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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
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Category: Classics | Series: PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY
Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by ...Show more
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionA dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'. In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
My guest was lying sprawled on his back, there was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor . . . 'Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare' Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scienti ...Show more
The Warden (#1 Barsetshire Chronicles) by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
Anthony Trollope's "The Warden" is the first of his well-loved "Chronicles of Barsetshire", edited with an introduction and notes by Robin Gilmour in "Penguin Classics". The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a C ...Show more
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected'. Written with great humour, irony and honesty, "The Way of All Flesh" exploded perceptions of the Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Erne ...Show more
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III by Adam Smith
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Category: Business & Economics | Series: English Library
Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, hi ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Virgina Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
In the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. The section begins with Mrs Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next day. This prediction is denied by Mr Ramsay, who voices his certainty that the weather will not be clear, an opinion th ...Show more
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out." This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson. In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents - and it is ...Show more
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done...' Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and ...Show more
White Fang by jack London
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The story of hybrid wolf White Fang, a hero of the north. Born to harsh conditions, White Fang experiences the violence of the animal and human worlds first hand. From fighting for his life in the Yukon, to fighting for his family in California, the tribulations and courage of White Fang endure and insp ...Show more