Methuen Drama Student Edition of Twelve Angry Men is the first critical edition of Reginald Rose's play, providing the play text alongside commentary and notes geared towards student readers. In New York, 1954, a man is dead and the life of another is at stake. A 'guilty' verdict seems a foregone co ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Baker Street Classics Ser.
One of Sherlock Holmes's greatest triumphs is probably also one of the finest crime novels of all time, presented here as a gorgeous gift edition in the Flame Tree Collectable Classics series. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home l ...Show more
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
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Category: Classics
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author.With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel.But creating o ...Show more