To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: fiction a-z
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Classics
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed thro ...Show more
Persuasion (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen; Gillian Beer (Introduction by, Editor, Notes by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Sir Walter Elliot, de Kellynch-Hall, dans le comté de Somerset, n'avait jamais touché un livre pour son propre amusement, si ce n'est le livre héraldique. Là il trouvait de l'occupation dans les heures de désoeuvre- ment, et de la consolation dans les heures de chagrin. Devant ces vieux parchemins, il é ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: classics
Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist is a gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne. The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After r ...Show more
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
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Category: fiction a-z
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, B ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Category: classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a ...Show more
The Lost Estate (Penguin pocket classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the ch teau...' A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale. A new series of twenty distinc ...Show more
Leviathan by Paul Auster
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Category: fiction a-z
Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin .The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. Wh ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's Les Mis rables is one of the great works of western literature. Victo ...Show more
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
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Category: macmillan collector's library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Doctor Thomas Thorne is guardian to his beautiful but impecunious niece, Mary, whose parentage he has always kept secret. Mary falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the dwindling Greshamsbury estate, but when Frank proposes, his parents insist that he must marry for money to restore his family's for ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
Brave New World (Hardback) by Aldous Huxley
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Category: science fiction fantasy | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaini ...Show more