The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classics
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 her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Cha ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease- some resign themselves to fate, some seek bla ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author) , Nevill Coghill (Translated by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted Shepard Gabriel Oak. Each, in ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Black Classics
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remar ...Show more
A Doll's House And Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Classics
Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. With her assertion that she is 'first and foremost a human being', Nora Helmer sent shockwaves throughout Europe when she appeared in Ibsen's greatest and most famous play, A Doll's House. Depicting ...Show more
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
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Category: Classics
After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes cl ...Show more
The Time Machine (Classics Illustrated) by Wells H. G.
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Illustrated
"Backgrounds and Contexts" is organized thematically into four sections: "The Evolution of The Time Machine" presents alternative versions and installments and excerpts of the author's time-travel story; "Wells's Scientific Journalism (1891-94)" focuses on the scientific topics central to the novel; "We ...Show more
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
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Category: Classics
In the history of Australian literature few books have been more controversial than Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory. This is a tale of corruption stretching from street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in the land - and the terrible personal cost of the power such corruption brings. Jo ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
Presents the portrait of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself.
The Sun Also Rises (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Hemingway'sclassic novel of post-war disillusionment-the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation-now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, in a beautiful Graphic Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson and a new introduction b ...Show more
Life and Adventures: Text Classics by Tim Flannery, William Buckley
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Category: Classics
In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For three decades the 'wild white man' lived with Aborigines around the bay, before giving himself up in 1835. First published in 1852, The Life and Adventure ...Show more