Food (Mini Modern Classics) by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 08 | Reading Level: very good
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
The Three Electroknights (Mini Modern Classics) by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
The Breakthrough (Mini Modern Classics) by Daphne du Maurier; Anon
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales (Timeless Classics) by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Timeless Classics Ser.
This lovingly crafted edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales is the perfect gift for any child or classic story lover. Delve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales and original, iconic illustrations by Joh ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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 Human Stain by Philip Roth
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Sil ...Show more
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Deluxe Gift Edition) by Marcus Aurelius; George Long (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
This classic book contains the personal musings and reflections of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Written for himself with no intention of publishing his writing, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius documents the emperor's attempts to attain a better understanding of himself and the world around him, det ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism and the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint in Penguin Classics. In Hard Times, the Northern mill-town of Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgri ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Piers of the Homeless Night (Mini Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac; Willa Cather
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart . . . 'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.
Wuthering Heights (Chartwell Classics) by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
After being spurned by his lover and degraded by his adoptive family, Heathcliff leaves his home in Yorkshire, only to return wealthy, educated, and seeking retribution. Obsession, vengeance, and jealousy will pour from this tangle of lovers in Emily Bronte's only published novel of unrequited love. Com ...Show more
Arthurian Myths and Legends by Raluca Radulescu (Introduction by); J. K. Jackson (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Many medieval writers, especially from France and Wales, wrote stories about the great British leader, King Arthur. Legends, folklore and myths from this period come together to paint a picture of who he was with some describing him as a great warrior, defending Britain fro ...Show more