The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Classics Ser.
"O pure of heart thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be " One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some o ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.Although me ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: black penguin 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
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Haruki Murakami (Foreword by, Introduction by); Jay Rubin (Translator)
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations--now also in our elegant black spine dress Ry nosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists--a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rash mon"and "In a Bamboo Grove" ins ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
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Category: black penguin 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 Divine Comedy II: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven levels, Dante observes the sinners w ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The Woman in Whitefamously opens with Walter Hartright's ...Show more
The Gambler and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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"The Gambler and Other Stories" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, "The Gambler", a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in "Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening ...Show more