Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly ...Show more
The Plains: Text Classics by Gerald Murnane
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This is the story of the families of the plains--obsessed with their land and history, their culture and mythology--and of the man who ventured into their world.First published in 1982, The Plainsis a mesmerising work of startling originality. This handsome new hardback edition is introduced by Ben Ler ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family with the characters the muddle-headed Mrs Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protege Miss Petowker, the pretentious Mantalinis and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife.
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. It i ...Show more
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
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Category: Classics
Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green", is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is ba ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Valerie Grove (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot, George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Silas Marner, the story of an isolated man who learns to open his heart, was George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combining humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism."God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine- you've no right to her!"Wrongly acc ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 6 - Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
"''"People never like me and I never like people," Mary thought.'i>hen Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then ...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
William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Vintage Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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With an introduction by Ruth Rendell, this book includes 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'. The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for a terrible crime committed by one of their a ...Show more