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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz- dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, w ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family. Here Proust ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 4 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 enjoyable reading experiences in any language. As ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the imp ...Show more
Into the War by Italo Calvino
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Category: Bargains | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, "Into the War", we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to ...Show more
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger ste ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Black Penguin Classics) by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, ...Show more