Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Delve into this stunning edition boasting the unabridged versions of both fantasy novels, an introduction, and John Tenniel's original illustrations.Part of the Knickerbocker Classics series, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is unabridged and complete, and comprised of both ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the ch ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: Popular Penguins by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems tiny compared to the giant inhabitants; and in the country of the Houyhnhnms horse ...Show more
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction
A well-priced edition of one of the greatest twentieth century novels, with a striking new jacket and an introduction by Charlotte Wood.Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in what remains of a Britain ravaged by revolution. His every move is monitored by the Thought Police, who are responsible ...Show more
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Classic Fiction
Edited by J. C. C. Mays Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy's lovestruck fiancee Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but h ...Show more
Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Stories (Barnes & Noble Fexibound Classics) by Edgar Allen Poe
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
Few authors' names conjure up such an air of ghoulish terror as that of Edgar Allan Poe. The best of his chilling horror stories and other suspenseful tales, 27 short stories in total, are presented here in one fantastic volume, providing an ideal introduction to this master of the macabre for those un ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
To Sir With Love: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick by E. R. Braithwaite
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Category: Classic Fiction
When a woman refuses to sit next to him on the bus, Rick Braithwaite is saddened and angered by her prejudice. In post-war cosmopolitan London he had hoped for a more enlightened attitude. When he begins his first teaching job in a tough East End school the reactions are the same. Slowly and painfully s ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Collins Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.' Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more