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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound 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.In The Canterbury TalesChaucer created one of the great to ...Show more
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature. Against that primitive background, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is that of a young man who wants to love and wants to fit into society. The other is that of the difficulty of a primitive soci ...Show more
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more
The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad
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Category: classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. On sea, on land, at the edges of the colonial experience, Joseph Conrad's short stories offer a glimpse of th ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
The Odyssey (Clothbound Classic) by Homer
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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
'I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish' The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monst ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a rand ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange f ...Show more
The Prophet by KAHLIL GIBRAN
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Category: classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Prophet, a masterwork by Kahlil Gibran, is one of our time's most treasured classics. It was first published in 1923 and has since been translated into over twenty languages, with over nine million copies sold in the United States alone.The Prophet is a compilation of philosophical, spiritual, and, ...Show more
The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The Queen of Spades', one of ...Show more
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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Category: classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
This is a new to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images. In this thrilling adventure tale by the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the ...Show more
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more